I was very inspired by this year’s winner of the Google for Doodle contest, which was announced June 14, 2021. The doodle from sixteen-year-old Milo Golding from Lexington, Kentucky, is titled “Finding Hope.” He described the elements of the doodle… Read More ›
[SPONSORED CONTENT] Movements nationwide are growing in intensity and volume as they demand that marginalized voices be heard and represented in our schools, neighborhoods, workplaces and government. It’s long overdue. What began decades ago as an acknowledgment and acceptance of… Read More ›
Learning about School Librarianship This fall, I was privileged to be able to work with amazing students at the University of Maryland’s iSchool as an adjunct professor in their college of information science. I taught one of my favorite courses,… Read More ›
What makes a strong school library? For me, that question is twofold. Strong school libraries are staffed by strong school librarians and are used utilized by strong learners. This is why I was so excited that our middle school libraries… Read More ›
During April we specifically celebrate School Library Month, but also in April is National Library Week (April 7-13, 2019) where all kinds of libraries get in on the celebrating. As school librarians my co-librarian and I generally focus on the… Read More ›
This past weekend I read an outstanding essay in The New York Times “Book Review” section by Brian Morton, the director of the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. In it, he describes an encounter with a college student who had been… Read More ›
Ho Ho Holy Moly! I spent time with my nephews this holiday. The oldest boy is 10, and he is starting to stretch both physically and mentally into the adult he will become. Seeing him reminds me of when I… Read More ›
Do you have a library Twitter account? Maybe an Instagram account too? When we started our library social media accounts, we received followers from other libraries or librarians, but we were not getting student followers. What could we do to… Read More ›
While there are some differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian, there’s a pretty good amount of overlap as well. In my field experience placement (which is also the school in which I’ve been teaching for nearly… Read More ›
Lunch in the library? Kids eating at the computers? Students hanging out while I’m teaching? Of course! Thinking back on all the big and small changes I made as the new teacher librarian at my middle school three years ago,… Read More ›