“Essential” certainly has been a trending word in the last two years. It’s a word worth contemplating because it’s important. During quarantine, the world seemed to label who was essential based on the job they performed. Activities suddenly fell on… Read More ›
summer
Making This Summer about YOU: Self-Care for School Librarians
Ahh, the feeling of summer. Time to relax, rejuvenate, and for most librarians, catch up on some reading. This school year has been a struggle for everyone: we have reinvented ourselves as librarians, transformed our staff and community outreach, reimagined… Read More ›
Summertime and the Reading Is Easy…
Summer Book Club for Our Staff…A Follow-Up Post Last month I blogged about furthering a culture of reading at my school through a summer book club for our staff. My wonderful instructional technology facilitator, Katherine Leatherman, and I planned a… Read More ›
Summer Time Prep
Yes! Summer is here and it is time for a break. You have the entire summer to relax, right? Wrong! The beginning of the school year is right around the corner and you know what that means. You will be… Read More ›
Gimme a C (for Collaboration!): A Successful Partnership Can Begin with Summer Reading
As chair of the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School-Public Library Cooperation, I am so pleased to introduce the first, but certainly not last, of our blog contributions to Knowledge Quest. We currently blog monthly for ALSC on the topic of of… Read More ›