School Library Advocacy

These three read-aloud websites for kids are valuable across a range of ages, abilities, and native languages, plus they are fun!

Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge...

How do you inspire middle schoolers to want to deepen research, craft arguments, and share their voice? At East Ridge Middle School, they have ERMS Talks.

If schools and policy-makers want to boost children's literacy, they should invest in teacher librarians.

249 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking...

3 Group Work Strategies That Help Hold All Students Accountable by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD We love and encourage collaborative work between students (and teachers) and this is a staple in project-based learning to be sure.

"Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential to success at university and in later life. However, the traditional classroom model has done a poor job of imparting these skills to students. The way children have learned in the classroom for generations has focused on lectures and worksheets. Past generations would depend on group sports, clubs and teenage jobs to impart these vital skills onto students."

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It is often difficult to "toot your own horn"; however, advocacy is not bragging. It is simply supporting a cause. Our cause? School libraries matter. Every student has a story. Fake news is real and fact finding must be taught. Will you join me in making 2019 our year for advocacy?

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Shiny new technologies can capture well-meaning educators like insects in amber, but the evidence is clear that digital learning can improve student ...

6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom...

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education...

The following list is a collection of photos from everyday libraries that have been spiced up with hilarious and creative twists from the librarians who run...

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education...

Got a big decision to make? You probably don't need to gather as much information as you think.

I only genre-fied fiction in my middle school library and I would never go back. My circulation  increased 175% and kids can still use the catalog. What has disappeared are my kiddos that wandered aimlessly and then just grabbed a book. I know that it is a great skill to be able to find a book on a library shelf, but I work at a public library and we have popular collections and staff who WANT to help you find a book. It starts a conversation and builds relationships. I can really say the same thing about having those great book conversations with students. I still teach the basics of library organization, but with increased curriculum demands I have eased up on it.

If you haven’t been in a K-12 school for a while, you might want to step into the library.The school library has been a place of amazing…...

It's crucial for school librarians—and teachers—to model technology correctly when delivering a lesson. Here are some practices I model to build digital literacy with students, along with a lesson that integrates technology in order to enhance a student product and increase student engagement.

Learn how librarians at the Columbus Metropolitan Library made an intentional change in the way they present their Ready for Kindergarten Storytimes in order to help the children who do not possess the basic skills to begin kindergarten, putting them on a trajectory of being behind their peers in...

Book love is a combination of having a choice in what you read, access to books, and a positive reading attitude. My ideas are not about changing mindset, but about how to share resources with the school community.

Makerspaces. Innovative learning environments. Online communities. Augmented realities. Digital citizenship. In these times of rapidly changing technologies, increasing amounts of information, and often futile attempts to keep up with the latest trends in school librarianship, it is sometimes handy to be reminded that the core business of a school library is literacy.

A growing body of international evidence shows the significant impact that a school library can make on student achievement. However, simply having a building that is dedicated to the usual library resources is not enough; that building must be adequately staffed by librarians who can implement effective school library programs. These programs may aim to increase student knowledge of and skills in information and digital literacies, though it is important to remember that reading literacy underpins all of this. After all, despite the proliferation of digital devices in schools, our students still require the skills to function in a text-based society.