Advocates

An increasing number of schools and teachers are moving away from the traditional “sage on the stage” classroom model toward embracing the principles of personalized learning. In the personalized [...]

Schools are open. Libraries are open. And, as always, librarians are teaching information literacy and research—it’s just all online. Just as many misunderstand the role of teacher librarians (we [...]

When much of the United States, and the world, was disrupted by the pandemic in March 2020 people were surprised that I could work from home.  After all, many people think my main job consists of [...]

In addition to their regular projects, I often required the graduate students in my library management classes to create an assessment by which those projects could be evaluated – a [...]

Why captions? They are especially important with so many of us reaching our learning community remotely. As we gear up for a September filled with unknowns, it might be a good idea to develop [...]

“The myths we allow ourselves to believe about reading will continue to shape the reading lives of those we teach. We have to stop ourselves from harming the reading experience. We have to [...]

6 years after creating our first makerspace, it only makes sense to publish a post that focuses on 6 steps for creating a makerspace. Step 1:  Create a personal philosophy for what making means. [...]

One of my favorite things to do as a school librarian is to use our spaces and resources to bring literature to life. Recently, we have started a collaboration based on S.E. Hinton’s, The [...]