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I believe that World Kindness Day, taking place on November 13th, is a day that everyone should observe. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on [...]

Billy Jean King once said, “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” As educators we keep trying to get things right. When I first started conferring with middle and high school readers, [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin Now, more than ever, we are connected to people through social media rather than in-person interactions. [...]

In  Kia  Heise and Christopher D. Park’s  debut children’s book  Little Sock, the reader learns the whimsical answer to a common household problem, where do lost socks go? Sock City of course!  [...]

by Alex Genis, Foreign Languages Collection Management Librarian at Mackin Many of our high school age teens can be overly conscious about what they wear and what their clothing says about them. [...]

I feel fortunate, overwhelmed, excited, and anxious about starting a makerspace from four white walls. I converted an old textbook room into a makerspace at my last school and for some reason [...]

In the era of 1:1, many educators (and parents) hold tight to students reading “real” books, such as books bound by a publisher. Others say we need to “get with the times” and allow our students [...]

by Rachel Benzine, Collection Management Librarian When I think of banned books, I think of dystopian literature like Fahrenheit 451 or 1984. It seems more like something out of a classic novel [...]