Teacher Talk

There has been a growing interest in meditation within the educational setting. Perhaps this is because of the growing awareness of scientific studies which have demonstrated the benefits of [...]

How can you inspire your students to write about what they know? Deborah Wiles is the author of Freedom Summer, The Aurora County Trilogy, and The Sixties Trilogy which includes the recently [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is widely known that education is an extremely demanding field. Educators work well beyond their school days in order to make sure that every student is taken care of and every need is met. [...]

Sometimes a post pops up into your Twitter feed that inspires you to create something. This is what happened when Heather Lister posted about a website called the Breaking News Generator, and [...]