I mentioned that I was teaching my students tips on internet protocol, safety, and integration. Did I mention that I had a perfect example of what you needed to beware doing on facebook? Don’t accidentally post or agree to anything on facebook unless you want ALL of your 900+ friends to find out immediately. One [...]
I was so excited to see September’s Nashville Parent magazine. On the front cover was the headline “Why Kids Should Pick Their Own Books.” Excitedly I turned to pages 48-49 to see an article by Lora Shinn (mom and freelance writer) who wrote an article based on Laura Pearle’s pearls of wisdom: Follow your child’s [...]
Did you know that Nashville, Tennessee is a major refugee relocation center? We have the largest population of Khurds in the US, a large population of Sudanese families, and currently we are anticipating huge numbers of refugees from Myanmar. I womder if any are Karenni. Along come two timely titles to help me understand. For [...]
YALSA sent out a letter last spring mentioning they were partnering with the Federal Trade Commission to offer new and exciting resources for your library. Sure… I thought. The FTC is going to be very exciting. Still I ordered one to try out. When Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online (http://onguardonline.gov/netcetera) arrived, I [...]
This summer I attended a workshop on Autism called “Structuring the Classroom to Promote Learning.” Structuring the classroom to promote learning doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with autism, does it? Here is the course description: School teams will learn how to structure a classroom to benefit learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder and [...]
Amy Masonis and Shannon Stanton of Davis-Kidd Booksellers (an independent bookstore in Nashville, TN) met with MNPS librarians during our inservice day and shared some of their favorite titles. Here are some they recommended for middle and high school. Enjoy. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is part of the Chaos [...]
Judy Edwards and Cheryl Jolley presented a series of workshops on ELL Newcomers with Information and Strategies. Part of the S.D.A.I.E. summer workshops held at Trevecca Nazarene University, these workshops were intended to help a broader range of educators work with immigrants who have been in the U.S. less than one year. S.D.A.I.E. stands for [...]
I’ve been looking at ways school libraries share news with their “customers.” Some have formal newspapers and staff in the schools. Some write just an article for the school newspaper. This summer as I traveled, I gathered Coffee News papers that were placed in “restaurants coffee shops, hotels, hospitals, etc. — anywhere people go to [...]
Metropolitan Nashville Public School teachers attended the Swap Symposium this summer. We were able to focus on new skills and earn credit so we could swap two days in the fall and have an entire week off for Fall Break. I attended a session called Book Talks Galore: Entice, Gush, Emote, and More! presented by a [...]
I attended a meeting for leaders of the Tennessee Association of School Librarians last week and received a DVD courtesy of the Tennessee Educational Association and the Green McAdoo Cultural Center. The Clinton 12 is a documentary film narrated by James Earl Jones telling the “story of the integration of the FIRST public high school [...]
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