Kay Lindenberg offers “an opportunity for you, readers, to attend free webinars designed for K-5 education professionals – including, of course, library media specialists and teacher librarians – offering ideas for using technology to enhance learning. Ed-tech expert Kathy Schrock – who has held librarian positions in middle school, academic, museum and public libraries – [...]

I hate wasting time. Doing tasks that don’t seem meaningful or high priorities can be frustrating. Work with a student or track statistics? Which do you choose? Of course we choose the student because we are SCHOOL librarians. Students are our focus and the reason we arrive smiling everyday. Moving to a new school after [...]

One of my favorite specially prebound bindings comes from Children’s Plus, Inc. These books can be bent in two, have colorful covers integrated in the binding, and actually can withstand the worst abuse by students who are handling their first library books ever. J.T. Fisher has been my local area rep for years and I [...]

#5 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007. ISBN:  9780316013680, 230 pp. Publisher’s Description: Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the [...]

Thank you, April Pulley Sayre. You rescued me again! Last week I returned to school after Labor Day announcing to the children that my voice was still on vacation (aka laryngitis). I faced an hour with really squirming kindergartners and half an hour with preschoolers and I was worried. How could I entertain and education [...]

#6 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. Little Brown, & Co., 2006 ISBN: 9780316160193, 563 pp. Publisher’s Description: Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as [...]

Why do we do fingerplays in the library? Well, I personally do them for several reasons. One to help train students to control their hands. Come on, don’t sniff in disbelief! Haven’t you had the classes where they roll on the floor and touch their neighbors? Where they braid each other’s hair while listening? Be [...]

I love my new school and the opportunities I have to help students. One of the biggest areas for my attention is the need to improve the reading collection so that students WANT to read. I’ve been asking students what they like to read about so I can provide a better collection. Since many are [...]