Abilock, Debbie, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Violet H. Harada. Editors. Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers. Libraries Unlimited, 2012. 390 p. $45.00. ISBN: 9781610690416 When Loertscher and Koechlin introduced the concept of the Learning Commons in 2008, we introduced the idea... (Continue reading)
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What keeps you up at night? Educating students to be college and career ready? Incorporating inquiry into your teaching for the very first time? Shifting your instruction to explore topics in greater depth and at more rigorous levels of learning? ... (Continue reading)
Helping Children Deal with Tragedy, Grief and Loss, from Rebecca Buerkett’s wiki. http://lpquinnlibrary.wikispaces.com/Helping+Children A National Tragedy: Helping Children Cope, article by the National Association of School Psychologists. http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/terror_general.aspx 10 Ways to Talk to Students about Sensitive Issues in the News, article... (Continue reading)
A Simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? ~William Wordsworth, from “We Are Seven” The publisher, editors, and staff of Teacher Librarian and VOYA mourn the death... (Continue reading)
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The challenge across the U.S. and Canada is to raise the bar on education and to prepare every child to succeed in a very different world than we faced at their age. Whether you’re are facing the Common Core Standards,... (Continue reading)
Teacher Librarian Magazine will be at booth #1443 in the Exhibit Hall at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California! Mark your planners now to stop by and say hello and see what’s new!... (Continue reading)
Scholastic surveyed 1,045 children age 6-17 and their parents (for a total of 2,090 respondents) in an online survey in the spring of 2010. Highlights from the survey: Reading Books in the Digital Age From age 6 – 17, the... (Continue reading)
