How do you celebrate Thanksgiving in school? Same old paper Pilgrim hats and eating chicken nuggets? Try something new! Multiculturalism I think by now most teachers and librarians are savvy enough to provide a more balanced view of the First…
Do you want to have a Happy Halloween in your library, while still focusing on your main objective…to support the love of reading? Try these 7 tips! Tip 1: Welcome the Kids Why let the classroom teachers have all the…
Do you still teach the Dewey Decimal System in your school library? Or, are you ditching Dewey? It amazes me how many people, including school administrators, say, “Now that your catalog is on the computer, I guess you don’t need…
Will you read it in a box? Will you read it with a fox? Will you read it here and there? Will you read it anywhere? If you recognize these (adapted) lines, you are a probably a fan of Dr….
Are you frustrated at the end of every school year (yeah, yeah, not by faculty pep rallies in a 100 degree meeting room; not by professional development courses one week before the summer brain drain; not by parents complaining about…
Every year in the school library, we host a guest author. The kids (as well as the teachers) inundate me with suggestions. Can we get J.K. Rowland (no, she lives in England). Can we get Shel Silverstein (no, he’s dead)….
I saw an idea a few years ago, from the Johnson County (Kansas) Library, called “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover.” The librarians covered up the books’ covers with white paper and displayed only the first line of the book,…