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SLJ's Summit Explores the Future of Content By Rocco Staino - 11/24/2008
Librarians, technology leaders, publishers, authors, and editors gathered on November 14 and 15 for School Library Journal’s fourth annual leadership summit to explore where content is headed and how librarians can take advantage of its evolution to fully engage students and teachers. More
The Calder Game Cheryl Preisendorfer, Twinsburg City Schools, OH - 12/05/2008 Gr 5-8–Young sleuths Calder, Tommy, and Petra join forces again to solve a mystery in Blue Balliett’s exciting novel (Scholastic, 2008).
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Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary School, Federal Way, WA - 12/04/2008 Gr 3-6–The years 1770 to 1789 were pivotal times in American history. Colonists dissolved their ties with Great Britain, fought a war for independence, and established a new government.
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Beethoven's Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies Beverly Bixler, San Antonio Public Library, TX - 12/02/2008 PreS-Gr 5–In this entry in the award-winning series, musician/songwriter Richard Perlmutter brings together 12 outstanding classical compositions written especially for dance.
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We’ve Got the Technology: But our today's schools ready for a radical transformation? By Marc Aronson - 12/01/2008
“We are 20th-century teachers using 19th-century methods to reach 21st-century students.” That’s what I heard a bright, committed teacher tell her fellow educators at a recent educational technology conference. That terse, powerful statement reflects what many people, including myself, have often voiced or thought.
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Philip Pullman Condemns School Library Closure By Rocco Staino - 11/24/2008
Philip Pullman, the best-selling author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy (Knopf), has slammed the headmistress of a school in Chesterfield, England, for her decision to close the library and get rid of its librarian.
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We All Live Downstream Beverly Bixler, San Antonio Public Library, TX - 11/28/2008 PreS-Gr 3–The award-winning Banana Slug String Band (“Airy” Larry, “Solar” Steve, “Marine” Mark and Doug “Dirt”) presents a celebration of all things water: drinking water, watershed ecology, bodies of water, wetlands, the water cycle, human and animal dependence on water, and warnings about polluting water.
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Jacques Prevert's To Paint the Portrait of a Bird Jeana Actkinson, Bridgeport High School, TX - 11/27/2008 Gr 7 Up–This adaptation of Jacques Prevert’s famous poem written in French, “Pour faire le portrait d’un oiseau,” and translated into English by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, skillfully conveys the artist’s attempt to find meaning in his art.
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A Fuse #8 Production Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Donnell Central Children's Room June 13, 2007 Shh. Don't Say a Word.
Sheesh. I decide a book's one of my favorites of the year and then suddenly I don't ... More
PreS-K–A five-year-old (rabbit) awakes one morning to discover that there will be no school, no daddy flying home today, and no going outside–until the snow stops.
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The staff of Salinas Public Library (CA), aka The John Steinbeck Public Library, pose with Lewis Buzbee, author of Steinbeck's Ghost, a middle-grade novel that centers around the threat of the library's closing in 2004. After a difficult struggle, the library remains open and has just extended its hours to seven days a week.
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