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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I am here to say it’s okay to quit sometimes. There should not be anything shameful in shifting your priorities, especially not a shift that could bolster your well being in another area. I am here to offer the possibility that you can change your mind.

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While certainly not an easy read, this is an important one because of how it looks at the mental health and justice systems.

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Being unchosen isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, being unchosen taught me how to live.

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A lesson plan for Sophie Blackall's award-winning picture book. 

At Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, NJ, the Popkin Innovation Lab has brought a new curriculum and problem-solving approach, along with a different culture, to  school this year. 

Students can study the science of baseball—and the sport can help teach the kids key STEM concepts—thanks to this new multi-year content collaboration.

This past year has seen a number of 20th-century histories published for secondary students on topics ranging from women's suffrage and World War l to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Here's a select list, with reviews.

Filled with whimsy, wonder, and icy escapades, these recently published picture books can be shared with students to celebrate the season, launch winter-themed studies, or inspire creative projects.

In Washington, DC, preschool and primary educators have teamed up with the Children Are Citizens project. The results are intriguing; the methods worth replicating.

With anti-Semitism on the rise, teaching the lessons of history to inform students and counter bigotry has never been more important. Here are resources with recommended books for young readers about the Jewish experience and a new curriculum to help students understand the Holocaust and its legacy, with the life of Oskar Schindler as an entry point.

As we celebrate multiple space exploration anniversaries in the next few years, these are just some of the recent crop of titles that will spark kids’ interest.

Moms for Social Justice has started its 2019 initiative, putting a diverse collection of books into Chattanooga classrooms where school library collections are woefully inadequate.

Here’s how to get young people to explore creative writing and the arts with a zine-making workshop at your library.

Wondering what happened in Texas, where they wanted to bump Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the curriculum? Still waiting for the AR Harry Potter game we wrote about months ago? We've got you covered with news about past articles.

There's help for educators who want to bring lessons into the classroom after taking students to see The Hate U Give movie.

Don't stop teaching Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Use it—flaws and all—as a piece of the much bigger story.

MERGE is on a mission to make virtual reality "easy, safe, and fun for everyone” and offers an array of experiences to kids 10 and up.

Food and cooking are easy and accessible entry points to learning.

If you’re seeking 2018 fictional works about Latinx experiences, look no further.

Neuroscience provides excellent reasons for supporting making and makerspaces, and can help guide educators offering these exciting opportunities for our students.

Here are some ideas to bring your Teen Read Week programs up a notch.

The Texas State Board of Education passed a preliminary vote to remove Clinton, as well as Helen Keller and others, from the social studies and history curriculum. It could become official in November.

While classroom and school libraries share the larger goal of advancing literacy, they often serve different purposes—and compete for the same resources.

These SLJ School Librarians of the Year have big things in store for their students.

An elementary school librarian’s suggestions for projects related to animal habitats, natural disasters, bridge building, recycled fashion, and more.

Check out these picture books that feature the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

SLJ reviews 3Doodler's new line of 3-D printing pen products designed for classroom use.

Tone policing happens during conversations or debates when one person, typically of greater privilege, thwarts a speaker's thoughts or opinions by reacting to their emotional tone. 

Try these projects and games with your students on Banned Websites Awareness Day (September 26), which seeks to raise awareness of overly restrictive filtering of educational websites and to explore the impact on intellectual freedom.

Maryland's Ali Schilpp is this year's winner, with two library "Champions" honored as well.

New uses for a familiar tool transformed the way she teaches.

When it comes to questions about climate change, it’s imperative that we urge children and teens to seek answers that enlighten, inspire, and stimulate them to get involved as responsible inhabitants of this planet.

Elementary classroom teachers and librarians will want to add these titles to their collections.

Traditional tales remain popular with young readers and provide a plethora of possibilities for classroom explorations.

Overhauling library systems, forging alliances, finding communities, weathering suspicion, and weeding—sometimes thousands of titles. It’s all in the first year’s work for many librarians starting at a new school.

Librarians are helping to foster a productive exchange of ideas among students.

We asked K–12 and public librarians to share their strategies—from genrefying to broadcasting booktalks.

Joyce Valenza covers the top picks among the annual list. 

Sometimes an app truly demonstrates the power of mobile. Google’s Science Journal app transforms your mobile device into a little science laboratory, encouraging students to conduct authentic experiments, collect and visualize data and record observations from the world around them. 

Get out the pliers and roll up your sleeves: All you need to know to lead a toy-take apart session with students.