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I’m You’re Neighbor Project has a mission to “Welcoming immigrants, refugees, and migrants as neighbors through the sharing of children’s literature and other stories.”
Meet OASIS—Openly Available Sources Integrated Search—with a goal to facilitate the discovery of open educational resources.
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.
These new applications transport students through primary sources to some of the most dramatic turning points in U.S. history and immerse them in the related debates.
The search tool allows you to locate datasets stored across thousands of repositories in the context of their hosted sites in a single interface.
Teaching titles about mathmeticians Katherine Johnson and Sophie Germain.
While classroom and school libraries share the larger goal of advancing literacy, they often serve different purposes—and compete for the same resources.
Teaching ideas for a book that invites readers to notice the beauty and mystery of the natural world around us.
Teen-tested projects from the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County.
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.
New Books for Emergent Readers
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.
Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. Recent enhancements allow for even more openness.
Librarians are helping to foster a productive exchange of ideas among students.
Parents and young children will discover engaging curricular content, a library of interactive books to teach early academic skills, as well as a focus on social-emotional development and healthy habits.
We asked K–12 and public librarians to share their strategies—from genrefying to broadcasting booktalks.
I was excited to attend the release party for the beta version of ALA’s Ready to Code Collection at Annual a few weeks back.
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.
