These are revolting times, so librarian Christine Lively is sharing some tips to help teens cope with the year that is 2020.
Teen Contributor Morgan Randall talks about developing healthy habits.
Those looking for a contemporary that successfully mixes romance with some rather serious issues will enjoy this character-driven book with wide appeal.
Find out how writing a book about murderous Irish Gods and sapphic witches helped author E. Latimer get a mental health diagnosis.
While this is a romance, and the story of children of immigrants juggling multiple cultures, norms, and expectations, it's also a very affecting and complex exploration of mental health.
Author and doctor I.W. Gregorio joins us to talk about her new book as well as about COVID-19 and staying virtually connected and physically safe during this difficult time.
Nora Shalaway Carpenter explains why The Edge of Anything, her new YA novel, is the book she'd longed for during her own darkest days.
A discussion of mental health in the life of teens.
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.
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.
Don't stop teaching Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Use it—flaws and all—as a piece of the much bigger story.
Food and cooking are easy and accessible entry points to learning.
Children's literature scholar Debbie Reese highlights recent picture books, fiction and nonfiction, that celebrate American Indian heritage.
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.
This is the latest in our series of quarterly seasonal roundups, this time showcasing new picture books for Halloween, Deepawali, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, Cherokee National Holiday, and Thanksgiving.
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.
Effective discourse should always be a priority, and with an important midterm election season ahead, we have a teachable moment.
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.
Three new informational titles incorporating vivid visuals, imagination-stirring poetry, and personal perspective, emphasize the exhilaration of discovery.
In these new titles readers will meet characters who grow through their music or bridge difficult relationships to a soundtrack.
Scientist Marie Miranda Cruz makes her debut as a middle grade novelist with Everlasting Nora.
News and announcements from the annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference.
New books provide students with techniques to manage stress and to take charge of their lives.
Nosy Crow, known for its rollicking fairy tale retellings has announced it will no longer be producing apps. Hansel and Gretel is its penultimate production.
A look at the business models being applied to school reform.
Public libraries and middle and high schools can apply for the grants. But hurry, the deadline is July 9.
A few things to note from ALA Annual in New Orleans.
The video game Fortnite is officially a full-blown craze—and gaming events are a great way to bring teens into the library this summer.
Partnerships between schools and public libraries are on the rise—and may just be our our best lever to support literacy.
New framework connects to ISTE standards and a guide helps librarians work in a collaborative, practical way.
Joining forces provides ways to share resources, ideas, and programming to better serve students and promote reading. A new partnership toolkit from ALA offers strategies.
Joyce Valenza covers the top picks among the annual list.
Free lesson plans combine digital fabrication with an exploration of cultural symbols inspired by the hit Marvel film.
Behold, I have found a new photo app! As I mentioned last week, a friend fell into a button maker group and they talk a lot about two things: 1) The Canon Selphy printer, which I reviewed last week and 2) The Rhonna Designs app, which a lot of people in the button making community […]
Erudite scholarship. Conspicuous consumption. Music. Bawdy revels. The reign of Henry VIII is known for many contradictions. But it is likely most known for the monarch’s treatment of his wives, who tell their stories in the recently released Fatal Throne.
25 summer-themed titles for tweens and teens for reading all year 'round.
Inject some entertaining challenges into your summer reading lists, programs, or displays with these puzzle, seek-and-find, and participatory storybooks.
This game, which offers opportunities for cooperative play and team problem solving, will be appreciated for its design and deceptively simple, thought-provoking puzzles.
Looking for short-term use of cake tins, camping equipment, or bikes? These libraries lend out all of those items and a lot more.
These films take inspiration from their source material without necessarily replicating the books to the last detail.
Notable keynotes, panels, and events from this year's conference.
Explore Chicago Collections, a free online portal, lets users search the digital collections of the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago History Museum, and other member institutions.
This learn-to-code robot with a passing resemblance to Mr. Potato Head can be built and re-built.
A hands-on STEM learning center at Colonial High School (CHS) in Grindstone, PA, provides needed skills, an emotional outlet, and a lifeline to many teens.
From biographies of real-life makers to activity books, these selections are the perfect way to get students engaged in making.
Books about U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the social movements and court cases that have forced our nation to reexamine the "unalienable" rights afforded only to select citizens in the 18th century.
Shake Fest is a blow-out event Bard-related activities, crafts, and games in Alisha Wilson's school library.
SLJ's 2016 School Librarian of the Year Todd Burleson’s quest for the ultimate LEGO storage solution.
From fanfiction to QR codes, Phil Goerner offers tips and resources to help librarians working with teens to combat the summer slide.
Appealing graphics and a series of solid foundational skill-building exercises make this app a winner.
The goopy substance is all the rage—and a great way to explore polymers during library maker activities.
Staff at the National Women's History Museum studied every state's K–12 social studies standards for U.S. history to see what women and "topics associated with women" were discussed.
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.
There's a lot happening in this installment of New Bites, including grant opportunities, awards, a new imprint, an ALA summit, and more.
Strategies for adaptability, financing, and assessment are key to the movement’s future.
Get out the pliers and roll up your sleeves: All you need to know to lead a toy-take apart session with students.
A school librarian leads student tech projects to design pet prosthetics and traffic safety vests with LED displays.
Not all kids see the police as community stewards, but picture books do.
The author discusses his latest book and a reoccurring theme in his work.
Working successfully with teenage makers can require a hands-off approach that dispenses with structure.
University's Teaching Systems Lab is teaming up with MakerEd and two schools to try to quantify what students learn and, in the process, change the mind-set of educators and parents.
Photoshop and Adobe Premiere for $5? Starting May 15, Adobe will offer its full suite of Creative Cloud applications to K–12 schools at $4.99 per license, per year.
A school librarian develops exercises to foster spatial reasoning, prepping students for future success.
This curriculum-based database pushes elementary and middle school students to think about STEM and problem-solving in new ways.
This season’s best sets are tech-focused.
Information database subscriptions can be prohibitively expensive for school districts, but next year in California, every school will have access for free.
In a poetic exploration of the justice system, family ties, and forgiveness, Crossan delivers a poignant story that will leave readers with much to ponder.
Share these delightful resources with readers to bring a positive awareness about one of our most productive and important insects.
A set of sterling online resources bring book illustrators into the classroom for look at technique and material, along with some engaging personal stories.
Titles to introduce environmental themes, nurture an appreciation of nature, and launch creative projects.
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