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Take Your Place at the Table: Thrive as Part of the Solution Your School Needs | Editorial
School librarians, your administrators need you like never before. So let’s make 2014 the year that each of you strengthens your connection to your school’s mission and goals—explicitly, by taking a place at the table.
The Learning Spark: How Interest Fuels Cognition | Editorial
Recently, I’ve reconsidered that element of human experience called interest, thanks to Annie Murphy Paul and Mimi Ito. Murphy Paul is a journalist covering cognitive science and Ito, a cultural anthropologist, is a proponent of the Connected Learning concept, but their ideas both relate to the power of interest, and the impact on kids when it is fostered.
A Critical Legacy: Honoring Book Review Editor Trev Jones | Editorial
This month marks the retirement of Trevelyn Jones, as she steps down from her role as head of SLJ’s Book Review. We will miss Trev’s direct leadership and her steady presence, but we are comforted to know she’s available for us to lean on in an editor-at-large capacity as we transition to a new era. Her life's work and contribution to the world of children's literature has made the world a better place.
Read for the Record with Loren Long and ‘Otis’
Read for the Record Day is October 3, and children all over the country will be celebrating by reading Loren Long's Otis, including the students at teacher librarian Shannon McClintock Miller's school. Five lucky classrooms that pledge by September 25 will also get the opportunity to chat with the author in a Google+ Hangout.
New York’s Folly: A Lack of Vision at the City’s Dept. of Education | Editorial
As students around the country return to school, those in New York City are facing a future without certified school librarians, as the NYC Department of Education (DOE) has asked to be excused from a decades-old state mandate on minimum staffing requirements.
Matters of Equity: As the Divide Grows, We Must Help Level the Playing Field for All of Our Kids | Editorial
As the economic landscape continues to shift, the mission of schools and libraries to address the gaps intensifies, and the work of the key players, teachers and librarians, has never been more essential.
Give ’Em Chalk: Hands-On Learning Is Fun and Builds Literacy Skills | Editorial
The most exciting time for a kindergarten teacher is when a kid looks up and says, ‘Hey, I can read!’” Fostering early literacy is the focus of our very first theme issue. We're also debuting a new look, with some significant improvements to the all-important reviews section.
ALA, It’s Time to Step Up for School Libraries | Editorial
What if ALA leadership fought for school librarians like it fought for access to ebooks?
World Peace and Other Aspirations: The Role of Play | Editorial
Pam Sandlian Smith's ongoing reinvention of library service at the Anythink Libraries in Colorado shows what leadership exercised in a spirit of wonder and playfulness can achieve. John Hunter's World Peace Game takes playing to a new level for learning. We can all learn from both.
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