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This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Common Sense isn’t Really all that Common Middle School Monday: Professional Development. Not the Optional Kind. Teaching Teens Media Literacy 101 Book Review: A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom Book Review: Safe is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students by Michael Sadowski Video Games Weekly: Lego […]
A Crucial Strand of PD. We have an early-release day coming up. Does your school have those? Where you get to squeeze the work of a whole school day with students into a shorter time frame and then stay for meetings and/or professional development? Just typing that out is making me a bit tired. This […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: On Being Appreciated and Making a Difference Middle School Monday: Reading Incentive Programs Limit More Than Choice Book Review: Gap Life by John Coy Things I Never Learned in Library School: On Being a Teen Librarian 2 Weeks After the Election of Donald Trump Uppercase Unboxing II: the Unboxenating […]
Welcome to the second of three posts on my free Uppercase boxes, which I was offered in exchange for an honest post about my thoughts. You can find the first unboxing post here.* This month’s box comes with a similar array of goodies. First and foremost, a signed copy of The Sun Is Also a Star by […]
That a school librarian has something to say about reading incentive programs is not new. I’m not here to tell you whether or not to do them—but rather to talk about the one aspect of incentive programs that I see to be particularly damaging. Several teachers I’ve known have used (and use) Book Adventure to […]
I spent the first 21 years of my career as a school librarian. First, I served in an elementary school where 97% of the students lived in poverty. The smallest things I did in the students lives were noticeable, from keeping school supplies and personal wellness items available to them at all times, to advocating […]
This Week at TLT #MHYALit Sunday Reflections: The hard work of getting help and getting better Embracing Content Creation Queries – Guest post by Lynette Pitrak Middle School Monday: Finding, Funding, and Flooding What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA November and December 2016 #MHYALit: For My Suicidal Friends, On the Election of Donald Trump, a guest […]
Has our libraries’ mission to fill our shelves with books that reflect our students—and the world—ever been more important? We need reflective literature and #ownvoices books for all of our students. All the time. Today, let’s talk about money. Yes, money. Because to make a commitment to filling our shelves with diverse books, reflective literature […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: I Survived Active Shooter Training but I’m Bitter about It 5 Publishers That Will Rock Your MakerSpace Middle School Monday: Short Stories for the Win The Pressure to be Perfect: Emily Franklin interviews H.A. Swain about her YA novel Gifted MakerSpace: Fun with Lettering and Quarto Books The Nature […]