Classroom & Curricula
A dancer who broke the race barrier. A social outcast who became renowned potter. A pastor who found homes for orphaned boys and made them famous. A man who couldn’t resist collecting books. They faced insurmountable obstacles and their legacy lives on today. The following biographies, selected by the editors at Junior Library Guild, will inspire kids to follow their dreams.
“If you’re not naked, you’re into fashion,” so states Tom Streissguth in "Getting the Hang of Fashion" one of the titles in our list of style histories and how-tos.
Stories about labor and the economy continue to dominate headline news. In what ways does a “rising tide lift all boats"? What is the real minimum wage required to bring working families out of poverty? These and other important questions can be explored in the context of today's curriculum standards.
Here are our latest briefs on a digital publishing mini-MOOC, free Mackin ebook bundles, Qlovi’s Common Core platform, an archived copyright tweetchat, Multicultural Children’s Book Day, Philadelphia’s Year of the Bard, the E-Rate filing window, and the NAACP Image Awards.
Washington State’s Bellevue School District is seeking to hire two certified media specialists, to be known as Research Technology Specialists, by this spring and hopes to fully staff more of its secondary schools—whose librarians were cut in 2009—by 2015, District Superintendent Dr. Tim Mills confirms.
So many books, so little time. It’s hard to sell something to readers which you haven’t had time to read yet, so SLJTeen is introducing JLG’s Booktalks to Go Teen. This monthly column will provide you with ready to use booktalks on new releases for your teen readers.
Cue the confetti cannons and cheerleaders: it's time for our annual list of teen fiction from St. Martin’s Griffin! Check out the books and download the 2014 poster now. NOTE: This content was sponsored and contributed by Macmillan.
Open Culture bills itself as having "the best free cultural & educational media on the web." Teacher-librarian Krista Brakhage resolved to make friends with Open Culture and discovers that with a little bit of searching, the site provides a treasure trove of valuable resources for instruction and the classroom.
The Smithsonian Libraries has launched three courses of selected content on iTunes U about early aviation and space history. More courses will be rolled out during the first half of 2014, including one on "Women in Aviation."
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