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Manage the money, amplify student voice, and more tips from SLJ's 2017 Hero of Equitable Access.

This time of year is ripe for resolutions. It’s a good time to resolve to read and, perhaps, to resolve to change things up a bit. The new year may be the perfect time to invite your kids to read a little differently–to suggest they build personal challenges based on their own passions, as well as an […]

After a snafu with a Skype author visit, a U.K. high school librarian improvised a Twitter author chat instead. Since then, they've tweeted with more than 30 authors.

The complexity and beauty of the natural world could be lost on our kids if we don’t ensure the time and opportunity to ­appreciate it, play in it, and to be awestruck by it.

As Scholastic fields complaints about merchandising included in book fair materials, Follett builds its own book fair program.

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle […]

When did you last think deeply about why you are a teacher librarian? I challenge you to articulate that. You will be empowered.

It’s one of AASL’s Shared Foundations in the new National Standards. It’s identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. But what does it look like when the school librarian really dives into digital curation? A little while back I had the opportunity to create a video on school librarians and social media curation […]

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