School Libraries

The strains of the pandemic have shown how critical SEL is to school communities, particularly those serving at-risk children.

While school policies around masks, social distancing, and vaccination policies differ, librarians can share common goals to promote social-emotional learning.

Pat Scales answers questions about kids who want challenged books; a parent who objects to fairy tales due to religious beliefs; and a principal sympathetic to students who protest assigned novels. 

Natural disasters are taking a toll on schools and public libraries across the country. SLJ checked in with some librarians hit by Hurricane Ida and the Dixie and Caldor fires in California to see how they are and how people can help.

School librarian Jessica Scheller and art teacher Andrea Ramirez of Eiland Elementary School in Klein ISD, Houston, win inaugural award.

As Halloween creeps up, these five audio dramas deliver chills and thrills. 
 

Take our mini-poll and see what's flying off the shelves in other schools. 

Educators have many obligations, some of the same, some new ones. That there is more to figure out, more to contend with, more to know, and more unknowns ahead, writes Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. 

I resist, not necessarily by marching in the street but by staying informed as an educator, colleague, and as a bystander. I question policies and practices that align with doing what we’ve always done just because it’s what we’ve always done.