School Libraries

Amid threats and hate-fueled protests, performers and allies remain committed to the program.

Experts offer their picks in resources to help expand both knowledge and perspective this school year. There's zine-making with the Smithsonian; research tools from Infodocket's Gary Price; GLSEN webinars on supporting LGBTIA+ students, and more.

Children can handle the hard truths about slavery, say educators.  Literature can help the conversation.

SLJ welcomes applications for the annual award, sponsored by Scholastic, honoring outstanding achievement by a K-12 library professional. 

Ed tech platform Edmodo will shut down in September, the Center for Antiracist Education will no longer produce new materials; Sora is a Google Classroom add-on, and more in this edition of News Bites.

IdaMae Craddock and Ouida Powe began a bibliotherapy initiative to help combat the growing mental health crisis among children and teens.

New policies are impacting school library purchases in Pennsylvania and Florida; one Texas district cancels its Scholastic Book Fairs for the year; and a South Carolina state senator threatens to eliminate the salaries of public library executives in his county in the latest Censorship Roundup.

Censorship continues to dominate news and reader attention on SLJ.com.

School districts are devising plans to spend the third round of ESSER funds, $122 billion, signed into law in March 2021.