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Here’s to Librarians, Part 2

Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, I wrote a blog post that celebrated all the work that school librarians were doing to support not only their school communities, but dealing with family stress, too. Now, more than a year later, school librarians are still struggling - some of the same elements remain but …

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Makerspaces: My Favorite Part about Being a Librarian

As librarians, we have many components of our jobs. It is our job to develop and maintain the collection, continue relationships and collaborations with staff, connect students with the right books, advocate for what we do to our administrators as well as the rest of the stakeholders, keep up with a makerspace, and the list …

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Cultural Proficiency in the School Library

Recently, our school's staff had a professional development session about Cultural Proficiency. I consider myself as a librarian to be very open and welcoming to ideas and cultures that are different from mine. I decided I would listen to the presentation through the lens of the library, hoping to find something new. I left with …

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How 1:1 Made Me a Better Librarian

Happy Library Week, friends!  Our school recently hosted a site visit for other staff in our county to come observe our students and staff using their laptops and observe how 1:1 has changed education at our school. I walked around with some staff who asked great questions and were eager to hear what we had …

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Building Community through Student Ownership

In a conversation with a teacher the other day, she remarked how much she enjoyed seeing "student stuff" around the library. I kind of laughed and wasn't really sure what she was talking about; of course we have the forgotten agenda, an occasional lunchbox, and the renegade pencil case, but she mentioned things I didn't …

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Top 5 Takeaways: My Experience at SLJ Leadership Summit 2017

One of the things I love most about being a school librarian is networking with other librarians - to collaborate, share ideas, and get inspiration for how to improve my practice. Through a generous scholarship from the Virginia Association of School Librarians, I was able to attend the 2017 School Library Journal Leadership Summit in …

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