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 …
Continue reading Top 5 Takeaways: My Experience at SLJ Leadership Summit 2017
When I was younger, I think around elementary school, my friends and I would make these origami things for our fingers - we called them fortune tellers. The outsides usually had colors, like red, and you would open and close your fingers based on the number of letters there were in the word your partner …
Continue reading Makerspace on the Road: Beginning English and Origami
I want to share an experience I had recently with one of my students, because it personifies our purpose as librarians (and it's also a really good story). He came into the library a few months ago with his English class, with the task of finding a book for a free-choice independent reading project. Aside …
Continue reading This: A Story of Purpose
I began a blog post earlier (which will be posted...early next week I think) but as I was writing it, something in my heart (and brain) was telling me I needed to write about this instead. So here goes: Yesterday was one of those days that I get occasionally where I felt like I truly …
Continue reading Because Some Days are Awesome.
Grover's Corner of the Library 