This space holds reflections that slow things down, surface patterns, and help make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface — without asking you to keep up or agree with everything.
Clarity over consensus.
Families and schools are increasingly separated in today’s education landscape, and blaming parents only makes matters worse. As educators, we can take proactive steps to foster collaboration, advocate for systemic change, and focus on what we can influence. Make real improvements in education through actionable solutions that shift the narrative, communicate more effectively, and make education more effective.
Prepare your library for PreK; make it an inviting, exciting and engaging space for little learners to love coming to the library.
Save time with routines, procedures, tattling, learning tasks, and more. Digitally automate your library to simplify teaching.
Being an elementary school librarian can frequently feel unwieldy. There is so much to do! We teach, shelve, circulate, collaborate, order books, and more. I know many school librarians who also manage the school’s technology, book clubs, and school discipline. With so much to do, it’s necessary to make library teaching manageable.
How can we keep reluctant readers engaged so they stick around for a read aloud? After all, they don’t have choice in what gets read aloud to the class.
As children continue to use social media, adults worry about the long and short term effects.
It can be difficult keeping young children engaged. They have a need to get up and move and talk to others. In addition to that, today’s technology has trained their brains to work with small bites of information.
Play isn’t just for PreK. All grades benefit from the use of play to facilitate learning.
