While School Librarian’s Workshop subscribers will soon be receiving their February/ March 2014 issue, I am almost finished with the April/May 2014.  With April being Math Awareness Month, I have STEM on my brain.  If you recall a previous blog…

An interesting discussion has been taking place on the School Librarian’s Workshop Facebook page.  It began when I reposted Ruth V. Small’s report on the  research study she has done at the Center for Digital Literacy (showing “young innovators perceive…

A Buffy Hamilton post (http://dmlcentral.net/blog/buffy-hamilton/libraries-‘sponsors-literacy-and-learning-peeling-back-layers) which I shared on The School Librarian’s Facebook page, reminded me about the important differences between questions and answers.  In the current situation with the Common Core Curriculum, our schools are focused more than ever…

I am reminded that January is named for the Roman God Janus, pictured as looking forward and backward.  Once we are past our childhood, it seems inevitable that the New Year causes us to reflect on the year gone by…

As a member of ASCD, I receive their monthly Education Updates in the mail.  Normally, I give it a cursory reading, but the lead article in the December issue, “More than Words: Developing Core Speaking and Listening Skills” made me…

I planned to begin this post by talking about going to the AASL Conference and Exhibition this coming week in Hartford, Connecticut.  I was going to share about “networking” with my friends and colleagues (who are frequently one and the…

I am looking forward to returning home by train after spending the weekend on Cape Cod at a writers’ retreat.  It’s not that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy my time this weekend.  I was with my daughter, whom you may know…

I am the new generation of “retired.”  Nine years ago, I retired from being a high school librarian but – that didn’t mean the end of my working life.  I continue writing books for school librarians (the newest School Librarian’s…

I was waiting on line for a book to be autographed while at the recent SLJ Leadership Summit in Austin, Texas and got into a conversation with Elyssa Malespina, an excellent school librarian and occasional contributor to School Librarian’s Workshop. …

I have just returned from the School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Austin, Texas.  Besides re-connecting with librarian friends I usually see only at ALA and AASL Conferences, I met a host of new ones who are going to be…