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Managing Students

For the past two weeks I have been blogging about classroom management for librarians. Part three of this discussion is the hardest challenge –handling disruptive students and classes. There is no silver bullet.  No quick fix.  And nothing works perfectly

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Libraries, Librarians, and Learning in the 21st Century

I have just returned the AASL Forum on School Librarians in the Anytime Anywhere Learning Landscape and as usual for this intense two-day institute I am precariously balanced between the excitement of new ideas (and old ones in new guises)

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Where Has My Get-Up-And-Go Gone?

It’s raining, and it’s chilly.  The house feels dark even with lots of lights on.  I just want to curl up with a book and hibernate.  I am fairly disciplined.  My to-do list is always nearby, clearly listing everything needing

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Time Management – Is It Possible?

A t-shirt slogan reads, “I was put on this earth to accomplish certain things.  At the rate I am going, I will never die.”  Have you felt this way too? Too much to do and too little time to do

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A Positive View on Procrastination

I admit it.  I have a natural tendency to procrastinate.  When I was a child, my father would say, “Hilda, you have the world’s biggest tomorrow.”  Almost anything could (and sometimes can) divert me from what I “should” be doing—another

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