Today the August/ September issue of School Librarian’s Workshop will be emailed to subscribers. It is the 35th volume year. On this major anniversary it seems fitting to look back in time. The first issue appeared on September 1980. It…
Today the August/ September issue of School Librarian’s Workshop will be emailed to subscribers. It is the 35th volume year. On this major anniversary it seems fitting to look back in time. The first issue appeared on September 1980. It…
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a paradigm as “a … group of ideas about how something should be done, made, or thought about.” Unconsciously, we approach almost everything in life through a certain mindset. It is why those of us…
I have been a voracious reader since I was a young child. Words have always been an important part of my life, so I never thought much about the pictures words were painting in my head. Sure, I knew seeing…
Those of us in education throw around the phrase “21st Century Learning,” and while the phrase resonates with parents and others who want their children to be prepared for their future (or “College and Career Readiness” as the Common Core…
The famed Vulcan farewell is an ongoing commitment I have to school librarians and their programs, yet everywhere they are being threatened with elimination. What can you do to turn the tide? The answer is a 3×3 strategy for winning…
The business world has long recognized the importance of mentoring. Education has been slower to embrace the concept, although many states have it in place for teachers who don’t enter the profession through the traditional route and have student teaching…
I had the great honor to be asked to guest edit the November/December 2013 issue of Knowledge Quest, the journal of AASL. The theme was Dewey or Don’t We, a pro-con look at a growing practice among school (and public librarians) to go…
In “A Dream Deferred” also called “Harlem,” Langston Hughes, referring to the lives of African Americans said, What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then…
The late Judith Krug of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (http://www/ala.org/oif) is credited with beginning this annual event held during the last week in September. This year it runs from September 22-28. While all of us believe in open…
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…