📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-03-16

Ed photos for the week 🌱 Growing Raccoon 🏳️‍🌈: “😂😂😂 #library #librarian #meme #ferret” – Gamedev Mastodon LikesOldMacs: “Remember this photo the next time you’re upset ab…” – Mastodon “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” Be very careful of the behaviors and standards we reward Empathy […]

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Why we need school libraries

With an emphasis on test scores and “digital literacy,” there is a myth among many that the school library is irrelevant and even old-fashioned. Talk to students and you will find that they don’t feel this way. Children want access to books. They want to spend time in a library perusing titles and discussing what […]

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Librarian’s role in boosting brain based learning

“This is so new for teachers, whereas librarians have been doing this for ten years,” said Paige Jaeger, a school librarian turned administrator and co-author of Think Tank Library: Brain-Based Learning Plans for New Standards. According to Jaeger, librarians were some of the first educators to realize that the Internet made finding information (their bread and […]

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New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

Media specialist Samantha Edwards wants noise in her library—and she hears it.Last fall, Edwards, the librarian at Fogelsville Elementary School in Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, opened a modest self-publishing center in the library outfitted with an iMac, a printer and a machine to bind books. She noticed how excited her students were to create […]

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Sharing: School Library Budgets Rise 20%, Yet Challenges Remain

School Library Budgets Rise 20%, Yet Challenges Remain | Spending Survey 2016 | School Library Journal Yet funding levels remain far below 2010–11, when school library budgets averaged $10,348 and the median, $7,000. Furthermore, the nearly 800 school librarians who responded to SLJ’s survey in January 2016 say they believe their budgets will fall an […]

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