Are you using your school librarian to help you plan lessons?  Asking for help from your school librarian is an easy teacher collaboration where you can get the best resources, collaborate, and engage your learners.   Many school librarians were classroom teachers so they have knowledge of the ... read more

What are Google Expeditions? Virtual and augmented reality are beginning to make a splash in education.  It all sounds exciting, but if you are like me, you wrote it off as something too techy and hard to figure out. But, guess what?  It is actually super easy. And the ... read more

Some school libraries are moving away from the Dewey Decimal System into other ways of categorizing books. This often leads to an increase nonfiction circulation because students are finding the books they want to read. Organizing the Nonfiction in an Elementary School Library to Increase ... read more

What is a Flipped Classroom? The flipped classroom model is a model of teaching where the core or more direct instruction is learned outside of the classroom and the practice is done in the classroom.  In this model, the homework becomes the classwork. The core instruction can be given ... read more