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Related: annielizKnowledge Quest Thank you for your interest in writing for Knowledge Quest! Knowledge Quest is seeking original, unpublished manuscripts that address the integration of theory and practice in school librarianship and new developments in education, learning theory, and relevant disciplines. Knowledge Quest is devoted to offering substantive information to assist building-level school librarians, supervisors, library educators, and other decision makers concerned with the development of school library programs and services. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Emerging trendsReading/literacyCollaboration/Co-teachingLeadershipEvidence-based practiceMakerspacesTechnologyClassification systemsCareer developmentStandards/testingSTEMCollection development/curationInquiry
Digital Collections and Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services Historic Newspapers Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. Historic Sound Recordings The National Jukebox features over 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Co. between 1900 and 1925. Performing Arts Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Prints and Photographs Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images.
How making expands students' visions of themselves SmartBlogs The goal of maker education is not college and career preparation. The goals are deeper learning and authentic engagement, with an emphasis on turning learning over to the learner. However, making is the best college and career preparation that I have encountered, in part because it isn’t the core goal. Through making, students build their agency and find new passions. Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, Calif., where I work, serves students from low-income communities. Five years ago, if you asked seniors about their visions of themselves as adults, they would have envisioned themselves as doctors, teachers or in a vocational job — the careers they encountered in their everyday lives.
About this Collection - Rosa Parks Papers The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division. The collection documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans. Family papers include correspondence with her husband Raymond A. Parks; her mother, Leona Edwards McCauley; and her brother, Sylvester McCauley. Correspondence with her husband and mother contains the largest number of letters written by Parks in the collection.
App Smashing For Educators: Leveraging Tools To Maximize Communication Parent-teacher communication has always been a cornerstone for success in education. For decades, schools have attempted to build and maintain this crucial bridge to lasting learning. Research shows that the stronger the connection between home and school, the greater the academic achievement can be for students. Library of Congress Sets Teachers Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856 chronicle Lincoln’s rise to national prominence Alexander Hamilton Manuscripts, images, and historic newspapers document the life and accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe. Top
The Ultimate Summer Reading List for Teachers Books You, and We, Love On Your Lists • Learn Like a Pirate: Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed By Paul Solarz —Stephanie Laird, @SLaird2 • The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing By Ruth Culham “This will help me learn new strategies to support my students’ writing with mentor texts.” Friday Finds - Picture Resource We’ve all been there. Students are searching the internet for pictures for a project, presentation, or an assignment and they don’t remember to cite their source when they retrieve the picture. Well, then we are left trying to find the same said photo or must find them another picture to use. Eureka! The above website has creative commons photos/pictures for school use. The images are age appropriate, come with their own citation, and are part of the creative commons.
Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth This paper, written for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) by Cen Campbell, Claudia Haines, Amy Koester, and Dorothy Stoltz; was adopted by the ALSC Board of Directors on March 11, 2015. Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth: A Primer - Registration now open! Tuesday, July 21, 2015: 11 am Central, 12 pm EasternFREE webinar- open to the public Instructor: Amy Koester, Youth & Family Program Coordinator, Skokie (IL) Public Library In an effort to assist ALSC members as they prepare to serve their community as media mentors, ALSC is offering the following archived webinars free to members through July, 2015.
Let's Get Together Thursday - Librarians Reflect: How Did My Collaboration Go This Year? The end of the year rush is over. Inventories are completed, reports are filed, testing is finished, grades are posted and the kids have gone home for the summer. It’s time to take a moment now that the year has finished to reflect on what went right and what could be improved in your collaboration efforts. theconversation From coast to coast, elementary and high school libraries are being neglected, defunded, repurposed, abandoned and closed. The kindest thing that can be said about this is that it’s curious; the more accurate explanation is that it’s just wrong and very foolish. A 2011 survey conducted with my graduate students of 25 separate statewide studies shows that students who attend schools with libraries that are staffed by certified librarians score better on reading and writing tests than students in schools without library services. And it is lower-income students who benefit the most. This clear empirical evidence has had little impact on budget cutters, however. They act – mistakenly – as though there is no link between libraries and educational achievement.
Daring Greatly: Lessons from Cadillac As I read the description of the new KQ website as “a vehicle for school librarians to transform learning,” the word vehicle called to mind Cadillac’s new slogan: “Dare Greatly,” taken from a Teddy Roosevelt speech and designed as part of a marketing ploy to get people to reevaluate the Cadillac brand. You may have noticed these evocative ads that celebrate underdogs who succeeded. Cadillac CMO Elllinghaus, in an interview, explained that even though Cadillac was producing the best quality vehicles ever, U.S. sales had not responded ‘because the brand … [had] lapsed into an indistinct identity’ that hadn’t been able to seduce buyers from more traditional, ‘safe’ choices in rival brands (“Cadillac reveals”, 2015). Ellinghaus went on to say that the Cadillac brand had lost its relevance and that ‘we need to have a new point of view to show why we’re relevant …. You can’t just put product—even great product…in front of people. If the brand isn’t relevant, people don’t care (Buss, 2015).’
You Want Me to Work With Who? Tips to Collaborate with Any Teacher Buzzwords. We all hear them. We all roll our eyes at them. One has stuck with me. Collaboration. I’ve always been a do-it-yourself kind of gal, but with technology integration and project-based learning, collaboration is a must.
The Brown-Bag Teacher: Finding Nonfiction Articles for Middle Grades Happy Sunday, friends! Today is the 2nd Bright Ideas Blog Hop with a collection of 200 fantastic, product-free blog posts full of ideas/resources that can quickly put into action in your classroom! Today I am sharing with you one of my great frustrations about 5th grade...the lack of resources. We are a curriculum-free school for reading and writing, so in August I walked into a resource-empty classroom. It has taken me months to find my 'go-to' websites, apps, and databases that are rigorous enough (i.e. long enough, with a 800-1000 Lexile Level) and interesting for my students.