Jumpstart A New Year in Your Library
It’s a new school year! Some of you may already be back, and some of you may be counting down the last days of...
AASL Post: 5 Conference Tips and Tricks from an Overplanner
I’ve come to realize that I’m an overplanner (my friends are probably rolling their eyes right now). I get this trait from my dad....
AASL Post: 4 Ways You Can Get Creative This Summer
Whether you’re already knee-deep into makerspaces or just toying with the idea of maybe adding some LEGOs to your library next year, we can...
How to Build Creativity (and More ) Through Making
The Four C’s are big in education right now: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration and Communication. We talk constantly about how we need to be...
Demco Post: How to Plan A Maker Fest at Your School
I’ve written lots of posts about the various Maker Fairs (also called Maker Fests) that I did at Stewart over the years I was...
3 Ways Visiting Vendor Showrooms Can Inspire Your Space
Most of us probably have something in our library space that we want to change. Or many things that we want to change. It...
AASL Post: Small Steps to a Makerspace: Maker Mondays
One thing my new school didn’t have when I started was a makerspace. We did have a newly created Virtual Reality Lab (with a...
Notifications and Social Media: How Connected do we REALLY Need to Be?
Back when I first started out as a school librarian, it was mostly a job. I enjoyed it, it was helping me pay off...
AASL Post: To Teach Makers, We Must Become Makers
Makerspaces are amazing places. Our students can learn all kinds of new skills. But it behooves us to learn some of those skills ourselves....
Why Our Learning Spaces Matter
Educational environments have been stuck for far too long. For decades, we have settled for beige concrete boxes. Little natural sunlight and fresh air....