121 Blogs About Schools, Books, & Libraries
TeachThought
DECEMBER 5, 2024
From libraries and classrooms to teachers, technology, and libraries, here 121 blogs about schools, books, & libraries.
Organize, Streamline, and Empower Learning with H?para
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 11, 2021
If you are an avid reader of this blog, you have seen examples of what I am talking about in terms of the use of time, differentiation, purposeful integration of technology, and educator collaboration. Private Library : Allows schools and districts to secure their H?para para Workspaces in private library collections.
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Impact of a Makerspace
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 14, 2014
After looking it over I asked if one of the students would consider writing a guest blog post for me. I always had an interest in computers, but that increased even more thanks to my library makerspace. We started looking around the library and in the back room we saw some empty boxes. Luckily for us he said yes.
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Visual learning made easy with Lucidchart
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 8, 2012
They have hundreds of shapes in their native library, and you can also import Visio stencils and shape libraries, which are available all over the web. Flexibility - Whether you start from scratch or from a template, your diagram is fully customizable. Tweak shapes, text, line direction, and even the size of your canvas.
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Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
MS Office), simultaneously collaborate on and edit various document formats, access your documents from anywhere in the word, and embed links to your docs in emails, websites, blogs, etc. Google Reader : Constantly check educational news sites and blogs for new content (updates daily). Learn more about Google Docs here.
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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning
A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 7, 2013
The following is cross-posted at Laura Fleming''s blog titled Worlds of Learning. As a 21st Century Library Media Specialist, part of what I strive to do is to serve as an instructional technology resource for both educators and learners. ? By embedding them into their own sites or blogs and pushed out to their social networks.
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World Of Difference
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 11, 2013
Check out this great article from the School Library Journal on this project. In September she created a new blog called Worlds of Learning. Here are a few highlights from her short tenure thus far: Created a digital badge platform to recognize informal learning being undertaken by NMHS staff.
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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
1864) Library of Congress. 1865) Library of Congress. Ray is a former Teacher Program Manager for TAH and a frequent contributor to our blog. .” Lincoln deliberated on the phrase and jotted down some thoughts on the essential purpose of the Constitution and the Union. Berger, Anthony. Gardner, Alexander.
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
Women's History Network
JANUARY 23, 2025
First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.
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A Glimpse Into What's Possible
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 27, 2014
The following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt''s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. Laura had returned to New Milford this past September and is literally constructing a modern day Library Media Center. The post was titled Schools.the New Digital Age Learning Organization?
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Exemplary Practices in 21st Century Learning
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 7, 2010
Currently the categories on this wiki include blogs, student leadership, technology integration, portfolios, learning through teaching, social networking, and authentic learning. The larger the library of exemplary practices, the more powerful this resource will be for everyone!
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries and Museums
Women's History Network
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.
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New Year, New Adventures
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
There is also a web-based component available to the teachers that contains resource libraries and discussion forums that I plan to use not only with the classroom walkthrough data, but also our PLC''s. Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again.
Have you seen “What Works” for your schools? Amplify success with a video library of teaching
Edthena
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Now, teachers can see best-practice instructional examples of their peers in a searchable Organization Library. Send an email to.
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Station Rotation Model in Action (Video)
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 19, 2016
In a previous blog post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I described many of the reasons I use the Station Rotation Model in my secondary classroom. StudySync has a huge digital library of media and texts ranging from historic speeches to poetry to excerpts from novels.
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How Three Organizations Are Using GenAI to Advance Equity—and Combating Bias within It
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 8, 2024
This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments. Today’s blog explores how three grantees centered equity and reduced bias in education-based AI. Researchers at OpenStax developed two prototypes for finding high-quality, free teaching materials within OpenStax’s content library.
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Student Blogging: Importance of Authentic Audience and Student Ownership and Connecting Home with School
Dr. Shannon Doak
OCTOBER 2, 2018
I recently had the chance to support all students Grade 1 through Grade 5 on a Library project that was then shared to our school community using Seesaw. In my last school, the method used to share student work and reflection was different (we used self-hosted WordPress blogs) but the characteristic the students applied was the same.
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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School
Teaching Anthropology
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.
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Designing Powerful Professional Learning Experiences for Making
Digital Promise
MAY 13, 2022
In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.
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Make Sense of Your Interactions with Simulated Quantities of Interest, by Way of {simqi}
Steven V. Miller
MARCH 18, 2025
I promised the students a write-up of the presentation on my blog, which is what will come here. library ( tidyverse ) # for most things library ( stevedata ) # forthcoming 1.6.0, for simulation library ( kableExtra ) # for other tables theme_set ( theme_steve ()) # default theme.
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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
It asks them to list 4-5 books they would like to read using various resources such as Goodreads book lists, Scholastic lists, local libraries, classroom libraries, or online book sources, like Epic Books or Lexia. The Booklist Assignment is designed to help students select a book they’ll enjoy. Silent Sustained Reading Routine.
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Come for the computers, stay for the books
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2017
Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.
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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning
Digital Promise
JUNE 12, 2019
This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio.
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Lydia Sherrer and Reggie Van Stockum on “How to Publish your Book” (with video!)
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 13, 2025
Writers and Publishers Lydia Sherrer and Reggie Van Stockum lecture on “How to Publish your Book” at the Shelby County, Kentucky Library on April 9, 2022, during Library Week. Lydia is the Best Selling author of the “Lily Singer Adventure Series.” ” You can check out all of her work at [link].
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How Librarians Hold the Key to Future Ready Schools
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Thanks to a partnership with Follett, I am now collaborating with national educational leaders to connect librarians and libraries to the strategic work of districts. How can librarians and libraries become more Future Ready? In Baltimore this November , libraries and librarians will be a featured strand during site visits.
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Making the Most of Distance Learning: 7 Tips to Share with Parents
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. Ask your local library about access to free digital or audio books. This will help your child with communication skills and reading.
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Ph.D. Break
History Havoc
OCTOBER 27, 2024
I spend most nights at the library and most weekends too. Which reminds me that I used to run one of the premier sports blogs on baseball outside of the United States. Soon here I hope to blog more and bring you some podcasts as I return to making those in the near future. And the Ph.D. takes up ALL my time.
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Looking for Good Reads? Here are 10 of the Greatest Hits from the Edthena Blog
Edthena
AUGUST 11, 2021
It’s our 10th anniversary, which means the Edthena blog is also turning the big 1-0. Curious about our greatest blog hits from over the past decade? Whether you’re new to the blog and wanted a list of our must-sees or just needed some good refreshers and re-reads, enjoy! Sign up for our Edthena blog mailing list.
Engage Students with Authentic Learning at Home
Digital Promise
MAY 12, 2020
Find more resources here: Read more about how Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging in this blog post. Identify technologies to support powerful learning at home in our Online Learning Resource library. Find guidance and support in our Real World Learning Builder, Roadmap, and Resources.
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How to Create Powerful Intergenerational Learning Experiences
Digital Promise
JUNE 27, 2019
In this blog post, Kim describes her unique approach to Powerful Learning. We have weekly events like intergenerational library times, which allow Grands and kids to bond over their shared love of reading books and storytelling. Students in the library with a Grand. Creating Connections across Generations.
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Students Speak: How Technology Can Transform Learning
Digital Promise
MAY 22, 2019
Another huge setback for students without access to devices is the requirement to check out textbooks from the school library. Explore the Edtech Marketplace Today blog series to hear other voices from the field share important perspectives on challenges and strategies to improve the edtech market. But that’s not the case.
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If I was teaching Social Studies today…
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.
How Educators Save Time and Energy in Their Content Creation and Feedback Loops
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Create digital lessons from a library Recommended Resources BookWidgets Blog BookWidgets Webinars BookWidgets Tutorials Teaching with BookWidgets | Facebook BookWidgets YouTube Channel Finding user-friendly online platforms to create projects and activities is crucial in our classrooms. The Widget Library.
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How to Manage Student Devices for Remote Learning
Digital Promise
MARCH 30, 2020
With most schools, restaurants, coffee shops, and public libraries closed, students have lost much of their access to public wifi. Share frequently asked questions as well as best practices for digital responsibility. Help students and families find wifi to conserve LTE data and support other devices.
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Helping Students Take the Next Step in their Career and Education Journey
Digital Promise
AUGUST 26, 2021
The teacher, library media tech, or counselor can be involved with reflection exercises, which are really where the rubber meets the road—as kids make connections between who they are and who they want to become.”. You have these beautiful experiences that we do in different modalities in the classroom, but now they’re up on the walls.
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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year
Digital Promise
AUGUST 16, 2018
The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School, Too blog post. Exploring Ethnic-Racial Identity blog post. Honor multiple perspectives in your classroom. As a society, we have a tendency to only want to hear from those who agree with us.
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Worldly Wednesdays
Living Geography
JULY 19, 2024
As many readers of the blog over the years will be well aware, I already have quite a few little 'projects' to refresh this zest and ensure that I keep supporting other colleagues, both experienced and those new to the profession. And if no one wants me I'll go and have a pub lunch somewhere, have a walk on the coast or go to the library.
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Putting Guidance to Work: Lessons from the Massachusetts Edtech Peer Learning Cohort
Digital Promise
MAY 23, 2023
This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. Their team consisted of a high school student, a teacher, a library media specialist, and the technology team.
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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story
Teaching American History
JANUARY 28, 2025
This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some.
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An Update on Digital Promise’s COVID-19 Response
Digital Promise
APRIL 13, 2020
Next, we began building and curating an Online Learning Resources Library , a place where educators can find materials based on type, grade level, and subject. We’re deeply fortunate to be able to continue our work remotely, which makes our mission and responsibility to serve as a source of guidance that much more important.
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Closed Schools Shine Light on the Value of Edtech Coaches
Digital Promise
MARCH 31, 2020
Visit Digital Promise’s Online Learning Resources Library , where we are compiling some of the best resources and exemplars for schools and families preparing for online learning in response to COVID-19. To learn more about the Dynamic Learning Project , visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form.
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Striving Readers? Hire Librarians.
Digital Promise
MARCH 6, 2018
It is no coincidence, however, that students with access to strong library programs demonstrate stronger literacy proficiency. These findings suggest that staffing libraries with certified librarians can help close achievement gaps.” This is especially the case with striving readers.
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New Micro-credentials Focus on Timely Topics for Distance Learning
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
As some schools move forward with hybrid models and others remain closed, Digital Promise continues to update our resources and exemplars for schools and families during the pandemic, including our Micro-credentials COVID-19 Library , which is a curated list of micro-credentials that can be earned without student work or face-to-face interaction, and (..)
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New Cohort Opportunity for Designing Powerful Learning Experiences
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 7, 2020
This cohort is open to educators representing schools, out-of-school-time programs, libraries, museums, and other organizations serving youth. Digital Promise is excited to announce the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort, a professional learning opportunity for educators committed to designing maker learning experiences at home.
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