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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. In K-2, I'm integrating finger spelling with American Sign Language to help them with letter recognition within the books, because the books have letters that make words that make sentences.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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