Have you ever thought about having students as volunteers in the library?  For the past few years, our campus has been working hard to develop leadership qualities in our students.  We began by reading the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as a campus book study.  Then we introduced the book The 7…

Have I told you how much I love the first week of library lessons?!! I know it’s always crazy, but I love seeing the big kids walk into the library with smiles on their faces, and surprisingly even hugs!      Right away, they started talking to me about the changes that they saw (they…

    Over the last four years, I’ve developed a tradition of visiting the younger grades as the “Book Fairy” on the first day of school, and then visiting 3rd-5th as the “Library Goddess” on the second day of school.  I quickly pop into all the classrooms after the announcements, and just do a quick…

           Our district has spent a lot of training and inservice on different ways to assess student learning.  The areas that we focused on the most were Assessment FOR learning and Assessment OF Learning.  I felt comfortable doing this in the classroom, but it became challenging for me to find ways…

Markers, and crayons, and pencils, oh my!        As you walk through stores right now, you can start to see that school is definitely in the air!  This is always a time that makes me happy (there’s just something about brand new school supplies that makes my heart smile!)   =       But…