Going back to school was always an exciting time for me.  As a child, I loved the newness of my school supplies (Let’s be honest….I still do!).  As a teacher, I was ready to try out the new projects or systems that I had worked on that summer.  Now, as a librarian, I…

           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…

It’s the End of the Year in the Library! Run!  Hide!  Cry! …..Just kidding!  I don’t know about you, but the end of the year in the library is always such a blur of activity that it’s hard to keep things straight and not lose your mind!  Luckily, I’m a bit of a nerd when it…

When I was in the classroom, I used a variety of centers with my students.   Some worked well, some I kept having to tweak, and some just eventually died a natural death!  After my first year in the library, I decided to try and introduce some centers in the library as well.  After students…