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Collaborative Brilliance: The Impact of Media Specialist-Teacher Partnerships

Often, media specialists find themselves as solitary figures in our schools, but to effectively serve all our students, we must be master connectors, not only throughout our...

Untangling Student Avoidance for Reading

I recently published a book with Solution Tree called Inspiring Lifelong Readers: Using Inquiry to Engage Learners in Grades 6-12. In it I share many “stories from the field” to...

Ideas for Setting up Your Makerspace

When I first started to offer more opportunities for making, I discovered there were quite a few logistics and organization strategies that didn’t cross my mind until I was...

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