Several new teacher guides to Minnesota Reflections digital library have just been published. Begin @ http://reflections.mndigital.org to see the guides collaboratively created by media specialists and teachers. 

Scroll down through All Collections on the left side of the page to  Teacher Guides.

Click on the title and go to the landing page. Next,…

There are two middle school science teachers from Blue Earth Area (BEA) who are interested in flipping their instruction. They are looking for other middle school science teachers who have done this and would be open to sharing their experiences with the teachers from BEA.  They would really like to visit a school to see what this looks like at the middle school level.  Please let me know if you have any teachers willing to share, and I will connect them with the teachers here.

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I have a situation at my school that I am looking for some insight on. In one of our buildings we have a PK-3 and 7-12 library that are on opposite sides of the same room. High school kids can take things from the primary side, but primary kids do not take items from the HS side. (with occasional exceptions for some nonfiction.)

I had a third grade student on the first day of school ask to go to the HS side to get a book. I told her no, that the materials on that side weren’t…

Earlier I shared information about the 35 Teachers Guides to Minnesota Reflections.  The team that worked with teachers to develop the guides is “back in business.”  More guides will be created during this school year.

You don't necessarily need multiple copies of each of the 15 books to have students participate in reading and voting.



In my library I only have one copy of each title. Since the majority of students who will be participating are in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades, we are enjoying the titles as a whole classes.

Part of my reasoning for this is financial, but mostly I want all of my K-2 students to be able to participate in the voting in late February. Students…

I am thrilled to be attending AASL in Minneapolis (http://www.aasl11.org/) - truly spitting distance from my house, were I a better spitter.





There are so many places around the Twin Cities that make me happy to live here. 





Here are just a few that you may want to explore if you are coming to the conference from out of town.…

Something to shout about: new research shows that more librarians means higher reading scores.

School Library Journal | September 01, 2011 | Lance, Keith Curry; Hofschire, Linda |   lick on the link to read the entire story.

Read it ! Print it! Give it to your Superintendent…

Since participating in the recent 10 for 10 Picture Book Event hosted by Reflect & Refine: Building a Learning Community and Enjoy and Embrace Learning, I have been thinking my favorite read aloud chapter books.

Very soon many of my teachers will be looking for middle grade (ages 8-12) classroom read alouds to start the year, and I have a few…

In the past I have run a student choice picture book award for the students at my school. But it's not quite the same when students know it's just us doing it - there is something special about that feeling of being part of something bigger.

For that reason I have started 15 Books with the help of my district colleagues.

15 Books is open to anyone who would like to join…

"Finally, I was absolutely knocked for a loop last week when so many people asked if they could share the flyer I made about what teachers/administrators should expect from their school librarians.  But my humbled shock morphed into…

As you prepare your library/classroom rules and expectations,take a look at Carl Harvey II,

Credit to: Neil Krasnoff's You Tube Channel:

Gwyneth Jones ~ Daring Librarian ~ at the SIGMS Forum, ISTE Conference ~ 2011 ~ Philedelphia, PA.

Credit to: Neil Krasnoff's Blog: School Technology Paradise Blog

Monday, July 18,…

Credit to: Neil Krasnoff's You Tube Channel:

Buffy Hamilton's presentation at ISTE in Philadelphia after flying in from ALA in New Orleans

Buffy's Blog link on July 17:

The Unquiet Librarian Blog

I’m…