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Boosting Engagement in Your Digital Library

edWeb.net

Once your school district makes the commitment to have a digital library, the next step is for people to understand how they can stay engaged. In just one year of having a digital collection, checkouts from the district’s digital library increased by 184 percent. Don’t forget to involve teachers in the digital library.

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From ‘We Should’ to ‘Here’s How,’ The Rise of Mastery Learning in Schools

EdTechTeacher

We are all looking forward to the October release of Jon Bergmann’s The Mastery Learning Handbook: A Competency-Based Approach to Student Achievement ook. The transition of the literature from “we should” to “here’s how” is quite exciting. ” Change is not hard but it takes work.

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Repost: EPIC! Books free and very useful in context of telepractice

SpeechTechie

Books for Kids (FREE) , an eBook library of picture and chapter books that can be used to present language-enhancing books in interactions with your students. For tips on interactive reading aloud, see here or here , as well as Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook and Jane Gebers' Books are for Talking, Too! Check out Epic!-

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To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

Layne and The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. Some hospitals will send The Read-Aloud Handbook home with new parents. Educators feel the same way when we discover a new strategy or method and then think about all of the students we had in the past who did not have access to this better practice. Two words: Public library.

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Fighting FAKE NEWS: Recommended Reading and Resources for Teachers

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

School Library Journal, Nov. Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources. School Library Journal, Nov. Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News Edition. School Library Journal, Nov. A gold mine of resources, some of which are mentioned in this post. Fake Or Real?

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"Mindfulness for Educators and Librarians," "Lessons from School Shootings," and "Surviving Collapse"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MINDFULNESS FOR EDUCATORS, LIBRARIANS, AND OTHERS: SELF-CARE STRATEGIES FOR DIFFICULT TIMES Part of the LearningRevolution.com 'Survive and Thrive!' My Child Hates School and The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook. LESSONS FROM SCHOOL SHOOTINGS (LIBRARY 2.0) Mara is the international two-time best selling author of HELP!

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Students CAN Lead: Implementing a Student Leadership Program in your School

EdTechTeam

Many of the strategies I now use with my tech leaders are adaptations from my own experiences in the classroom. Wrote out a draft of the Student Contract/Handbook and Interview Questions. I used this same philosophy as I taught English, Business Computers, Programming, Web Design, Multimedia, Broadcasting and Yearbook.