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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

When former National School Library Program of the Year librarian Marge Cox retired, she began volunteering at Youth Haven, a shelter designed to help abused and neglected children and teens in Southwest Florida. “I They had boxes of books that had been donated to them and wanted to create a library.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says. For its part, St.

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8 Top Tips and Tons of Resources for Supporting English Learners with Technology

Teacher Reboot Camp

I regularly share free web tools, resources, and tips on ESL Library to help teachers find great resources to use with their learners. If you like these ideas, take one of my courses or check out my books. 9 Advocacy Groups & Events Enhancing ELT. Below are a list of the articles I’ve written in 2018.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Valenza, J.K.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. based education advocacy group. “It Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Quiet In The Classroom: How To Recognize And Support Introverted Entrepreneurs

EdNews Daily

About two weeks ago, via LinkedIn, I shared Josh Steimle’s book review of Susan Cain ’s bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. In her book , Cain explains, “At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. Effective Advocacy. Newer editions of books include contributions licensed from a range of authors. Here’s a trivia question for you: which American organization has produced the largest number of open textbooks?

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