ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 20 years ago, Google made an ambitious play to digitize the content of some of the world’s largest research libraries. It seemed like the beginning of a new era, when scholars and the public could make new connections and discoveries in the kind of mass digital library that had previously been the stuff of science fiction.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

As libraries started to house more technology, I added a fourth role: manage and protect the tech. ” They can also help you orchestrate lessons that take place in the library itself. The library is more than just quiet spaces with just books. ” In Boyd’s experience, libraries can help students feel at home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

School libraries should be places where students can learn independently and think creatively outside the traditional classroom. This summer, the Houston Independent School District decided to close school libraries and replace them with discipline centers. A library and supportive librarian would benefit them more. Stephanie F.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a better solution: a 3rd-grade teacher working on checks for understanding searches for that term in your district’s Edthena video library. Edthena makes it possible for districts to build and host a private video library that becomes available to all teachers across the district, accessed securely using their district emails.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2021

The focus of Klein Independent School District’s Edcamp Library Promise is to invite educators interested in building strong school library programs to share ideas, lessons, tech tools, and best practices that promote vibrant school libraries for every learner. This makes for a highly personalized day of learning!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. We seek balance on our shelves.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture of library shelves with “caution do not enter” tape. Elsewhere, a school used caution tape to prevent students from roaming through bookshelves in the library. Desks are separated to maintain physical distance in a Stoneham, Massachusetts, classroom. Credit: Eileen Wood. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many young children have been away from peers, caregivers, extended family members and other adults, as well as all manner of stimulating activities outside the home, from playgrounds to grocery stores to story time at the library, for nearly half a year now. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Now, teachers can see best-practice instructional examples of their peers in a searchable Organization Library. Send an email to.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 28, 2016

“Libraries are safe places. That’s why I come here to learn,” says Christine, a student at one of Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Learning Circles. The result: among the many other roles CPL plays in Chicago, the library is quickly becoming a kind of community school for basic computer skills.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

In a past post , I shared how leaders can use AI to provide timely and personalized feedback, create a research-based comment library to use during formal observation or evaluations, and streamline communication. This is a critical step when using these tools, as mistakes can and are made.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ” – Gary Paulsen “My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” .” – Joseph Addison “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Nsai Temko pictured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. He told me about an awesome teen space at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section. Using the transportation funds from my sister, I convinced my mother to allow me to go to the library. “If In the library, I met a librarian named Ms.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 11, 2021

Private Library : Allows schools and districts to secure their H?para para Workspaces in private library collections. Student Dashboard can establish a path to developing more vital executive function skills, greater autonomy, and increased student agency.

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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Research Library Primary Sources Lesson Plan 130

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? The project reflects work that libraries have been doing for a long time, says Steven Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University. Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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Sociology Psychology Library Cultures 64

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

When the surveys are complete, school leaders get a simple report with insights on how their staff is feeling that month, along with suggested action steps and selections from Alpaca’s excellent library of resources for supporting teachers. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Pedagogy Leadership Library Classroom Management 256

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Makerspaces : When I hired Laura Fleming in 2012, I asked her to transform the library into a place where kids not only wanted to read but could also serve as a catalyst for personalization. Embrace flexible furniture that can be easily rearranged to accommodate different learning activities.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Membership costs just £25+VAT per year and our free 30-day trial gives you complete access to all the films in the library. Designed to enhance the teaching of A-level Sociology, an annual subscription to the Film Club gives you unlimited access to all of our Sociology films (there’s currently around 30 of them). So you […]

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island, CA Contested Elections: 1800, 1824, 1874, 1960 & 2000 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA The World Wars and the American State (..)

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces A free talk on Friday 4 October 2024 at 4.00pm at Senate House Library ‘The Petticoat Peril’ exploring women in pharmacy history Today, over 60% of British pharmacists are women, and women’s involvement in pharmacy has a very long history.

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History Library 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

The child care resource library in this small town is housed in what residents call “the purple awning building.” The post How child care quality could take a hit when Mississippi’s resource libraries shut down appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. GRENADA, Miss. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In the library, we’re ready to let them talk about what has happened. This is not your grandmother’s library. Dot and Dash have transformed our library into a hub of hands-on learning where we’re constantly in motion, working in groups that plot, collaborate, troubleshoot, and celebrate.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

For example, a teacher from New Jersey briefed a case involving books removed from school libraries, Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. In its opinion, the court ruled that a school board could not ban books it deemed offensive from school libraries. Pico (1982).

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Education Library American History Education Policy 89

History Tech

JULY 13, 2023

I’m spending a few days with some of the amazing staff at the Library of Congress (I’m looking at you, Cheryl), learning more about their super cool primary sources and more ways to use them. Yesterday I had a bit of chit-chat with the people in the LOC Newspaper Division that included some tips about […]

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Observation comment library Writing up observations can be a tedious process. Look no further than using AI to conduct queries on any aspect of educational practice, such as grading, pedagogy, professional learning communities, virtual learning, or the use of technology.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Create a Multilingual Classroom Library Integrate materials and books in various languages that authentically represent a variety of cultures. Have these languages visible around the classroom on anchor charts, classroom rules, and schedules posted around the room. This creates an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

The term most often refers to school classrooms but may include any designated place of learning such as science laboratories, distance learning contexts, libraries, tutoring centers, teachers’ lounges, gymnasiums and non-formal learning spaces.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

The American Library Association, a campaign cosponsor, provided Free People Read Freely bookmarks. These include resistance to enslavement, LGBTQ+ history, systemic racism, Reconstruction, voter suppression after 1965, contemporary Native Americans, environmental racism, and much more. Washington, D.C.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on September 4, 1957. Johnny Jenkins, United Press. Two well-known black and white photographs depict the struggle to end racial segregation in Southern schools that continued after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I also sorted some books for school and rearranged my shelves to make them a little more coordinated, particularly my growing library of books on Iceland, which I'd added to over the weekend. I did some work on a few new resources I'm creating for work, which all tend to be shared at some point.

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Library 52

NCHE

MARCH 7, 2023

Cravath, 25 February 1871, American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882, microform reels 8-9, University of Florida West Library, Gainesville Charles I. Photograph: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. ” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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Archiving Library History Cultures 100

HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a Plus member, you can stream our growing library of shows on demand. Adam and I will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Social Studies Show by playing a Holiday-themed, four-round edition of Game of Quotes on December 21, 2023. Join us on EduProtocols Plus at 9 pm EST/ 6 pm PST.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun.

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