103 books to encourage self-care and resilience in kids and teens
It’s been a rough week. Maybe you’re craving a blanket fort and a milkshake, or some kind of Potter-esque spell to make the world more right than it is. Barring that improbability, maybe you check out, which will work for a while. Fortunately, we have…
Monthly K-12 Webcasts – Free, Fast, Focused
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. Welcome to the new school year, educator friends! Whether you’ve just started back or are feeling like you’ve been in the building forever and a day, we know the fall can be fraught with excitement, delight, and, occasionally, abject terror….
Vapid or valuable: social media in the classroom
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Specialist. It’s the beginning of another school year, which means it’s time to focus again on the best ways to connect with students. What do you do when students can’t seem to pry their eyes away from their social media accounts?…
Graphic novels aren’t comics. But so what if they were?
By: Patti Carlyle, Public Relations Specialist and Calvin and Hobbes junkie since the 90s. Self-appointed reading purists often turn up their noses at non-traditional reading. As if a page > chapter > tome of text-heavy 9 point font is the only experience permitted a reader….
New digital citizenship: culture, collaboration and content
Digital literacy and digital citizenship are no longer soft skills. They are required for success in the classroom and a student’s broader relational sphere. Parents and teachers alike worry about privacy, bullying and screen time, but there are positive nuances and opportunities to consider. It…
YA page to screen on Netflix
By: Bethany Porter, Collection Development Specialist. This list is for all you parents out there who cannot take another episode of Caillou, for those of you who are going crazy because it may be too hot or too rainy for your kids to play outside,…
Dog days of summer reading
This part of the summer is long. Late July marks the point when many of us are sick of the sunshine, the humidity, the film of sunscreen. It’s too hot to bike to the pool, which has lost its refreshing edge anyway. The low hum…
Modern Day Heroes on Nelson Mandela Day
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. July 18th is Nelson Mandela Day. We associate many words with him. Freedom. History. Equality. However, this is a day that, to me, invokes the word “hero.” The Superhero The term “hero” is subject to varying definitions. Personally, I have…
10 books you never knew you needed to read before college
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. We all remember our high school literary staples. Who could forget reading The Great Gatsby or Scarlet Letter at a tiny desk in a 10th grade English class? These books are important and unforgettable; however, in their flurry to finish…
Pay it Forward in the classroom
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Specialist. Have you ever found a lucky penny on the street? When I was little, someone told me that a found penny is only lucky if it’s heads up. Ever since that moment, whenever I’ve found a penny face down on…
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