If you don’t watch and listen to anything else today, make time for this interview with Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist and activist Maria Ressa. Her analysis of how technology has enabled our slide into tyranny and the urgency she advocates for individuals and institutions holding the line as all the safeguards crumble is going […]
I am retired from public education and libraries, but I am not retired from fighting for truth, liberty, and justice. Lost in the blitz of outrageous executive orders this last week was the Department of Education whitewashing and rewriting the reality of book bans across the nation, especially in the Southeast. As a resident of […]
For the last six months, I’ve had the honor and joy of creating and implementing a reading dog program for our middle school students through the school library media center. When I first came on board to this school in September of 2022, our principal invited all faculty to submit a grant application for monies […]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of leading reading/literary yoga with 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in our Reading Connections classes. Students in these classes may be reading below grade level and need extra help growing their skills as readers. Their teacher used the classic “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” as a common and accessible […]
As some of you may know, I retired from public schools here in Georgia last summer because I had completed my 30 years of service and because my dad is undergoing treatment for triple hit lymphoma, a rare variant of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. In Georgia, you can work as a 49% employee in […]
Ten years ago today, I began The Unquiet Librarian blog. It’s hard to believe a decade has passed, but the years have passed in the blink of an eye. When I began blogging, I simply did it to have a space to reflect on my practice, period. So many other great librarians were writing […]
In my previous post; I outlined the work we did to: brainstorm topics narrow our topics conduct pre-search use that pre-search to finalize a topic choice generate questions about our topic using the question lenses chart finalize our research questions and complete an investigation plan/research contract In this post, I’ll explain how we targeted these […]
On our third and final day of our Lanier Schools Academy Institute, we participated in a fun and engaging activity that reminded me of the Harvey Daniels written conversation strategies. Lanier High teacher Brooke Webb and LSTC Rhonda Stroud led us through a variation of the Four Corners learning activity, dubbing ours Five Corners […]
As part of the Georgia Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES) , the common evaluation system designed for building teacher effectiveness and ensuring consistency and comparability throughout the state, we have an end of year conference with our supervising administrator. My principal, Mrs. Jennifer Kogod, asked us to prepare a written self-assessment as a springboard for […]
Today was the first day of our three day 2017 Lanier School Academy Institute, a professional learning experience for returning and new to the Lanier cluster teachers. This academy provides teachers of all grade levels and subject areas opportunities to talk about project based learning across the Lanier cluster, to unpack how our cluster thinks […]