Innovations in education make school a fun place to be! They reflect our empathy and passions, students become engaged. After Covid, our innovations bring us “forward to different instead of back to normal.” Future Ready ISTE Librarians @ISTEofficial Penn GSE GTMiller Sandra Paul

scholastic book fair was a success. $8,000 in sales. $4,000 in product Dr Whiting Lane. Thanks to families who support the Book Fair in so many ways!

It's time for a #bookgiveaway! Today, you could win a signed copy of THE SUN IS LATE AND SO IS THE FARMER! To enter, like, retweet, and tag a fellow #picturebook lover below for an extra entry! Giveaway ends on 12/16! #kidlit #bookgiveaway #newbook

Hour of code activities in the library. Binary bracelets. Code mice. And more!!

In my final stage of a LONG project of categorizing ALL of my library’s nonfiction according to Melissa Stewart’s Five Types of Nonfiction. I’m scanning every book into Copy Categories in @FollettLearning’s Destiny LMS. The collection reports I’ll be able to run will be amazing!

Happy Lunar New Year!!

I joined the Take Me Outside Winter Challenge 2023! Whiting Lane Library is in! I mean out! Can't wait! takemeoutside.ca/winterchalleng…

Applying our coding skills from code.org to coding equipment in the library. Bloxels. Dot and Dash. Ozobots.

A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”

We ALL could learn something about compassion, empathy and kindness from watching President Jimmy Carter! He inspires me to be a better human.💜

Valentine’s Day is a wrap!! Heart sculptures and love poetry. Affection is happening in the library!!

Read Across America!!! The week has started!!

Book fair moments

Vintage School Music Books collectorsweekly.com/stories/28344-… via @collectorswk. Looking for a bread or bakery song from old school 1960 music book. Lyrics:I go to the store each day to buy a loaf of bread. It’s piled on the shelf I reach and help myself.

Librarians. Don’t be jealous. But I have a home made BOOKWORM with accessories and plant growing possibilities!! Thank you Cora!!

Educators at @neatoday #NEACRSJ2023 annual conf. these past few days in Orlando shared stories about fight to defend right to #TeachTruth & #FreedomtoLearn. Some had led study groups with Rethinking Schools book "Teaching for Black Lives." Study group info: teachingforblacklives.org/form-a-study-g…

We’re all set up for the Book Fair at Whiting Lane!!!

Bro can’t believe his eyes

@Morbidful "Mom and I were at Trader Joe's the other day and this lovely man, Charles (Trader Joe's Employee), walked up to her to ask how she was feeling, and to tell her how beautiful her hair was. She told him she was very sad because she recently lost her husband. This man went and got