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Joyce Valenza Ph.D

Joyce is the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT’s School of Library and Information Science.



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Do educators need a tea party?

February 7, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

I can feel the grass roots growing.  But they need a little water, or perhaps, some tea.

Daily, my email box and my Twitter stream fill with the passionate statements of teacher librarians and classroom educators who see what needs to be done, but find themselves continually blocked by stronger powers. 

During our first TL Virtual Café, with guest host Mike Eisenberg, we explored and, yes argued, AASL's official adoption of the brand school librarian.  I worried for several days that releasing this argument may have done more harm than good.  That, as a profession, we might have appeared serio...Read More


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Dear Mr. President (via Buffy Hamilton)

February 4, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3)


I've struggled quite a bit with how to put the frustrations I've been feeling into words.  Fortunately, Buffy Hamilton has done that far more eloquently than I could have myself.  She has given me/us permission to share.

Here's hoping it reaches the ears and eyes and heart of someone who can make a difference.  Very soon.

Dear Mr. President:

Today I learned through the ...Read More




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Leveraging the Super Bowl for learning (and those movie awards too)

February 2, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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