News and best practices for creating information literate kids and teens from School Library Journal
Third Colorado Study in the Works By Debra Lau Whelan - 03/15/2007
Keep an eye out for one more Colorado Study, the third in a series of studies by the Library Research Service, which proves that school libraries have a direct link to student achievement. More
Start Your Search Engines Part 2 By Anna Adam and Helen Mowers - 05/01/2008
Are your students struggling to come up with kid-appropriate pictures? Have you ever scrambled to find that perfect image for a presentation? Well, there’s no shortage of search engines that’ll help you do the job, and we’re here to share some of our favorites. There’s no doubt that Google is great for finding images.
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Librarians across the country will be asking students to step up to the plate with a new program that encourages sports fans of all ages to test their knowledge of baseball trivia while improving their literacy skills.
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Start Your Search Engines: Taming Google (and Other Tips) By Anna Adam and Helen Mowers - 04/01/2008
Sure, there are a lot of nifty tools on the Web, all those social applications, and the like. Still most of us go online for one thing—to perform a basic search. Say you can’t recall the name of the actor that played opposite Nicolas Cage in the movie about a bomb on that island prison (Sean Connery of The Rock).
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U.K. Kids Say Reading Is Cool By Staff - 03/01/2008
Who says kids don’t like to read? A new study from the United Kingdom says the majority of young people enjoy reading and rate themselves as proficient readers. In fact, kids are quite proud to be labeled as readers, with 71 percent saying the description suits them just fine. More girls than boys see themselves as readers—and girls tend to enjoy reading more than boys.
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New AASL Standards: Help On the Way By Staff - 02/01/2008
If you have no idea what to make of the newly released standards from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), have no fear. Help is on the way. AASL’s “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner,” which offers a complete revision of 1998’s Information Power, will be accompanied by a new set of learning assessments and indicators to help librarians incorporate t...
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Summit Deluxe By Staff - 02/01/2008
What is evidence-based practice, and how can media specialists use it to show that school libraries boost student achievement? Those were the main questions behind School Library Journal’s 2007 Leadership Summit at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, in Phoenix, from November 30 to December 1, 2007.
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Congress OKs Head Start Bill 12/01/2007
More Head Start programs will be working closely with libraries now that the House and Senate have passed the Improving Head Start Act, which recognizes the important role that libraries play in improving literacy. “The legislation says that a good Head Start program includes collaboration with a library,” says Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association'...
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Podcasts are a great way to expand learning beyond the classroom or library. Here are more recommendations from Tech Chicks Anna Adam and Helen Mowers, following up their Dec. 2007 article Listen Up!
K-Gr 7–Children’s music doesn’t get much better than these 16 songs by Pomes in a Pail. What began at a writer’s workshop resulted in an amazing collaboration that combined the clever words of Alexander Jenny and the music of Karena Mendoza and Stephanie Snow.
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