Solution Showcase: Personalize Your Professional Learning
Personalized and in-depth professional learning opportunities foster effective teachers, engaged parents, and prepared students. Professional development has moved away from the sit-and-get learning style and pivoted towards interactive, outcome-based learning. Infobase provides districts the ability to take online instructional content to the next level. With our 100,000+ hours of professional learning content, Infobase provides a […]
Trending Professional Development Topics in Our New Reality
As schools closed in March and went remote, educators were tasked with adapting new teaching strategies and online management tools. As teachers and administrators across the country changed course, the heavy weight of doing your best to ensure students’ basic needs were met didn’t come without challenges. Ensuring students are fed, safe, secure, and engaged […]
Issues & Controversies: Featured Controversy—Police Brutality and Reform
Does Policing in the United States Need to Fundamentally Change? SUPPORTERS ARGUE Police officers regularly abuse, harass, and brutalize Americans, particularly black men, without repercussion. Demilitarization, body cameras, bias training, accountability for bad cops, and limits on when officers can use force are all necessary reforms. Governments should defund and downsize police departments and shift […]
Police Brutality and Reform: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Police Brutality and Reform: Does Policing in the United States Need to Fundamentally Change? Does policing in the United States need to fundamentally change? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here is a sample of the pro/con arguments on both […]
Social Media and Free Speech: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Social Media and Free Speech: Should Social Media Companies Do More to Combat Disinformation and Extremism on Their Platforms? Should social media companies do more to combat disinformation and extremism on their platforms? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here […]
Serving Veterans During the COVID-19 Crisis
It’s likely that your college or university is suddenly holding many classes online that were previously in person. The switch doesn’t affect all classes evenly—some classes were already online, for example, so the “new normal” won’t be as new for them. Just as not all classes are affected in the same way, not all students […]
Navigating Our New Normal…in a Not-So-Normal World (Tips for Teaching from Home with Kids)
You may have seen the recent social media post that encouraged parents to describe what their kids were doing but call them their coworkers. The responses were humorous—kids must not have gotten the memo on appropriate “workplace” behavior. In my case, my “coworker” is making it hard to type since he insists on sitting on […]
Celebrate Money $mart Week in Your Library!
April 4–11 is Money Smart Week (MSW)! Co-sponsored and promoted by ALA and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, this national campaign aims to help consumers manage their personal finances and develop financial literacy skills. Many libraries participate in this effort by promoting financial trainings and resources to students and the general public. It is […]
Five Library Activities to Support National Poetry Month
Since 1996, April has been designated National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poetry through greater awareness and public engagement. Your library can support and highlight National Poetry Month in a variety of ways, which can serve as a fun way to engage your students and cultivate the type of interactive relationships essential for first-year […]
ICYMI: Tools and Resources for Libraries
Online learning is now critical in supporting students and educators. I spoke with Ide Thompson, a college senior majoring in English and history at the University of the Bahamas to see how he has been responding to the pandemic. Thompson said, “The virus has forced all of my classes to convert to online instruction. While […]
Looking for a Teaching Resource? Check Out Creating Data Literate Students
Thinking of ways to teach or integrate data literacy into your library instruction? Data literacy is defined as the ability to read, interpret, understand, and create data as information. There’s an open access publication called Creating Data Literate Students (2017) edited by Kristin Fontichiaro, Jo Angela Oehrli, and Amy Lennex. Supported by the University of […]
Helping Transfer Students Succeed: Tips & Strategies for Academic Librarians
Have you done outreach to your transfer students? If not, then you may want to consider transfer students as another important student group to support. We’ve covered orientations for first-year students and international student events, and in this post, we’ll cover outreach services to transfer students. Late last fall, a colleague and I attended our […]
