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"If we are to tackle climate change and adapt to the impacts that are already unavoidable, then children need to be educated for a changing future. Until now, however, this subject matter has been largely missing from the Australian Curriculum."

"Article 12 of the Paris Agreement calls for all countries to deliver "climate change education, training, [and] public awareness"-which is our specialty. While few of us may be climate scientists, materials experts, or energy specialists, climate topics are relevant in almost every aspect of what we teach-whether that's business, law, engineering, social sciences, or humanities. We can and should be raising awareness at our institutions, advancing important ideas, and developing the next climate change leaders"

Interactive map to access links to children's literature awards around the world

"Cultivating learner agency is an endless journey. It not only entails knowing our students as human beings but also requires identifying and unlearning patterns in our teaching that unknowingly engender dependence in learners."

"Whether you are guiding students through content yourself or having students read, research, or watch a video, the WICK charting process gives students an easy-to-implement method to deepen their engagement during this portion of your lesson. Instead of being stuck in sit-and-get mode, they will shift into sit-and-get-and-scrutinize-and-discuss mode as they process the lesson."

"The living world holds answers for us to create a more resilient, regenerative, and beautiful world. It is time to quiet our cleverness, to observe and listen deeply, and reconnect to nature's wisdom by asking, "How does nature solve this?""

"What is accessible color? Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG, lists it under the "Distinguishable" section ("Make it easier for users to see and hear content including separating foreground from background") and recommends the contrast of the foreground and background colors."

"The project began in the summer of 2020 to create a collection of diverse and engaging digital books to support students and teachers navigating remote learning. By the end of 2021, NYC DOE students had borrowed more than one million ebooks and audiobooks. Jacobs had long advocated for increased student access to digital collections, but it was the pandemic-driven pivot to remote learning that presented the opportunity to launch the new initiative."

"More specifically - do YA read young adult fiction? And if so, is it OzYA - aka Australian YA fiction?"

"Contemporary learning frameworks and related methodologies can learn a lot from what we are experiencing with Covid-19. Applying the two features above to project-based learning (PBL) by using a more fluid rather than static, linear model may best prepare students for what the future of learning and work actually looks and feels like."

"Every student can read a novel, and teaching students to read novels in school helps them develop critical reading skills for texts and the world. Some students appear unwilling to read because of a variety of challenges both inside and outside the classroom."

Regular blog posts with marketing ideas for libraries.

"I always explain that the way we divide subjects in school doesn't exist in the real world. In everyday life, we don't separate our time into short blocks to focus on one set of skills, so why do we do this in school? Here are three ways I incorporate reading into elementary science and math classes."

"One of the projects we planned and executed together had the goal of supporting students' liberation from strict ideas about what books they should be reading. Often, without realizing it, when we lean too heavily on data pertaining to reading levels and achievement and share this information with students, it can lead to the development of prejudicial ideas about which books belong to which grades and readers. In my library, I much prefer the message that all books belong to all readers."

"Good questions are central to the historical method and the History Lab model. Historians pose questions about the past. They examine the available evidence and develop answers to their questions. Such questions serve as the primary prompt for all History Labs. "

"Digital citizenship refers to using the internet and technology regularly and responsibly. With digital usage expanding into multiple roles of our daily lives, children are also online more than ever, whether for school or social reasons. This makes it essential to prepare students early on about navigating our increasingly digital world effectively. To help you introduce digital citizenship into your curriculum, we will cover the six principles of digital citizenship to teach in elementary schools and their importance."

"Digital stories are short multimedia presentations that combine a variety of communicative elements within a narrative structure. Media may include any combination of the following: text, images, video, audio, social media elements (like tweets), or interactive elements (like maps)." the site includes a range of examples.

"There are different ways you can include read-alouds within your classroom routines. You can use them as a warm-up for the day's lesson or integrate them as part of a larger unit of study about reading or writing effectively. Students can even use read-alouds themselves to go on self-guided reading and writing journeys. I'll share with you a lesson where I used a read-aloud to teach writing and then share examples of independent interdisciplinary projects that students can do."

"What can we as teachers do to educate students about censoring books and help them to navigate a society in which they are allowed to access all kinds of social media platforms that often lead to psychologically damaging results while great literature is considered incendiary? "

"Much like reading comics can get a reluctant reader interested in a story, creating comics can be a great way to get reluctant writers to put pencil to paper (or digital ink to digital paper). Over the years I've had history students create comics to tell stories from the Lewis & Clark expedition, to illustrate letters written by American Civil War soldiers, to create modernized dialogues between historical people, and to try their hands at crafting political cartoons. "