Starting with the familiar story of the hare and the tortoise, this video goes beyond to explore different ways of leading to ultimately focus on teamwork.

A range of resources and reflections supporting the maker movement, coding, literature and more.

An increasing number of K-12 schools are transforming classrooms, libraries or other spaces into Informal workshop environments where students can tinker or invent, and with good reason. But how do makerspaces get started? THE Journal spoke with several experts, who shared their insights into the makerspace planning phase - not just designing or equipping the space itself but preparing the students and staff so that they're able to make the best possible use of it.

All business owners and executives have varying experiences and perspectives on the approach and qualities necessary for effective leadership. And not all situations require the same type of leadership style. Great leaders adapt to their surrounding environments and empower the team to succeed together.

Blog of Elizabeth Hutchinson focusing on the value and worth of school libraries

The digital content they consume, who they meet online and how much time they spend onscreen - all these factors will greatly influence children's development. So how can we, as parents, educators and leaders, prepare our children for the digital age? Without a doubt, it is critical for us to equip them with digital intelligence.

Welcome the the New Technologies & 21st Century Skills website. This website is an ongoing project created and maintained by the Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education (LITE). 21st century skills are an important consideration for every educator as we are striving to prepare today's students to become prepared for the competitive global market of tomorrow. This website seeks to provide a resource that allows educators an opportunity to easily navigate educationally relevant Web 2.0 tools, resources, and examples of standards alignment. Connecting these skills to familiar frameworks, such as Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, can assist educators who are transitioning into meaningfully integrating technology into their classrooms.

Chris Betcher writes about the stultifying effect of a fixed mindset reflected in the phrase "That's the way we've always done it." or similar and talks about the very nature of education - as students learn, they change, each year the world changes - and how it is beholden on teachers to reflect this in the classroom teaching practice.

A great example of taking regular teacher librarian practice - curating resources - to a higher level to demonstrate leadership. This is a good example of servant leadership showing how to leverage good practice to not only build Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) but to deliver high quality content with annotations that will increase the skills and educational competence of your network. In a school, you would aim to have all your staff members of that PLN.

Carolyn Foote examines her own practice and the need accept that there are highs and lows in different aspects of your TL practice

Joyce Valenza posts a reflective confession on the need to balance loads and expectations and to understand that when you take up a big commitment then other things will slip for a while.

P21's Framework for 21st Century Learning was developed with input from teachers, education experts, and business leaders to define and illustrate the skills and knowledge students need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as the support systems necessary for 21st century learning outcomes. It has been used by thousands of educators and hundreds of schools in the U.S. and abroad to put 21st century skills at the center of learning.

Recent technological advances have affected many areas of our lives: the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, and, of course, teach. Along with that, those advances necessitated an expansion of our vocabulary, producing definitions such as digital natives, digital immigrants, and, the topic of this post -- "21st-century teacher."

A curated collection of Edvocate articles on school libraries and 21 century trends and ways to keep libraries vibrant and relevant

A curated collection of resources on educational leadership via The Advocate.

The concept of the Modern Learning Environment (MLE), now also known as Innovative Learning Environment (ILE) is an holistic one, encompassing the pedagogy of learning to the physical and virtual spaces in which it occurs. The New Zealand Ministry of Education offers information on MLEs for the modern library - requiring a learner-centred approach to time, place, access and support - and the networked connectedness of people and technologies that underpin this.

Blended Library is a joint research project with the Human-Computer Interaction Group University of Konstanz, Library of the University of Konstanz, the work group Databases and Information Systems University of Konstanz, the Knowledge Media Research Center Tuebingen and the university library of Tuebingen.