Naomi Harms and her team of innovators are truly amazing! I've attend as many conferences/sessions as possible with her leading (or her team.) Each time I feel inspired to do something amazing for my students.
Many libraries encourage staff to participate in opportunities for the library to actively engage in the community outside library walls...with good reason: Collaborations can enhance the library's ability to serve your community and make library services more visible and valued. Although aimed at public libraries, thought some of the strategies/resources were applicable to school libraries.
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
Cheap broadband internet plans have been created by public-private partnerships, to bring high-speed, wireless internet access to those on government assistance or who are low-income. There are several major, "competing" low-income internet service programs designed for financially-struggling Americans - Comcast's Internet Essentials, CenturyLink's Internet Basics, and Cox and Bright House Networks' low income internet plans.
I follow this site off of Facebook. They do great things here and I have found many solutions and ideas in what is posted. Below is a recent post:
This is a guest post from Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) of EdTechTeacher, an advertiser on this site. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy, Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell, young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects.
Mark Ray is a person I first learned about in my M.Ed. program. He was a featured speaker in my course, and he literally reinvented & brought the libraries back from obsolescence in his district. Follett is now featuring him. Inspirational!