The Scholastic Reading Club announces James Patterson's $1.25 Million Pledge to Libraries. Nominate your school to receive a grant from James Patterson to support your school libary!

Because libraries are information and research centers, they can support a huge variety of grant funding initiatives outside their own purview. Cultural centers, businesses, and educational institutions are untapped resources for library funds. What's more, many libraries may find that collaborating on a grant application with another organization is preferable to going forward with a time-consuming application of their own.

Thirty teachers from Edina just finished a Teaching & Technology Cohort through Hamline University. The Teaching & Technology cohort focused on improving their leadership and technology skills through four blended courses. The focus of the classes was to enhance practice of integrating technology into Edina's curriculum as well as build leadership skills in teachers in the field of technology and learning.

The problem with threatening people is that in order for it to continue to work, you have to continue to threaten them (well... there are other problems, but this is the relevant one for this discussion).

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