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"Essential questions for teaching September 11 Editor's note: This post is by Joan Brodsky Schur, an education consultant and participant in the August 3 opening panel discussion for September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, the museum's online conference for K-12 educators about September 11."

"Stand Up for Girls on September 22, the International Day of the Girl Two thirds of all the world's illiterate people are women. On September 22, we will stand up for girls and their right to go to school and to learn to read and write. Let us join together to launch a campaign to advocate for a transformative new era in girls' education."

"Here's an article by BIE that appeared in the September 2010 issue of Educational Leadership magazine from ASCD. Good for general audiences as well as educators, it explains the essential elements that make rigorous PBL different from "doing projects.""

How do YOU BookJam? Create a Digital Book Report connecting core standards to 21st-century skills for your chance to win a portion of $20,000 in prizes and show us how. View current entries. Don't Wait Register or Enter Today! Call for Entries: September 2 - October 28, 2010 Public Voting: November 15 - November 29, 2010

" See the 2010 nominations (PDF), as chosen by the fifteen book groups from YA Galley! Promote the titles at your library with the 2010 Teens' Top Ten toolkit (Word doc), including program ideas, customizable reproducibles, and more. YALSA is accepting applications from teen book groups for 2010-2012. Apply to be part of YA Galley. Voting for the Teens' Top Ten will take place in August and September at this website, with the winner announced during Teen Read Week 2010."

Sept 21, 2009