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Going Places: Innovate or Collaborate Challenge
Going Places by Peter & Paul Reynolds is just about the perfect book for making. The story of a Go-Kart building competition in which one friend encourages another to work together and create...
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On Circ Stats and Collection Development
I am taking an amazing course this summer at Simmons SLIS called Library Test Kitchen. It’s a version of a course that has been offered at the Harvard Design School. I am working on a project that I’ll...
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Learning About Teaching Design Thinking by Doing Design Thinking
This summer I took an experimental course at Simmons SLIS: LTK: Library Test Kitchen. This class has been offered at the Harvard School of Design, but in this iteration, instead of getting design...
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Great Read-Alouds for Hour of Code / CS Education Week
It’s Hour of Code week and Computer Science Education Week. That means we are coding in my library. Today third graders did an analog cup stacking coding activity and my fourth graders are in the...
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Fishing Boat Designers
As the year is winding down, one of my fourth grade teachers and I decided to do a final maker activity. “What are you reading right now?” I asked. When he told me the class read aloud was The Young...
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Back to School Book Club Giveaway!
UPDATE: And the winners are … Sara Roderick and Mal Gavlik! Congratulations! Do you run a book club OR a STEM club? If so, enter the Back to School Book Club Giveaway! In honor of the release of the...
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Narrative Problem Solving
When I think about connecting making and literacy, it is easy for me to see how making and reading go together: we make to read and read to make all the time. Writing is a little trickier. The most...
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Over the past few weeks third graders in Mrs. Cupit’s class have been hard at work on their Hack Your School Design Challenge that is tied to their narrative writing. As I mentioned, one area that I...
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Banishing “Boy Books” and “Girl Books” from the Library Lexicon
KidLitWomen kicked off with a post from Shannon Hale about how children are steered toward books and authors based on gender. Since then we’ve had several posts on the boy book / girl book phenomenon,...
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Noticing Poems
Over the summer I heard about a great program, #KidsNeedMentors. Organized by Kristin Crouch, Kristen Piccone, Jarrett Lerner and Ann Braden, it connects authors with classrooms. While I was working...
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