A School Librarian Sharing Books & #ClassroomBookADay
One of my absolute favorite events that I get to go to in my entire year was last week, and I was lucky enough to be able to have a family, staff, and administration that understand how important this is to me and facilitate my being able to go. It was the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual… Read More
So I just want to talk for a minute about a little thing called the ALAN Workshop. ALAN stands for the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English). Their motto? Connecting the Young Adult Literature Community…One Book at a Time. It’s an organization I’ve been a member of since I started teaching eight… Read More
Have you heard me mention the Sister Classroom or seen me talking with Brian Wyzlic about it on twitter? Well, we launched a collaborative blog just for this project, and the first post explains how it came to fruition. You can check it out here. Not sure how often we’ll post, but when we plan something fun or our students… Read More
There has been SO much reading going on over the last two weeks for #summerthrowdown Librarians vs. Teachers!!! My co-conspirator/#throwdown originator/Sister Classroom teacher, Brian Wyzlic, has the details on his blog post today (and if you haven’t read any of his reviews yet at Wyz Reads, I recommend you do so-they’re highly entertaining!). Go check it out and then go… Read More
We’re launching Summer Throwdown: Librarians vs. Teachers! Perhaps you’ve seen/heard the buzz on twitter (where, I’ve found, most awesome ideas begin with a 140 character spark). Perhaps a friend encouraged you to visit. Perhaps you’re just coming across this and think it sounds fun. No matter how you found us, we’d love for you to join in! (No twitter account… Read More
We keep getting questions on twitter, so decided to clear it all up in more than 140 characters! (Brian and I are both posting our own #throwdown explanations today-the link to his is at the bottom.) So, maybe you’ve seen the #throwdown2 or #teacherthrowdown hashtags lately on twitter. Likely between Brian Wyzlic (@brianwyzlic) and myself (@heisereads). We’ve been doing a sister… Read More
For the second year in a row (yet at a new school/grade level), I’m starting an end of the year dystopian unit with my middle schoolers. Last year I shared the list of books I had on the blog, and with my renewed focus on dystopian and the plethora of new titles released or come to my attention since then,… Read More
So I’ve been thinking recently about star ratings for the books I read. It was prompted by a discussion at my most recent book group when some mentioned they only use stars on goodreads and others said they never do and only do written thoughts. And then I had my students doing book talks this week and giving a rating within… Read More
