Join Us For Our April Future Ready Librarians Webinar, Voices That Matter - Creating Equity-Centered Collections!

               

Friends, I am so excited to invite you to our upcoming Future Ready Librarians webinar, Voices That Matter - Creating Equity-Centered Collections. It is on April 22, 2026 at 5:00pm EST.  

This session focuses on building inclusive, diverse collections that reflect student identities and protect intellectual freedom.  Participants will learn how equity-centered collection development supports literacy, belonging, and the freedom to read. 

And I am thrilled to share that Melissa Corey, Lauren Mobley, and Nic Moore will be joining me for this one!  It's going to be an amazing hour of conversations, learning, and ideas for all of our libraries and work. 

We look forward to seeing everyone there.  You can register here, friends. 

Let's Celebrate Earth Day On April 22 With This Choice Board Filled With Ways To Learn, Read, Create and Play!

                 

We celebrate Earth Day next week on April 22.  It's a day to celebrate by learning what we can do to help the Earth.

I have put together the Let's Celebrate Earth Day Choice Board with resources to learn, read, create and play with Earth Day, environmental and recycling activities. 

I made two versions.  We use PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next at our school and there are several awesome articles that are perfect for Earth Day. 

One includes the Earth Day PebbleGo article, 

Recycling and the Environment article from PebbleGo Next and...

...Helping the Environment from PebbleGo. 

You can just find the articles, click on Copy Link as shown in this image and...

...attach it to the screen shot of the article in the choice board. 

The second choice board includes an article...

...from National Geographic Kids about...

...the History of Earth Day.  

You will find the Let's Celebrate Earth Day (with PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next) Choice Board here.  If you want to make a copy, you will find the link here. 

You will find the second Let's Celebrate Earth Day (with National Geographic Kids) Choice Board here. If you want to make a copy, you will find the link here. 

And you will find the two versions of the April Choice Board here in this blog post. 

I would love to hear any other ideas and resources we could add to the Earth Day Choice Boards, friends.  Just let me know if you have ideas or any questions.  I am happy to help.    

Let's Celebrate the Earth Every Day With These Amazing Lessons From The Achievery and ecoRise!

                    

Earth Day is next week on April 22nd and there are so many special ways to continue to celebrate the Earth every day. 

One of my favorite resources are the amazing lessons from ecoRise that are part of  The Achievery. 

As shared on The Achievery, 

ecoRise mobilizes a new generation of leaders to design healthy, just, and thriving communities for all. We work at the intersection of sustainability education, climate resilience, and environmental justice to bring K–12 classrooms into the 21st century, elevate youth voices, and advance student-led solutions to real-world challenges through our range of award-winning curricula and programs.

On the ecoRise page, you will find...

....19 different units with videos and lessons plans. The grade level and more details are attached to each. 

As all of the units in The Achievery, the videos play from the platform and the lessons can be downloaded like the one above. 

I can't wait to see all of the lessons ecoRise adds to The Achievery.  This will be such a helpful resource for our teachers, students and families, and one that we can use all year long. 

You can sign up for your FREE Achievery account at futureready.link/achievery and share this link with others to get their free account too.