World Read Aloud Day Is On Feburary 3, 2027, Friends! Sign Up Today.

One of our favorite days is right around the corner!  On February 3, 2027, it is World Read Aloud Day! 

This is a day to celebrate all of the amazing ways we read aloud without our community and with others around the world. World Read Aloud Day was created in NYC by a little boy and Pam Allyn as they were reading aloud together. Now, WRAD is celebrated on the first Wednesday of every February and has reached many millions of people.

This special day is brought to us by the amazing LitWorld. 

You can sign up for World Read Aloud Day here.  We will get more information super soon.

Join Us For The November Follett Software Webinar...More Than Books! Finding and Curating Free Online Library and Learning Resources!

 

Friends, I am so excited to invite you to the November Follett Software webinar, More Than Books. Finding and Curating Free Online Library and Learning Resources. 

As shared in the invite at Follett Software, 

School libraries are more than places to find books; they are launchpads for learning, creativity, and connection. In this practical webinar, award-winning teacher-librarian Shannon McClintock Miller will show K–12 librarians how to discover, evaluate, and organize high-quality free online resources that support classroom lessons, teacher collaboration, and engaging library programming.

We’ll explore free resources from BBC, AT&T, PBS, Epic, and more. You’ll see how digital stories, worksheets, lessons, and streaming video can extend a theme, reinforce classroom learning, and inspire new experiences in the library. By offering content in multiple formats – including text, audio, video, and interactive activities – you can engage students with different interests, strengths, and learning needs. You’ll also see why thoughtful curation matters and how organizing resources around a clear theme can make them easier to find, use, and share with your school community.

Whether you’re supporting a classroom unit, extending a read-aloud, or planning your next library program, you’ll leave with practical ideas and free resources you can put to work right away.

What you’ll learn

• How to find and evaluate high-quality free online content for students and educators
• Ways to use digital stories, worksheets, lessons, and streaming video to support classroom themes
• Ideas for turning online resources into engaging library programming
• How to curate resources around a theme to create focus, organization, and ease of discovery
• Practical strategies for sharing curated resources with teachers, students, and families

Can’t attend? No problem: register, and we’ll email you the recording.

A certificate of attendance is available upon request.

You can register here for this free webinar. I can't wait to see you there. 

Why I Became a School Librarian and Why I'll Always Love This Work....Part 1 of the New Follett Content Blog Series

 

I'm excited to kick off a new blog series with Follett Content, sharing a school librarian's perspective on the many ways libraries make a difference in our schools and communities.

As a district teacher librarian, I've seen how the library connects people, ideas, books, creativity, and learning in so many meaningful ways. But the library looks a little different depending on who you are. Students come to discover their next favorite book, teachers find a partner in learning, families look for ways to encourage reading at home, and district leaders help shape the resources and opportunities available to their school communities.

Throughout this series, I'll share my experiences, ideas, and a few things I've learned along the way as we explore the school library through five perspectives: the librarian, students, teachers, families, and district leaders. We'll look at what makes this work so rewarding, the challenges we navigate, and the many opportunities we have to inspire reading, spark creativity, and support learning together.

For Part 1, I'm starting at the beginning and sharing a little about why I became a school librarian and why I'll always love this work.

I think I may have been practicing to be a teacher librarian long before I even knew it! When my sister Heather and I were little, we used to play school, where we were both teachers and librarians. We'd set up our books, create our own little library, check books in and out, and take turns being the librarian or teacher. We even had a little stamp and cards for our books, just like a real library. It was just the best!

What makes me smile even more about that story is that Heather is a teacher librarian now, too. I don't think either of us could have imagined then that something we were simply pretending to do would become such a special part of who we are.

My hope is that these conversations offer fresh ideas, practical takeaways, and a reminder of just how much is possible when we work together to support our students and school communities.

I'm so glad you're here, and I hope you'll follow along, friends!

You can read Part 1 of the series, Why I Became a School Librarian and Why I'll Always Love This Work, here at Follett Content.