You've Been Book'd With Books For National Library Week & School Library Month!

To celebrate National Library Week and School Library Month, I brought together 33 special books about libraries and reading. 

In this choice board, you can find this amazing Titlewave® list of books.  Or click on each book to see the individual titles too. 

If you want to make a copy of your own, please grab the link here. 

Have fun celebrating your library and all you do as librarians, friends. 

Learning About Hatching Chicks With MergeEDU, PebbleGo, CI eBooks, and More!

 

Every year our first graders hatch eggs in their classroom.  

I put together a choice board for them all about hatching chicks and chickens.  There is a PebbleGo article, Capstone Interactive and EPIC eBooks, and a few other videos and games.  

You can make a copy of this choice board here. 

One of our favorite resources is the Object Viewer in Merge EDU. 

The Development of a Chicken illustrates the entire process, and our first graders explore it using iPads and Merge Cubes within this awesome augmented reality learning environment.

Merge EDU allows students to hold, touch, and interact with this 3D content while learning even more about the what is happening within the eggs that are about to hatch in their classroom.

You can find out more about Merge EDU here. 

On Earth Day, Learn Like an Astronaut With New Units From The Achievery!

 

Earth Day is this week on April 22nd.  

Our friends at The Achievery have lot of amazing new units created with NASA that will help our students see Earth through the eyes of an astronaut. 

You can sign up for your FREE Achievery account here.  Please invite your fellow colleagues and families to join.  It is FREE for everyone. 

There is something for every grade level, subject, interest, and more in The Achievery.  It's an incredible way to enhance students' learning experiences through interactive, engaging, and exciting learning experiences.  

You've Been Book'd With Lots of Special Books To Read This Summer, Friends!

With summer right around the corner, I brought together this special collection of books in my Follett Content Titlewave today. 

You will find the You've Been Book'd With Lots of Special Books To Read This Summer choice board here. 

Just click on each book cover to read more about the books in Titlewave.  You will also find the entire booklist in Titlewave here. 

And if you want to make a copy of this choice board, you can do that at this link.

Have a wonderful time getting ready for summer reading, friends. It's one of the best times for reading.

Check Out The Upcoming Storyvoice Events In April and May!

 

We love the author and illustrator events from Storyvoice.  The upcoming events are amazing and we can't wait to watch them at our school. 

You can go to Storyvoice here to find and register for them, friends. 

Join Me For The New Follett Software Webinar....Co-Planning for Impact: How Library-Curriculum Partnerships Move The Achievement Needle!

 

Friends, I am so excited for my upcoming Follett Software webinar on May 7, 2026 at 2:00pm CST. 

I hope that you join us for Co-Planning for Impact: How Library-Curriculum Partnerships Move The Achievement Needle.  It is going to be such an great webinar around a very important conversation. 

As shared in the invite...

What if you could clearly show how your library program advances curriculum and student achievement—without adding one more “extra” initiative to your plate?

In this session, award-winning teacher-librarian Shannon McClintock Miller will share practical ways to design library-led experiences that plug directly into existing units and priorities, so your work is seen as instructionally essential.

What you’ll learn:

• Strategies to align your library program with curriculum goals and standards 
• Concrete approaches for curating collections that directly support classroom learning 
• Ways to integrate inquiry, choice reading, book clubs, and research opportunities to boost engagement learning for stronger comprehension and achievement. 
• Simple techniques for capturing evidence of impact, from usage analytics, student artifacts, and newsletter highlights. 

Join us to get practical workflows, real examples, and ready-to-use ideas that elevate your library’s role in teaching and learning—and make that impact visible to decision-makers.

This session is a must-attend for K–12 school librarians seeking to strengthen their instructional role by leveraging their work, library program, and resources to support student engagement and achievement.

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

A certificate of attendance is available upon request.

You can register today for the webinar here.

I can't wait to see you at this one, friends. I know you will love the conversation and work we will do. 

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. 

🌍 Celebrate Earth Week and Day with Merge EDU: Bringing Planet Earth to Life in Your Classroom and Libraries!

                                   

I love using Merge EDU with our students to celebrate special events. 

Next week, we are excited to use Merge EDU to celebrate Earth Day and Earth Week. 

Check out this post from the Merge EDU site to learn how to use their apps and experiences with your students for Earth Day too. 

You've Been Book'd With Books To Celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2026!

 

We celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2026.  Earth Day is an annual event dedicated to promoting awareness and taking action to protect the planet.  To help us celebrate, I brought together a special list of books in Follett Titlewave. 

In the You've Been Book'd With Books To Celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2026 choice board here, you will find all of the books.  Just click on the book covers to find each in Titlewave. The entire book list is there too. 

If you want to make a copy of this choice board, you can grab the link here. 

Have a wonderful time celebrating Earth Day, friends.