How to Transform Your Library Space on a Budget
Transform Your Library Space Recently, I’ve been looking back through photos of my media center at Stewart Middle Magnet from the past five years… As...
SLJ Leadership Summit: Reflections
A few weeks ago, I had the honor and privilege of attending the School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Seattle, WA. It was an...
SLJ Leadership Summit: School Tours
A few weeks ago, I had the honor and privilege of attending the School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Seattle, WA. It was an...
5 Easy Ways to Make Space for Innovation
5 Easy Ways to Make Space for Innovation Our school libraries are no longer made up of the rows upon rows of stacks...
TL Virtual Cafe: Hacks for Back to School
Hacks for Back to School Last week I had the honor of presenting as part of TL Virtual Cafe’s Back to School Special along...
Makerspace Logistics: How to Find a Schedule that Works
During my poster session at ISTE, I must have been asked dozens of times: “When do students use your Makerspace? How do you organize...
Advocating for Makerspaces in Libraries
Advocating for Makerspaces in School Libraries I’m pleased and honored to announce that I will now be a regular monthly contributor to AASL’s...
Makerspaces in Schools: Creating STEAM Connections
Makerspaces in Schools: How to Create STEAM Connections In our makerspace, our students are learning both formally and informally, discovering new things about...
Building Curriculum Connections Into Makerspaces
Curriculum Connections in Makerspaces In an article I wrote for Florida Media Quarterly, I describe ways that I’ve built curriculum connections into my makerspace....
Hillsborough Women in Tech
Last month, I had the honor of giving a Pecha Kucha talk at the Hillsborough Women in Tech event. A Pecha Kucha is an...