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Next on our game parade is Slamwich. I play a 1 minute video of how to play and we are off! Easy to learn, quick to play = high engagement!

This year I learned… a new tool for classroom management. Limit the number of students at an activity. It keeps productivity and engagement high while reducing unwanted behaviors. # of chairs = number of students.

Oh, hello Dog Man! I haven’t seen the bins like this since September! I am keeping this photo to prove to students next year that we truly DO have lots of these (our bins are usually empty even after I buy additional copies). 😂

I wasn’t planning on doing this (top photo) this year. It was my “when I get a few more things ironed out” goal. However, these shelves just couldn’t stay like this (bottom photo). Kids deserve better!

The shirt says it all. It was a hard year. It could have broken my heart and soul, but I chose to grow from it. My colleague and I overhauled a library and wrote a curriculum while running our “other” libraries. I am proud. I am tired. I can do 1 more day.

I like ordering new books in June and having them ready so there is “new blood” in the collection come the fall.

That’s a LOT of graphic novels! Evidence that we do indeed have these things, despite the fact that many of these bins spend the year empty.

Yep. Yep. Yep. No surprises here.

Opportunities & space to grow! My first 24 hours of vacation involved a new dance class, meeting my mentor for my new side gig, and training for a volunteer opportunity. Bring on summer!

Kicking off my first full week of summer with a book that sets the stage for summer adventures.

I found this over-sized Little Free Library in my town - there is room for bins to organize books!

This graphic novel is going to resonate with so many students! It is a story about culture and identity through the lens of language.

This took me back to my childhood summers, visiting the library with my mother & sister. My mother insisted we read a nonfiction, biography, classic, and two free choices. I loved this outline & immersed myself in it. I fell in love with biographies because of it.

What does a dancing librarian mom bring to a national dance competition? A book about the first African American Rockette, of course!

I spent a glorious afternoon at the Providence Athenæum. The SMELL of the books was like coming home. ❤️📖

I learned about “library hand” not from grad school, but from the Providence Athenæum! This was a handwriting style taught in library school to develop uniformity & legibility in card catalogs. Brilliant! Beautiful!

In a very coincidental series of events, these books landed in my hands/ears within a two week period. A picture book, graphic novel, YA, and adult title about various aspects of World War II weaved stories about humanity during terrible trials through their pages and my heart..

I couldn’t stop listening about 3/4 of the way through! #kidlit