Category Archives: General

  1. EOY Report for the ‘Year of Asking for Help’

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    May 20, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    In this year with more demands and less help, I found that the district put no limitations on me for …
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  2. Compliment a Colleague

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    February 18, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s …
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  3. My #OneWord2023 Is Experiment

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    December 30, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions many years ago. Instead, I focus on #OneWord to help me remember what’s important, …
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  4. Help with Help Tickets

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    October 23, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    Technology use has exploded in the school building. With the theme of this being the #YearofAskingforHelp, there is a growing …
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  5. Is This the Year of Asking for Help?

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    August 28, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    Welcome to the school year SY23. I am understaffed and overwhelmed. A third of my certified teachers left the building …
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  6. SY23: You Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

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    August 7, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    How do you start the new school year? August 1st started the first week back for teachers in our districts. …
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  7. Relationships from the Hardest Year Ever

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    July 6, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    I called SY21, the #StrangestYearEver, and used this as the lens to look at everything. I wrote about my relationships …
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  8. Creating a Weekly EdTech Newsletter

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    May 29, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    There are many examples of newsletters out there. I did not create a Wakelet or Smore newsletter because I am …
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  9. EOY Report for the Hardest Year Ever

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    May 15, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    To cap off the #HardestYearEver, we need to create an end-of-year report. This year, our district’s teacher-librarians (a.k.a. school librarians, …
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  10. #WhyStudentsGoToSchoolLibrary

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    April 30, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber

    Why do students go to their school library? In all of the arguments about the access to and appropriateness of …
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