Category Archives: School Media Specialists
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Is This the Year of Asking for Help?
Leave a commentAugust 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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Relationships from the Hardest Year Ever
Leave a commentJuly 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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EOY Report for the Hardest Year Ever
Leave a commentMay 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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#WhyStudentsGoToSchoolLibrary
Leave a commentApril 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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You Are Your School’s Pressure Release Valve
Leave a commentMarch 26, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
As we turn the corner into the new School Library Month (April), we need to understand the real importance of …
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Wish List for a K-12 LMS Set Up
Leave a commentFebruary 5, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
How do you want your Learning Management System (LMS) to be set up? This is different from the discussions of …
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Pivoting on a Dime
Leave a commentJanuary 15, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
The original schedule had teachers returning on Monday, January 3rd for a workday followed by students on Tuesday. The announcement …
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Books Unite Us
Leave a commentSeptember 30, 2021 by Dr. Robbie Barber
I am extremely proud of my friends, colleagues, and students who have bounded into this annual #BannedBooksWeek with joy. And …
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What does a Media Specialist Do When Everyone Is Online?
Leave a commentAugust 29, 2020 by Dr. Robbie Barber
(Hint: Everything.) Tuesday was the 7th day of school and the first where I joined a teacher’s classroom to teach …
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Recognizing Implicit Biases in Ourselves
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2020 by Dr. Robbie Barber
This post is week 4 of 8 in the #8WeeksofSummer Blog Challenge for educators. The prompt is: “How do/will you address implicit …
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