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Who Cares About the School Library?
Leave a commentApril 21, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Answer: Students do. In all of the doom and gloom presented in the past year of school libraries being shuttered …
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School Librarians = Sharks?
Leave a commentMarch 16, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
One morning, last Spring semester, I decided to list what I was doing over a three-hour period. Here’s what I …
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School Librarians = School Engineers
Leave a commentFebruary 11, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
School librarians are the engineers of the school making sure that everyone can get what they need to keep the …
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Using MS Bookings for Parent-Teacher Conferences
Leave a commentJanuary 15, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
This past Fall, we had our 5th semester of using Microsoft Bookings for Parent-Teacher Conferences. Our district added Bookings to …
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Mid-Year Check-In
1January 2, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
While I do a year-end review every year, sometimes it’s worth it to do a mid-year check. Once, when I …
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Fulfilling is My #OneWord for 2024
Leave a commentDecember 26, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
New Year’s Resolutions have given way to focusing on #OneWord. 2023 was guided by the word “Experiment”. The quote from Claude …
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Banned Books Reflect Real Life
Leave a commentOctober 3, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
There is a concern that books are dangerous and can open children up to things their parents disapprove of. Therefore, …
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What #EdTech Help Do We Need to Start the Year?
Leave a commentAugust 13, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
At the start of every school year, there is an urge to grab whatever we started with last year and …
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Defending AI?
Leave a commentJuly 25, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Week 8 of #8WeeksofSummer blogging challenge (Whew! We made it!) invites us to defend AI: “How can we make the case for …
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Librarians (& Teachers) Replacing AI?
1July 18, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Week 7 of #8WeeksofSummer blogging challenge invites us to defend ourselves: “Sell It! What Teachers and Students can do that …
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