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Book Review | Connected Librarians: Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning by Nikki D. Robertson

11/29/2017

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Connected Librarians is a new ISTE publication by Nikki D Robertson.  Robertson is a veteran educator, school librarian, and instructional technology facilitator.  In her book, she explores how social media has become essential for outreach, advocacy, and a variety of other school needs.  Additionally, Robertson discusses how the responsibility for modeling the proper use of social media to students typically falls to the library media specialist.  

Throughout the book, Robertson explores a variety of practical ideas, solutions, and strategies to help library media specialists understand how to effectively use social media to support and improve student learning.


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Sown to Grow: Goal-Setting and Reflection Platform for K-12 Students

11/2/2017

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Sown to Grow is a new platform that is designed to help students set goals, track progress, and reflect on their learning.  The platform also allows teachers to help guide learning, monitor growth, and provide feedback to their students. In short, Sown to Grow is meant to provide students with more ownership over the learning process, and help promote reflection over classroom assignments and activities.  It’s a wonderful resource that helps make goal-setting and reflection a habitual practice.


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Reading Horizons Accelerate: Online Professional Development and Training Resources

11/2/2017

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Reading Horizons has spent the last 30 years working towards creating programs to support beginning and struggling readers at the K-12 level and beyond.  They offer a wide range of solutions and products with this goal in mind, and you can also read our earlier reviews of Reading Horizons Discovery for K-3 students and of Reading Horizons Elevate for 4th grade to adult.  

​For anyone interested in learning more about the Reading Horizons method, this
YouTube playlist is a great place to start.


The Reading Horizons team has always offered on-site professional development (PD) to support these resources, but the team has just released a collection of online training modules which are designed to provide additional training and support to teachers and schools who have signed up for Reading Horizons.  Let’s take a look!


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