Safer Internet Day 8th Feb

With remote learning possibly on the horizon again (sigh!), it has never been more important to highlight Safer Internet Day. The eSafetyCommissioner has a plethora of resources available online on topics suitable for early childhood, primary and secondary students including a video library for educators. Reporting online abuse: Cyberbullying, Image-based abuse and Illegal and harmful... Continue Reading →

Inquiry and Information literacy skills

If school librarians facilitate student-led inquiry at least weekly, that dramatically improves the odds that students have been taught the full range of essential information literacy skills. /https://kappanonline.org/linking-librarians-inquiry-learning-information-literacy-lance-maniotes/ Data collected in 2017-18 by the Colorado State Library from the state’s certified school librarians indicated that school librarians who promoted student-led inquiry at least weekly —... Continue Reading →

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I write southern historical fiction, local history, and I've written a devotional book. The two novels I'm writing are set in Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1760s. My weekly blog started out to follow my journey as a writer and a reader, but in 2025 it has been greatly expanded to include current events and politics in the United States as I see our democracy under attack from within. The political science major in me cannot sit idly by and remain silent.

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