Library Grants Worth Knowing About (Spring 2026 Edition)

WEBSITE ↬ Library Grants Worth Knowing About (Spring 2026 Edition)

AUDIENCE ↬ school librarians & admins

CONTENT ↬ all

GRADE LEVELS ↬ all grades

I work closely with the media specialists in all of our buildings. They are some of the most valuable staff members who do so much for so many of us and are often overlooked and underfunded. They sure know how to stretch a dollar! Share this with your media specialist so they know where and how they might find some additional dollars to stretch out .... while the rest of us benefit from it. 

HOW CAN TEACHERS USE THIS RESOURCE?

I can see teachers using this to share with their media specialists or librarians or what ever you call the people who make libraries happen in your buildings. 

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Grouper

WEBSITE ↬ Grouper

AUDIENCE ↬ teachers

CONTENT ↬ all

GRADE LEVELS ↬ all grades

Brace yourself - this is SUPER cute! Making groups for my classes was always a headache ... I really just wanted something that would allow me to quickly make pairs or groups or teams without much fuss. I used an app at one point, but it was kind of clunky. Anything else I've seen comes at a cost ... and I like free.

Grouper fills this need! With a free account, you can make pairs, groups, and teams of various numbers all while adding a few preferences so depending on how you want the pairs/groups/teams to be, you can have a little control. Maybe student A shouldn't work with student B. You can do that! Yay!  

HOW CAN TEACHERS USE THIS RESOURCE?

I can see teachers using this to help make pairs/groups/teams quickly and even "in the moment" after the initial set-up. Such a time saver! Try it out today! You can even import from your Google Classroom roster!

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How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships

WEBSITE ↬ How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships

AUDIENCE ↬ teachers

CONTENT ↬ all

GRADE LEVELS ↬ all grades

All teachers know the power of a good relationship with their students. Not all teachers honor this and work to consistently strengthen the relationship. I recently came across this idea of dialogue journals from Jennifer Gonzalez's blog, the Cult of Pedagogy. It was posted a handful of years ago, but is such a wonderful idea!

P.S. you don't have to read this one - you can listen to the podcast version of it

HOW CAN TEACHERS USE THIS RESOURCE?

I can see teachers using this to start the year - or semester - off and begin building relationships with their students. It doesn't need to be a huge undertaking. The most important part is that you are working to build that relationship.

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Session Lab: Library of facilitation techniques

WEBSITE ↬ Session Lab: Library of facilitation techniques

AUDIENCE ↬ teachers

CONTENT ↬ n/a

GRADE LEVELS ↬ n/a

I attended a two day workshop this summer with other coaches and I learned a lot. One of the take-aways was a website that offers up teamwork activities. We played a couple of the games during the workshop and they were different from your typical.

Whether you plan professional learnings for adults or you are looking for other ways to do teamwork activities in your classroom, this is one website you will want to bookmark and return to - often. 

We played one game where we passed a rock and another where we built with Legos. Interested? Check out Session Lab for more!

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