So many of our professional publications and courses talk about collaborating with classroom teachers. From a listserv I am on I recently received a message asking how to get teachers to collaborate. I could have responded:
Last year I attended a workshop on collaboration. The presenter talked about her experiences with collaborating with teachers, but didn't say how she got the teachers to collaborate with her. During a discussion session in small groups she came over to my group and sat do… Continue

Six and a half years ago I arrived in my current media center. The collection was old and short on accreditation numbers -- I remember 1974 as an estimate of average, but it surprised me that the age was that young! It is now up to 1984 after some weeding and using every penny I could on print purchases. Next Tuesday afternoon the media specialists from our county will meet here and I am supposed to do a program on weeding. To end the presentation we will weed the 900s. I am going to "remind" th… Continue