Currin's Library Blog

  Inquiry Blog Post 3 Librarians to the Rescue (When You’re Classroom Becomes a Bar Fight): A Guide to Teaching Teachers and Leading From the Library https://www.familyminded.com/s/funny-teacher-memes-21477c5b214f4574 “Okay children, please put away your lunches, put on your inside shoes, and WALK to the carpet,”  I said with authority. Naturally, Jimmy threw his backpack to the floor and ran, and so did Suzie.  They tripped on one another. There was blood. Meanwhile, the rest of the class made it to the carpet, but were now in full brawl mode. Having begun teaching when there were no jobs, I have taught almost every grade, and I can say with certainty that teaching grade one is tough.  Teaching grade 6/7 is tough.  Teaching grades 10-12 is tough.  Teaching is tough.  Some days your class devolves into a bar fight, and you’re stuck refereeing in a portable without a phone. And the thing is, you do not go home when the bell rings.  Instead, you ope...

    A Baseball Bat, Flames, and a Stack of Books: Inquiry Post 2 "I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel.  These books...these books are my paddles." -Stranger Things, Season 2       Books were sacred at Seaview Elementary circa 1993, and Mrs. Cripps ruled over the dewy decimal system with such authority that when our school's gym burned down, the talk in our single file escape line was not about lost P.E. equipment. Instead, we joked about Mrs. Cripps standing at the library door, warding off the flames with a baseball bat.  This speaks to the efficacy of her library program; the school burned down, and books ranked highest on our eight year old worry hierarchy.      Certainly, school libraries have changed since 1993.  They have transitioned from analogue to digital, and although some librarians are still looked at as book collectors, they are simultaneously at the forefront of information technologies....