April is School Library Month! If your school doesn't have a certified School Library Media Specialist, advocate to fill that vacancy. If you do, celebrate the work they do - especially this month!

April is School Library Month!

If your school doesn't have a certified School Library Media Specialist, advocate to fill that vacancy.

If you do, celebrate the work they do - especially this month!

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

April is School Library Month! If your school doesn't have a certified School Library Media Specialist, advocate to fill that vacancy. If you do, celebrate the work they do - especially this month!

April is School Library Month!

If your school doesn't have a certified School Library Media Specialist, advocate to fill that vacancy.

If you do, celebrate the work they do - especially this month!

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #1: Welcoming, Safe Spaces School Librarians welcome all, ensuring that students have a safe space not only to complete schoolwork, but also to dream, explore, and imagine!

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#1: Welcoming, Safe Spaces
School Librarians welcome all, ensuring that students have a safe space not only to complete schoolwork, but also to dream, explore, and imagine!

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #2: Educate the Whole Student School Librarians support students' academic, social, and emotional learning, starting with a greeting at the door & continuing through conversations & lessons that foster student success.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#2: Educate the Whole Student
School Librarians support students' academic, social, and emotional learning, starting with a greeting at the door & continuing through conversations & lessons that foster student success.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #3: College and Careers School Librarians often take a leading role in college and career readiness programming, including helping students analyze strengths and interests.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#3: College and Careers
School Librarians often take a leading role in college and career readiness programming, including helping students analyze strengths and interests.

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Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #4: Support for Colleagues School Librarians offer resources to support curriculum and NJ Student Learning Standards, provide PD, and are positioned to assist with strategic planning, technology initiatives, and more.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#4: Support for Colleagues
School Librarians offer resources to support curriculum and NJ Student Learning Standards, provide PD, and are positioned to assist with strategic planning, technology initiatives, and more.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #5: STEM and Maker Activities School Librarians support maker activities - often based in STEM curriculum - that focus on the development of creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#5: STEM and Maker Activities
School Librarians support maker activities - often based in STEM curriculum - that focus on the development of creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Christine Szeluga | I Love My Librarian Award Christine Szeluga is a winner of the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award, sponsored by the American Library Association and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

We’ve got a Jersey Girl as a winner of the I Love My Librarian Award! Congratulations, Christine Szeluga of Cranford HS! @njasl.bsky.social

A school without a librarian is just a building with classrooms @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

This also means sharing expertise on when certain technology should *not* be used. It means using our skills as librarians to know that something like AI does not belong in education. It doesn't mean gobbling down every piece of edtech tossed our way.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #6: Foster a Love of Reading School Librarians know how to foster a love of reading in students by getting to know the students and matching their interests with that "just right" title.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#6: Foster a Love of Reading
School Librarians know how to foster a love of reading in students by getting to know the students and matching their interests with that "just right" title.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Safe spaces. Intellectual freedom. Critical thinking.
​Investing in school librarians provides the foundation students need for lifelong success. @njasl.bsky.social

A blue flyer with white and yellow text and clip art of diverse children reading and flying in a book Text reads: April 6th - 11th, 2026, International Children's Book Week. Travel the world from the comfort of the Lake Hiawatha Branch Library during Spring Break! Drop in for: interactive displays of books from over 60 countries, multilingual story events in Hindi, Gujarati, Mandarin, and more, crafts, scavenger hunt, and more fun activities, exclusive "I'm a Global Reader!" pin. In the upper right hand corner is the library logo and address.

THIS WEEK! It's happening! This program's my baby. And this year, I can brag that it's my AWARD-WINNING baby! 🥹

More info: live-parsippany.pantheonsite.io/event/intern...

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#publibs #edusky #TLsky #librarysky #skybrarians #GLAMs 📚🍎

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #7: Technology & Equity of Access School Librarians share expertise & assist students, colleagues, & even community members with technology housed in the school library, a place that promotes equity of access.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#7: Technology & Equity of Access
School Librarians share expertise & assist students, colleagues, & even community members with technology housed in the school library, a place that promotes equity of access.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #8: Digital Citizenship School Librarians build upon information literacy skills to teach digital citizenship in order to prepare students for responsible and effective use of technology.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#8: Digital Citizenship
School Librarians build upon information literacy skills to teach digital citizenship in order to prepare students for responsible and effective use of technology.

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Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #9: Information and Media Literacy Skills School Librarians help students develop information and media literacy skills critical for analyzing content for credibility and accuracy, especially in today's world.

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#9: Information and Media Literacy Skills
School Librarians help students develop information and media literacy skills critical for analyzing content for credibility and accuracy, especially in today's world.

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian: #10: Information Access School Librarians provide access to information - vast amounts of it - and guidance for how to research, understand, and apply it - all skills necessary for lifelong learning!

Top 10 Reasons Every School Needs a Librarian:

#10: Information Access
School Librarians provide access to information - vast amounts of it - and guidance for how to research, understand, and apply it - all skills necessary for lifelong learning!

#TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat

Stanford Online You can gain access to a world of education through Stanford Online, the Stanford School of Engineering’s portal for academic and professional education offered by schools and units throughout Stanfor...

You can watch the complete @Stanford computer science course (CS221) and hundreds of other Stanford lectures for free: youtube.com/@stanfordonline #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #stanford #computerscience #professionaldevelopment

While NJ librarians were convening in Atlantic City at the joint NJLA/NJASL conference, Sen. Andy Kim was in Asbury Park thanking them for being “great pillars and models for protecting free speech” @njasl.bsky.social
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Oh, how I missed conference… been too long. Loved seeing all my #schoollibrary peeps at #NJASL #NJLA. I’ve been doing this almost 20 years but I still learn something new, make new connections. Always leaves me exhausted yet energized! @njasl.bsky.social #schoollibrariesrock

Q to @librarianjones.com: You were raised in a very conservative tradition. What caused you to change?

Amanda: I didn't. I was raised to love others, help people, be a good Samaritan, love our country, stand up for the Constitution. That's what I'm doing...

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Amanda (cont'd): I'm living the way I was raised. The folks coming after me are the ones who are not practicing what they preach.

💯💯💯💯💯

#NJASL26

The eternal issue of conferences - Too many interesting things happening at the same time! 😂

#NJASL26 #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary

#medialiteracy is "The ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication" - NAMLE
There's one week dedicated the the celebration of #medialiteracyeducation however #librarians teach students these skills each and every day. @njasl.bsky.social

The library received 100 #rubikscube through @donorschoose.bsky.social I put them out, showed a group of students what I was planning, and they got to work! THANK YOU @generalmotors.bsky.social for funding our project!!! #STEM #community
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Closing the Attendance Gap: How New Jersey Compares to Peer States - New Jersey State Policy Lab Chronic absenteeism—defined as missing 10 percent or more school days during the school year—remains a concern for some K-12 school leaders and educators. According to the New Jersey Department of Edu...

🏫✏️ Over the 2023-2024 school year, #NJ Jersey had the second lowest rate of chronic absenteeism in the country 📖 with a rate of 14.9% 📚 which was only beat by #Alabama with a rate of 14.8%:

#education #EduSky #Rutgers @njhighered.bsky.social @njasl.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org

"You should take a class like this because it doesn’t just change the way you look at sports media, it changes the way you look at society ... Sports may be fun, but they also reflect big issues—power, race, gender, politics—and this class makes you recognize how important that really is."

"My appreciation for the craft and practice of media criticism has definitely evolved over the course. Learning different ways to break down readings and to think more critically while reading media has evolved my learning and understanding of media criticism."

"I would recommend this class as one of the more important courses I have taken. While this course is centered around sports media, the content discussed in this course is relevant to anyone who consumes any form of media ... This has been one of the most practical courses I have taken."

"I discovered that media should not be viewed as neutral, but rather as a developed creation. This change made it easier for me to understand that media critique is a way
of thinking that allows us to deal with an informative environment much more thoughtfully and responsibly."