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Month: April 2017

Alexandria Library Sit-in Goes National

April 18, 2017June 21, 2017

The American Association of School Librarians has accepted our presentation on how teachers and librarians in Virginia have collaborated to include historic little-known events in history and language arts instruction. AASL’s national conference will be in Phoenix in November 2017. Linda Mitchell, librarian at Stonewall Middle School in Manassas, VA, and I will…

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National Library Week at Davis MS, Hampton VA

April 11, 2017June 10, 2017

After 7th graders read Samuel Wilbert Tucker’s biography and learned about other people who overcame adversity, I spent a wonderful day with them talking about lessons learned from Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library protesters who simply wanted to borrow books from their public library.  We talked about courage, persistence, and seeing…

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