Innovative libraries

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align=”left” The expanding services and resources that libraries are bringing to our communities are stunning, and welcomed. Innovations are being driven by the cool ideas and generous spirit of librarians around the world.

Removing a teacher from a staff

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An experienced teacher was the wrong one for a high pressure school. Here’s how the principal, in the first year of her leading the school, dealt with this challenge.

Leadership…Building trust: learning names

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align=”left” To help change a culture of mistrust, a new principal learned all 325 school employees’ names. She then helped introduce them to each other. No principal had done this before.

Helping students ‘make connections’

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Learning is about making connections…. his students’ light bulb experiences are a ‘moment’ for this teacher.

Preparing for the gift of retirement

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Tips on how to see and experience retirement as a gift

Students ignited by stories

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Drama students caught up in the power of stories… sometimes unwittingly.

Taking band students throughout the world

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A high school band teacher hears how much his students love the opportunities his program offers them.

Studs Terkel: oral historian, broadcaster

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Studs Terkel was a hero of mine. Such a please to run into someone else who is intimately aware of his work and directly influenced by his work..

Teaching/ tutoring brothers on the autistic scale

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He’s taught school, as well as tutored privately. One of his strongest techniques is using inquiry based education. Here he talks about tutoring two ESL speakers who are both on the autistic spectrum.

A pre-eminent teacher and dramatist:

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Teachers can be change agents, affecting culture as well as individual lives. Here are some of the ways that Antony did that.