No Shhing Here

Is it your first year in a new school library? Are there new staff members in  your building this year? How are you going to introduce yourself and ensure they understand what your library program offers? To facilitate this in my building, I created this front/back "Library Menu." On the first page, it introduces myself (the teacher-librarian), and my staff, including our library secretary and teaching assistant. In addition to a short bio, it also provides information on each person's duties a well as their contact information. Check it out below (I've redacted our personal/identifying information). 19421942 Don't want to create your own? The template is available on Teachers Pay Teachers. You'll be provided with a Canva template link, and will just need to create a free Canva account to access. Note: not all fonts and graphics are available with a free account, though all educators can upgrade to Canva for Education, free of charge. 

As an introvert, I'm not a giant fan of icebreaker/get to know you activities that require awkward conversations with people you don't know. I'm not the only one - plenty of students feel the same way! Last year I came up with a beginning of school activity that introduces content, allows me to learn about each student, and begins to establish classroom community connections— AND it's cringe free! :) Our kids really enjoy this activity - there's lots of opportunity to be creative and it's culturally relevant with its video game tie-in. No Cringe Icebreakers In this activity, You: The Video Game , students share the things that make them unique and learn about their classmates' lives, but there's no uncomfortable conversations. Instead, students pretend their lives have been turned into a video game. They create a "screenshot" of their imaginary video game that includes 10 symbols, and write a bit of text to explain the meaning behind each symbo...