Misery Loves Company or Better Together?

Charlene Aldrich, a retired South Carolina Literacy professor, explores the obstacles to collaboration as she provides ways educators can participate in intradisciplinary collaboration, grade level collaboration and syncrhonous school-wide collaboration.

Literacy Coaching During A Pandemic

Meagan Wagner, a literacy coach for a middle/high school in South Carolina, shares how Covid-19 has impacted the way she collaborates with teachers to best meet the needs of students and teachers, in her role as literacy coach.

The Advantages of Inquiry: Equity and the Economy

Dr. Britnie Dilinger Kane explores project based inquiry as a means to support students’ disciplinary literacy.

Data over Assumptions: Determining How Our Schools Engage in Family-School Partnerships

Dr. Jennifer D. Morrison, instructor at the University of South Carolina, shares how schools can evaluate their school-family partnerships and how educators can move toward building stronger school-family partnerships.

What in the World Have you Been Doing?

Jeni Nix, a South Carolina Librarian, and Rene Harris, a South Carolina Elementary Principal, discuss how they have centered the library in their school to promote literacy.

For the love of literacy

Charlene Aldrich, retired literacy instructor, shares the partnership teachers and librarians can cultivate within their school buildings to support literacy instruction.

We Need S’More Literacy from the Library!

Amanda Harris, a South Carolina High School Media Specialist, explains the role the school library can play in school-wide literacy instruction.

The School Librarian and You

Kelley Rider, a South Carolina School Librarian explores the ways teachers and librarians can work together to create meaningful learning experiences for students.

Who Needs a “Media Specialist” When Google’s Got It All?

Betty Bouton, a South Carolina teacher-librarian, explores the ways in which collaboration between librarians and classroom teachers can enhance literacy instruction in school buildings.

In the Middle of It All

Cynthia Johnson, a SC media specialist, explores the unique position media specialists hold and how they can support classroom teachers in helping students and schools reach their literacy goals.