Think kids don't go to the library? This is what ours looks like after school. When they don't have to be here anymore. Hanging out. Making stuff. Science Olympiad. Mu Alpha Theta. Libraries matter to kids. Every. Single. Day. #schoollibrariesFTW @EveryLibrary

A little calmer today! 6 classes in 3 blocks today. AP Lit using literary criticism databases and creating practice Works Cited pages, database research with ELA 11 and Pet Rock SkillShare with Applied Psych! Last practice skillshare before creating their own! #schoollibrariesFTW

Crazy dazy! 16 classes in 7 blocks. Fun time as @loganpa14 won the Gates Award! She also won MLA Kahoot in the library today w/ AP Lit! ELA 11 database research, Amer Decides campaign ads, Applied Psych zine SkillShare & AP Lit MLA bootcamp! #tiredlibrarians #schoollibrariesFTW

5 classes in 3 blocks today! ELA 11 finding 5-6 database articles for iSearch projects and America Decides working on PSAs with @netforceisma ! Also helping ELA 10 revise Works Cited pages from last week. Every party has RESEARCH so that's why we invited YOU! #schoollibrariesFTW

6 classes in 4 blocks today. ELA11 research project with databases and America Decides campaign ads for imaginary candidates! We also have some new displays from one of our stellar students! Thanks Kat, for the great book recs! #schoollibrariesFTW

Thank you to @BVEdFoundation! We dressed up as goats to honor Mr. Ollig and his Goat Grant! We also got funding for @glowforge Aura and Spark craft laser cutters for the Beta! The Beta is moving to the library this year and you'll have access to all the things for making stuff!

Close read today with Geography students, notetaking activity with ELA 10, and Contemporary Communications students finishing up notecards and revising Ask Find documents. A fun, full day of research! Seniors are nearing the conclusion of the research paper process!

Works Cited and Notetaking with Contemp students today. Also doing database intro with ELA 10 and aquifer close read with Earth/Space! A full day! And we continue to make modifications to the tortoise wheel chair as we #3dprint some prototypes! #schoollibrariesFTW

Girls Garage had a great meeting today! The body of our little free library for the prairie is almost complete! All the girls learned about and practiced using power drills, screw gun, wood glue, and clamps! Everyone was excited to participate and worked together like pros.

We can do it! Playing @breakoutedu with Mrs. Grimm's ELA11 classes, notetaking with Contemp, helping Ms. Dugan's classes with printing and hosting Spanish classes for speaking IPAs! 9 classes in 3 blocks make for a spooky Halloween! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! #schoollibrariesFTW

We played a Halloween @breakoutEDU game with Mrs. Grimm's classes today. NoteTaking with Contemporary Communications students and serious work on parenthetical citations. Also #3Dprinting some new wheels for Maddie the tortoise and an engine for Chase! #schoollibrariesFTW

Contemporary Communications Seniors continuing the research process with Notetaking today. We also did a close read activity with Science teachers during PLC and now it's an empathy map share with Applied Psych! Such great work in the library today! #schoollibrariesFTW

Notetaking with Contemp, a new Econ project with @jmbreed's Econ class, and Empathy maps with Applied Psych! A great research filled day in the library! #schoollibrariesFTW

8 classes in the library in 3 blocks today! ELA 10 individual conferences, Contemp Communications working on Ask/Find documents for the research process, ELA 10 checking out and Applied Psych working on Empathy Maps! Come join in the fun, we can cram some more people in here!

10 classes in 3 periods today! ELA 12 and Contemp at various stages of the research paper process, MWH learning to use databases, AP Psych working on a AP test close read, Applied Psych making empathy maps and ELA 10 conferencing with Mr. C! A full day in the library!

Contemporary Communications working on Preliminary Research, ELA 10 working on NoteTaking, Applied Psych prepping for tomorrow's guest speaker about the carceral system. It's a research party in here! #schoollibrariesFTW

2 different senior ELA classes in the library today! Contemporary Communications working on topic selection while ELA12 works on theses and notetaking! Getting all the research work done! #schoollibrariesFTW

Today in the library: Seniors in Contemporary Communications using @galecengage Topic Selection tool to choose topics for their research papers! Turning students into thinkers and effective users of information in the library everyday! #schoollibrariesFTW

The debate is ON! Mr. Ocon's Earth/Space Science classes are battling through the Natural Resources tournament. Students researched natural resources and then argued against other resources for the most valuable energy source. Great job debating! #schoollibrariesFTW

Mr. Ocon's Natural Resource trophies are printed and painted for the tournament tomorrow! We'll see who wins by arguing that their natural resource is most valuable! Also did Preliminary Research task with ELA 12 today! #schoollibrariesFTW