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    Be Brave | Online Teaching | Reflections

    Lifelong Learning Meets Online Learning: What I Learned While Earning my Online Teaching Endorsement

    ByCollette Jakubowicz January 19, 2018November 2, 2021

    For the past year, I’ve been on a journey of lifelong learning as I complete the Online Teaching program at Millersville University.  I’m incredibly grateful…

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    Be Brave | Library Management | Library Space | Makerspace

    Makerspaces Without a Space: Circulating Maker Kits for the School Library

    ByCollette Jakubowicz December 21, 2014December 20, 2023

    This fall in our school library, I tried something new: I created some circulating maker kits for students in 2nd through 5th grades to check…

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    Be Brave | Books and Reading | Reflections | Whole Number Dewey

    Whole Number Dewey: A Year Without Decimals

    ByCollette Jakubowicz September 28, 2014May 9, 2025

    It’s been almost a whole school year since I hit the “Import Titles” button and replaced ALL of my Dewey nonfiction MARC records with whole…

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  • Be Brave | Library Space | Makerspace | Reflections

    Makerspace Center Update

    ByCollette Jakubowicz February 1, 2014October 19, 2019

    The makerspace projects that students have been working on are really coming along. There’s a flute-playing machine, a “deadly” panda-bot, and a cat that waves…

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    How to Be Brave: The Year of the Makerspace

    ByCollette Jakubowicz October 16, 2013February 5, 2021

    I’ve been thinking about this post by Cari White over at her Library Learners blog, as well as the last few issues of School Library…

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    How to Be Brave: Book Checkout Limits and Sacred Cows

    ByCollette Jakubowicz October 1, 2013October 19, 2019

    In School Library Journal’s October 2012 issue, the cover article centered on the hot topic of Dewey vs. METIS classification systems, but the best advice…

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    Be Brave | Books and Reading | Library Space | Whole Number Dewey

    Dewey Nonfiction Signs Freebie!

    ByCollette Jakubowicz September 15, 2013September 19, 2025

    After my last blog post about simplifying Dewey, a reader asked if I would share my Dewey nonfiction signs.  I finally finished making the signs…

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