Overview

  • Born in Williamsburg, Virginia. Undergraduate degree from Guilford College. Married with two children.

    • Selected Publications

    Articles In Academic Journals

    Year Title
    2018 Building of causality: A future for school librarianship research and practice.  Knowledge Quest. 20-27.
    2016 Anatomy of Advocacy: A Case Study of the White House Petition.  School Library Research. 25.
    2016 Development of communities of practice in school library education.  Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 101-111.
    2016 The portrayal of the United States in the translated international children's literature.  Social Studies Research and Practice.
    2015 Common Core and Common Good: Educational Standards and the Future of Libraries.  Library Quarterly. 225-243.
    2015 Culturally Relevant Booktalking using a Mixed Reality Simulation with Preservice School Librarians.  School Libraries Worldwide. 91-107.
    2013 How common is common? An analysis of the recommended text exemplars..  Teacher Librarian. 23-27.
    2013 How common is common?: An analysis of the recommended test exemplars..  Teacher Librarian. 23-27.
    2013 Translated literature in your library: The Mildred L. Batchelder Award.  ACCESS: Journal of the Australian School Library Association. pp. 12-16.
    2012 Collaboration as school reform: Are there patterns in the chaos of planning with teachers?.  School Library Research. 16.
    2012 Deep Reading: Using Technology to Engage, Connect, & Share.  Library Media Connection. 10-12.
    2012 Dispositions in the Twenty-First Century School Library Profession.  School Libraries Worldwide.
    2012 Seeing the Clouds: The School Librarian as Broker in Collaborative Planning with Teachers.  School Libraries Worldwide. 10.
    2012 The School Library: A Space for Mathematical Thinking, Learning, and Sharing.  Library Media Connection.
    2012 What's the appeal: Reader's advisory in school libraries.  Library Media Connection. 44-45.
    2011 "Consider with Whom You are Working": Discourse Models of School Librarianship in Collaboration.  School Library Media Research.
    2011 The School Library: A Space for Critical Thinking about Data and Mathematical Questions.  Library Media Connection. 26-28.
    2010 Tempered radicals: Elementary teachers' narratives of teaching science within and against prevailing meanings of schooling.  Cultural Studies of Science Education/Springer Science. 941-965.

    Research Overview

  • The impact of school librarian/teacher collaboration on professional learning and student learning. Youth literacy across technologies.

    • Grants

    Expertise Keywords

  • Children's Adolescent Literature
  • Collaboration
  • Culture
  • Digital Literacies and Resources
  • School Libraries

    • Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in Teacher Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2010
  • M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1982
  • B.S. in Mathematics, Guilford College 1979

    • Full Name

  • Sue Kimmel