Jen Zimny

I'm obsessed with the Black History Month posters I made for our circ desk! I'll have the template in my substack next week

You put all the students in groups. Everyone has to write down SOMETHING to answer the prompts. Then they submit on a 3X5 card the one their team thinks is the best. Read those aloud. Have them CLOSE THEIR EYES to vote. Winner gets candy!

8 rounds of this during the week. Only took 6 rounds of it to figure out the best way to run it. First, you start by saying, "This game is like Apples to Apples. This game is NOT Cards Against Humanity. So stay school appropriate." Lol.

Weekly library recap 2/2 - 2/6 TLDR: Lots of new displays for February, return from CSLA, and some new exciting titles to think about adding to your collection!

Back from conference and have a weekly substack back up!
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Weekly library recap 1/19 - 1/23 TLDR: Weeding literature and classics, Book Buzzwords, and three books to look out for in collection development

Weekly substack is up!

Weekly library recap 1/12 - 1/16 TLDR: AP Language Lit Circles, Weeding classics, and some dragon and romance books to add to your library shelves

Weekly substack is up! Enjoy my musings for the week!
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2026 Conference - California School Library Association

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Looking forward to attending CSLA at the end of this month and presenting my session I've been working towards for almost THREE YEAR! Come see what we've done with transforming independent reading at my school!

Y'all. Putting puzzles on the back of the reflection sheets for my @breakoutedu.com games has been a GAME CHANGER. For my fast finishers, they now have something to do that keeps them seated at their table. Such a difference today!

Weekly Substack Update: October Edition TLDR: BreakoutEDU adjustments, AI Image Spotting, new unique YA books, and more

Finally a weekly substack! Took me long enough! Lol. #tlsky open.substack.com/pub/jenzthel...

On my way to AASL National Conference with a small detour into Seattle first, but we're on our way now!

Weekly Library Recap 10/6 - 10/11 TLDR: Recap of past TWO weeks, Noodletools PD, Halloween fun, lots of new book releases

My weekly substack is up! This week we talk Noodletools and Halloween displays! jenzthelibrarian.substack.com/p/weekly-lib...

The best Chromebook organization I've ever had.

Today I did this awesome "Curate a Shelf" activity, and it was quite the success! More about the activity in my substack this week!

Weekly Library Recap 9/15 - 9/19 TLDR: Frustrations of pushing into classrooms, Classroom Screen, a horror and fantasy book to keep and eye out for

Weekly Substack is up!
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Register for this amazing professional development today! CSLA Annual Conference is my favorite PD of the year!
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No substack this week because I just ran out of time as I went down the rabbit hole on a couple of projects!

But here's one of the projects I was working on! Check out my teacher librarian booking template that syncs automatically with Google Calendar. :-) Have a great weekend!

I created a Librarian booking template to integrate with Google Calendar (using an app script) that will help you book classes more easily! I include an instructional video. No need to pay for some calendar service anymore! Here's one for FREE! ourlivelylibrary.weebly.com/librarian-re...

Weekly Library Recap 8/25 - 8/29 TLDR: Independent reading with freshmen and sophomores, lateral reading lessons, new books coming this week and next!

New substack for the week is up! Independent Reading sessions and lateral reading lessons! open.substack.com/pub/jenzthel...

Today I am doing a Genre Spotlight on Fantasy books with our advanced sophomores, and I can't WAIT to talk about my favorite genre with them. We're going to cover themes commonly found in fantasy and a few subgenres of fantasy! #librarian #library #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #librarians

Sometimes I forget that if I book talk "older" books that have been around for a bit, they will become popular again! Here's a perfect example!

Welcome back to the 25/26 school year! TLDR: AI book talk assistance, Book Scout+, and using Genially to create a virtual booshelf

I'm back doing the substack for this school year! While I try to do these weekly, the next will come out two weeks from now because the beginning of the year is CRAZY! open.substack.com/pub/jenzthel...

See all of my book trailers in a playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

YouTube video by Jennifer Zimny The Cheerleaders

New book trailer for my book talks! I've always wanted a longer book trailer for The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-3j...

Librarian Resources On this page, you will find resources I use behind the scenes at a teacher librarian with those pesky nitty-gritty little details we have to do in our job. I hope you find the resources helpful as...

Welcome back everyone! On my website I have a lot of resources, but in particular the librarian resources page has great stuff for the beginning of the year! ourlivelylibrary.weebly.com/librarian-re...

Library Weekly recap 5/12 - 5/16 - Last recap of the year! TLDR: EOY Book Recs with Padlet, R&J AI Images, Automating image insertion from Forms to Slides, and LAST SUBSTACK FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR!

I forgot to send out my weekly substack on Friday, so here's a Monday treat for everyone! The last one of the year! But it's packed with some goodies. . . .
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Library Weekly recap: 5/5 - 5/9 TLDR: AI Image Lesson, creating instructional videos using my own voice in an AI voiceover, a big release read that disappointed

Only one more weekly Substack until the end of the year! SO CLOSE!

Weekly recap 4/22 - 4/25 TLDR: CDE Library Survey, 6 word book talks, and a couple of romance books --- one a miss, one perhaps a hit?

Weekly substack is back! jenzthelibrarian.substack.com/p/weekly-rec...

Weekly recap 4/7 - 4/11 TLDR: Media Literacy lessons, Six Word Book Talks, and being assaulted by the teenagers for the third book in the Powerless series!

And with that I'm OUTTA HERE! Spring break here I come! No new substack this next week! I'll be back in 2 weeks! open.substack.com/pub/jenzthel...

Can you figure out our brain teaser?
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