School districts across the state of Ohio are designing and creating Extended Learning Plans to elevate student success and accelerate learning by designing and creating various opportunities like lengthening the current school year, adding time to instructional days, offering more tutoring opportunities, or creating summer learning activities and experiences.

Part of this plan requires districts to share the resources and partnerships that will be included in their plan. Let INFOhio, Ohio's PreK-12 digital library, be your school district's partner as you accelerate student learning. INFOhio offers a variety of PreK-12 digital learning resources at no cost to Ohio's students, educators, and parents that can support literacy skills across the Language and Literacy Development Continuum. 

New high-quality writing instructional materials have been added to Open Space. These interactive writing lessons and activities are appropriate for grades 6-12 and have been provided by Quill, a nonprofit organization who's mission is to help all students become strong writers and critical thinkers. 

Check out INFOhio's Monday Mini Lessons to support educators in integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching. INFOhio will be featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality digital content. Learn more about this series and how to stay informed. 

On March 1, Fetch, the new INFOhio Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), was made available to all libraries that currently use INFOhio’s library services platform.

New high-quality instructional materials have been added to Open Space. These STEM lessons and extension activities are appropriate for grades K-6 and have been provided by the Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative and Hamilton County ESC. 

Monday Mini Lessons Model Remote Teaching Best Practices

February's Monday Mini Lesson incorporates World Book Kids into a blended learning environment to increase student engagement. To support educators integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching, INFOhio is featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality digital content. This mini lesson will be of interest to teachers who work with elementary students. 

Read all about the new updates to World Book Early Learning, World Book Kids, World Book Student, and World Book Advanced!

A new professional development learning pathway has been developed to learn more about BLUEcloud, SirsiDynix's next-generation library services platform. Complete this pathway and earn up to 16.5 contact hours.

Research 4 Success incorporates blended learning approaches to instruction as each module uses videos, digital texts, and interactive learning resources along with print-based options to grow and develop research and inquiry skills.  From dissecting the research question to locating and evaluating information, let's examine how Research 4 Success can be used to build critical thinking skills in students whether you are teaching face-to-face, hybrid, or remote. 

Monday Mini Lessons Model Remote Teaching Best Practices

January's Monday Mini Lesson incorporates Science Online into a blended learning environment to increase student engagement. To support educators integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching, INFOhio is featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality digital content. This mini lesson will be of interest to teachers who work with high school students. 

Monday Mini Lessons Model Remote Teaching Best Practices

December's Monday Mini Lesson is all about giving the gift of literacy through the use of a Bitmoji classroom. To support educators integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching, INFOhio is featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality, digital content. This mini lesson is for all teachers wanting to inspire the joy and interest in reading and literacy.

Monday Mini Lessons Model Remote Teaching Best Practices

November is all about bringing inquiry into the classroom in INFOhio's Monday Mini Lessons. To support educators integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching, INFOhio will be featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality digital content. This mini lesson will be of interest to teachers who work with secondary students. 

In the years before the internet became the first place everyone began their research, school and academic librarians spent countless hours teaching students from elementary school through graduate school how to read newspaper articles and magazines critically, looking for bias or political leaning. It's not enough to teach students to read for bias anymore. Even many college students have difficulty determining whether what they're looking at on the screen is a personal website, a newspaper article published by a reputable news source, an opinion piece in an academic journal, or a research study. Now, along with helping students understand the differences between information sources and examining them for bias, we must help students figure out if the information sources they've found online are even real.

Monday Mini Lessons Model Remote Teaching Best Practices

November's Monday Mini Lessons are all about inquiry. To support educators integrating digital content into instruction and remote teaching, INFOhio is featuring a series of videos that showcase best practices for remote teaching using INFOhio's high-quality digital content. This mini lesson will be of interest to teachers who work with primary students.