April is National Poetry Month. Shower your students with INFOhio's quality digital content to support Ohio's Learning Standards. Let rhythm and rhyme downpour in your spring classroom!

Spring is here! The sun is shining, new growth is sprouting, and warmer temperatures are right around the corner. Celebrate spring with eBooks, videos, and activities from INFOhio that will engage students and revitalize your classroom. 

In honor of Youth Art Month, let’s explore a variety of eBooks for art teachers to help engage and excite art students. The arts can be a powerful tool to motivate reluctant readers, helping them engage with text and broaden their reading skills. Art teachers rely on text; fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction, to help inform and inspire students. Research and inquiry are an integral part of visual art education.  

March is Women's History Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio support knowledge-building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions made by trailblazing women. 

GenYES Ohio is a resource collection and project-tracking platform that prepares Ohio students to become Student Technology Leaders (STLs) through technology-infused leadership instructional materials. With these resources, teachers can support a variety of classes and topics from STEM and makerspaces, to industrial arts and student-supported help desks.

February is Black History Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio support knowledge building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions of African Americans.

Start off the new year using a collaborative, teacher-driven approach to professional learning. Communities of practice are formed by individuals with a common problem or interest who come together to fulfill goals. Online or in person, these communities focus on sharing best practices and building knowledge. These organic groups present opportunities for deeper connections and lasting support. With more than 800 professional learning eBooks and videos available from INFOhio, there are many topics educators can learn more about with a group of like-minded peers. 

Teaching media literacy is essential in our connected world. INFOhio has quality content and resources to help you provide the lessons students need to become critical thinkers who can evaluate media and apply that learning in their every day lives. Here are four ways to teach media literacy every day with resources from INFOhio.

For more than 25 years, INFOhio has provided educators and students with high-quality instructional materials. As we approach a new year, let's look back and reflect on 2024. This year, educators, students, and families, from all 88 counties across Ohio, used resources from INFOhio.

There are many ways to encourage students to read. Book clubs and choice boards are just a couple of ways to give students a voice in their reading selection and reading books aloud is engaging and can be tied to instruction. In this second blog in the Adventures in eBooks series find out how to use eBooks to motivate students.

Winter is the season of ice and snow, but it also includes celebrations to light a fire of learning. Count on INFOhio for engaging digital resources to explore history, culture, science, and creativity with your students to warm up your classroom. 

Honoring how families engage in literacy is empowering for them and important for student growth. Ohio families can find what they need to celebrate literacy from INFOhio. INFOhio purchases and licenses quality digital content– eBooks, videos, articles, and printables–available at no cost to Ohio’s schools and families. In the darkest time of the year, make family literacy a bright spot with INFOhio.

Once you have worked in your library for a little while, it’s time to consider building and maintaining your collection so that it is up-to-date, accurate, and relevant for students and teachers.      

Explore careers that match student interest with these Career Cluster choice boards.