Reb Kreyling
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I've been telling stories since I learned to talk and writing them for as long as I can remember. Now I'm also doing content for librarians. Find me on Facebook!
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Parts of my Library Planner
This one is a long one, but I hope it helps some librarians (or anyone). Once you’ve purchased your planner materials, you need something to go inside it. I honestly feel that what goes in your planner is personal and needs to be tailored to what you’ll use. While you can find many teacher planners, when I searched for school librarian planners, I found only four. Although one is only 12.50, you would have to print and assemble it yourself. A second one is almost thirty dollars and also has to be printed and assembled yourself. A third is mass produced through Amazon and doesn’t have everything I would want. Finally there’s the Demco planner. While I agree that it looks like a fantastic purchase, I just cannot justify spending that much money on a planner that I’m only going to use for one year. For all the librarians that do purchase it, I hope you enjoy it. I might invest in it one year just to see what the fuss is about. For now, I’ll continue to use the one I’ve been developing and customizing for the last two years.
By Reb Kreylingabout 2 hours ago in Education
Family Obligations Chapter 3
Memories flowed back as Cole walked down the corridor. He'd had good reasons for leaving, but he couldn't deny that he had some good memories, too. He found his feet moving automatically towards his father’s quarters. Even before he left, his mother had had her own quarters, but he knew she wouldn’t be there now. She’d left not long after him and he had no idea where she was now. But that was not his concern right now. He was here for his father.
By Reb Kreyling7 days ago in Fiction
Family Obligations Chapter Two
Cole took a deep breath through his nose as he exited the portal behind Davin, his daughter secure on his hip. The smell of home soaked into his pores and he could feel himself relax minutely. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see his daughter turning her head from side to side as she tried to take everything in. She tugged gently on his beard, something that made him smile since that had been what she’d done as a baby when they’d fallen asleep together. “Daddy,” she said in what he was sure she thought was a whisper, “is this Santa?”
By Reb Kreyling14 days ago in Chapters
Hosting a Book Fair
How many of you remember the “best week ever!” from when you were a child? Book fairs were the staple of many of our childhoods with Scholastic leading the way. While there are many choices for book fairs today and I absolutely want to talk about them, that’s going to be a later article.
By Reb Kreyling21 days ago in Education
Goals for 2026
With 2026 starting, many people are making resolutions. I’m not a huge fan of the word resolutions because I feel like that sets you up for failure. Every year that I’ve written resolutions, I haven’t worked on them past January. When I am ready to do my monthly goals, I use those yearly ones to develop the new ones. At the end of each month, I evaluate how I’ve done and make my goals for the next month. So instead of resolutions this year, I wrote up my goals for the year and then for January.
By Reb Kreylingabout a month ago in Motivation
Read Across the States
During the month of March, we had a literacy night at my school. This year it was scheduled for March 14 (aka Pie Day) so the rooms were almost split between reading and mathematics. In the library, I decided to do a “Read Across the States” activity.
By Reb Kreyling2 months ago in Education
Making Guess Whats
Every year around Thanksgiving, I pull the Kitchen Aid to the front of my counter and get to work. The smells of chocolate chips, snickerdoodles, and various other sweet scents fill my kitchen and my house. But my favorite cookies to make don’t involve more than a large bowl, a measuring cup, and a few ingredients.
By Reb Kreyling2 months ago in Humans
My First GLMA Experience
In June 2025, I attended my very first convention as a librarian. It was fantastic and inspiring and chaotic. There was so much going on that I felt like I didn’t take it all in, but I’m really glad that I went. I will definitely do some things differently than I did this year and I’ll do some things the same.
By Reb Kreyling2 months ago in Education
