PD Kits
School librarians are teachers and instructional partners, leaders and collaborators. Although it can be a challenge to parse a school librarian's administrative duties from the instructional, here, the focus is the teaching role. What are opportunities for school librarians to strengthen their teaching, revamp a comfortable approach, or maybe work toward more inventive or intentional instruction in a new area? This professional development kit highlights a curated selection of strategies for teaching inquiry, facilitating students' critical thinking and creativity, and assessing student learning. From the innovative to the tried-and-true, we've cultivated expert guidance for your librarians to teach in ways that motivate, inspire, and connect with their students.
This PD kit provides a framework and suggested resources for reflecting upon, learning about, and implementing components of effective library instruction and services for young people of the global majority. However, it is critically important for SLC, and for facilitators and supervisors of professional development, to recognize that there is no handy solution or simple training that "fully" equips school librarians to understand, practice, and lead efforts toward equity and anti-bias in their libraries and schools. To be culturally competent in one's life and in one's school library practice is an ongoing process of critical self-reflection, empathizing, learning, relationship-building and taking action.
