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Summary: Assessment helps students learn and is a powerful tool for advocacy, making it a crucial part of any school librarian's position. This workshop kit will equip you with the materials to enable your librarians, at every level, to realize the power of assessment and build the skills to implemnt it in their libraries.

Summary: Implementing the everyday considerations of copyright law is a responsibility that falls to librarians for reasons both practical—librarians engage with or know about much of a school community's use of information in all formats—and professional, in that appropriate, ethical use and attribution of intellectual property are hallmarks of professional standards and principles of librarianship. Even so, learning to navigate copyright, model best practices in copyright law and fair use, and teach the school community about these guidelines can be a confusing and even intimidating undertaking for school librarians. In this professional development kit, we ease that fear by equipping school librarians with key understandings, practical examples, and resources to consult for further information.

Summary: Inquiry invites students into complex, authentic, and engaging experiences in the school library, from pondering questions posed in a read-aloud, to learning to switch gears or reframe a question upon finding unexpected information, to problem solving real-life scenarios with a team. This materials in this kit will help you facilitate a meaningful PD series on inquiry with your librarians.

Summary: 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.

Summary: Engaging in a process of evidence-based practice (EBP) empowers school librarians to demonstrate impact on student learning and achievement, experiences and growth in collaborative teaching, and contributions to the school community at large. In this PD Kit, Rebecca Morris provides all the materials you need to help your librarians learn how to apply EBP in their library.

Summary: 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.