Description

Evidence is a compelling platform for advocacy. While innovative school librarians possess sophisticated training, knowledge, expertise, and pedagogical skills, these qualities take on transformational value when substantiated by data. This session’s facilitator will share replicable strategies for generating, collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and sharing student learning evidence resulting from inquiry instruction. Participants will leave with access to valuable instructional materials.

Learning Objectives:

• Collect meaningful data that measures the impact of inquiry instruction on student learning.
• Interpret and organize data to generate powerful stories that document the relationship between librarian teaching and student learning.
• Curate and effectively present findings to highlight the library program’s value to students.

Speaker(s):

• Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School