I feel like I’ve been working up to this year’s action plan for quite a while. In some way, the majority of my past plans have come at the issue it is designed to address, in different ways. Information literacy instruction in Grade 9, leveraging learning partnerships, and increasing my use of feedback in one-shot […]
The focus of my Cohort 21 Action Plan last year had to do with utilizing feedback in one-shot library instruction. That was one way of addressing a problem I was seeing for my students — the problem being, in short, that they didn’t have the background or understanding of the research process they needed to […]
The focus for my Action Plan this year came to me as I was trying, and failing, to make a class of Grade 10 students laugh at my joke about the CRAAP test. I had been asked by the course leader for biology to teach a lesson about finding reliable internet sources for the students’ […]
I feel so grateful to be returning to Cohort 21 as a coach again this year. It’s my third year in this role – @gnichols once called me a “wily veteran” – and I’m so looking forward to tackling a new area of my practice in this year’s Action Plan. Sometimes there’s no better way […]
I began this school year with a fresh perspective on my school’s library, keen to think big about library advocacy and design. My goal was to increase my ability to advocate for the library as a learning space of central importance in our school community. I wanted to make sure people were aware of our […]
My #goals this year seem modest, even to me. I am so excited to be back as a part of Cohort 21, coaching for the second time, but to be honest my goal for the start of the school year has been finding the new normal. I’m back from maternity leave and settling into a […]