Donna Cross and Leanne Lester from the University of Western Australia discuss 10 key strategies to enhance student transition to secondary school. The article on transition is important because the library has a significant role to play here, at all levels of education. Consider how TLs in both primrary and secondary sectors can actively plan to bridge the move.
Buffy Hamilton shares a pre-research strategy employed with Year 11 students and demonstrates how the TL can undertake a lead role in curriculum planning and delivery around information literacy and inquiry.
TLs as thought leaders and design leaders - considering diversity, representation and inclusion in our resources, our space design, our patrons and ourselves.
Interesting article, around the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, about conspiracy theories and fake news, and how people get caught up in them. As TLs we are often in a role of teaching digital literacy and combating fake news is a part of that.
I think that skills in networking are vital for TLs as leaders - networking and advocacy being highly related. Here are some tips for those of us not naturally inclined to the process.