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"Building a facilitated professional development (PD) opportunity for teachers to work together curating content is a way to provide collaborative learning while also collecting viable, aligned materials."

A great example of taking regular teacher librarian practice - curating resources - to a higher level to demonstrate leadership. This is a good example of servant leadership showing how to leverage good practice to not only build Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) but to deliver high quality content with annotations that will increase the skills and educational competence of your network. In a school, you would aim to have all your staff members of that PLN.

Learn about content curation tools such as Diigo and how you might use them.

A curated collection of resources on educational leadership via The Advocate.

A curated collection of Edvocate articles on school libraries and 21 century trends and ways to keep libraries vibrant and relevant

Teacher-librarians at VPS (Vancouver Public Schools) play a crucial role in this digital transformation and other strategic initiatives. As a result, they are expanding their role to spend more time in the classroom, curating digital content and lesson plans with teachers, teaching digital citizenship to students, and even emerging as technology experts within their schools.

"As digital devices become more common in classrooms, teachers and students are discovering that what worked in the analog world may not be as effective in the digital one. "