Today’s educational landscape of high-stakes content testing, accountability measures, and other factors continue to provide challenges for the school library community in particular. How can ALL librarians come together to be a voice for more equitable opportunities for our clients in the current educational and political climate? How can we compile evidence of the invaluable impact that all librarians have with our stakeholders? What is the best bang for our buck in a world where there is so much we hope to accomplish?
Come join us this half-day session to learn strategies that will help you succeed becoming an essential and valued member of your staff. Join us to explore ways to maximize and prioritize your work. Learn more about messaging strategies and ways to engage your library community stakeholders. Walk away with an action plan that will help you…and your community…survive and thrive now and into the future!
Learning outcomes:- Attendees will learn strategies for strategically collecting data and how to share this data with different stakeholders.Attendees will learn how share compelling, data-based stories that are constituent-based rather than librarian-based.
- Learners will identify beginning steps of an action plan for advocacy.
