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    6 resources to make teaching health literacy easier.
    Elizabeth
    • Apr 9
    • 3 min

    6 resources to make teaching health literacy easier.

    Listen to our Twitter Spaces Chat # LSLLTS to find out how important health literacy is...
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    Reflective Practice or Down a Rabbit Hole!
    Elizabeth
    • Feb 10
    • 4 min

    Reflective Practice or Down a Rabbit Hole!

    Reflective practice for school librarians. Why is it so important?
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    An Extraordinary Journey: FOSIL (Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning)
    Elizabeth
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 19 min

    An Extraordinary Journey: FOSIL (Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning)

    An interview with the founder of FOSIL (Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning). Tracking his journey from 2011 to where we are today.
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    Aspirational and inspirational school librarians
    Elizabeth
    • Jul 27, 2020
    • 5 min

    Aspirational and inspirational school librarians

    Where does the journey to school librarianship start? FOSIL and IFLA are my focal point are they yours?
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    School Librarians using inquiry to engage teachers across the curriculum
    Elizabeth
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    School Librarians using inquiry to engage teachers across the curriculum

    Are you a school librarian who wants to teach research skills across the curriculum but don't know how to get started? This might be for you
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    Time and budget-saving School Librarians
    Elizabeth
    • Dec 15, 2019
    • 4 min

    Time and budget-saving School Librarians

    Want to know how can your school library save you time and money? Digital literacy, resources and expert support.
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    Our children need us! 4 survival tips for school librarians
    Elizabeth
    • Nov 3, 2019
    • 8 min

    Our children need us! 4 survival tips for school librarians

    School librarians bringing their expertise to education and the curriculum and helping our schools understand our value.
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    Blindingly obvious! Digital literacy starts in the school Library
    Elizabeth
    • Sep 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Blindingly obvious! Digital literacy starts in the school Library

    Why schools should be using their school library catalogue to start their students digital literacy journey.
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    Time for change. Training, Advising and more...
    Elizabeth
    • Aug 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Time for change. Training, Advising and more...

    It is time to move on. The plans are to spend more time with family but engage in the wider world of libraries as a trainer and advisor.
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    A teacher has asked for your help: Now what do you do?
    Elizabeth
    • Jul 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    A teacher has asked for your help: Now what do you do?

    A simple guide for school librarians on those first steps to co-teaching research skills.
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    LILAC 2019: The Information Literacy Conference for librarians
    Elizabeth
    • Apr 28, 2019
    • 11 min

    LILAC 2019: The Information Literacy Conference for librarians

    Having just come home from 3 very intensive days of learning, collaborating, sharing and networking I am exhausted. However, I feel it is...
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    Looking to the future through our school libraries
    Elizabeth
    • Mar 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    Looking to the future through our school libraries

    I was really lucky to land a job at Newcastle City Libraries as a library assistant straight from school at 16. I had always enjoyed...
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    Breaking News! Look what happens when teachers work with the School Librarian!
    Elizabeth
    • Jan 19, 2019
    • 11 min

    Breaking News! Look what happens when teachers work with the School Librarian!

    As a librarian who works with schools I am constantly having to find different ways to engage teachers. Whether it is letting them know...
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    Every School needs a school library
    Elizabeth
    • Nov 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Every School needs a school library

    "Teaching was never meant to be a do it yourself job and the school librarian is there to support you and your students so next time...
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    Learning and sharing #pracped18
    Elizabeth
    • Nov 8, 2018
    • 5 min

    Learning and sharing #pracped18

    As I sat in the hall at St Georges school, Cologne, ready to hear Hywel Roberts open the Practical Pedagogies conference I turned to the...
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    School librarians engaging parental support
    Elizabeth
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 5 min

    School librarians engaging parental support

    Number 3 Parental involvement in reading and research from home. Back in October 2017 I wrote a blog entitled School librarians helping...
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    School Librarians starting the year with a locked box...
    Elizabeth
    • Sep 4, 2018
    • 3 min

    School Librarians starting the year with a locked box...

    Number 2 in my series of blog post will look at how school librarians are starting the year with a bang. Sharing ideas that I have worked...
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    End of year report: 6 ways to work with your school librarian.
    Elizabeth
    • Jul 17, 2018
    • 6 min

    End of year report: 6 ways to work with your school librarian.

    With only just over a week to go to the end of yet another school year it's time to look back and write my annual report. This year has...