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Our October discussion is the start of a 3-month journey where we will be reading and discussing Focus on Inquiry - A teachers guide to implementing inquiry-based learning . If you want to be remi

Please buy and read a copy of Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley. Copies may be borrowed from the SLA CPD library if you are a member. Take a look at this webinar too which was recorded in

ResearchEd Presentation - Daniel Willingham - Helping Students to think critically about internet sources. Watch the presentation and I will post questions at the beginning of July

Please listen to the following 20 min recording by clicking on the picture below. This talk is about hate speech and misinformation across social media and the importance of digital literacy. The ques

Digital Literacy Unpacked by Katherine Reedy. See questions below in the comments... Check this out before you buy! If you are a member of the SLA please check their CPD Library as you may be ab

Time to get your brain back in gear for the new year. Questions out now! Please see comments below... This ISTE School Librarians / EveryLibrary webinar is designed to give you insights on what you ca

Take a look at this TED talk below and answer the questions. Join in our discussion when you can. Own Your Behaviours, Master Your Communication, Determine Your Success | Louise Evans

Dive into Inquiry as our first book of the school year. Hopefully it will get you thinking about different ways you can support teachers when they have a research topic to teach. Take a look at the qu

Our final discussion in this series is from Excerpt 8 — The Problem for Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: The Need to Accept a Paradigm Shift. Unfortunately the link to the free chapters seems t

Our April book is Hacking School Libraries by Kristina A Holzweiss and Stony Evans. Over the last few months we have been reading this book. Please join in the conversation and add your thoughts in

Over the next four months, we will be reading Focus on Inquiry: A teachers guide to implementing inquiry-based learning by Dr Jennifer Branch-Mueller and Dr Dianne Oberg It is FREE to download here

Please buy a copy of this book from the SLA before June in order to take part in the discussion. It costs £15 for none members and £11 for members. A discount of 5% will be given to anyone joining i

We are reading and discussing chapter 3 of Copyright and e-learning: A guide for practitioners which looks at Using Digital Media, Videos, Images, Sound and Software Chapter 3 can be accessed here

I will create individual discussions for everything coming up but here is the plan for the next few months... If you would like access to the recordings of any of my webinars that you may have missed

Watch this TEDx talk and I will post questions in February... Think about how school librarians can support this process...

I know we are all busy at this time of year so I wanted to give you a space to share something that you find useful for your own CPD. Do you regularly listen to a podcast? Do you have a favourite Yout

After listening to the attached podcast please join in our discussion below. Join in when you can...

Elsevier offered free chapters of professional books for you to download . This one is Facing contemporary challenges in librarianship and whilst it is not directly related to school librarians I th

Elsevier are offering free chapters of professional books for you to download . This one is Facing contemporary challenges in librarianship and whilst it is not directly related to school librarians

Having now moved my book club to my website I did not want to lose the previous discussions so here is a link to all the other books and articles we have discussed. The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Mill