Category Archives: News

Congratulations to Lilead Fellow Jennifer Sturge for being awarded the Maryland Society for Educational Technology’s Outstanding Leader Using Technology award for 2019! You can find out more information about her award here.

Make sure you listen to Lilead Mentor Dr. Ann Ewbank who recorded a virtual podcast interview focused on her experience as a school librarian and libraries advocate, advocacy researcher, and her recently published book Political Advocacy for School Librarians: Leveraging … Continue reading →

Congratulations to all of the Lilead Fellows on their recent ALA elections! Suzanna Panter was elected as Supervisors Section rep to the AASL Board, Jenny Takeda was elected as Supervisors Secretary, and Laura Hicks was elected as an at-large member … Continue reading →

Make sure to check out Lilead Fellow Stephanie Ham’s podcast Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: A podcast for Future Ready Librarians. They are on Sound Cloud, Apple Podcast and Google Play. Take a listen, share with your librarians … Continue reading →

Lilead Fellow Suzanna Panter produced 7 videos of her teacher librarians explaining the 6 shared foundations of the AASL standards and how they relate to their library programs. Make sure to check out this awesome resource here!  

Congratulations to Lilead Fellow Carolyn Foote for Receiving the AASL Collaborative School Library Award. “The project, Art History Independent Study, was a collaboration between Foote and Westlake’s art history teacher, Melinda Darrow. Together, Foote and Darrow took two groups of … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Lilead Fellow Kelly Miller who recorded a virtual podcast interview focused on evidence-based practice. Kelly’s interview also promotes the Lilead EBP Leader Course. You can listen to the podcast here.

Congratulations to Lilead Fellow Susan Gauthier for receiving an AASL Innovative Reading Grant! “Gauthier’s project, Animal Advocates: Every Animal Has a Story to Tell, is designed to increase reading comprehension, but also to ignite and sustain third- and fourth-grade students’ … Continue reading →

Congrats to Lilead Fellows Kerry Townsend, Lynn Johnson, Stephanie Luyt, Katie Salmela, and Misi Werle on your recent article “Empowered, Enabled, and Equipped through Professional Collaboration.” You can find a preview of their article in the photo below.

Congratulations to Lilead team members Jeff and Christie and Lilead Fellow Kerry Townsend for presenting Transforming PD Through School Library Leadership at SXSW EDU. Lilead Fellow Carolyn Foote also presented Reinvention: Designing Future Ready Libraries and Lilead Mentor Kafi Kumasi presented on the Panel … Continue reading →