For 2021-22, we are excited to offer a new opportunity:  the School Library Mini-Institute!

This program is designed to provide interested school librarians the opportunity to build knowledge and leadership skills through a series of five face-to-face workshops throughout the school year.  In addition, participants will connect and network with a cohort of school librarians from the NEFLIN region.

Led by Dr. Christopher Harris, the overall theme of this Institute is Leadership and Rebuilding Post-Covid School Libraries.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, school libraries across the country made changes to procedures, spaces, and instructional practices out of necessity. Across the many models of in-person, hybrid, and remote instruction adopted by districts around the country, there were even more models for school librarians and the services they provide. It is essential that we take time after the immediate pressure of the pandemic emergency to reflect, understand, and evaluate those modified practices. In fact, Dr. Harris and the School Library System of the Genesee Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services have recently been awarded a National Leadership Grant for Libraries to lead four national forums on this topic.  

Download more details about this program, including detailed session descriptions.

Questions?  Email Jenny Eason at jenny@neflin.org. 

Topic One:  Program Development

Friday, October 15th

Topic Two:  Instructional Leadership

Topic Four:  Community Engagement

Topic Five:  Systemic Playfulness