Mrs. Lauren R. Schultz, MLIS, M.Ed., NBCT

Mrs. Lauren Schultz is the National Board Certified Media Coordinator at Independence High School.  She teaches AP Research - the second course in the AP Capstone program,  and provides instructional support across all content areas and grade levels.  She is certified to teach Library Media K-12 and Academically Gifted K-12.

Originally from Connecticut, she moved to Charlotte in 2012. Mrs. Schultz has a Bachelor's Degree in Middle East Studies and Political Science from Fordham University, a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master's of Education in Special Education & Child Development: Academically or Intellectually Gifted from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  In 2024, she received her Certification in Holocaust Pedagogy (CHP) from the Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Education Center at Queens University of Charlotte.

In 2013, Mrs. Schultz was named a NCSLMA Emerging Leader, and since 2014, she has been a Digital Leader with the North Carolina Digital Leaders Coaching Network (NCDLCN) at NC State's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  In 2016, she became a fellow with the School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning (SLASL) initiative with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, and in 2018, she became a Re-Imagining Migration Fellow with UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and Harvard University's Project Zero.   She was named Independence High School's Teacher of the Year 2015-16, and she was the 2016 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools  Media Coordinator of the Year.  In 2017, she received the Promising Pages Bookie Award for Best Librarian in the Charlotte region.  She lives in Mint Hill with her husband and her two children. 

Email: laurenr.schultz@cms.k12.nc.us

Phone: (980) 343-6900

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