TL Projects and Coordinators

Project Summaries and TL coordinators

1. Equity of access to digital resources

  • One elementary website - elibrary.sd61.bc.ca

  • See links to all middle and secondary library sites here - https://learn.sd61.bc.ca/student-digital-resources/

  • Middle Level Websites

    • Middle school website have many coordinate common pages, and addition customization for school communities

  • Secondary Level websites

    • Research toolkit is coordinated, and staff resources, with the rest being customized to the school community

  • FRIMM Middle Level Library Site - Under construction

TL Coordinators / Contacts

High: Geoff Orme / Selena Jensen

Middle: Hannah Abbott and Katherine O'Connor

Elem: Ben Koning, Travis Richey


2. Destiny Taskforce

  • Provide support and leadership for the use of Destiny Catalogue, Destiny Discover, and collections

  • Work with ITL to give our students and staff as best of experience as possible

TL coordinators / Contacts:

High: Geoff Orme

Middle: John Weston

Elem: Robin Van Gessel


3. Mentorship Network and ProD

  • Provide a network of support across schools for teacher librarians through mentorship

  • Provide leadership across schools in the transformation of libraries through targeted Professional Development

TL coordinators / Contacts:

High: Geoff Orme

Middle: Darinka Popovic

Elem: Metthea Maddern, Caitlin Baker, Natalie McIlmoyle

Decolonizing Libraries - Webinar Series - Save the Date!

  • TBA


4. Focused Educational Resources (formerly ERAC)

  • Coordination and communication of resources, both digital and print, made available through Focused Education

  • Membership, education and curriculum resources, K-12 resource evaluation, including Aboriginal Resources

  • Attend IT4K12 Conference Nov 19-20 a bring back resources for TLs and staffs to share

TL coordinators / Contacts:

High: Geoff Orme

Middle: Darinka Popovic

Elem: Terrence Lim, Kathy Inglis


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5.Team and Framework for Diversity Scan and library collections

  • Coordination and beginning the work

  • Build a framework to support in a diversity audit of our library collections

TL Coordinators/Contacts:

  • Reps for each level:

    • Elementary - Caitlin Baker cbaker@sd61.bc.ca

    • Middle - Katherine O’Connor koconnor@sd61.bc.ca

    • Secondary - Disha Garcha dgarcha@sd61.bc.ca


6. Maker Grants in Elementary with Pathways and Partnerships

https://careers.sd61.bc.ca/sitemap/maker-grant/

contact Bonnie Alexander for further information