For more than a year, educators, school librarians, and administrators have been reacting and adapting to the challenges caused by COVID-19. Last spring, Gale, a Cengage Company, and the American Library Association partnered to rejuvenate Gale’s best practices for school librarians’ guide. For this Agents of Change 2.0 paper, ALA spoke to educators and administrators working through the crisis and surveyed more than 500 school librarians about their processes and points of view.
On this bonus episode, sponsored by Gale, Maggie Reagan, senior editor, books for youth at Booklist, talks with Jessica Klinker, head librarian at Franklin Heights High School in Columbus, Ohio—one of the librarians whose feedback helped shape the Agents of Change 2.0 paper. They discuss her experiences working during the pandemic, the pandemic’s effect on students, the importance of social-emotional learning, and more.
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