Vision for the Future: Reflecting on the Process
If Literacy is the Foundation of a Free Society, then the Library Provides the Building Blocks: My Vision for the Future Over the past nine years I have noticed a downslide in overall literacy. What I expected the majority of my grade 6 students to produce during my first year as a teacher was much more than I expect of my students now. You would think that I have grown in capacity as a teacher, and perhaps this is true; however, students in 2022 have many more challenges to overcome than the students of 2013. Classrooms are overrun with distraction machines--cell phones--and the global pandemic drastically interrupted learning socially, emotionally, and physically. As Shannon Miller McClintock and Willian Bass suggest in the text Leading from the Library, even prior to the pandemic students and teachers faced pressure “to get through content while designing engaging learning experiences, demonstrating growth in skills and knowledge, and apply...
