This module offers school principals and school librarians the opportunity to build and strengthen understanding and skills toward collaborative instruction with the school librarian and classroom faculty. This module is also appropriate for graduate candidates in school leadership and/or school librarian programs.This module is based on the British University learning model. In England, Small groups of learners meet once a week with a "tutor" - AKA professor to discuss relevant topics, share their work, submit assignments and get feedback. While the faculty suggests resources, learners are expected to conduct research to find their own. This model is especially applicable to school library and school principal candidates who need to build research skills for on-going professional development in the field. Librarians, of course, always need to hone their research skills.Like the British model, learning for this program is largely self-guided. Resources are provided for the learner to develop expertise demonstrated in three major assignments: a white paper, a tri-fold pamphlet, and an analysis of a case study.Candidates must demonstrate and justify competence in targeted ISLLC and ALA Standards to successfully complete the module. This competence is assessed by a rubric used by the candidate for self-assessment and by faculty for performance assessment .Because the learning for this module is largely self-guided, faculty needs to be available for consultation through regularly scheduled office hours and email. The goal of this consultation is to provide coaching and explanation. Faculty will use the Discussion Board Task as formative assessment to guide facilitated instruction and coaching. Summative assessment is demonstrated by the three artifacts produced in the module.

The School Librarian Program at Granite State College is based on the foundational belief that school librarians are essential, integral and transformational leaders.  The program focuses on preparing school librarians as catalysts for school change and learning for the digital age.  In addition to developing the requisite skill sets and knowledge base needed to perform at top levels, there is a focus on the development of dispositions and attitudes such as initiative, creativity, self-direction, resilience, flexibility and intellectual curiosity which are crucial in assisting learning communities to engage in continuous improvement, innovation and reflective practice.  The program emphasizes the convergence of these dispositions,  skills, knowledge and understandings in order for candidates to achieve and succeed with a strategic plan for schools to ramp up and redesign school library media programs to provide the requisite, robust environment and intentional opportunities for meaningful student engagement with content, ideas, information and technology.This module is intended to be completed over the course of a 12-week semester and is designed to develop understanding about becoming a more effective school library leader within the evolving contexts of the digital age – especially related to the assessment of leadership dispositions and competencies needed to ramp up and redesign school library programs to provide the robust, flexible environments and intentional opportunities for meaningful student and teacher engagement with OER content, ideas, information and technology. The module addresses five areas of focus — preparation (2 weeks), planning (2 weeks), organizational strategy and change (3 weeks), transformational learning (3 weeks) and reflection/synthesis (2 week).

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, September 6, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy, and project-related issues. This meeting concerned reflecting on student work and incorporating teacher-librarian reflections into their authored unit on inquiry.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, September 20, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy, and project-related issues. This meeting concerned reflecting on student work and incorporating teacher-librarian reflections into their authored unit on inquiry.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, supported by IMLS, and in partnership with Granite State College, NH, meets with Year 2 Faculty Fellows and the project team, September 21, 2016, to focus on new draft modules and providing feedback toward final publishing of the OER modules for school librarian education.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, supported by IMLS, and in partnership with Granite State College, NH, meets with Year 2 Faculty Fellows and the project team, October 17, 2016, to focus on newly created modules and provide feedback toward final publishing of these OER modules for school librarian education.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, supported by IMLS, and in partnership with Granite State College, NH, meets with Year 2 Faculty Fellows and the project team, November 3, 2016, to focus on newly created modules and provide feedback toward final publishing of these OER modules for school librarian education.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, Feb 15, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, March 15, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins the Year 3 K-12 fellowships with NH school librarians and STEM teachers on February 2 and 4, 2017.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, March 15, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, June 7, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, Feb 22, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, March 22, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins Year 3 with North Carolina school librarians and the project team, January 11, 2017 to get an overview of the project, OER Commons, and Academy pre-assignments.

The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins Year 3 with North Carolina school librarians and the project team, January 11, 2017 to get an overview of the project, OER Commons, and Academy pre-assignments.