Building Trust and Student Empowerment Through Assessment
Channel: Empire State Library Network
Date: 04/04/2016

Effective assessment builds a relationship of trust between teacher librarians and students.  Through assessment, we can ensure that the picture we construct of our students and the simultaneous understandings they gain about us are authentic, complex, and focused on our primary mission of empowering all students to be independent learners.  Join us in this webinar to explore assessment, trust, and student empowerment.

Barbara Stripling, Senior Associate Dean and Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. 

As the Director of School Library Programs in New York City, with 1.1 million students and 1700 schools, Barbara used her leadership skills to focus on building a nurturing and supportive community and strong guidance for all the school librarians. As Assistant Professor of Practice at Syracuse University, she has the opportunity to impact the profession of librarianship through teaching, research, and writing. Barbara was also the 2013-2014 President of the American Library Association, championing intellectual freedom, privacy, advocacy for all types of libraries, public funding for libraries, legislative action, equitable access to information, and community-building and civic engagement through libraries.

"Libraries are on the cusp of greatness. We must seize the moment by re-defining ourselves and capturing the exciting possibilities offered by technology and social media; the explosion of information; and the challenges of maintaining a strong democracy while nourishing the expression of diverse viewpoints. Librarians must be instrumental in leading the transformation of libraries, and in that process, we will transform our communities."