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Karen Lindsay is
2009's B.C. Teacher-Librarian of the Year
The BC Teacher-Librarians' Association is pleased to announce that
Karen Lindsay is the 2009 recipient of the Diana Poole Memorial Award
of Merit. This award honours the B.C. Teacher-Librarian of the Year, a
practicing teacher-librarian who is making an outstanding contribution
to teacher-librarianship at and beyond the school level in British
Columbia.
Karen has been a teacher for thirty years, including seven years
experience as a teacher-librarian. She is currently the
teacher-librarian at Reynolds Secondary School in Victoria. In
addition to teaching in British Columbia, Karen has taught in France
and Australia on teacher exchanges. Karen’s Masters degree is from the
University of Alberta and was awarded in part for her thesis, “Teacher/Teacher-Librarian
Collaboration: A Study of Instructional Choices Made By Frequent,
Moderate, And Non-Users of School Library Services”. Her
previous awards include the CASL Chancellor Group Conference Grant
(2005).
At the school level, Karen is an exemplary and visionary
teacher-librarian. One of the highlights of her practice is
school-wide sustained silent reading; every classroom at Reynolds
Secondary School participates in daily silent reading for fifteen
minutes each day. Karen also is a school-based leader in other areas.
Her highly collaborative school library program ensures students are
utilizing online databases and video streaming in their learning. As a
technology leader in her school, Karen has created
virtual school library site site and has included there an
annotated list of web 2.0 technologies and ideas for use by both
teachers and students in the classroom.
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