Transforming: Teaching & Learning

Students as Community Problem Solvers

Monday, June 27, 2022

9:00am – 10:00am

Location: Washington Convention Center, 150A

Join 2021 LJ Mover & Shaker Dustin Hensley and students on how you can use your school library to equip students to become community problem solvers. This includes successful student projects and skills taught through the library such as design thinking and human-centered design. Student examples from my time as a high school librarian include beginning a program at a local assisted living center to connect older and younger citizens; STEAM opportunities for underserved elementary and middle school populations, redesigning a historic walking tour, starting a mental health advisory, and more. Support student agency, social capital, and developing solutions-oriented skills through the library.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to equip students with skills necessary to evaluate their communities and develop solutions to issues.
Upon completion, participants will be able to connect library skills to project-based learning and place-based learning.
Upon completion, participants will be able to coordinate community partnerships alongside of students and help build student social capital.

Main Contact(s)

Dustin Hensley

School Librarian
Elizabethton High School- AASL

Speaker(s)

Dustin Hensley

School Librarian
Elizabethton High School- AASL

Moderator(s)

Dustin Hensley

School Librarian
Elizabethton High School- AASL