Linking Learning to the Future: Your School Library and the LIRA Framework

Often referred to as 21st-century, the 4Cs, or future-ready skills, modern literacy refers to the skills students need to be successful productive citizens. The LIRA (Library Interactive Read Aloud) Framework seeks to encourage a pedagogy for school librarians that build these important skills through informational texts, discourse, and inquiry. School librarians are perfectly positioned to provide students with experiences that develop essential modern literacy skills. Participants will come away with a structured approach and strategy for leveraging library resources in order to provide students with the human-centered skills needed in order to be successful in our complex, rapidly changing world. This approach also advocates for school librarians by elevating their role within their school community as an essential educator.