Mali Jorm
Mali provides award-winning leadership in library and information management through innovative research-backed content, curriculum, and student engagement programs. With two decades of experience working with students from Pre-K to adult education, the ‘lady in black with the facts’ is an acclaimed speaker and writer with a focus on the interdisciplinary use of psychology, marketing, and community outreach to promote results-driven library products and services.
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Workshop:
The Three Spheres of Library Skills

The Three Spheres of Library Skills is a research-based framework for teaching the essential components of a successful school library program. These workshops will focus on practical interventions that can be used for each of the Three Spheres: Readers, Researchers and Thinkers.
PRIMARY WORKSHOP
Readers - Complementing explicit literacy instruction with reading motivation
Researchers - Student-curated science book shop displays
Thinkers - Unreliable narrators and critical literacy
SECONDARY WORKSHOP
Readers - Student agency and reading culture
Researchers - Citation interventions using Lego
Thinkers - Lateral reading unreliable news sites
Readers - Complementing explicit literacy instruction with reading motivation
Researchers - Student-curated science book shop displays
Thinkers - Unreliable narrators and critical literacy
SECONDARY WORKSHOP
Readers - Student agency and reading culture
Researchers - Citation interventions using Lego
Thinkers - Lateral reading unreliable news sites