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Meet
Elizabeth
Welcome to Engaging and Empowering School Libraries! I’m Elizabeth Hutchinson, and I help school librarians unlock their full potential through tailored training, practical strategies, and community support. Whether you’re looking to collaborate with teachers, enhance student inquiry, or elevate your library’s role in education, I’m here to provide the tools and insights you need to succeed.
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Please take a look around my website where you will find some free and paid-for services. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
04 Membership
My School Library Training Membership provides a comprehensive suite of resources and support to help school libraries reach their potential.
My members benefit from access to exclusive webinars, tutorials, templates, and other materials to help them engage their students, and empower their librarians.
With my membership, school libraries will be able to create a thriving learning environment, and ultimately, improve student learning outcomes.
05 Personal Support
Is your school ready to take your learning to the next level? Are you looking for someone to help your staff and students understand the skills needed to move forward in this new AI world? Every school is different so I offer a personal professional approach to each schools challenges and aims.
06 Three thoughts for your week
Free Professional Development
Make your search for professional learning easy by signing up to my weekly newsletter which gives you three options every week. Read something, Listen to something and Watch something. That's it... I do all the finding then its up to you to learn...
What People Say
Martin Winward, Former Headteacher, St Anne's School, Alderney.
We’d like to thank Elizabeth for her boldness, thoroughness, and attention to detail in supporting the cultural paradigm shift which now exists in our school.
Robert O'Brien, Former Principal, Blanchelande College, Guernsey
Elizabeth offers a personal and approachable service and helped our staff to reflect on the importance of inquiry, information literacy and the role that a library could play in delivering the curriculum; particularly valuable was her introduction to the FOSIL framework. With her guidance, we now have a library and library provision that we're immensely proud of. Blanchelande College is very grateful and highly recommend Elizabeth's input.
What Trainees Say
Thank you so much for these excellent sessions, I feel reinvigorated and am really excited to learn more about FOSIL, and love the whole idea of focusing on reading for learning. What you say makes total sense on so many levels
Zoe Fetherstone
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Librarian and Academic Literacy Facilitator
Furness Academy
"[Today's training] was a fantastic use of my time and really informative. My role here is completely new, so to be able to offer to introduce this kind of learning/research skills is amazing. The support through the use of frameworks was great and being able to take a brief look at the kind of thing you can apply in lessons was invaluable”.
Wendy Walker
School Librarian
"I would recommend it to all School Librarians as a way of thinking about expanding our job role or advertising exactly what we are capable of as a profession. This training gives you the confidence and vocabulary to promote our services to teachers".
Sarah Firm
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Senior Librarian