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All About that Process

"...You are a teacher who teaches not content but process." I can't get over the opening statement in this 2016 Knowledge Quest article by Audrey Church. I'm pursuing my MLIS right now and we talk a lot  about what it means to be a school librarian, but nothing has really clicked into place like that has. Church finally put into words the thing that made teaching in a library feel so right in the first place.  When I was a classroom teacher, I felt bogged down by content. So much to teach, so little time. So many students, so many different learning styles.  So often I felt like I was marching along to the beat of the curriculum with no room to meet my students where they were.  So often I felt I was leaving my students behind, or not keeping up. When I moved into the library, I suddenly had room to breathe.  I could expand on what teachers were teaching, linger on inquiry, dive deep into passions, do all the things that makes learning fun and w...