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Welcome to Engaging and Empowering School Libraries a podcast that aims to raise the profile of school libraries by talking about topics that are current across education and teaching.
Kindness as Strategy: Helen Rimmer on Well‑Being for School Librarians
Engaging and Empowering School Libraries
40 minutes
1 month ago
Kindness as Strategy: Helen Rimmer on Well‑Being for School Librarians
Helen Rimmer joins us in this episode to discuss the pressures facing school librarians, including isolation, expanding workloads, and compassion fatigue, and how kindness, clear boundaries, and self-care are professional strengths that enhance wellbeing and effectiveness.
We explore practical approaches to advocacy, creating inclusive, safe library spaces, and examples of lightening teachers’ loads. Helen also introduces Empower: The Library Collective, a cross‑sector training community offering webinars and resources to help librarians grow skills and connect.
More information about Empower can be found here https://empowerlibraryskills.com/home
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The episode is sponsored by Learnics https://www.learnics.com/
Engaging and Empowering School Libraries
Welcome to Engaging and Empowering School Libraries a podcast that aims to raise the profile of school libraries by talking about topics that are current across education and teaching.
