Teaching social justice

I had the pleasure of working with Gail Bush on her book The School Buddy System: The Practice of Collaboration. I admire Gail’s organization and focus. I remember meeting with her in my office while her manuscript was in process and being so impressed when she pulled a binder for the project from her brief case. Yeah, I’m a sucker for a binder.

I notice that Gail is working with the same focus on advancing the cause of social justice. On Wednesday, along with colleagues at the National-Louis University Center for Teaching with Children’s Books, she will convene the symposium INDIVISIBLE: Teaching for Social Justice through Children’s Literature (K-12). A year ago, Gail wrote for Knowledge Quest an article (PDF) positing a tenth information literacy standard that would address social justice. She writes:

School Librarians work for a better tomorrow every day. We ply our trade with future young leaders as if the world depended on it, and for good reason.