By Diana Maliszewski
Rebuilding After the COVID Fire Hit the Forest of Reading
Abstract
In this well documented paper Diana explores the impact the pandemic had on her family of schools’ participation in the long standing and successful OLA Forest of Reading program. Diana explains the many challenges faced by schools to fully engage learners in the traditional program. She documents the many concerns education leaders have with regard to the impact the pandemic has had on reading as well as the positive role school libraries have played.
Diana Maliszewski OCT, BA, BEd, MEd (she/her) is a teacher-librarian in the Toronto District School Board in Scarborough, Ontario. This is her twenty-fifth year in teaching, with twenty-four of those years working in a school library learning commons. Diana is the one of the vice-presidents of the Association for Media Literacy. She was the editor-in-chief of The Teaching Librarian, the award-winning official publication of the Ontario School Library Association, from 2006-2018 and now is a course instructor for the Teacher Librarianship Additional Qualification courses for York University and Queen’s University. She has presented workshops at conferences all over North America on topics such as gaming in education, graphic novels, popular culture, professional learning communities, and children’s literature. She has written five Treasure Mountain Canada papers, with two more planned for 2022.You can read her blog, Monday Molly Musings, or catch her on Twitter as @MzMollyTL.