Librarian (24-25 SY)

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

Full-time - Entry Level

Educational Services

About the position

The Librarian at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools plays a crucial role in fostering a love for reading and information literacy among students. This position encompasses various responsibilities, including collaboration with educators, managing library resources, and promoting equity and access to information. The librarian is expected to create an engaging and inclusive learning environment that supports the educational mission of the school and district.

Responsibilities

• Empowers all members of the learning community to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, curators and ethical users of information.
• Collaborates and co-teaches with classroom educators to establish learning objectives and assessment strategies to develop individual and group inquiry-based learning experiences.
• Develops and maintains a teaching and learning environment that is fun, inviting, safe, flexible, collaborative, inclusive, and conducive to learning.
• Champions equity, access, and intellectual freedom for users within the physical space and beyond, including providing 24/7 access to the online library catalog, digital and audio books, and various information resources.
• Fosters exploration, discovery, creation, and innovation in a growth mindset.
• Supports learner success by guiding them to read for understanding, breadth, and pleasure.
• Empowers learners to work with each other in successful collaborations and to constructively assess their own work and the work of their peers.
• Models and champions digital citizenship and safety, adherence to copyright and fair use requirements.
• Teaches all members of the learning community to engage with and use information in a global society.
• Models and develops a commitment to respect equity, diversity, and inclusion in collection development and within the learning community.
• Supports learners as they make meaning for themselves to create new knowledge by collections, organizing, and sharing resources of personal relevance.
• Addresses broader educational issues with other educators in the building, at the district level, and at the professional association level.
• Develops and supports the school's and the district's mission, strategic plan, and policies.
• Manages the staff, budget, and the physical and virtual spaces of the school library.
• Evaluates, introduces, and models emerging technologies for the learning community, and uses technology tools to supplement school resources.
• Participates as an active leader of the local and global learning community, building relationships with organizations and stakeholders.
• Supports academy programs in collaboration with academy teams.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Library Science required.
• Training and certification as a media specialist required.
• Requires a valid Tennessee teaching license, with Library Information Specialist preK-12 (473) endorsement preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on education and experience.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.