Professional Learning – Linking Learning

Responding to challenges together: Higher Education in an AI-Driven World

Posted on October 25, 2025October 25, 2025 by KayO

Last week I was privileged to be invited to present at the annual ISTW conference themed Higher Education in an AI-Driven World: Project-Based Learning as a Gateway to Real-Life Educational Experiences, hosted by the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. It was an extraordinary gathering of educators and researchers from across Europe, including participants […]

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School Library Professionals as Leaders: Using Leadership Theory to “Read the Room”

Posted on July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 by KayO

Part 2: Understanding Leadership Styles and Frames to Influence School Culture In the first post of this series, I explored how leadership is inherent in the role of the teacher librarian (TL) and school library professionals, even if it’s not always formally recognised. We discussed the value of building fluency in the language of leadership […]

School Library Professionals as Leaders: Practising Strategic Leadership

Posted on July 30, 2025July 31, 2025 by KayO

Part 3: Leading from Where You Are This is an update of my previous three leadership articles posted some years’ ago on this blog. In the first two posts of this series, we established that leadership is already embedded in the role of school library professionals, even though it is not always formally recognised and […]

Discovering the unexpected: Going behind the scenes on the CSU Sydney Information Studies/Library Study Visit

Posted on April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 by KayO

Last week I had the honour of joining a group of inspiring information professionals who are completing their Bachelor and Master of Information Studies and Master of Education: Teacher Librarianship on our first Study Visit since they ceased due to Covid in 2020. Over four days we toured ten completely different libraries and were generously […]

Leadership in practice

Posted on July 1, 2021September 16, 2022 by KayO

Thank you for joining me for the third and final installment of the Teacher Librarian as Leader blog post series. If you have missed the first two posts, consider jumping back to the start to read all three in order. The first post discusses the role of the TL, and how it embodies both management […]

Teacher Librarian as Leader: Theories of Leadership in Action

Posted on June 17, 2021October 22, 2021 by KayO

This is the second of a series of blog posts I am sharing on the concept of Teacher Librarian as Leader. The content has been inspired by my recent work as a Learning Designer, working on the design and development of a new online MBA for the University of Southern Queensland. If you missed the […]

Teacher Librarian as Leader: Lessons from the Literature

Posted on June 14, 2021October 22, 2021 by KayO

As you may be aware, my recent experience as a learning designer contributing to the development of a new, fully online MBA being offered through USQ has led me to consider how Teacher Librarians (TLs) might take advantage of leadership literature emerging from the field of business to enhance their own professional practice as leaders. […]

Inquiring towards Innovation

Posted on August 28, 2019 by KayO

As an educator, librarian, researcher and learner, I have engaged with and taught about inquiry learning in many ways. Valuing openness and access, I share some of this teaching online; here you can see the most recent iteration of LCN616 Inquiry Learning, which I am currently teaching. I place a great deal of value in […]

We create our future: Why we need to embrace critical digital pedagogy

Posted on August 9, 2019 by KayO

Why do I believe we need to embrace critical digital pedagogy in the design and experience of learning and teaching? Perhaps it is because I don’t want to live in a future like this: Science Fiction Fact? How would such a future come to be? A future dominated by commerce and competition, a future where […]

Managing a professional digital identity: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 by KayO

Every interaction we have online leaves indelible traces which are often referred to as our digital footprint. It is the data created by “what you’ve said, what others have said about you, where you’ve been, images you’re tagged in, personal information, social media profiles, and much more. ” University of Edinburgh Digital Footprint resources Because […]