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CONT799: Teacher Librarian Specialist

Course Schedule

Session Course Dates Application Deadline Document Deadline Payment Deadline
Winter 2027 Monday, January 25, 2027 – Friday, April 2, 2027 Sunday, January 17, 2027 at 7pm ET Tuesday, January 19, 2027 at 4pm ET Thursday, January 21, 2027 at 4pm ET
Summer 2027 Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027 Sunday, June 20, 2027 at 7pm ET Tuesday, June 22, 2027 at 4pm ET Thursday, June 24, 2027 at 4pm ET
Deadline dates are subject to change.

Winter 2027

  • Course Dates: Monday, January 25, 2027 – Friday, April 2, 2027
  • Application Deadline: Sunday, January 17, 2027 at 7pm ET
  • Document Deadline: Tuesday, January 19, 2027 at 4pm ET
  • Payment Deadline: Thursday, January 21, 2027 at 4pm ET

Summer 2027

  • Course Dates: Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027
  • Application Deadline: Sunday, June 20, 2027 at 7pm ET
  • Document Deadline: Tuesday, June 22, 2027 at 4pm ET
  • Payment Deadline: Thursday, June 24, 2027 at 4pm ET

Course Description

In this course, you will deepen and extend your role as a Teacher Librarian by positioning yourself as a leader of learning, equity, inquiry, and change within your school and system. You will examine how leadership operates through relationships, structures, policy, and culture, and how you can influence these to advance learner well-being and achievement. Through reflection, dialogue, design, and inquiry, you will develop the capacity to lead instructional improvement, cultivate inclusive and responsive learning environments, mobilize professional knowledge, and enact ethical, evidence-informed change. By the end of the course, you will have articulated and demonstrated your identity as a transformational leader within the Library Learning Commons and the broader educational community.

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What You Will Learn and Do

In this course, you will have the opportunity to

  • articulate and enact the role of the Teacher Librarian as an instructional, ethical, and transformational leader
  • lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of equitable and inclusive Library Learning Commons programs
  • apply anti-oppression, anti-racism, and Indigenous frameworks as leadership lenses
  • lead inquiry-based instructional partnerships that support transferable skills and deep learning
  • conduct practitioner inquiry to evaluate leadership impact and inform improvement
  • lead professional learning that builds collective efficacy and sustainable change
  • navigate and influence policy, structures, and institutional constraints
  • mobilize professional knowledge across learning communities
  • critically reflect on power, privilege, positionality, and professional responsibility

Course Outline

Each module includes a variety of resources, such as articles, videos, websites, podcasts and other media, as well as discussion posts, reflective tasks, collaborative tasks, culminating tasks, and assignments.

ModulesMinimum hours
Module 1: TL as Ethical and Transformational Leader 18
Module 2: Learning Environments as Systems
Progress Update 1		 19
Module 3: Instructional Change 18
Module 4: Equity, Justice, and Decolonization
Progress Update 2		 19
Module 5: Evidence, Inquiry, and Accountability 19
Module 6: Professional Learning and System Changen
Progress Update 3		 18
Module 7: TL as System Leader
Final Report		 14
Total hours 125

Application Requirements

  1. OCT Membership showing completion of Part 2.
  2. CONFIRMATION OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE FORM Signed by a Supervisory Official* from your School Board confirming that you have two years (388 days) of teaching experience since becoming a certified teacher, one year (194 days) of which is in the subject area of this course.

*The Ontario College of Teachers defines "Supervisory Official" as the Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent of the school board for a teacher employed by a Board of Education. A principal or headmaster is not recognized in this capacity. For a teacher employed by a private school, the "supervisory official" is the Ministry of Education official (Education Officer) appointed to your school. For overseas experience the appropriate Supervisory Official is the person your Principal reports to.

**Please note that a new form is always required for a Part 3 (Specialist) course as experience is course/subject specific.

Please email a copy of your Confirmation of Teaching Experience Form to cedmail@queensu.ca

Course Materials

There are no additional resources required for this course.

Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

  • If you drop a course by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee
  • If you drop a course after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee
Session 100% Refund Deadline 50% Refund Deadline

  Starting Late Summer 2026 Session

Our refund policies are changing starting with the Late Summer 2026 Session (Monday, August 10, 2026). See the new schedule below.
  • If you drop a course before the course begins: 100% refund
  • If you drop a course on or before the 14th day of the course: 75% refund
  • If you drop a course after the 14th day of the course: No refund
Session Course Dates 75% Refund Cut Off Date
Fall 2026Monday, September 28, 2026 – Friday, December 4, 2026October 11, 2026
Fall/Winter 2026Monday, November 9, 2026 – Friday, February 5, 2027November 22, 2026
Winter 2027Monday, January 25, 2027 – Friday, April 2, 2027February 07, 2027
Late Winter 2027Monday, February 15, 2027 – Friday, April 16, 2027February 28, 2027
Spring 2027Monday, April 5, 2027 – Friday, June 4, 2027April 18, 2027
Late Spring 2027Monday, May 3, 2027 – Friday, June 25, 2027May 16, 2027
Summer 2027Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027July 11, 2027

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.