Daily Reporter staff reports
INDIANA — JoyAnn Boudreau has been selected to receive the Indiana Library Federation (ILF) 2019 Outstanding New School Librarian Award.
The award honors a certified school librarian who has demonstrated excellence and innovative leadership in the development of school library service and remarkable service to the profession within his or her first five years as a school librarian.
Raised in public schools in Bluffton, Indiana, Boudreau remembers visiting the Wells County Public Library branch regularly. When she decided to turn her fondness for literature and learning into a career, she began her professional endeavors as a seventh-grade English/Language Arts teacher in Greenfield.
Boudreau is now in her fifth year as Teacher Librarian at Hamilton Southeastern Intermediate Junior High in Fishers, where she strives for equity and inclusivity, encourages and supports literacy, leads and models technology integration and helps her students and staff in every way she is able. Boudreau organized the Instagram takeover for her school with Indiana Department of Education. She has coordinated Twitter chats, book studies and student clubs.
Boudreau has been active in the Global Read Aloud, and as a Flipgrid and Wakelet Ambassador. She trains fellow teachers and librarians both within and beyond her school district, sharing her excitement for technology integration and literacy through many statewide conferences, including Indiana State Reading Association and ILF.
A passionate advocate for the power of school libraries, Boudreau created a new hashtag for school librarians and models social media advocacy. She set up a Makerspace to allow students to make and create, opening it up to classes and open hours so that students can come without teachers. Boudreau is one of her building’s two Equity coaches that works with the district and building Equity team, and she sponsors a book club and a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) club at her school.
Boudreau lives in Greenfield with her husband, Andrew, and their two small children.
