I can’t believe that it has been over a year since I updated this, but so much has happened since then, which is partly why…

To update, starting with the post above:

The inaugural FOSIL Symposium on Saturday 8 February 2025 — hosted online by Elizabeth, and in-person by Blanchelande College Library — was an extraordinarily uplifting experience, with more than 200 colleagues from around the world joining speakers from around the world for a day-long celebration of enabling our students to develop as engaged and empowered inquirers.

Teaching Inquiry as Conversation: Bringing Wonder to Life, co-authored with Barbara for Bloomsbury, is due to published on 14 May (online) and 11 June (print).

Since Episode 17 of FOSIL, Education and School Libraries — The FOSIL Symposium Taster — we have recorded:

• Episode 18 | Beyond the Symposium: The Future of School Libraries and Inquiry Learning (April 2025)
• Episode 19 | Inquiry Learning: Can Schools Do It Without Libraries? (July 2025)
• Episode 20 | Update: FOSIL, Books and the Institute of Advancement of Inquiry (December 2025)
• Episode 21 | Clarifying the purpose of education through the focus of the school library (February 2026)
• Episode 22 | Generative AI through inquiry: Part 1: Preserving human voice in education (March 2026)

I met with Elizabeth this morning (Saturday 21 March) for Part 2 of Generative AI through inquiry, and will add that here as soon as it becomes available.