What happens when Library Monitors stop “helping” and start leading? At ESF Kowloon Junior School, our PYP students now genuinely co-manage the library – choosing books, designing displays, organising Book Week, publishing real books, and even taking stories to under-served children across Hong Kong.

Macy, PYP Teacher Librarian at ESF Kowloon Junior School has turned a traditional library into a thriving, student-owned learning hub.

In this session we will look at three high-impact examples that worked:

An after-school club becoming published authors, with all profits donated to a charity the kids chose

Library Ambassadors reading regularly to children from low-income families across HK

Leave with concrete, low-prep ideas you can launch next week and a clearer vision of what real student ownership looks and feels like.