About me
Carrie Friday is the Media Specialist at Melbourne High School in Melbourne, Florida, a 2018-2019 Teacher of the Year Finalist for Brevard Public Schools, a 2019-2020 Space Coast Public Service Heavy Lifter award winner, and was named a 2022 Woman Who Rocks for her community. She isn't afraid to take risks and will do just about anything to encourage the love of literacy and learning in students and teachers.
Carrie is a Follett Community contributor and has presented best practices at the district level, FAME, AASL, FETC, and the Future Ready Librarian Summit. She’s hosted webinars on maker space, the #swms20bookchallenge, Library Love, book clubs, summer reading, and advocacy. She’s led professional development for several Florida counties, other state organizations, and Jacksonville State University’s Library Day of Learning. She’s interviewed authors such as Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft. She has written educator’s guides for Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Jarrett Lerner, and Alyson Gerber’s books. She also wrote a blurb for Jarred Amato’s book, Just Read It. Mrs. Friday’s library program was awarded the designation of a Florida Power Library School by the Florida Department of Education and she has appeared on the Librarian Influencers podcast and School Librarians United podcast. She’s written and been awarded over $75,000 in grants. She has served on the Florida SSYRA Award committee, FAME Conference committee as Author Chair, the FAME Board of Directors, the Florida Teens Read Committee, and currently serves on the FAME Legislative Committee and the President-Elect of the Florida Association of Media in Education.
