Resolutions 2.0
Ah, a new year. A clean slate, and a traditional time for setting goals for the future.
I find that I set goals twice a year: once at the start of the school year and again in January.
Here’s what I’m thinking about for professional New Year’s resolutions:
Skim professional journals the day they arrive. Read stuff as it comes into Bloglines instead of “saving it for later.” Later never comes!
Start a suggestion box at school so our collection matches the reading tastes of kids.
Organize some staff and student training on using MovieMaker to capture student learning.
Learn Follett Destiny, which is being installed over our holiday break.
Hold “tech rotations,” during which classroom teachers and I meet for half a day with each grade level to match the technology curriculum to the academic curriculum. This is something that happens districtwide in our elementaries, though I’m doing mine later than normal.
Serve on our district’s technology scope and sequence committee. What a cool chance to see how far we’ve come since the last curriculum update! (HyperStudio is out! Collaboration is in!)
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January 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I am rededicating myself to advocating for full-time professional teacher-librarians in every school across the U.S. and around the world.
I am thinking globally and acting locally.
71 elementary positions are threatened in the Tucson Unified School District, where I once served as an elementary and high school teacher-librarian and as a district-level library program mentor.
I am leading a two-pronged advocacy campaign. One part focuses on composing a position paper and recruiting influential parents to speak to individual board members and at board meetings through the spring budget cycle. The other part is to support these teacher-librarians in evidence-based practice to generate data that will prove - at the site level - that professional teacher-librarians working in collaboration with their classroom teacher colleagues positively impact student learning.
Together, we can reverse this disastrous trend in our profession. While contemplating resolutions, I hope everyone will ask her/himself, what can I do to preserve the future of school library programs?
Here’s to our collective success in 2008!