A friend reminded me that there has been very little official or unofficial chatter on Empowering Learners, the new program guidelines that accompany the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. $39 for 64 pages is steep (though I am tickled to be mentioned in the bibliography, which took the wind out my planned rage against the cost!).

With so much energy focused on the teaching role of school librarians, we haven’t spent much time formally as a profession talking about our role as in-house professional developers.  So here goes …

I’m more and more interested in how we can facilitate asynchronous professional development for teachers.  The teachers I work with have such different interests and toolkits.  One-size-fits-all-so-just-sit-there-while-I-talk doesn’t work for us, nor does PD that requires that everyone congregate in a lab at a specific time.  So I was interested to read that Thinkfinity is offering free Webinars.  Has anyone taken one? I haven’t, but the price iright!

 (Thinkfinity was formerly Marco Polo, whose resources are supposed to be part of our Michigan eLibrary portal … wonder where that stands now that Library of Michigan is being dissolved…)

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