Starting Small
Check out this great School Library Journal article about Monarch Academy’s Keisa Williams. It’s a great article to show how school librarians need to be pragmatic and start where the students are, slowly scaffolding and building their skills over time.
I believe that school librarians should go into a school knowing our professional standards for learning. Then, like Margaret Mead, we set about the task of getting to know our kids and our learning community. How will we get from where we are to where our profession encourages us to be?
It’s that ability to visualize and shore up the bridge from Here to There that helps us be change agents. Keisa does a great job of showing the realities of how this works. In order to start building her big dreams (tech integration), she had to start with smaller building blocks (keyboarding practice).
Congratulations, Keisa!