Check out AASL President Carl Harvey’s essay on librarians as coaches in the Web extras section of the current issue of Educational Leadership. Thanks and great job, Carl!
**Updated**
Peg Sullivan and I are in New Hampshire. Each of us is presenting a daylong workshop for New Hampshire school librarians on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Here are the updated slides from my day. You can also find the backchannel here.
- Morning Session (inquiry)
- Afternoon Session on Common Core Standards
- R & J activity (not used)
Sometimes, when you’re really lucky, you get to spend a day with some of your favorite face-to-face librarians and some of your favorite national librarians at the same time. For today’s MAME Summer Institute, Kathleen McBroom and I held down the fort in Michigan while Susan Ballard and Melissa Johnston used Elluminate to provide great information via Webinar.
You can click on the links below to access any of the resources (thanks, co-presenters!).
What was each presentation about, you ask?
Sue talked about how the need for change and how her Londonderry district had used the AASL Planning Guide to deepen their program development.
Melissa talked about the AASL Building-Level Toolkit, with a strong emphasis on librarian-as-leader.
I looked at five elements of Common Core and talked about how we could use those standards to impact our practice.
Meanwhile, our intrepid Michigan colleagues shared their ideas for flipping the essay, working with primary sources, how they could use the free webinar hosting provided by LearnCentral.org back at home, and more. You can access the webinar archive of any of our presentations (just know that Kathleen and I were often wandering around far from the microphone, so our sound quality ain’t too ideal).
Remember the old TV commercials that used to say, “I’m a lucky dog”? That’s me.
