The document discusses transforming challenges into opportunities for innovation and enchantment. It provides examples of how to turn filtering challenges into curating alternative resources. It also suggests using standards as a focal point for collaboration and flexing instructional design muscles in research units. The document advocates embracing challenges as a chance to help others focus on possibilities instead of limitations and seeing change and understanding as opportunities for innovation.

1. making lemonade from
lemons: transforming
challenges into points of
innovation and enchantment
buffy j. hamilton | february 2013
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2. “These are the
times
that try
men’s
souls…”
Thomas Paine, The Crisis
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3. Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton

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5. how do we negotiate these tensions and help
teachers feel we are pulling WITH them?
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6. relationships are the cornerstone of
libraries, learning, and participation
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7. trustworthiness
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8. likability
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9. fantastic product or
service
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10. enchantment
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11. enchantment:
sustained,
voluntary
delight that is
mutually
beneficial
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12. “enchantment
transforms
situations and
relationships.”
Guy Kawasaki,
Enchantment: The Art of Changing
Hearts, Minds, and Actions
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15. “innovation is the ability to see change as an
opportunity - not a threat”
william pollard
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16. Action Steps for
NOW to Elevate Your
Role as an
Instructional Leader
and Partner

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18. 1
turn filtering challenges into an opportunity to curate
alternative resources for teachers and students
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19. use the Common Core State Standards and the language of
those standards as a focal point for conversation about
meaningful collaboration to support traditional and
emerging literacies
2

20. 3 flex your instructional design
and instructional literacy
muscles in the context of
content based research units
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21. 4
Look at budget cuts as an opportunity to reassess
collection development and services
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22. Seize moments of resistance and pushback as an
opportunity to model resilience for teachers and students
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23. cc licensed photo by The Shifted Librarian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/3360687295/

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25. embrace the
wobbles
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26. “The future of school libraries and
school librarians hangs in the balance.
We must shape the future not to save
ourselves, our jobs, or some sense of
tradition. No, we win this victory for our
students.”
Dr. R. David Lankes
School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come
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27. we can decide which approach we will
take to these challenges
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28. embrace challenges as
opportunities to help
others focus on
possibilities, not
limitations
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29. change and
understanding=
innovation
Participatory Librarianship and Change Agents: http://blip.tv/file/1566813
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31. enchantment is the nectar
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34. contact information
buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com
http://buffyjhamilton.wordpress.com
Twitter: @buffyjhamilton