School Library Advocacy
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Presentation workshop for the Waikato/BOP SLANZA group on how to advocate for your school library in May 2017.
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School Library Advocacy
- 1. How do I make converts? Senga White Research & Learning Coordinator Libraries I’m a believer!
- 2. What are some effective ways to promote library services & programmes to your whole school community?
- 3. How do you market these to your teachers, students and parents?
- 4. When you've created those opportunities, what should you tell them?
- 5. Once you've made those precious connections, how do you build on them and water the seeds you've planted?
- 8. visible
- 9. Occupational Invisibility “Others often do not see depth, breadth and importance of what school librarians contributeto learningin schools” Gary Hartzell
- 10. “Visibleteaching & learning occurs when there is deliberate practice aimed at attaining mastery of the goal, when there is feedback given and sought, and when there are active, passionate, & engaging people participating in the act of learning.” John Hattie
- 11. When teaching and learning are visible, there is a greater likelihoodof students achieving higher John Hattie
- 12. Where to start?
- 13. School Library Advocacy Principal Perspective At the heart of learning Libraries in the 21st Century
- 15. What are youbusy doing?
- 16. We need to stop thinking of the library as a grocery store – a place to “get stuff” and start thinking about it as a kitchen– a place to “make stuff.” Joyce Valenza
- 17. What is your vision?
- 18. School Library Manifesto and Guiding Principles
- 19. “Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me what you do, and I will tell you where your prioritiesare” Dr Ross Todd
- 20. What is on your wish-list?
- 21. Planning
- 24. Make a note of everything you do
- 27. What do we do?
- 28. No one ever asks so lets tell them!
- 29. Collaboration Professional conversations Complementary skills Partners in research & guided inquiry Curating resources both print & digital Reading recommendations Support and advice in text selection
- 31. Passionate teachers (& librarians) are infectious!
- 32. Whoto target?
- 33. Collaborative strategies to try Day to Day
- 36. Principals
- 37. Students
- 38. Teachers
- 39. Give them a reason to visityou!
- 40. Been Renovating?
- 41. What about a roof shout?!
- 42. Community
- 44. Parents
- 45. Livebinders
- 46. Tell your story
- 47. Reporting
- 54. Be Visible!
- 57. In the library
- 58. Displays
- 60. Book of the Week
- 62. Activities
- 63. Library Week
- 64. Dress Up Day
- 65. Book Club
- 66. Author Visits
- 67. Debating
- 68. Competitions
- 69. Games
- 70. Let’s take this showon the road
- 72. Budget for it
- 73. Outside the library How to work
- 75. Whatyou do
- 80. Therapy Dogs
- 82. Reading Maps
- 84. Where you do it
- 85. Busyness
- 86. Makerspaces
- 88. May the 4th
- 90. Let those who matter know What you do that affects student outcomes
- 91. Let those who matter know Why it affects student outcomes
- 92. Let those who matter know How it affects student outcomes
- 93. Teachers (& librarians) need to become effective evaluators of their own practice
- 95. Consider how to present data collected
- 96. Ticket Out The Door 1. How valuable will the information from this session be for your own learning? 1 - 5 2. Write down one thing you learned today that you didn’t know before 3. Write down one thing you will do as a result of today’s session
- 101. ToolsInfographics – Easil.ly Magazines - Issuu Websites - Weebly Blogs - Wordpress
Editor's Notes
- We aim to make the invisible visible Easy to become despondent at the ‘big picture’ – but we’re going to focus on what WE can do We need to tell our stories
- Identify services you already provide
- Collect (curate) ideas you come across that inspires you Don’t try to do everything all at once – but you don’t want to lose your ideas either
- What would you like to develop?
- Become familiar with the NZ Curriculum
- Vision page 8 Principles page 9 Key Competencies Page 12
- “Library” words
- Feedback from teachers And how effective it is for students
- NZC has librarian skills and ideals implicit throughout, but we need to make them explicit
- Find your flockmates in the school, local librarians, school listserve Conferences & other PD opportunities Online and global
- Don’t underestimate your own ability and knowledge
- Principals, senior leaders, teachers, students, board of trustees, parents
- Email contact groups Targeted sharing of ideas, articles, website, resources Be seen outside the library – staffroom, social events Staff PD HOFs & HODs about collection development
- “Can I help …?” “Would you like me to ….? “Can you help me by letting me try (with class) …..” “May I observe student (IL) (notes, searching etc) skills and then give you feedback?” “Did you know about …..”
- SLT BOT report – present it Link any reports to school vision, curriculum, strategic goals Attend staff meetings, curriculum meetings Get on committees such as ICT Help with clubs, sports etc – be visible
- Make sure they know what you do Identify a problem then suggest a solution Identify area to work on then suggest a strategy Then provide evidence and feedback
- Talk to them! And then write it down! Survey them Observe them in their natural habitat!
- Conversations – wherever you can Targeted PD for teachers Tell them how you can help them with classes Attend staff meetings and staff briefings
- Morning teas in the library – captured audience – a dept once a term? Introduce new books Staff book club?
- Why not organise a ‘roof shout’ to show off how it looks now
- BOT – Annual Report – Delivered in person if possible PTA – offer to be a guest speaker
- Library Auxiliary or parent volunteers Reading Together workshops Parents as borrowers Literature circle for parents Family Day Summer Reading for families S.H.R.I.M.P John McGlashan
- Annual Report – Principal, staff, parents, BOT – school magazine, website Term Report?
- Services to Schools
- Joyce Valenza - Issuu
- Buffy Hamilton - Video
- Bethlehem College - Slideshare
- Kirkwood Library- Thinglink
- Buffy Hamilton – Monthly report – or term report If you’re an Office 365 school, consider using Office Mix
- Twitter – Facebook – Pinterest – Goodreads – Slideshare – Your own site?
- Great for reflection – great for registration journal entries
- On LMS – On website – On the desk
- Author visits - library week – prizes – posters
- Think ahead – identify photo and media opportunities Create ‘good news’ stories Compile a list of media contacts – then foster relationships with them
- Conversations, newsletters, brochures, websites, blogs, offering PD
- Melbourne High School
- Joe Hardenbrook – Mr Library Dude – Wisconsin University Library
- Doing stuff in the library doesn’t just have to be about Makerspaces
- Joe Hardenbrook – Mr Library Dude – Wisconsin University Library
- Sally Pewhairangi – Waimakariri Libraries
- Michelle Simms – Te Totara Primary School
- Hue Ng – Churton Park – Knitting at lunchtimes
- Making poms poms – Claire Forrest – Raroa Intermediate
- Invercargill Public Library
- Invercargill Public Library Facebook Page
- Library usage – how, by who and how often Work with teachers Need for collection development
- Annual report Evidence for more staffing Link to engagement – (anecdotal, surveys, student results at NCEA)
- Survey both teachers and students – could be about services you are offering or would like to offer Example: ow a tool like AnyQuestions or EPIC is being used
- Use template by Ross Todd (on SLANZA website) Ask teachers to email you their feedback Photos or audio or video Surveys – easy through Google or Office 365 Ticket Out The Door
- Report – Infographic – Magazine - poster
- Buffy Hamilton shared this idea which I incorporate into Tertiary Prep tutorials
- School library listserve Facebook groups VLN TKI