CAUTION: Curve Ahead

1. CAUTION: Curve Ahead Concord, NH August 14th

2. Winds of Change Library Best Practices Advocacy Accountability Common Core Myths and Rituals of Librarianship Standards No Child Left Behind Testing

4. Goals • Make a defined plan for change in library programs for 2012-2013 • Learn one new idea about implementing Common Core Standards • Plan one strategy for documentation of student learning growth through the library • Feel that the day was fun, fulfilling, and invigorating

5. What is a Community of Practice • Social theory of learning • Knowledge is not a static set of content, it involves skills, personalities, emotions • Structure helps a community, but it can’t create it • The goal is to create meaning If only Hewlett Packard knew what Hewlett Packard knows

6. Delivery of Chubb safe for Commercial Banking Co., c.1920s, by unknown photographer Pole vaulter Du Plessis, Empire Games, Sydney, 1938 / photographer Sam Hood

8. Traditional Notions of Growth

9. Behavioral requirements analysis checklist a compilation of competency-based job functions and task statements for school library media personnelRobert N. Case, Anna Mary Lowrey. Published 1976 by American Library Association in Chicago.

11. Aligned with college and work expectations; • Clear, understandable and consistent; • Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills; • Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards; • Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and • Evidence-based. Common Core Standards www.corestandards.org

12. Evidence-based Practice • How one child learns

13. Evidence-based Practice • “Placing the client’s benefit first, evidence-based practitioners adopt a process of lifelong learning that involves continually posing specific questions of direct practical importance to clients, searching objectively and efficiently for the current best evidence relative to each question, and taking appropriate action guided by evidence” (Gibbs, 2003)

14. Look out! Here Comes the 21st Century Retirement: 2075 High School Graduation: 2028 AGE: 2 College Graduation: 2032

15. Knowledge of learners • Child Development • Learning Theory • Awareness of community • Universal Design (UDL)

16. Knowledge of Educational Contexts • Adapting classroom contexts to the library program • Representing the unity of the school • Interprets school reform efforts as the big picture

17. Knowledge of educational ends, purposes, and values • Lifelong learning • Voluntary reading habit • Information literacy • Use of technology as a learning tool

19. Virginia Teacher Evaluation Standard • Professional Knowledge • Instructional Planning • Instructional Delivery • Assessment of and for Student Learning • Learning Environment • Professionalism • Student Academic Progress – The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable, and appropriate student academic progress (40% of total)

20. Embedded Librarian

21. Teaching and Learning • Defines who we are • Underlines the importance of our role • Politically correct • Secures our position in the school • Best for students and teachers

22. If I had MONEY I would:

24. AASL Learning Standards for the 21st Century Learners

25. To Ensure That Students and Staff….. • Teaching for Learning • Building the Learning Environment • Empowering Learning Through Leadership

26. Reach out and Touch

27. Possibilities of Evidence-based Practice • Become motivated • Formulate answerable question • Track down known evidence • Select the best evidence • Apply the results • Evaluate performance • Teach others to do the same

28. What are the tasks of the 21st Century librarian? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ableman/323253426/