Agenda



**9:00 – 9:45 Welcome & Remarks by Leslie Maniotes**


 * 10:00 – 11:00 Session 1:** **Celebrate!**

“Smackdown” of successes: Each participant will share with their group a successful project or program that happened this school year. (Load these in advance on this wiki on the appropriate page/category to the left)

​ Notes from Meeting Discussion Birthday Book Club: 110 kids contribute $15--pictures go on a bulletin board and kids choose the book to present. This will culminate in a B-Day party for all with cake and reading. Kids love checking out the birthday books!

One Book/One Fireside--trying to build links with the community. One book to read by all the district or school. Chose book that reflected some of the behavioral traits reinforced in other school programs. Book author will come and speak at an event. This has been a great parent involvement initiative. The parents will also help boost circ numbers.

Library Helpers: Open to more grades (4th). Kim was new--30 kids wanted to volunteer. Motivational to students to improve performance on other academic work. Allows the kids to explore the collection. Student helpers can earn points for the help they give--Rebecca.

Family time at the library--in the evening. Serve a drink to go with the month or a book. Special games and books put out. About 20 usually turn out.

Party for the library--to come to the party, you must donate a book--new or gently used. Had 120 books donated.

Social Studies Project: Joyce completely involved in the collaboration piece--impressed the principal. Make principal of aware of the help we give teachers. See American Revolution unit on wiki.

Student Motivation: Testing meaningful--collaborated with teachers to use goal setting--kept track on spreadsheet. School community really came together--many used the graphing calculators. Kids were very proud of their participation in the tracking. Link this with school goals. See Rebecca's post--collaboration. Learn about graphing and calculators--real world linking. Karen helps students pull up scores and make sense of what their needs. EDUSS--make the data meaningful and instructive.

Organized visit to another school in the district with a Power LIbrary and best practices to see what the possibilities are. Set up a 21st Century committee for the school. Twenty-one projects were put together using new technologies--realigned resources to build capacity and equity!

Gather and document stories for a 50-year celebration. Begin gathering! This school has a rich history and was pivotal in historical moments with integration. Jacquelyn visited archives and gathered what was available at her school. Kids are able to see primary research and link to today. Teaches an understanding of the role of activisim. Segways to books that have connections to them. We are collecting our notes at this wiki: [] The final products will include a book and a slide show to be presented at the 50th year celebration.

Give a camera to kids and have them get pictures and stories from everyone over 40--what do they remember? Capture teachable moments. This became an assembly for the entire school. They displayed what they had collected--a program was built around immigration issues. Janet Joyce tells her stories about her experiences with these issues to the students and allows them to ask questions.

ILT--get students and teachers involved with these initiatives. Author's Tea--students read from their writings--Art

**11:00 – 12:30 Extended lunch –time for networking – and visiting displays set up by Power Librarians**


 * 12:30 – 1:45 Session 2:** **Reflect**

Here are some of the questions you may consider:
 * Think/Pair/Share: What's going well, what are challenges?
 * How did you address the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner?
 * How are you using assessments to measure both the content and the information literacy/21st century skill to be taught?
 * How are you engaging students?
 * Are you using essential questions - inquiry-based or project-based learning?
 * How are you advocating for your library program?
 * What data do you collect and share? With whom?

Advocacy using data. Align and embed all pieces of the job--one project can pull in many pieces at once.

Programs may limit what can be done--blocks become difficult to work around. Chunk programs around one project Equity issues--we must work with all the teachers--work with admin team to develop ways that this gets done. Partner with principal. Educate ourselves about what the 21st century skills are. Educate teachers and school team on the new standards. Risk taking--it's okay to fail. Give it a try! Budget--expand our skill set. Create fundraising events. Access community resources. Use our own resources fully and with creativity.

Testing and standards--anxiety about what the tests will be, etc. Colorado Standards are now set--GLE. GLE's will now incorporate the 21st century skills. We must stay on top of the transitions. Things do feel very up in the air now. We must follow district lead-out. Districts do tend to interpret these standards differently and will roll out new standards at various rates. Assessment must be made to match.

Chocolate always works!

More challenges! Collaboration, staying on the cutting edge, certified teachers are becoming fewer in elementaries, expectations are very limited on the part of the school community. Flexible scheduling is happening--kids are becoming much more self-sufficient in libraries. Community views continue to think of TlL's in the way they always have done--are not aware of all of the new pieces school librarianship. Importance of having a certified teacher librarians--bring articles to support. Utilizing technology to collaborate. All of this is more difficult--librarians are having less and less time to meet together and train.

How can we prove that we make a difference--what assessments do we use to really show our worth?

Networking is critical. Look for one NING or person to find groups or the one group that can feed you the forward-looking information.

Backward planning--Planning by Design. Many resources to help us and get yourself on the leadership team.

**2:00 – 3:15 Session 3:** ** Renew **

If you are familiar with Dr. Loertscher’s “What? So what? Now what? - This would be the “Now What” session. Start drafting a specific plan to put in place in the coming year, using the provided template.
 *  · Based on what you have learned, what do you want to put in place for next year?
 *  · Who do you have to recruit as an ally or collaborator to make this happen?
 *  · What are the obstacles, and how can you overcome them?
 *  · What will your first steps be? What can you do now –and what will need to wait until the fall?
 * 3:15 - 3:30 Closing - Doorprizes!

Closing Remarks from** Laurence Gonzales **, Author media type="custom" key="6007953"**