Leading and Learning in the Library
Willowgrove Final Report 2016-2017
Summary
Although this flyer highlights the last few months in the library, I created a Piktochart that is partially embedded here to highlight some stats for the entire year.
Each role will have the specific components from the AFTL (Assessment for Teacher Librarians) four domains adapted from the work of Charlotte Danielson. There is overlap between the domains and the different roles. For simplicity sake, I used the components from the draft copy of the Saskatoon Public Schools TL Manual.
Top of Infographic
Interesting Stats for Students
Titles Purchased and InterLibrary Loans
Instructional Partner
AFTL Components
Instructional Partner
AFTL Components
1a: Demonstrating understanding of Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
1e: Planning an instructional library program aligned with the priorities and curricula
2b. Establishing a culture for learning
3b: Collaboration: Serves as an instructional partner who works with teachers in the design and teaching of inquiry based learning aligned with curriculum
4a: Reflecting on practice
Instructional Partner Highlights
- part of the weekly ongoing student inquiries in two grade one classrooms
- assisting grade 6/7 with blogging
- supporting the Genius hour in a grade five classroom (keyword searching, introducing tools to share and presenting skills)
- providing resources for Ts related to their curricular teaching
- ILLs (InterLibraryLoans to support ongoing units in the classroom - 218)
- acted as a mentor to Gr7 and Gr8 teacher developing an ELA unit focusing on choice reading and responses
- working with two grade 2 classrooms using the Green Screen
- working with grade 6/7 team with Telemedia
- working with grade 4's culminating project on Habitat research making infographics
- working with grade seven class in PAA using coding skills
Grade One Weekly Inquiry
Middle Years Blogging
PAA Coding with Grade 7s
Literacy Leader
AFTL Components
1a: Demonstrating understanding of Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
3c: Literacy: Models and facilitates thinking strategies for comprehension and response, creating and composition, assessment and reflection
4b: Maintaining and extending the school library collection
Resources Added March-June
Resources Added for the 2016-2017 Year
Resources Read and Previewed for Possible Purchasing
Literacy Leader Highlights
- Pulled and highlighted student and teacher interest themes (seasonal and curricular)
- Purchasing literature for students and staff focusing on math and FNIM resources
- Continuing to develop relationships in order to recommend interest and appropriate reading level books to instill that love of reading
- modelling being a reader in a variety of formats
- Recommending and suggesting the SPL for programs and visits
- Book Cafe for three Middle year Classrooms
- Created a Professional Book Cafe
Circulation Stats
Middle Year Book Tasting
Relaxing and Reading :)
Next Years Willow Books Ready for the Shelves
Information Specialist
3a: Information Literacy: Models processes for locating, acquiring, evaluating, using, and sharing information to solve problems and further inquiry
3d: Digital Fluency : Assists students in becoming digitally fluent
Information Specialist Highlights
- weekly inquiry research with grade two grade one classrooms (1D, 1K)
- continuing to assist students working on computers with search and digital evaluation
- developing and instructing coding via various robotics
- working with grade 2's to save pictures for Green Screen Just a Walk storyboards
Working on Text Features Creating a Life Cycle of Chicks
Research Reflection
Jot Notes to Essays
Learning Environment Manager
1c: Goal Setting :Establishing goals for the school library program appropriate to the setting, division and school initiatives, and the students served
1d: Demonstrating knowledge of needed resources and the process for acquisition, both within and beyond the school and division
1f: Assessing the school library program and making appropriate adjustments
2a: Creating an environment of respect and rapport
2c: Establishing and maintaining school library procedures
2d: Establishing and maintaining a plan for managing student behaviour
2e: Organizing physical space
3e: Responsiveness : Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness
Learning Environment Manager Highlights
- Returned E section to storycorner area
- Shifted Graphic Novels back to buckets in "watering hole" area
- Moved Reference to side to use shelving for E section
- Rearranged fiction and YA section and library to provide extra space
- Returned Library assistants and programming back to old schedule
Library Assistants
- continue to work with library assistants to greet students in a warm and welcoming manner while using the circ computer to check books in and out, sort resources according to their spine labels (Everyone, Fiction etc) to place on the cart,
- adding Destiny skills (temporary titles, adding holds)
- empowering students by allowing students to shelve certain types of resources back into the library for student use independently (Blastoff Readers, fiction series)
Office Space
- set up a schedule for weekly charging of robots and cameras
- shifted FNIM resources in the center of the library for greater access
- relabeled the different robots for easier pairing
Rearranging After the K Classroom No Longer in the Library
Robotics Relabeled for Easy Pairing
Library Converts to become PWIM PD
Learning Specialist
1b: Contextualizing the division’s priorities and the school’s initiatives to address student needs and interests
1d: Demonstrating knowledge of needed resources and the process for acquisition, both within and beyond the school and division
4c: Communicating with the larger community
4d: Participating in a professional community
4e: Engaging in professional development
4f: Showing professionalism
Learning Specialist Highlights
- Joined and attended the Visible Learning PD focusing on literacy using the book Visual Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning
- Collaborated to develop the core collection tender list based on existing Willowgrove library collection
- Joined a Professional Book Club Talk Like Ted and attended final meeting
- Attending monthly YA Twitter book club (#2jennsbookclub)
- Attending a TL Twiiter chat #ndlibchat
- Participated in a Sketch50 challenge (different sketch for 50 days)
- Attended SSLA Conference with International Speaker Donalyn Miller (author of Book Whisperer and Reading in the Wild)
- Joined a Makerclub through the university and developing a maker Breakout for attendees with TL colleagues
- Facilitated a Maker Breakout game at the UofS
Currently Reading or Next Up
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters
Conferring with Readers Supporting Each Student's Growth & Independence
Launch:Using Design THinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student