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www.FundOurFutureWashington.org
Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners
Lisa Layera Susan McBurney
Idaho Regional Conferences, 2010
The Boise Charrette
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: 1. What is the purpose of school? 2. Should school districts provide a space that students can keep and access their
work from anywhere (a virtual portfolio of their time in the district)? 3. What structures need to change to support students in the quest for knowledge? 4. What policies need to evolve? 5. What does your district/school's strategic plan reflect? 6. Is it sustainable? 7. Can we do a better job evaluating what ‘literate’ means today? 8. What motivates students? 9. How can your district and schoolhouse build strong family & community
engagement? What strategies are currently employed? 10. Do you have a system that allows for easy, extensive, and rapid replication of
practices that are working? 11. What model of support is in place to make it scalable? 12. What do you want your children to leave school knowing? 13. How will you know your district / school is moving in the right direction? 2
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Why are we here? equity
access
license to flourish innovation
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Rocky Mountain High School Meridian, Idaho
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Dennis Hass, Media Specialist
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Melba, Idaho
Glynda Pflieger Teacher Librarian
Our story - in three chapters!
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Spring, 2007
Elementary libraries would be closed up to 50% of the time.
Chapter 1
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Spring 2007
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Information Literacy Programs
Spring 2007
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Technology Training
Spring 2007
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Project-‐Based Learning no longer SUSTAINABLE
Spring 2007
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Collaboration
IMPOSSIBLE
Spring 2007
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Accelerated Learning
Opportunities
CURTAILED
Spring 2007
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One-‐on-‐one Interventions
Please h
elp save
elementary sch
ool librarians in Spokane !!
The Spokane School Distr
ict (Distr
ict 81) is
curre
ntly facing a $10.5 MM budget d
eficit, a
nd is in th
e process of
deciding where to
cut b
ack in order to balance th
eir budget.
One of the ideas b
eing pursued involves c
utting
full-time teacher-librarians fr
om ten elementary schools,
and replacing th
em with part-tim
e librarian/cle
rks.
This would affect n
early 4000 Spokane children, and would be th
e third
cut in
four years to th
e school lib
rary
program. Cuttin
g these lib
rarians would se
riously
undermine th
e quality of education th
at students r
eceive in
Spokane's public
schools.
Librarians are essen
tial to our schools! I
f you care about th
is issue,
please sign the online petiti
on at:
www.gopetition.com sea
rch for ‘Spokane Librarians’
Please pass th
e word on to others who might want to support th
is cause!
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“Swim upstream to Olympia.”
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Chapter 2
“Does anyone else care?”
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a citizens’ army, nearly 15,000 strong
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They did care, and here’s why …
Achievement Gap
Equity
I ♥ Libraries !
Democracy
Access to the InformaEon Age
Library Programs as Basic EducaEon
21st Century Skills
Global Preparedness
Literacy Workforce Readiness
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The Washington CoaliEon for School Libraries and InformaEon Technology (WCSLit) envisions a future where every public school or small district in Washington state is served by a full-‐Eme, cerEfied teacher-‐librarian who manages a fully-‐funded library and technology resource collecEon. The coaliEon looks to a future where students from across the state have the same access to technology, the same chance for literacy, and the same opportunity to receive a world-‐class educaEon. It is our hope that Washington state standards for library and informaEon technology educaEon become the benchmark for library and informaEon technology instrucEon across the naEon.
Full-‐Eme cerEfied teacher-‐librarian in every school
WA State LIT educaEon standards become a
benchmark
Fully-‐funded library materials and technology resources
Equitable access to technology, literacy, and
opportunity
Washington Coali>on for School Libraries and Informa>on Technology (WCS-‐Lit)
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✓ build
relationships
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49-‐0 Senate vote for emergency bridge funding
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What is effective advocacy?
Know your issue.
Know the policy surrounding it.
Understand the political terrain.
Build relationships.
Stay the course … for the long haul.
WA State Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown
MAXIMS
Administrators
Legislators
Build relationships and be a resource.
School boards
MAXIMS
Don’t show up only when things aren’t going well.
Build relationships before there’s a crisis.
Nurture them.
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November 18, 2007 in Opinion
Fight for librarians on again.
Last week, Lisa Layera Brunkan watched the dawn rise in the same brown yoga pants
she’d been wearing for two days straight.
Night after night, she worked the mom’s “swing shift of advocacy” with her friend Susan
McBurney, as they prepared to influence members of a state education task force in
Olympia tomorrow about the importance of employing a full-time, certified teacher
librarian in every school in the state.
Brunkan and McBurney were two of the ringleaders of the group of young South Hill
powerhouse moms I wrote about last summer who campaigned against cutting school
library positions from the Spokane Schools annual budget.
Undaunted by the odds against them, these well-educated women relied on their
previous professional experience – as a headhunter, a Ph.D. linguist and a CPA
among others – to drum up at least 900 signatures on a petition and make
impassioned arguments in front of the school board.
It was in August, at a computer in a campground in Canada during her family’s
summer vacation, that Brunkan learned the heartbreaking truth.
A fellow library advocate wrote Brunkan an e-mail with these searing words: “We lost.”
The school board voted to reduce 10 library positions to part time for this year.
For a month or so, Brunkan decided to lay low.
But in September, she was walking her children home from school when a car pulled
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Key to literacy, librarians now "highly
endangered" By Lynn Thompson
Times Snohomish County Bureau
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
When Monroe High School librarian Lorraine Monprode took her first job, she was
checking out filmstrips and cassette tape players. She knew when a class report on
World War I was due because a clutch of students fought over the same volume of the
encyclopedia.
Flash forward about 25 years. Monprode guides students researching World War I
bunkers to online resources that include video tours of actual bunkers, audio
recollections of soldiers who fought in the war, and hyperlinks to other electronic
sources, all at the same time a classmate on another library computer searches the
same materials.
In the age of information overload, librarians say their skills at finding authoritative and
accurate sources and helping students think critically about what they read are more
important than ever. But some districts around the state, including Darrington and
Granite Falls, have cut librarian positions to balance their budgets.
"The reality is that some districts and principals try to get test scores up by spending
more time on test-taking and less time on open-ended projects, what we call discovery
learning," said Marianne Hunter, president of the Washington Library Media
Association and a high-school librarian in Lacey, Thurston County.
An American Library Association task force last year called school librarians "highly
endangered." The task force said laying all accountability for school success on
reading and math scores denies the instructional value of libraries and the teaching
role of librarians.
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Grass-roots effort begins to save school libraries By Lynn Thompson
Times Snohomish County Bureau November 20, 2007
Supporters of school librarians and library programs have launched a statewide online petition
drive to try to save what they believe is an endangered school position.
Two parents from the Spokane School District, where budget cuts this year reduced 10
librarian positions to half-time, want librarians and library services included in the state's
definition of a basic education.
"We're really, really scared libraries will fall through the cracks," said Susan McBurney, who
together with Lisa Layera Brunkan is organizing the petition drive. The petition can be found
at http://gopetition.com/online/15285.html.
So far, more than 430 people have signed.
A task force meeting today in Olympia is considering revisions to the state education-funding
formula. The task force hopes to make recommendations to the Legislature in September
2008.
Rep. Skip Priest, R-Federal Way, said the librarian cuts are symbolic of the state education-
funding crisis. The Federal Way School District cut 20 library positions in 2006 in the face of a
$4 million budget shortfall.
"When we were forced to eliminate librarians, it sent a clear message that the state wasn't
funding basic education," said Priest, who serves on the Joint Task Force on Basic Education
Finance created by the 2007 Legislature.
The petition organizers note that school districts around the state have made a variety of
library-program cutbacks, including replacing teacher-librarians with aides, assigning
librarians to more than one school, reducing library hours and not replacing retiring librarians.
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In parents' book, library cuts go too far Families in Spokane launch what has grown into a statewide effort to
protect schools' guardians of the shelves.
December 23, 2007|Stuart Glascock, Times Staff Writer
SEATTLE — As has happened in other states, cash-strapped schools in Washington are
dropping librarians to save money: This year, Federal Way cut 20 librarian positions.
Spokane reduced 10 librarians to half-time. Darrington cut two librarians. A school in
Marysville eliminated its half-time librarian.
Libraries are open less, their programs minimized, jobs combined. In many cases, part- timers with little formal library training are replacing skilled veterans. In rural Pomeroy, a school now employs a combination custodian-librarian: She opens the library after cleaning the locker rooms.
One school's parents said: Enough is enough.
Convinced that children and education suffers when librarians disappear, a loose-knit
band of Spokane families launched what has become a statewide campaign to bring
school librarians back from the brink.
The parents blasted e-mails about an online petition to everyone they knew. They
posted fliers at coffee shops, bookstores and public libraries. They began an e-mail
newsletter and advertised the campaign on social networking websites. They gave
presentations to education professionals and camped out at school board meetings.
As their expenses grew, they sold T-shirts to raise money to fund trips to the state
capital in Olympia, where they've become fixtures at hearings on school finances.
This month, they hand-delivered 2,500 signatures to a state government committee
examining Washington's arcane school-funding system. "We did it to find out if
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Librarians essential to good schools!Letters to the Editor December 29, 2007 !
HAVING READ "Parents' group tries to stop demise of the school librarian"
(Page A17, Dec. 25), I can't help but ask, Where does Massachusetts stand?
Truth be told, almost half of the schools in Massachusetts don't even have a
librarian, let alone a fully funded library program. Our educationally elite state,
which boasts Harvard, MIT, and countless other renowned institutions of higher
learning, is near or at the bottom for support of our public school libraries. Think
about it.
Educational research and common sense tell us that a strong school library
program positively impacts student achievement. It is in the school library where
children learn how to access, evaluate, and synthesize information, to learn how
to learn. It is there where they can catch the enthusiasm for reading they will
carry with them throughout their lives and pass on to their children. At the heart
of the best library programs are credentialed school librarians, and a library
program should be at the heart of our children's education.
Do the parents of Washington state love their children more or know something
we don't about the value of library programs?
It is way past due for parents, lawmakers, and a governor here in Massachusetts
to show the country that we value education just as much as the fine folks of
South Carolina and Arkansas. HELEN GARRETT, Wenham
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Three Spokane Moms Save Their School Libraries
How three women from Spokane saved their school libraries
and created an advocacy model for the rest of us
By Debra Lau Whelan -- School Library Journal, 9/1/2008
One of the most successful campaigns in the history of libraries actually
happened by chance, over an order of tofu pad thai. In May 2007, Lisa Layera
Brunkan stopped by a Thai restaurant for lunch on her way back from teaching a
yoga class at a nearby Air Force base in Spokane, WA. It was there that she
picked up a copy of the weekly Inlander and saw a photograph of Ginny Pounds,
the school librarian at Roosevelt Elementary, where Brunkan’s daughter Isabel
was a second grader. The accompanying story reported that Pounds, a 17-year
teaching veteran, was about to have her hours slashed by the cash-strapped
school district.
The news hit Brunkan hard. As a volunteer in the media center, she saw firsthand
the difference Pounds made in students’ lives. “The library is one place in the
school that’s dedicated to providing the skills that are so central to the modern
age,” says Brunkan. And without certified librarians heading them “our children
were going to be riding an apple cart on the information highway.”
Ten days later, Brunkan found herself testifying to the board of directors of the
Spokane Public Schools. “I am here representing concerned citizens of Spokane
who oppose any further cuts to librarians,” she told them. “We cannot afford to
cut our information specialist.” But her words had no impact.
From that day on, Brunkan went from a concerned citizen to a grassroots activist.
“It was a cause I couldn’t ethically turn away from,” explains Brunkan. But she
had to act fast. In three months, the board would decide whether or not to halve
the hours of 10 elementary school librarians to offset a $10.8 million budget
shortfall. While the savings amounted to a measly $350,000, a drop in the bucket
compared to the district’s $293 million budget, it would be the third significant
cut to Spokane’s hard-pressed media centers over the span of four years.
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EDUCATION WEEK
Campaigns Spreading to Reverse Downturn
in Library Financing By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
February 13, 2008
Some school libraries in Spokane, Wash., are as likely to be dark and empty
these days as they are filled with children. Like many of their counterparts
in school districts around the state and the country, Spokane officials have
scaled back school library services and staffing in response to budget
deficits, a problem highlighted in a new survey by the American Association
of School Librarians.
A grassroots campaign to salvage those programs in Washington state is
taking hold and spreading to other states, however. After collecting more
than 5,000 signatures in an online petition, a group of mothers from the
28,000-student Spokane district made some headway in the state capital,
Olympia, this month in convincing lawmakers that school libraries need new
funding.
“It made me sick that [the library] was being relegated to a kind of
supermarket” where students just check out books, said Lisa Layera
Brunkan, who founded Fund Our Future Washington with two other
mothers, Susan McBurney and Denette Hill, to champion...
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THE FUTURE OF READING
In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update By MOTOKO RICH
Published: February 15, 2009
It was the “aha!” moment that Stephanie Rosalia was hoping for.
A group of fifth graders huddled around laptop computers in the school
library overseen by Ms. Rosalia and scanned allaboutexplorers.com, a
Web site that, unbeknownst to the children, was intentionally peppered
with false facts.
Ms. Rosalia, the school librarian at Public School 225, a combined
elementary and middle school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, urged
caution. “Don’t answer your questions with the first piece of information
that you find,” she warned.
Most of the students ignored her, as she knew they would. But Nozimakon
Omonullaeva, 11, noticed something odd on a page about Christopher
Columbus.
“It says the Indians enjoyed the cellphones and computers brought by
Columbus!” Nozimakon exclaimed, pointing at the screen. “That’s
wrong.”
It was an essential discovery in a lesson about the reliability — or lack
thereof — of information on the Internet, one of many Ms. Rosalia teaches
in her role as a new kind of school librarian.
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!ree Moms Make HistoryS p e c i a l F e a t u r e
Susan, “I was watching the vote take place, and just broke into tears.”
That’s understandable; this success had come at great cost. The moms had acquired consider-able credit card debt, turned a blind eye to dirty dishes and laundry, and seen how stressful their long working hours and separations were on their marriages and children.
Although the Senate bill failed in the House, a compromise was soon worked out, and the final budget included a $4 million line item for library programs for the next school year.
The women aren’t resting on their laurels, however; they want to see a solution at the federal level. And they are delighted that their work has inspired grassroots campaigns in other states; Oregon currently has legislation regarding school libraries in the pipeline.
Thanks to their efforts, future generations of children will be able to walk into public school libraries, because the doors are still open and the lights are still on.
posting fliers and writing letters to the editor. They created an online petition and gathered signatures at bookstores and supermarkets.
Word spread fast; more than 900 Spokane residents signed the women’s petition. Letters from prominent business leaders appeared in the local papers. Parents, teachers and librarians supported the trio before the Spokane school board.
Yet, despite these efforts, the school board voted in favor of the cuts. The trio was devastated, but Lisa called losing the local fight “the best thing that ever happened—they told us to ‘swim upstream’ to Olympia.”
Having learned in the process that library funding was a statewide problem, the moms formed a coalition, partnering with the Washington Library Media Association and other groups. They launched a statewide petition and developed a comprehensive Web site, FundOurFutureWashington.org, complete with a blog, research, testimonials and resources for taking action.
The women traveled back and forth to Olympia to meet with legislators, and galvanized hundreds of educators, parents and librarians. The petition they took to Olympia had 1400 signatures.
They were blessed by perfect timing at the state capital: a recently created task force was working to redefine basic education and develop a new funding structure for K-12 education. Looking for a long-term solution to the problem, the women reached out to members of the task force, hoping to have school library programs included in basic education. Addressing the short-term crisis, they drafted and submitted a supplemental budget request for $54 million.
The trio connected with three key members of the Senate—Majority Leader Lisa Brown, Senator Rosemary McAuliffe and Senator Tracey Eide—all moms. Bills were introduced in both houses, and in February 2008, the Senate voted 49-0 in favor of emergency bridge funding for school libraries—an event that filled the Spokane advocates with joy. Recalled
They’ve been championed in newspapers from New York to Los Angeles and bythe American Library Association. Féted in the Washington State capital of Olympia, they haveturned school librarians into valuable, visible members of the public school system.
These hardworking advocates are Lisa Layera Brunkan, Susan McBurney, and Denette Hill, three Spokane moms.
Because of their efforts, the Washington state legislature recently passed an education reform bill that includes a permanent line item for school library funding—an achievement School Library Journal calls “one of the most successful campaigns in the history of libraries.”
The enterprise began with Lisa, who was devastated to learn that, due to district budget shortfalls, librarian hours would be cut in half at many Spokane elementary schools, including her children’s neighborhood school. She quickly teamed up with Susan and Denette, and the three worked to raise community awareness and engage the school board.
The moms knew their own children would be fine in the long run, but were concerned that less-privileged children would be left behind — children without home access to computers and other skills they’d need in the 21st century. Quite simply, these moms wanted to level the playing field.
As a volunteer in the media center at her daughter’s school, Lisa knew what a difference a teacher-librarian makes in students’ lives. “A teacher-librarian is the only person in the schoolhouse dedicated to imparting the crucial 21st-century skill of information literacy,” she explained. “As the digital divide grows wider, the school library remains the one place that provides equal access to technology.” Thus, the trio went straight to work, blasting emails,
Lisa Layera Brunkan, Susan McBurney and Denette Hill
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“As the digital divide grows wider, the school library remains the one placethat provides equal access to technology.”
Lisa Layera Brunkan was born in Chile,
raised in the U.S., and did graduate work in Costa Rica
as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.!She is married to
Rick Brunkan and worked as an executive recruiter
before staying home with her three children. With Susan
McBurney and Denette Hill, Lisa co-founded the
Washington Coalition for School Libraries and
Information Technology (WCS-Lit) to advocate for school
library funding in Washington State. Lisa, her husband
Rick, and their daughter Isabel are judges for the Mom’s
Choice Awards®.
Susan McBurney received a Ph.D. in
Linguistics from the University of Washington and has
worked!as a teacher of the deaf, a sign language
interpreter, and a university instructor and researcher.!
She is married to Michael Gadd and has two young
children. She continues her work as a sign language
linguist, researching and publishing.
Denette Hill is a CPA.
E010_revA.pdf 5/25/09 12:29:09 PM
The Mom’s Choice Awards® Magazine
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40+ ar>cles
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The cuts continue …
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WA School Libraries: The Hemorrhaging of Our Knowledge Capital
References: For specific information about these statistics and program cuts contact www.fundourfuturewashington.org Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology (WCS-Lit) and Washington Library Media Association Advocacy Task Force http://www.wlma.org/libraryadvocacy Original Version September 2009 Updated May 2009 http://www.fundourfuturewashington.org/resources/Map+of+cuts+to+libraries+5-20-09.pdf Current Version October 2009
2003: Only 56.9% of school libraries are staffed by a full-time certified teacher-librarian.
2008: Funding crisis: Title V funds have been eliminated and library media programs remain outside basic ed. funding. 2009: Cuts to school library programs continue (some listed below).
Longview and Kelso – No K – 8th librarians. Wahkiakum re-places TL with paraprofessional.
Puyallup 1 Teacher Librarian to serve three high schools, 1 Teacher Librarian for seven middle schools and eleven Teacher Librarians for 22 elementaries.
Enumclaw middle school and five elementary schools staffed only half time.
Soap Lake and Mattawa have no certified librarians. Shelton replaced middle and jr high librarians with Instructional Assistants as library techs. High School librarian cut to .8.
Goldendale and Mabron have no teacher librarians in any of their schools 2009 -2010. Walla Walla cut elementary libraries by 50% and high school aide cut.
Spokane returned to .5 staffing at half the 34 elementary school with libraries closed half the week.
Medical Lake reduced certified library staff by 60%. Cheney reduced TL time at high school and elementary level.
Ephrata has eliminated all K – 8 certified librarians.
Edmonds ! time librarians at 4 elementary schools and a alternative high school (50% cut) District Library and Information Services Coordinator was eliminated.
Bellevue removed all certified teacher librarians from secondary schools and reassigned them to classrooms. Snoqualmie eliminated secondary librarians.
Northshore eliminated Director of Technology.
Tahoma cut all elementary librarians and reduced middle school library program.
2008-2009 Washington State Legislature funded one-time per student emergency bridge funding at $4 per student while the average price of a hard cover book was $21.
Bellingham dissolved Dept. of Instructional Tech & Libraries. Lynden – High school librarian cut.
Bremerton has no elementary librarians. “Multi-media specialists” teach ! time at two schools with no library duties.
East Wenatchee proposed cut to all certified librarians except at 1 high school.
Colville reduced certified librarians by 25%.
Centralia middle school librarian replaced with aide.
Gig Harbor has para-professionals running the middle and elementary school libraries.
Sedro-Wooely 50% cut in elementary librarians so two cover seven schools.
Wishkah Valley – no library services.
Finley cut para support and reduced library staffing at elementaries & middle school.
Spokane reduces 15 elem.. schools to.5 certified librarian, with a one year solution to restore most programs to .80 with $4 allocation fund.
Kent replaced ! of elementary librarians with aides.
Centralia SD has 2 certified librarians serving all 3,500 students.
Ocean Beach SD has reduced certified librarians by 75%.
Elma SD has a .5 certified librarian serving all 1,800 students.
Federal Way SD cut 20 certified librarians. All middle school and high schools reduced to services of a certified library to one day a week.
Pt. Angeles SD has no certified librarians in elementary or middle schools.
Mount Vernon and Ferndale SD has reduced library programs by 50%.
Darrington and Granite Falls have cut or do not have any certified librarians.
The cuts continue …
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Why did we still care?
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Informa>on Overload
Accelerated Rate of Change 45
INFORMATION ANARCHY!Informa>on Monarchy Informa>on Democracy
"I think we're all walking around in a big Saharan data sandstorm." A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-‐It-‐All
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Chapter 3
gruity incon
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• Data visualization • Cloud computing • Advanced analytics • Virtualization • Notebook/netbook adoption
• Mobile applications • Open source software • Online social networking
Technology Trends
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A sampling of tools that had come out over last three years ….
“College-‐ready” had changed
Green Majors
Forensic Sciences
Service Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Health Infomatics
Data Visualization
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• nanotechnology • digital forensics • strategic intelligence • genomics • opEcs • pharmacogenomics • renewable energy • cleantech • emerging media • image semanEcs • Essue engineering • biotechnology
• visual representaEon of complex data
• human-‐computer interacEon
• loud compuEng • video gaming • forensic accounEng • health informaEon
management • IT networking / systems
management • data mining • digital mapping
“Career-‐ready” had changed
Emerging Industries
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Did You Know 4.0
Did You Know? 4.0: The Economist Media Convergence Remix (from Karl Fisch and Sco_ McLeod) 52
What’s the problem?
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Is our education system preparing kids for the future and the information landscape they'll reside in?
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WA State - Prioritization for Funding Phase-in
100% in 2018
December 2009
✓ remain relevant ✓ stamina
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President Obama Proposes Eliminating Federal School Library Funds
February 2010
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A Nation Without School Librarians
eliminate posiEons
require 1 TL to run two or more school library programs
Decisions made to
Shonda Brisco
The opportunity of the century has arrived.
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President Obama Releases
Education Blueprint March 2010
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Learning to Change, Changing to Learn
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The world is changing.
What would the school library
look like if it were invented today?
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Library + Laboratory = Libratory “A place to make stuff, do stuff, share stuff, not just get stuff.”
Joyce Valenza
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Periodic Table of 21st Century Resources
Digital content producEon
Global learning
Foreign language learning Financial literacy
Global ciEzenship Reading
InformaEon Space CreaEon
Website / Digital Portal
Community Space Research Tools CollaboraEon Labs
CommunicaEon Tools (2.0)
Digital ciEzenship ComposiEon Avatar Studio AnalyEcs
A Place of Their Own
Storytelling Games Corner
DATA
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What’s happening now?
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“School library programs are not highly valued, they’re not seen as essential … they are dying on the vine.”
Mike Eisenberg
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What quesEon should be asked?
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What do kids really need in order to flourish in the world they inhabit?
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What do you think kids need (that they’re not getting now)?
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[shuh-‐ret] -‐noun
a gathering of people for an intense period of brainstorming and design. Faced with a problem or a challenge, the parEcipants pool their talents to produce plans to achieve a goal.
The word “charre_e” means cart or chariot in French, and was used to describe the cart that was wheeled through Paris to pick up the senior projects of students at the Ecole des Beau Arts. It came to mean “hecEc work required to meet a deadline”.
o Solu>on-‐oriented o Collabora>ve o Involves a cross-‐sec>on of community stakeholders
o Evokes a sense of urgency
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The Boise Charrette Wikispace
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Our Design Tools
SURVEY
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Today’s Objectives:
• Ensure equitable and innovative 21st century teaching and learning for all students.
• Transform community engagement in your district.
• Create a blueprint for launching a 21st century Library Information and Technology (LIT) program in your school and in your district.
• What else?
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reformat
5 relationships 6 Foundations
WEBSITE
physical space
emerging technologies
portals
lookout
conduiT
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The Unquiet Librarian’s Space
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“Focus on things kids can’t get anywhere else in the school.” Buffy J. Hamilton The Unquiet Librarian
5 relationships
legislators students
parents teachers administrators
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5 partners workboard
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Administrators as Partners for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
!Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners – 2010 Idaho Workshop
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Students
Students
Parents
Legislators Administrators
What are the 3 most pressing issues relating to these partnerships?
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Classroom Teachers
Teacher Librarian
WEBSITE physical space emerging technologies portals lookout conduit
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6 foundations
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Website -‐ it’s your calling card
Website -‐ it’s your calling card Joyce Valenza's Virtual Library
Physical Space
Physical Space
San Antonio Airport
Boise Airport
Emerging Technologies
Portals
Portals
Lookout
Lookout
The people in charge of leading school organizations into the 21st century …
often are the least knowledgeable
about the 21st century.
dangerouslyirrelevant.org
Sco_ McLeod
The librarians who survive will be those who make themselves the social media experts of their school. Students and teachers now have endless options beyond the covers of a book to find the information that they need. Patrick Larkin, Principal Burlington High School, MA
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Conduit
Conduit
Conduit
• policies
• practices
• procedures
• systems
• structures • strategies
HOW TO BEGIN
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Exploring a Prototype Joyce Valenza's Virtual Library
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More to explore Wiki clearinghouse of effecEve pracEces
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What is ….
paramount effective non-negotiable
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“Our mission is to ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.”
Mike Eisenberg University of Washington
let’s get down to work
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Designing Your Space and Program for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
!Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners – 2010 Idaho Workshop
Lisa Layera & Susan McBurney
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WEBSPACE / VIRTUAL SPACE !
! Physical Space
! Technology Tools
! Collaboration !!!!!!!!! !
! Reading & Literacy !
! Student Resources !
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! Creativity & Communication !
! Information literacy
Skills & mgmt. !!!!!!! !
! Digital & Global Citizenship !
! Equity & Access !
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! Assessment & Integration !
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Designing your space and program for 21st century teaching and Learning
12 Elements of Effective PRactice
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6 Founda>ons Checklist
Emerging Technologies
__ showcase student work
Physical Space Website
__ virtual poll (what do they want) __ train Student IT Fellows
__ solicit content feedback __ start a web design club
__ launch ‘Teacherbook’
__ create robust ‘Parents Tab’ __ survey parent needs __ launch Parents’ Wiki
__ feature on district homepage __ facilitate principal’s blog __ facilitate supdt’s blog
__ create ‘Local Civics’ secEon __ create ‘Ask your Legislator’ feature w/ librarian as intermediary
__ hip, comfortable furniture __ facilitate new clubs / meet-‐ups
__ Harkness tables for seminar-‐style teaching.
__ culEvate hygge-‐coziness, tranquility
__ facilitate parents contribuEng to hygge __ PTA-‐sponsored foreign language staEon w/ Rose_a Stone soqware
__ invite to any ‘presenEng’ of resources; facilitate their taking ownership and celebraEng
__ invite every fall during offsession __ invite to dedicate new equip., upgrades, etc.
__ create hashtag for favorite new technology or tool; solicit student submissions
__ become peer coach of technology __ offer emerg. Tech. training
__ parent tech. training night __ create tech. wish list __ ask PTA to fund Student IT Fellows’ travel to tech. conference; librarian as chaperone
__ offer emerg. tech. training __ send out Horizon Report __ get them started on Twi_er
__ send ‘Emerging Technology Tips’ to legislators and their LAs __ offer to set them up on Twi_er
__ make it a desEnaEon
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6 Founda>ons Checklist
Connec>vity
__ champion virtual porsolios
Lookout Portal
__ Horizon Report w/ trends and opportuniEes __ facilitate global connecEvity
with Skype, FlatClassroom etc. __ showcase student art __ leverage flip cams
__ create blogs, class wikis, & pathfinders for every teacher
__ create hashtag and deliver daily nuggets on what students/classes are doing; catalyst for dinnerEme conversaEon
__ invite admin. to student shows __ invite admin. to legislator visits __ invite school board to student shows
__ digital postcards from kids __ facilitate mid-‐session briefing for interested students
__ spearhead assessing keyboarding mastery
__ start in-‐service days with New Tools Roundup (preferably free ones)
__ Horizon Report w/ emerging tech. trends, top 10 sites for kids, summary of what kids are learning and producing that quarter
__ ongoing: send resources for Strategic Plan update
__ create annual Legislators’ Report; frame as thanks; kid-‐centric showcasing student work and $$ investment.
__ offer to set up on Twi_er to help grow their PLN
__ send Holiday Horizon Report w/ giq recs., ho_est trends
__ set up Google Reader for principal, Supdt., Sch. Board __ keep administraEon informed of 21st C. leadership opportuniEes
__ host a session wrap-‐up
__ be their reference go-‐to person
__ showcase one project with every teacher over year
__ form commi_ee on social media policy
__ invite to be on Technology Leadership Team
__ track their work and send notes of appreciaEon
__ spearhead 1:1 iniEaEve w/ city, district and community
__ annual student-‐designed LIT program theme
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6 Founda>ons Workboard
Emerging Technologies Physical Space Website
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6 Founda>ons Workboard
Connec>vity Lookout Portal
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Action Plan: Delivering What Students Need
by June October ILA mtg. 1 week
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Risk Assessment: How Innovative is your LIT Program?
Risk Assessment: How Innovative is Your LIT Program?
!Partnering to Shape 21
st Century Learners – 2010 Idaho Workshop
Stages in the development of an innovative LIT program*
Underdeveloped Traditional Emerging Innovative Striving to succeed by standard measure of success; unable to re-tool for the 21
st C.
information landscape.
Program is effective by standard measures; innovates to improve within traditional model of LIT program.
Effective by standard measures, working to go beyond; innovating within and beyond traditional model of LIT program.
Goes beyond standard measure of success; highly innovative, has transformed by creating a new archetype for LIT programs.
Rubric for
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AREAS of EFFECTIVE PRACTICE
Information Literacy / Skills & Management
Equity & Access
Webspace / Virtual Space
Physical Space
Collaboration
Reading & Literacy
Student Resources
Technology Tools
Community
Creativity and Communication
Digital and Global Citizenship
Assessment & Integration
Leveraging Web 2.0
What is your LIT program’s footprint (digital and physical)?
in the school
in the district
in the community
Does a shared understanding about the purpose / contributions of the LIT program exist?
How easy is it to assess how your LIT program impacts
student achievement?
How easy it to assess your effectiveness as a
reading advocate
information manager
information literacy
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