Working Boise Ppt

www.FundOurFutureWashington.org

Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners

Lisa Layera Susan McBurney

Idaho Regional Conferences, 2010

The Boise Charrette

Introduce your group and your school.

What are your top three concerns?

What do you hope to get out of this workshop?

New graphic/image needed

Why are we here? equity

access

chance for success

I don’t love the layout of this

Overview of the day

haven’t crystallized this yet Need a slide design idea too. SDll thinking

Our story - in three chapters!

Spring, 2007

3rd cut in 4 years elementary programs

hit hardest

Chapter 1

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!

“Swim upstream to Olympia.”

Chapter 2

“Does anyone else care?”

a ciDzens’ army, nearly 15,000 strong

They did care, and here’s why …

Achievement Gap

Equity

I ♥ Libraries !

Democracy

Access to the InformaDon Age

Library Programs as Basic EducaDon

21st Century Skills

Global Preparedness

Literacy Workforce Readiness

The Washington CoaliDon for School Libraries and InformaDon Technology (WCSLit) envisions a future where every public school or small district in Washington state is served by a full-‐Dme, cerDfied teacher-‐librarian who manages a fully-‐funded library and technology resource collecDon. The coaliDon 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 educaDon. It is our hope that Washington state standards for library and informaDon technology educaDon become the benchmark for library and informaDon technology instrucDon across the naDon.

Full-‐Dme cerDfied teacher-‐librarian in every school

WA State LIT educaDon standards become a

benchmark

Fully-‐funded library materials and technology resources

Equitable access to technology, literacy, and

opportunity

Washington CoaliHon for School Libraries and InformaHon Technology (WCS-‐Lit)

49-‐0 Senate vote for emergency bridge funding ✓

$4 MM emergency bridge funding First ever line-‐item for school library programs

✓

✓ Policy recommendaHons to codify teacher-‐librarians and library programs as part of Washington’s Basic EducaHon Act.

• Might need a transiDon here

ADVOCACY CHECKLIST

1. create a mandate

2. establish credibility

3. mobilize 4. leverage resources

5. build relationships

6. engage ! 7. execute with style 8. provide concrete request & data

9. ? relevancy 10. ? stamina

!

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

!

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.

!

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.

!

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

!

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

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.

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...

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.

!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

10 E n t r o | 2 0 0 9

“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.

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The Mom’s Choice Awards® Magazine

40+ arHcles

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Chapter 3

gruity incon

• Data visualization • Cloud computing • Advanced analytics • Virtualization • Notebook/netbook adoption

• Mobile applications • Open source software • Online social networking

Technology Trends

A sampling of tools that have come out in the last three years ….

CuZng Edge College Majors

Green Majors

Forensic Sciences

Service Science

Human-Computer Interaction

Health Infomatics

Data Visualization

• nanotechnology • digital forensics • strategic intelligence • genomics • opDcs • pharmacogenomics • renewable energy • cleantech • emerging media • image semanDcs • Dssue engineering • biotechnology

• visual representaDon of complex data

• human-‐computer interacDon

• loud compuDng • video gaming • forensic accounDng • health informaDon

management • IT networking / systems

management • data mining • digital mapping

Emerging Industries

Did You know 4.0

Did You Know? 4.0: The Economist Media Convergence Remix (from Karl Fisch and Scoa McLeod)

Is our educaHon system preparing kids for the future and the informaHon landscape they'll reside in?

What do kids really need in order to flourish in the world they inhabit?

WA State -‐ PrioriDzaDon for Funding Phase-‐in

100% in 2018

President Obama Proposes EliminaHng Federal School Library Funds

February 2010

Status quo -‐ no longer an opHon

[shuh-‐ret] -‐noun

a gathering of people for an intense period of brainstorming and design. Faced with a problem or a challenge, the parDcipants pool their talents to produce plans to achieve a goal.

The word "charreae" 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 “hecDc work required to meet a deadline”.

o SoluHon-‐oriented o CollaboraHve o Involves a cross-‐secHon of community stakeholders

o Evokes a sense of urgency

The Boise Charrette Wikispace

Our Design Tools

others

What’s the problem?

“School library programs are not highly valued, they’re not seen as essen9al … they are dying on the vine.”

Mike Eisenberg

What consHtutes a modern library pracHce? Joyce Valenza

What acHons can you take to deliver what people need and share it with

the people who ma_er most?

5 relationships 6 Foundations

WEBSITE

physical space

emerging technologies

portals

lookout

connectedness

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✔ ✔ ✔

12 Elements of Effective Practice

students

teachers

administrators

legislators

parents

MAX IMS Build a mandate Cultivate relationships Do it with style • graciousness • service • make an impression

5 Relationships

Could use hand instead of flower Don’t like the maxims box look

New Title Needed Here

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!Partnering to Shape 21

st Century Learners – 2010 Idaho Workshop

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What are the 3 most pressing issues relating to these partnerships?

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Classroom

Teachers

LIT

Teachers

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Learning to Change, Changing to Learn

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

The Alchemy of Knowledge

iniDaDve + inquisiDveness + resources = knowledge

Periodic Table of 21st Century Resources

Digital content producDon

Global learning

Foreign language learning Financial literacy

Global ciDzenship Reading

InformaDon Space CreaDon

Website / Digital Portal

Community Space Research Tools CollaboraDon Labs

CommunicaDon Tools (2.0)

Digital ciDzenship ComposiDon Avatar Studio AnalyDcs

A Place of Their Own

Storytelling Games Corner

DATA

Technology Tools

Digital & Global CiDzenship

The Boise Sketch

Equity & Access

Student Growth Resources

Community

InformaDon Literacy Skills & Management

Student CreaDvity & ProducDon

Assessment & IntegraDon

Reading / Literacy

Web Space/ Virtual Space

Physical Space

CollaboraDon / Mentoring


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

• policies

• practices

• procedures

• systems

• structures • strategies

AVENUES of CHANGE

Technology Tools

Digital & Global CiDzenship

Equity & Access

Student Growth Resources

Community

InformaDon Literacy Skills & Management

Student CreaDvity & ProducDon

Assessment & IntegraDon

Reading / Literacy

Web Space/ Virtual Space

Physical Space

CollaboraDon / Mentoring


The Boise Sketch

Exploring a Prototype Joyce Valenza's Virtual Library

More to explore Wiki clearinghouse of effecDve pracDces

Post your ideas

Not sure where this will fall

Effective Practices!Video Montage!

Eric ConH, Superintendent Burlington Public Schools

hap://Dny.cc/jHRUS

InformaHon Overload

Accelerated Rate of Change

INFORMATION ANARCHY!InformaHon Monarchy InformaHon Democracy

"I think we're all walking around in a big Saharan data sandstorm." A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-‐It-‐All

The storm is the best Dme to fish.

Inuit saying

What makes a survivor?

Survivor Theorist Laurence Gonzales

A message for librarians

What to do?

deflaHonist!

Whatever you do…

don’t be a

“You’re the best version of yourself when you manage to have fun doing your work.”

Chris Flink, IDEO

What is ….

paramount effective non-negotiable

[thinking maybe we should back off the ‘survivor challenge’ language and streamline the discussion of the 6 foundaDons. Use the language that is in the 5-‐6-‐12 wave. I think the survivor thing works, but is it too much here?

What do you think? I could go either way.

L I B R A R I A N

THE MOMS’ PERSPECTIVE

WEBSITE CHALLENGE – DESIGN A COMPASS

“How do I build a culture of innova9on? Not just by changing prac9ces but by changing beliefs and aGtudes as well.” -‐Bruce Dixon

PHYSICAL SPACE CHALLENGE DESIGN THE RIGHT VESSEL

The Unquiet Librarian’s Space

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFE BOATS

BE T TER YE T …

TEACH THEM TO SURF!

“I would be puerile to argue that the world has ever been sta9c, but it's reasonable to argue that the world has never been as uncertain as it is today.” Eamonn Kelly, CEO Global Business Network (which pracDces a futurist sub-‐specialty known as scenario planning)

“Look to collaborate with those who can do

what you can't.” -‐Paul Bennea

PORTAL CHALLENGE – PROVIDE AQUA LUNGS FOR ALL

LOOKOUT CHALLENGE KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE HORIZON

The people in charge of leading school organizations into the 21st century …

often are the least knowledgeable

about the 21st century.

dangerouslyirrelevant.org

Scoa McLeod

The librarians who survive will be those who make themselves the social media experts of their school. Students and teachers now have endless opHons beyond the covers of a book to find the informaHon that they need. -‐Patrick Larkin, Principal Burlington High School, MA

“For the past five years, the naDonal conversaDon on educaDon has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the ‘achievement gap’ between social classes …This is a story about the big public conversaDon the naDon is not having about educaDon, the one that will ulDmately determine not merely whether some fracDon of our children get ‘lew behind’ but also whether an enDre generaDon of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, disHnguish good informaHon from bad or speak a language other than English.”

Claudia Wallis, Time Magazine

think through abstract problems

work in teams

disHnguish good informaHon from bad

speak a language other than English

A great LIT program allows students to…..

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CONNECTEDNESS CHALLENGE

hap://www.connectedthebook.com/pages/links.html

“It’s not what you work on, but whom you work with

that makes all the difference.” David Kelley, founder and chairman, IDEO

SURVIVAL ESSENTIALS

1. kid-centric

2. showcase showcase showcase! 3. recruit at least 10 parent volunteers

4. annual library visits, at least 1 legislator 1 school board member 1 superintendent

5. always invite the press, blog about it, leave a virtual trail of excellence

6 FoundaHons 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’ secDon __ create ‘Ask your Legislator’ feature w/ librarian as intermediary

__ hip, comfortable furniture __ facilitate new clubs / meet-‐ups

__ Harkness tables for seminar-‐style teaching.

__ culDvate hygge-‐coziness, tranquility

__ facilitate parents contribuDng to hygge __ PTA-‐sponsored foreign language staDon w/ Roseaa Stone sowware

__ invite to any ‘presenDng’ of resources; facilitate their taking ownership and celebraDng

__ 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 Twiaer

__ send ‘Emerging Technology Tips’ to legislators and their LAs __ offer to set them up on Twiaer

__ make it a desDnaDon

6 FoundaHons Checklist

ConnecHvity

__ champion virtual porzolios

Lookout Portal

__ Horizon Report w/ trends and opportuniDes __ facilitate global connecDvity

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 dinnerDme conversaDon

__ 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 Twiaer to help grow their PLN

__ send Holiday Horizon Report w/ giw recs., hoaest trends

__ set up Google Reader for principal, Supdt., Sch. Board __ keep administraDon informed of 21st C. leadership opportuniDes

__ host a session wrap-‐up

__ be their reference go-‐to person

__ showcase one project with every teacher over year

__ form commiaee on social media policy

__ invite to be on Technology Leadership Team

__ track their work and send notes of appreciaDon

__ spearhead 1:1 iniDaDve w/ city, district and community

__ annual student-‐designed LIT program theme

6 FoundaHons Work Board

Emerging Technologies Physical Space Website

6 FoundaHons Work Board

ConnecHvity Lookout Portal

!Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners – 2010 Idaho Workshop

Lisa Layera & Susan McBurney

Preparing Students for the Future: Cult ivating a Core Vision and Mission

“ … a picture of the future that is relatively easy to communicate and appeals to customers, stockholders, and employees. A vision helps clarify the direction in which an organization needs to move.” John Kotter, Harvard Business School

customers = students, parents stockholders = administration, principals, legislature employees = teachers

Guiding questions:

1. What does a school Library Information & Technology (LIT) program need to deliver to students and teachers in the 21st Century?

2. What do you think is the purpose of a 21st Century school Library Information & Technology (LIT) program?

3. How does a 21st Century Library Information & Technology (LIT) program empower, prepare, and educate students?

4. What language makes clear that the transformed Library Information & Technology (LIT) program reflects the new information and technology landscape?

Mission: “… to ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.” Mike Eisenberg, Univ. of Washington

!Two-minute elevator speech: Making the case for 21st Century Learning

In small groups, come up with a two-minute elevator speech that communicates how the Library and Information Technology program empowers, prepares, and educates students. Choose someone from the group to share the elevator speech with the larger group when we reconvene. Please incorporate the Eisenberg mission statement (above) and also highlight one part of your team’s core message that you feel can’t be left out.

Cultivating a Core Vision and Mission

Mike Eisenberg

“As teacher librarians, our mission is to ensure that students are effecDve users and producers of ideas and informaDon.”

University of Washington

AcHon Plan: Delivering What Students Need

by June October ILA mtg. 1 week

Risk Assessment: How InnovaHve 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

40 InspiraHonal Speeches in 2 Minutes This didn’t seem to work at the beginning, for me. Close with it?

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 porzolio of their Dme 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 beaer job evaluaDng what ‘literate’ means today? 8. What moDvates students? 9. How can we help students get the skills needed to idenDfy and pursue the things

they love? 10. Do you have a system that allows for easy, extensive, and rapid replicaDon of

pracDces 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 direcDon?

Documents

Working Boise Ppt