Welcome Slide 

AGENDA:

Future Ready Librarians

• Future Ready Librarians is an expansion of the Future Ready Schools initiative aimed at raising awareness among district and school leaders about the valuable role librarians can play in supporting the Future Ready goals of their school and district.

• Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet (in your PSD 2016 folder)

• How Librarians Hold the Key to Future Ready Schools, from Digital Promise, October 25, 2016
   

• Guiding questions for Future Ready Librarians: 

• How can librarians and libraries support Future Ready schools?

• How can librarians and libraries become more Future Ready?
    

• We can connect our LMS professional learning and BCPS school library initiatives to the Future Ready Librarians framework.  

Supporting the School Progress Plan (SPP)

Future Ready Librarians alignment:

 BCPS Secondary LMS Evaluation alignment:

• Domain 1  Planning and Preparation  -  1c. Supporting Instructional Goals

• Domain 4  Professional Responsibility - 4d. Participating in a Professional Community

1. Examine your own school's SPP to identify Key Actions which you can support as library media specialist and through the library media program. 

•  List at least one Key Action for Reading, Math & Climate in column 1 on the Supporting SPP Planning/Monitoring document.

•  Brainstorm strategies to support the Key Actions you identified--  as the LMS (Column 2) and in collaboration with other teachers/staff as an Instructional Partner (Column 3).  Include ideas for monitoring to gather evidence of impact of these actions. (Column 3). Think "outside the box" to make innovative connections.

2. Rotate to discuss and share strategies for Reading, Math & Climate on chart paper; take your device in Tablet mode and markers.

3. Share take-aways with whole group.

Next steps:

• Check out the aggregated responses from our PD brainstorming charts. 

• Add strategies to your own     Supporting SPP Planning/Monitoring chart.

• Share your plans with administrators and teachers. Although these parallel goals may not be included in the SPP, this year and you may not be a member of the School Progress team, your leaders and teachers should know that you are working to support SPP goals through your practice and program.

• Document your actions and their impact with evidence throughout the year.

• Share impact and evidence with your school community. 

Transforming School Library Spaces

How will you create a more modern, learner-centered Library which is the learning hub of the school?

TIME TO TAKE ACTION!

1. Why this is important.

2. Insight and inspiration from some BCPS MS/HS LMS who will showcase their library spaces:

• Tricia Bunch, Pine Grove MS, Laura Getty, Pikesville MS, Jeff Flynn, Stemmers Run MS

• Eric Manko, Loch Raven HS, Jen Meltzer, Pikesville HS

3. Review the STEPS, TIPS & RESOURCES on the Transforming School Library Spaces page. 

4. Begin developing an Action Plan. Collaborate with colleagues to share ideas, photos, questions in the new Library Transformations small group in Secondary Librarians' Edmodo.

5. ODL Library Media staff will contact you to arrange for a one hour Library site visit.

• Be prepared to talk us through your Action Plan and describe actions you have taken to date, including weeding efforts.

• We will begin soon by visiting Library spaces we have not seen recently.  

SLJ Leadership Summit Take-Aways

• You can access Summit presentations/resources here and video highlights from the Summit on SLJ's YouTube channel.
• Author Shaun David Hutchinson - Keynote Address

• Books are "bridges" -- to other people, other worlds, and "lives that young people can't envision for themselves." 

• Some students truly NEED books featuring characters dealing with mental illness, suicide, LGBT issues, etc. 

• Access to these kinds of materials can be life-changing. 

• Related:  Read Are You There? It’s Me, Reality: Grit Returns to Young-Adult Novels, a New York Times article on issues-driven realistic fiction (recently Tweeted by Fran).  Also, We Need Diverse Books is giving books to schools. 

• Exploring Passions to Discover Purpose: Karim Abouelnaga, founder and CEO, Practice Makes Perfect

• Superintendents' Panel:  From Policy To Placemaking: Connecting The Dots

Updates & Announcements

• Maintaining a Quality School Library Collection workshops:

• Wednesday, November 9th from 4:30-6:30 @ Franklin MS Library

• Thursday, November 10th from 4:30 - 6:30 @ Essex ES Library 

• BCPS Reading Relay featuring video book talks by a variety of Team BCPS members. Please promote among all members of your school community! Contest with opportunity for students to submit book talk videos for BCPS.org spotlight will soon be announced.

• Innovative School Libraries will be featured at the League of Innovative Schools fall conference hosted by BCPS next week, including visits to Joppa View and Stemmers Run.

• BCPL/SAIL:  Continue to offer SAIL card applications to students who may not have received them previously.

• SAVE THE DATE:  Tuesday, January 17 for joint PD w/BCPL branch partners! Details later. 

• Digital Citizenship Lessons & Quizzes (All MS and Lighthouse HS LMS):  Lessons in BCPS One or Slam Dunks

• LMS coordinates implementation with ELA Dept. Chair and teachers. ELA Chairs and some STAT teachers have received PD.

• LMS will lead teach or co-teach. Offer to help score short answer quiz items; teachers can share access to classes/Gradebooks. 

• BCPS One Quizzes:  Currently issues with seeing progress/scores. Keep track of teachers/classes who have taken Quizzes as we may need to provide information to BCPS One support staff. 

• Instruction should have already begun and lessons should be implemented each quarter. Do not put this off! 

• SLOs:  Optional for secondary LMS, but you are encouraged to do them to reinforce your role as a teacher.

• EasyBib EDU:  Please Cc Kelly and Chimere if  you contact support@imagineeasy.com with issues.

• LibraryTrac: 

•  All school library classes/events and LMS activities (in Library or Classroom) must be on your Calendar. Remember to include your name or LMS at the beginning of the event title so that we can see when you're teaching.

• Students must log in to the Student Log when visiting the Library.

• Destiny:  Please use Destiny support email to report any Destiny issues: destiny@bcps.org  

• BCPS Library Media Advisory Group:  Please complete this online form if you are interested in this voluntary leadership opportunity which supports Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities. The group will meet after school approximately every other month. Topics of discussion relevant to secondary libraries on the agenda for our first meeting:

• District policy for Holds in Destiny

• Fines and security gates in high school libraries 

Prize Drawing!