Leadership for Library Media Specialists

Essential Question:  How can we enhance our leadership skills as library media specialists?

Goal:  Participants will apply knowledge of leadership styles to authentic leadership opportunities and interactions through role-playing and reflection.

A. Reflect & Connect

• What school-based issues keep you up at night?

• What do you think keeps your principal up at night?

B. The 8 Leadership Archetypes

C. Self-identification & Leadership Dynamics

 
What type of leader are you?  

• Use the 8 archetypes to identify your own dominant leadership style and your principal's dominant leadership style.

• Role-play with a partner to explore leadership dynamics for authentic scenarios.

D. Leadership Opportunities

Reflection: 2017-18 Collection Development Plan

• Reflect independently on the experience of sharing your CD plan with your principal as a leadership opportunity. 

• Make notes and share with your table group. Then select one group member's story to share with the whole group.

BCPL Student Accounts 

• Your leadership is required to promote account use by informing students, families, and staff.

• See the BCPL & Sail page on this wiki for marketing resources.
  
  

Leadership in Practice

• How could you connect your learning about leadership styles to the issues that keep you and your principal up at night?

• How can you apply today's learning to other leadership opportunities in your daily practice as the LMS?

• See AASL's School Librarian Sample Job Description to review descriptions of the five LMS roles including Leader.  

• Use resources on this wiki to identify leadership opportunities from our previous professional learning, such as:

• Supporting SPP/school literacy goals and participating on leadership teams.

• Collaborating with teachers to create instructional partnerships and integrate AASL standards-aligned skills instruction.

• Transforming the school library space to create a more learner-centered environment.

• Using evidence as advocacy to demonstrate your value and the impact of your library program.

E. Leadership Resources

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action - Simon Sinek TED Talk video.

• School Librarians’ Knowledge: What We Bring to the Curricular Table - Knowledge Quest Online, 1/11/18

• Demystifying Librarian Leadership: Five Ways to Find Your Leadership Voice - Knowledge Quest Online, 1/8/18

• School Librarians as Learning Leaders: An Administrator's Guide (AASL)

• School Librarians as Learning Leaders: Annotated Resource Guide (AASL)

• Leadership posts - Hilda K. Weisburg's Blog

   

Destiny

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Announcements

• OER (Open Education Resources) Workshop/Showcase- Coming soon!

• Save the Date! S.T.A.T. Summer Library Institute:  Monday, June 18,  8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

• For LMS at all levels.  Stipends will be paid & lunch served. 

• LMP Summer Curriculum Workshops: See Weekly Bulletin #895 for application instructions (by March 9). Location TBD.

• K-5 Library Media Curriculum (10 writers) July 9-27

• Online Research Models & Slam Dunks (5 writers) July 9-20