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Meeting 21st Century Goals By Reimagining School Library
ProgramsMark Ray
Vancouver Public SchoolsVancouver, Washington
ExpectationsThis is about success-in-progress,
not software.
I don’t suffer poor presentations gladly.
I will use good instructional practices.
Don’t expect me to say what you might think I’m going to say
Learning targetsUnderstand Vancouver
Public Schools and the educational landscape vis à vis 21st century learning, teacher librarians and strategic planning.
Rethink how library information and technology programs and teacher librarians can support 21st century learning initiatives.
Learning targetsSee how
systemic thinking and investments can support these initiatives.
Leave with four steps to leverage libraries and teacher librarians to meet 21st century needs.
Formative assessmentGet out your cell
phones.
In my presentation, you can leave them on “vibrate.”
Prepare to text.
You may have to switch from T9 to 123.
What is your current perception of school libraries?
Polleverywhere.comText to the following number: 22333Essential. I can't imagine a school without
them. Text the number 127164Ephemeral. I'm not sure how they fit into a
21st century school. Text the number 127165Erstwhile. I don't think they realize it's almost
2011. Text the number 127166Expendable. I can't afford them. 127167
Understanding the situation
Who am I?Teacher librarian
Skyview HS et. al.
Technology facilitatorVancouver Public Schools
Rabble rouserBlog: Librarian ProvocateurProject LIT founding member
Plays well with administratorsCollaborations with HR, curriculum, IT,
planning, facility design and higher education
Understanding the situation
Who is VPS?We are not Vancouver,
CA
21,000 students
33 schools21/6/4/2
Increasing diversity and poverty
Concurrent years of significant budget shortfalls
Understanding the situation What keeps us up at night
Bearish budgetary outlook at all levels.
Continued pressure from national/state benchmarks.
Growing private and public online and alternative competition.
Understanding the situation What keeps us up at night Evolving core and extended state
standards.
Dynamic 21st century learning goals.
Sneaking suspicion that we are not getting the job done.
Understanding the situation Stuck between AYP and 21C
“The technology that enables connected teaching is available now, but not all the conditions necessary to leverage it are.”
“[Students’] vision is much broader than the individual technology components often described in local education technology plans and more focused on transformational changes in the learning process.”
“Can classroom teachers alone, stressed by assessment testing and ever-growing paperwork burdens, help students figure this all out?”
Understanding the situation Guiding questions
How do we make 21st century learning happen with decreased funding, staffing and ability/willingness of educators to do more with less?
Understanding the situation Guiding questions
How do we begin to respond to the needs of millennial learners for interactive, collaborative and dynamic learning environments?
Rethink school libraries
Looking past the ‘L’ wordLibrary, information and technology skills
(LIT) are explicit in three guiding educational documents:International Society for Technology in
Education (ISTE) Educational Technology Standards. Three standards are contained in a LIT program.
Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills. One of the three skill domains focuses on “Information, Media and Technology Skills.”
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Educational Technology Learning Standards. Four of seven components align with LIT programs.
Rethink school libraries Why not libraries?
Program expressly designed to support curriculum and instruction in the schools.
Professional tasked with collaboration and integration with students and teachers.
Place designed to offer access to materials to support literacy, research and educational technology.
See systemically What’s the catch?
Establish strategic partnerships between teacher librarians and district services and administration.
Expand vision of the role of the teacher librarian and the school library.
Streamline resource and library operations.
Bridge the analog gap
Story timeFour chapters (to date)
In rough chronological order
Success-in-progress
Please ask questions for clarification
See systemically
Build strategic partnerships
Goal: Connect library, information and technology programs with one or more key departments. IT, curriculum and
instruction and/or literacy.
Where we started: Programs operating independently of one another; lack of trust and communication.
See systemically
Build strategic partnerships
Chapter title: The Librarian Who Came In From the Cold
Key administrator: Linda Turner, CIO
Key idea: Bringing stakeholders together
Key focus: Build capacity and trust
Key word: Collaboration
See systemically
Build strategic partnerships
Where we are: K-12 Destiny/Cognite implementation
Where to go next: Bring teacher librarians to the table. Identify leaders to work
with key district personnel and co-lead initiatives.
See systemically
Expand vision of libraryGoal: Enrich and empower teacher librarians to
be stronger educational leaders for students and teachers.
Where we started: Isolated successes; lack of 21st century focus.
See systemically
Expand vision of libraryChapter title: Who Ya Gonna Call?
Key administrator: Lisa Greseth, Director of Instructional Technology
Key idea: Different thinking to meet different needs
Key focus: Expanding the teacher librarian role
Key word: LIT (technically, that’s an acronym)
See systemically
Expand vision of libraryWhere we are: Teacher librarian as technology
facilitator; teacher librarian technology training.
Where to go next: Continue engagement of teacher librarians through visioning, planning, training and/or implementation.
See systemically
Make libraries work betterGoal: Modernize
operations to improve services, save money and allow teacher librarians to teach and lead.
Where we started: 34 different servers, no sense of textbook inventory, lack of policy and procedure,
See systemically
Make libraries work betterChapter title: Putting The ‘Teacher’ Back
in Teacher Librarian
Key administrator: Layne Curtis, Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Key idea: Owning innovation and professional development
Key focus: Creating educational leaders
Key word: teacher librarian
See systemically
Make libraries work betterWhere we are:
Unified K-12 resource management; task force developing standard operating procedures; librarians talking about teaching
Where to go next: Review materials management policies and workflow; enhance teacher role of librarians
See systemically
Bridge the analog gapGoal: Leverage millions of dollars invested in
‘analog’ resources like books, text materials and teachers.
Where we started: Computers and a network but no sense of purpose..
See systemically
Bridge the analog gapChapter title: To Boldly Go Where No
Library Has Gone Before
Key administrator: Steve Bratt, Director of Network Services, et. al.
Key idea: Converge resources to support 21st century learners
Key focus: Change the way that patrons work with ideas and information
Key words: web-enhanced classroom
See systemically
Bridge the analog gapWhere we are: Flexible Learning Environments
and Cognite Technology Pilots.
Where to go next: Assess how to better use educational resources and educators to meet 21st century goals.
Leave with solutions Where do I go next?
Build strategic partnerships between teacher librarians and district services and administration.
Expand vision of the role of teacher librarians and the school library.
Leave with solutions Where do I go next?
Modernize resource and library operations.
Bridge the analog gap.
What one word would you use to describe school libraries or
teacher librarians?
Polleverywhere.com
Text to the following number: 22333
First enter the number: 92691
Then enter a word
Then send
Leaving with solutions
Key resources Polleverywhere.com
Prezi.com
Follettsoftware.com
Google “librarian-provocateur”Not to be confused with “Agent
Provocateur”Article links, etc. are listed under
“NSBA”
