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Passion is an essential ingredient in a recipe for building a successful library program; however, you need love to sustain it.TRANSCRIPT
Passion For Our Profession
What’s LOVE Got To Do With It!? Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist MASL Afternoon Keynote Thursday, October 20, 2011
The only way to do your best work is to do what you love. #stevejobs
“…to be a passionate teacher is to be someone in love with the field of knowledge, deeply stirred by issues and ideas that challenge our world, driven to the dilemmas and potentials of the young people who come into class each day…”
Robert L. Fried The Game of School
Passion has to start with us!
Honoring passion is more than simply giving students the technology, tools, and a few books on the topics they find interesting. It is a commitment to helping students to discover for themselves – the emotional reasons linked to motivation that drive us to want to study or know something. Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Intense, driving, or
overmastering feeling
or conviction
Ardent affection: LOVE http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passion
A strong liking or desire…
“…if I want my students to become passionately literate people, I, too, must be a passionate, literate person, who reads, writes, and learns in front of them.” Douglass Kaufman, passionate practitioner
We Teach 21st
Century Learners…
Are You
A 21st
Century School
Librarian?
http://informationfluency.wikispaces.com/You+know+you%27re+a+21st+century+librarian+if+.+.+.
A 21st Century Library is much more than Library2.0. It is the
convergence of traditional librarianship values, the coming-of-age of electronic information technologies,
the increased sophistication in the demand of services, and the
professional commitment to self-renewal with the objective of effectively meeting the
information user’s needs in the time frame, place, and format
of their choosing.
-21st Century Librarianship Wiki
Shift Perception! “We need to be more like Lady GaGa
than Lady Bird Johnson.”
“She is innovative, a risk-taker,
a change agent, and an early adopter…”
"Lady GaGa Librarians Unite!" Web log post. The Daring Librarian. 25 June 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2011/06/lady-gaga-librarians-unite.html>.
Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lady-gaga-declares-herself-librarian-of-glam-culture-20110512
"I am obsessed with all the authors in the library of pop culture." - Lady Gaga
“…those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.“
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
The passion for the “what” can work to our disadvantage…
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
We can have so much passion
for content [stuff] that we
forget the learner.
Weeded 300 boxes of books… I ran out of time…
…is more than a skill
or competency that can be
trained or
cultivated… Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Passion is intrinsic!
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Passion learners combine fun, playfulness, and
discipline and, at the same time,
accept the necessity for endurance and perseverance.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
People with
passion are
driven to pursue
and create.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Eliciting deep passions requires strength. It takes enormous strength and willpower to overcome obstacles, but passion give us the strength to continue forward. Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
“…endurance with an edge of obsession.”
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Passionate learners not
only ask a lot of questions,
they develop a questioning disposition.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
I believe in this. I own this… This sense of ownership becomes a responsibility – the mission to pursue excellent work.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Passion says…
Proficiency is never achieved
when you are passionate
about something. It is a lifelong
pursuit. Passion may
sleep, but it never dies.
Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
What images and feelings are invoked when you hear the word Passion?
Is Passion driving your library media program?
Why do I need a passion driven program?
Provides Focus
Sparks Curiosity
Promotes Innovations
Supports Collaboration
Encourages Accountability
Allows Us To Be Courageous
http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/archive/dec2004/glover_dec04.shtml
Provides Us with Energy
Perhaps the most exciting benefit that comes from cultivating passion is the enthusiasm it generates. Passionate people inspire hope and enthusiasm… There’s an intensity, a commitment, a PASSION with which they approach their work – it’s inviting, tantalizing, alluring, and inspiring all wrapped up in the same package. Maiers, Angela, and Amy Sandvold. The Passion-driven Classroom: a Framework for Teaching & Learning. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2010. PDF.
Passion is a gift.
Have you lost the
passion for our
profession?
How can you
rekindle that
passion?
How do
you keep the
passion burning?
Passion For Our Profession…
What’s Love Got To Do
With It?!
You enjoy what you do and let others know it. It’s always better when you do what you love. If you don’t love this new library world, find something else to do.
Manifesto for 21st Century Teacher Librarians
warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love
Its concepts are just a never ending story of an open book of experiences. But love does lie in one's heart, where memories are but shadows lingering in your soul. Love is giving someone the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
http://www.wikihow.com/Define-Love
Triangular Theory of Love
Passion
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http://tiny.cc/sal5q
Closeness of observation or knowledge of subject
Do you have an intimate
relationship with our
profession?
Commitment is what
Transforms the promise into reality. It is the words that speak Boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak Louder than the words. It is making the time When there is none. Coming through time After time after time, Year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff Character is made of; The power to change The face of things. It is the daily triumph Of integrity over skepticism. When I say I love you, I mean that I'm committed to working to love you even when it's hard.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=commitment&defid=997124
How committed are you to our children?
How committed are you to our profession?
How committed are you to loving our profession?
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Learn
Something New
You seek professional development that will help you grow even if it is not offered by your school district. Even if you don’t get PD credit. You can’t “clock” these hours. Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
Lead
http://michaelhyatt.com/leadership-20.html
embraces change
builds community
celebrates dialogue
demonstrates transparency
embraces change
employs collaboration
practices sharing
welcomes engagement
Open-minded
Wikipedia is evil…
Cell phones and social media are distractions…
Reading online is not reading…
Google is killing
critical thinking skills…
Blah… Blah… Blah…
Printed books are better
than e-books …
Twitter is useless…
Visionary
…you look ahead for what is coming down the road. You continually scan the information landscape… You plan for change. Not for yourself, not just for the library… but for your learners.
Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
If you do not develop strong vision, your vision will be usurped by the visions of others. You will not be able to lead from the center. Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
Voice
You don’t stop at “no.” You fight for the rights of students to have and use the tools they need.
Access, Equity, Advocacy Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
Web Presence P
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http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html
National Initiative of Project Tomorrow, the nations leading educational nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of student voices in education
About Speak Up
With the increased variety and depth of the digital resources available for classroom use, the librarian is emerging as a critical player in enabling the use of these tools in the classroom, taking on the twin roles of cheerleader and exploration sherpa. http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html
“…students to reach their potential through increased
access to educational resources and
experts that extend learning beyond the capacities or
limitations of their school or community.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
Enable
“…students in rich, compelling learning
experiences that develop deeper knowledge
and skill development especially the problem-
solving, creativity and critical thinking skills so
highly desired for our world today.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
Engage
“…students to take responsibility for their
own educational destinies and to explore knowledge
with an unfettered curiosity,
thus creating a new generation of
life long learners.”
Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf
Empower
Passion For Our Profession
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Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson Library Media Specialist
Pikesville High School Baltimore County Public Schools
Baltimore, MD USA
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What’s LOVE Got To Do With It!? Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson, Library Media Specialist MASL Afternoon Keynote Thursday, October 20, 2011