transformational strategies for school librarians: condensed version
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transformational strategies for school librariansbuffy j. hamilton | carol kearney leadership retreat, ithaca, ny | august 2011
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challenges that threaten to detour our mission
shifting roles
in the educational landscape
money and funding
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social media
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demands on time
a climate that values standardized test scores over inquiry
filtering fears are debilitating to our growth
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believing books are our brand and will determine our future
pulling and weaving together the many threads of librarianship
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we can decide which approach we will take to these challenges
we can choose to accept the lemons we’ve been handed
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or we can make lemonade
“innovation is the ability to see change as an
opportunity - not a threat” william pollard
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how do we
transformourselves and
libraries?
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create enchantment and engagement in our communities
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trustworthiness
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likability
fantastic product or service
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enchantment: sustained, voluntary delight that is mutually beneficial
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“enchantment transforms situations and relationships.”
Guy Kawasaki,
Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
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library is the story
of the humanexperience
libraries as communal experiences and “commonplace” texts constructed by participants
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libraries as sites of the experience of self-excavation and discovery through learning
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vanishing boundaries
create and nurture a participatory culture that invites conversations for1
learning, multiple forms of literacy, and
multiple modes of learning
make our practice transparent to the world
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embed yourself in the instructional design process
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4 leave your silos
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energize and expand your mind and spirit by plugging into the wisdom of the crowd and growing your personal learning network
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embrace your role as a fearless advocate for intellectual freedom and equitable access to all forms of information
help our students learn multiple ways of reading and writing today’s world by acting as sponsors of transliteracy
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be willing to go out on the limb
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9 engage in actionand reflection
to grow and
evolve
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embrace a sense of play 10
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“learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
william pollard
inquiry begins with ourselves: why am I doing this?
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transforming our practice will
transform our profession and lives of
those we serve
embed
empower
engage
enchant
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