Sep 26 2007
Professionally Speaking . . .
I’ve got a lot of things I need to pull together quickly this week and over the next month.
Tomorrow is our local AccessPA Fall Database Training so I need plans for a substitute for tomorrow and to organize the books on carts to be shelved. There’s a possibility that the library will be closed if they can’t find a substitute, so I really need things ready—but nothing may happen. Even if they do get a sub, there is still a chance that they’ll pull them to cover somewhere else in the building because someone else doesn’t show. The district is doing SOAR to Success training this week and there are a lot of subs already placed so we’re shorthanded all around.
Our professional goals are due on Friday. I am planning to do CSLA’s School Library Learning 2.0 as part of my goal. I am also going to read and figure out how to apply Teri Lesesne’s Naked Reading with our students. I have a colleague in Oregon who is interested in doing the SLL 2.0 with me for sure and we may work on the book study together too.
The district has grants available through the Education Foundation for teachers to do innovative projects. They’ll fund up to $1000. I’m working on a proposal for that to purchase graphic novels to place in the school library. I am going to add in some other books that are popular like the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents titles because of the high interest/lower reading level of their books. I know that all of these will be popular with our students and they’d really benefit from having them available.
In October I’m meeting with our district grant writer, the assistant superintendent, and the library coordinator to get things underway for the 2008 Literacy Through School Libraries grant. I really think that we can put together a meaningful proposal and hopefully do something to improve the situation of our district libraries.
So, that’s what I’ve got on the burner right now. I’m excited about it all.
