Back to School Special: Rocking the New Year!
Monday, Sept 10 8pm EST -- You're Invited!
Join yours truly, The Mighty Little Librarian Tiff, and fellow Mover & Shaker Jennifer LaGarde for a casual discussion at the TL Virtual Cafe to generate ideas on how to build school allies, support new teachers & become indispensable to admin & staff at the beginning of every school year. Featuring how Google tools (forms, docs, & presentation, and more!) interactive Wikis, and school blogs, can supercharge the library program & classroom throughout the school year. For Teacher Librarians, classroom teachers, tech teachers, admins, & well...everyone!
Reflective & Raring to Go!
Hopefully we've all had a great summer taking time & tide to reflect on our program & practice and are ready & raring to make this new school year ROCK! I know I am! My summer was super
My 5 Professional Goals for the New School Year
1. Celebrate reading & my readers!
Every year I try & think of new ways to inspire my kids to read and to promote the life-long JOY of reading. This year is no different! But here's an idea that's an oldie but a goodie! A few years ago
2. Nurture & inspire my reluctant tech users
This year in my district we had a LOT of changes in our staffing & curriculum placing former Reading teachers into positions where
3. Crowdsource & connect (more!) with my community
I've always tried to have a ongoing conversation with my students and community but I really want to step it up even more this year! I'm gonna post more consistently on our Facebook page, really push for more Twitter reviews (we did them in-school last year!), and put out more interactive polls and Google forms! I want the kiddos & parents to feel like they truly have a voice!
4. Crowdsource & connect (more!) with my PLN (that's you!)
This year we're gonna try and step up our game with #TLChat by making it LIVE! on Twitter! Second Tuesday of the month (depending on holidays) at 8pm EST With Join guest hosts Joyce Valenza, Tiffany Whitehead, Nikki Robertson, Linda Dougherty, Tamara Cox, Michelle Luhtala, Shannon Miller, Debbie Schiano and me to talk about a variety of topics that YOU can Vote on! More information will be shared later but let's just jump in & talk! This will be a great way for all of us to crowdsource, connect, & build our PLN! Read more at Joyce Valenza's Neverending Search SLJ blog!
5. Improve & step-up my school library EduBlog!
It was really hard giving up the school library blog I started in 2006 & move to Edublogs but it ended up being a WONDERFUL thing! But honestly, I have not taken advantage of all the possibilities & features that Edublogs provides for connecting all of our web presence vehicles together in one spot. A GREAT example of this is The Librarian's Locker from Michelle Hall
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And as always at this time of the year I create a fresh new Back to School Night (or BTSN) Powerpoint for you to download & share with your teachers! Take off our branding slides & re-save with your name & call it your own - I won't tell ;-) Just be the school hero & provide them with a custom designed communication piece to share with parents with my compliments! More stuffs on my BTSN Wikipage!
This is my Media Orientation Video for this year!
Thanks so much for reading! What are YOUR goals for this coming new year? I'm always appreciative & eager to hear from you & publish your comments!
Be AWESOME this Year!
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Have a great day!