Growing Schools

by Abilock, Debbie; Fontichiaro, Kristin; Harada, Violet H.

• ISBN13: 9781610690416
• ISBN10: 1610690419
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-11
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

When librarians work as professional developers, they can build relationships and develop deeper capacity within individual teachers, who can then share that increased expertise with their students. Professional development offers a nimble, scalable, and more efficient way to bring library instruction to every student.

Author Biography

Debbie Abilock, cofounder of Noodle Tools, Inc., an online platform for teaching academic research, speaks internationally and consults in schools based on over 30 years as a school administrator, curriculum coordinator, librarian, and ICT director. Abilock is founding editor of Knowledge Quest, the journal American Association of School Librarians (1996-2010); and edited Standards and Guidelines for Strong School Libraries for the California School Library Association She has authored more than 50 articles and chapters, most recently for Technology in its Place: Successful Technology Infusion in Schools and Libraries Unlimiteds independent School Libraries: Perspectives on Excellence. Kristin Fontichiaro is clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information, Ann Arbor, Ml. Formerly, she was an elementary school librarian and professional development facilitator for Birmingham Public Schools in Michigan and a classroom teacher. She coedited an eBook original, School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come, and has published four Libraries Unlimited titles: Story Starters and Science Notebooking: Developing Student Thinking Through Literacy and inquiry, 21st-century Learning in School Libraries; Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting, and Puppetry; and Podcasting at School. Violet H. Harada is professor in the Library and Information Science Program at the University Hawaii at Manoa. Her recently published works include Libraries Unlimited's Assessing For Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners, Second Edition, and Librarians as Learning Specialists Meeting the Learning Imperative for the 21st Century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Cultivating Learning Gardens Through Professional Development	p. ix
"Clone the School Librarian": Evidence of the Role of the School Librarian in Professional Development	p. xxi
Playful Exploration	p. 1
Hands-on Learning with a Hands-off Approach	p. 1
Exploratorium: A Teacher's Perspective	p. 17
Humanizing Online Learning	p. 19
The 24th Thing: How a Web Discovery PD Program Redefined Our Library's Role Within the School	p. 19
The Model for Susan and Anne's Tutorial	p. 37
Continuous Improvement, Lesson by Lesson	p. 41
Introduction to Lesson Study	p. 41
My First Lesson Study: A Collegial Approach to Professional Development	p. 43
Evidence of Learning	p. 71
Building Evidence-Based Practice: Moving from Circulation Counts to Assessing for Student Learning	p. 71
Learning Through Action Research	p. 95
Action Research: Professional Renewal as Living in the Question	p. 95
School Librarians as Action Researchers	p. 119
Reinventing Our Role	p. 125
On the Role of the Teacher-Librarian as Information Manager	p. 125
They Call it Learning	p. 128
Embedded Learning	p. 141
Job-Embedded Professional Development: An Orchard of Opportunity	p. 141
Leading Learning Communities	p. 157
Improving Practice Through Professional Learning Communities	p. 157
Using Time for Interactive Learning	p. 181
From FYI to PLC: How Our System Transformed Meetings Into Productive Conversations	p. 181
The Power of Practice	p. 192
Collectively Reflecting on Teaching and Learning	p. 193
Using Student Assessment to Drive Professional Development	p. 193
Building Capacity for Collaborative Learning	p. 223
Growing a Community of Learners	p. 223
Collective Bookmarking: Using Diigo as a Student in SI 641	p. 243
Mentoring as a Co-Learning Experience	p. 247
Always Beginning: Welcoming "Beginning Teachers" Into a Learning Community	p. 247
Our Mutual Catalyst for Growth	p. 259
Facilitating Grand Conversations	p. 261
Professional Development in Reading: A Librarian's Role	p. 261
Deliberative Dialogue: Changing the PD Discourse	p. 299
Growing Information Literacy School-Wide	p. 303
Professional Learning Communities in an Information Literacy Odyssey	p. 303
Nourishing Online Community	p. 331
Becoming a Webinarian: Designing a Webinar Series and Facilitating a Professional Learning Community	p. 331
Rethinking One-Shot Workshops	p. 351
D.C. al Coda	p. 351
Index	p. 365
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 379
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