Most of you deal with SGOs (Student Growth Outcomes) or SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) as a way to measure your effectiveness. These are specific performance measures relating to how you do your job. By their nature, they are about one…
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It’s Your Mission
The school year is over—or just about for some of you. How do you feel as you look back on it? Do you have a sense of accomplishment over what you have achieved? Or are you tired and exhausted, able…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, community, connection, goal setting, goals, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, mission, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop, students
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Changes – Either you’re changing…
There are still reminders of the season that was and some days the air has a chill, but winter has past and spring has arrived. The seasons change, and we all welcome it. Yet in our own lives we resist…
Cooperation vs. Collaboration
School librarians are quite specific about the difference between cooperation and collaboration. In the first case, the librarian and the teacher work independently from each other but share a common direction with each contributing content or process based on what…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, AASL, community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
To Create a Learning Environment – Support Students’ Self Esteem
School is back in session. From now until spring break the greatest amount of learning for the year occurs. However, how much students learn depends on several factors. The least important is their individual intelligence. The teacher counts for most…
TTK: Curating as Trailblazing
How good are you at curating? Cathy Evans, Dorcas Hand, Robyn Martin, and David Wee wrote this highly informative article for Independent Schools the journal of the National Association of Independent Schools, describing curating as Trailblazing. It’s worth paying attention…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, curation, Hilda K Weisburg, School Librarian's Workshop, trailblazing
Posted in TTK: Things to Know
Posted in TTK: Things to Know
Stop, hey, what’s that sound… Maker Spaces are Going Round
Makerspaces have been around for a few years. For much of that time, the public libraries had them and few early-adopter school librarians started them in their libraries. Their existence continues to grow, but many librarians are hesitant to start…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, common core, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, Maker club, Makerspace, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop, students
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
The Power of Literacy
Until the middle of the 20th century, Literacy meant one thing – you could read. It sometimes was modified with the word “functional” to indicate you were capable of reading at a sufficient level to survive in our society. Today…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, AASL, basics, common core, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, literacy, reading, reading to kids
Posted in General, Issues, Librarian Life
Posted in General, Issues, Librarian Life
Paradigms and Predictions – Exciting or Terrifying?
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a paradigm as “a … group of ideas about how something should be done, made, or thought about.” Unconsciously, we approach almost everything in life through a certain mindset. It is why those of us…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, changes. future, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarians, libraries, library, paradigm shifts, support
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Connecting in the 21st Century
Those of us in education throw around the phrase “21st Century Learning,” and while the phrase resonates with parents and others who want their children to be prepared for their future (or “College and Career Readiness” as the Common Core…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, collaborate, connect, connection, create, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, learning, library, support
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life