Teacher Librarian as Leader

A great example of taking regular teacher librarian practice - curating resources - to a higher level to demonstrate leadership. This is a good example of servant leadership showing how to leverage good practice to not only build Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) but to deliver high quality content with annotations that will increase the skills and educational competence of your network. In a school, you would aim to have all your staff members of that PLN.

Carolyn Foote examines her own practice and the need accept that there are highs and lows in different aspects of your TL practice

Joyce Valenza posts a reflective confession on the need to balance loads and expectations and to understand that when you take up a big commitment then other things will slip for a while.

"Robinson is so correct in her portrayal of thoughtful educational leaders, and she includes teachers, principal and central office administrators when she refers to leaders."

There are a number of different approaches, or 'styles' to leadership and management that are based on different assumptions and theories. The style that individuals use will be based on a combination of their beliefs, values and preferences, as well as the organizational culture and norms which will encourage some styles and discourage others. Under the menu find information about change and change management

"Leadership through meta-literacy actions Meta-literacy provides the impetus for our transition to future learning - a new kind of learning that has adaptability at its core. Becoming a model for lifelong learning has been the goal of every teacher librarian because school libraries are in the knowledge business. This is where we find our strength and our call to leadership."

ACCESS, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 4-7.

ACCESS, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 4-7.

Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge.

P21's Framework for 21st Century Learning was developed with input from teachers, education experts, and business leaders to define and illustrate the skills and knowledge students need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as the support systems necessary for 21st century learning outcomes. It has been used by thousands of educators and hundreds of schools in the U.S. and abroad to put 21st century skills at the center of learning.

Recent technological advances have affected many areas of our lives: the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, and, of course, teach. Along with that, those advances necessitated an expansion of our vocabulary, producing definitions such as digital natives, digital immigrants, and, the topic of this post -- "21st-century teacher."

A curated collection of Edvocate articles on school libraries and 21 century trends and ways to keep libraries vibrant and relevant

A curated collection of resources on educational leadership via The Advocate.

The concept of the Modern Learning Environment (MLE), now also known as Innovative Learning Environment (ILE) is an holistic one, encompassing the pedagogy of learning to the physical and virtual spaces in which it occurs. The New Zealand Ministry of Education offers information on MLEs for the modern library - requiring a learner-centred approach to time, place, access and support - and the networked connectedness of people and technologies that underpin this.

Blended Library is a joint research project with the Human-Computer Interaction Group University of Konstanz, Library of the University of Konstanz, the work group Databases and Information Systems University of Konstanz, the Knowledge Media Research Center Tuebingen and the university library of Tuebingen.

1 hr 09 min video Infiniti is proud to host Stefanie Gaspari from Trinity Grammar School. Stefanie is Director of Library Services and over the past year has transformed the Arthur Holt Library into a 21st century library and collaborative learning space. Join Stefanie as she shares her experiences on the road to being ranked one of the top 40 innovative schools in Australia