- Send an email showing teachers how to navigate to your ONLINE RESOURCES. Send a simple snippet - A picture is worth 1000 words. You may think this is too "basic" but believe me...there's probably someone who needs to know. Notice how we're right up there with "poison control"?!
- Share your ESL resources with ESL teachers and foreign language teachers: Spanish Encyclopedias, BrainpopESL, translation tools within our database systems. - Remember... we (WSWHE SLS) purchases eslbrainpop.com for the ESL students at our level. This is available to you.
- Share your digital eBooks - Example: Scan the new Social Studies Frameworks to lessons that could be connected to our ROSEN publisher SPOTLIGHT ON NEW YORK BOOKS. Share a sample lesson plan idea from the teachers guide. Check these out at our link:
- Reach out to the PTA and offer to host a "Cool Tools for Home" show. Strengthen your connection with parents, so that when you need their support...you'll have it. Share your links to Overdrive and other online ebook, audiobooks, and resources for kids! Don't assume people know about this.
- Offer to take classes and teach "research" for substitute plans that are "scheduled" -(I used to do this and would know..."Oh yes. Nanette will be out next Friday 'sick'." I didn't care, however, because I knew her kids were learning vital skills.)
- Offer to provide a "Book Mobile" in the classroom. Hotpicks for pleasure reading, or a subject-specific print cart. Ask your PTA if they will purchase additional carts for classroom mobile libraries, if they have deep pockets. Be innovative with your bookmobile ideas. See Sue Kowalski's postings of her mobile library as their school re-builds!
- Reach out to new teachers and offer to "help them meet their CCSS "Research Anchor Standard" - Offer to increase the "rigor" in their research. Kids need to "transform, not just transfer" information. We need to build knowledge, not present mere facts.
- Brainstorm an AIR program in your library. For more information on "Accountable Independent Reading, see this blog posting - Got Air?
- Prepare Screencast instructions on a tool such as http://screencast-o-matic.com/ Don't assume that teachers will know how to use your database tools. Make it easy to meet their needs, even if they are in their classroom with their 1-to-1 devices. Regain the foothold lost to devices, by creating easy links and easy instructions. Try to keep instructions to as few steps as possible such as:
- Choose a database
- Keywords
- Search
- Cherry pick (choose from the hitlist)
- Closely Read
- Comment -Notes
- Comprehend
- Communicate
And for number 10?... You share your's!
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