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As Future Ready Librarians, we are leaders in building instructional partnerships.  

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As Future Ready Librarians, we are leaders in building instructional partnerships.  

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We can use Collections by Destiny to build instructional partnerships.

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We can use Collections by Destiny to build instructional partnerships.

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By using Collections, we can partner with our teachers to hear about what they are teaching and to curate resources for them to use and share with students.  This leads to amazing collaborative opportunities for teaching, designing curriculum, leading digital citizenship and more.

We can also build Collections to share with students that contain wonderful resources, sites, books, songs, apps and more.

For example, I always brought together something special to share over the holidays with my teachers and students.  With this Winter Collection, you can do just that.  It is easy to share, collaborate and add to throughout a break too.

https://collections.follettsoftware.com/collection/5a21c96d6afbd90011a073ec?h=9a8f0b3e17c46d13593cc25c94eb5eaad8eb478f308cb41c708fe884e2607394

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Introduce Lightbox to your teachers in 2018!  

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Introduce Lightbox to your teachers in 2018!  

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Lightbox can bring learning to life as it motivates your students in exciting ways throughout the digital reading and learning experience.

With over 300 all-in-one, easy-to-use eBooks, Lightbox brings all subjects and reading levels to the library and classroom.

There are now 150 Lightbox titles that include a specially curated Collection to go along with it!  That is an terrific added bonus that will bring lots of lesson ideas and resources to the classroom teachers and librarian too.   You can read about the Lightbox Collections here http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/2017/10/150-featured-lightbox-collectionsnew-to.html

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Coffee was one thing that all my teacher friends loved so I would make sure to bring a special coffee to everyone throughout the year as we collaborated and planned.  If we didn't have time during the day to collaborate, we'd meet at the coffee shop after school or on a weekend.

Coffee!

It sure did do the trick when building instructional partnerships for me.

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I would overhear teachers discussing lessons in the teachers' workroom within the library. I'd make suggestions of library materials they might like to use or ways I could help them plan/teach their lessons.

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I've found that providing a small treat (hersheys hugs/kisses) helps entice staff into the library!

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Peer coaching for tech skills, resourcing teaching programs, planning and team teaching Guided Inquiry Units with colleagues, presentations at staff meetings, using features of our LMS to enhance the resource availability and directing web research... proactively finding ways to make our school Library the beating heart of learning in my school. Can’t wait for 2018!

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To get collaboration rolling at my school, I donated part of my library budget to giving teachers release time to collaborate not only with me, but also with the IB coordinator, the reading specialist, and the TAG teacher ... all the people who rely on collaboration but struggle to make it happen.  It started small, but the teachers loved it so much, it became a budget item of its own.  Just like the ingredients of salsa are good on their own but better when mixed together, our SALSA meetings are hailed as the best PD time ever spent ... 15 years later!  And of course, chips & salsa are provided at every meeting!  @Cris10Hardin