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Liz Jamison's mentor provides their account of collaboration experiences within the role. This high school librarian co-teaches with ELA and US History Teachers, supporting with resources such as primary sources for 1920’s Era research. Book talks are collaboratively facilitated by the librarian and ELA department within this high school.

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Dan Lennane's high school librarian also advocated for collaboration in the role. Collaboration transcends everything a librarian does, according to this mentor. Information literacy is a part of all subjects in a high school. Get to know teachers and students on a personal level in your school in order to establish effective working relationships for collaboration. The librarian helps oversee the high school yearbook to build relationships with students. Networking really helps a librarian be more effective in their role.

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Valerie Pinto's high school mentor highlighted the shift in the role during the Covid pandemic. Many changes to the library program have occurred since the onset of the pandemic, as is true with all school libraries and the role of their librarians. Now, the school librarian must take precautions, as many quarantine returned items for 3 days before recirculating. In this librarian's role, the library is operating under social distancing precautions and materials are circulating. Each role might be different according to the district response to the crisis.

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Donna Phillips' mentor also advocates for collaboration in the role of high school librarian. This librarian is involved with the annual Science and Technology fair, which provides networking with the school community to lead into collaborations. In their role, the high school librarian coordinates several author visits over the year. The high school librarian attends school activities to build rapport with faculty and students.  This school librarian has ongoing collaborations on lessons and projects with several teachers annually, stemming from the working relationships built within the role. This librarian makes themself visible and openly-advocates for their services. The librarian gets to know new teachers right away to start building rapport for future collaborations. This was a detailed account of successful collaborations through networking in the role.

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Krissy Welliver's mentor has had an experience in their role as a high school librarian with teachers being less enthusiastic about collaborating with the library for projects. The librarian emphasizes the importance of ongoing rapport building and communication (i.e. email) to bring teachers on board. Math and science can be difficult subjects to collaborate with in this high school librarian's role.  The most successful collaborations in this mentors experience come from targeting the largest student difficulties and deficits, through supporting their needs with resources.

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Angela Datri's mentor described their role of being a high school librarian as completely flexible. This high school librarian has a completely open schedule in their experience, leaving them to devote much time spent during collaborations in classrooms. English department collaborations are very successful during push-in lessons for either partial or whole periods. A flexible schedule allows more time to spend on collaborations, as this high school librarian's day-to-day is wide open for working with teachers in classrooms.

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Joan Lauria's mentor emphasized the importance of email to collaborate effectively in their role. The role of a school librarian is made easier by getting to know the teachers on a personal level, as it makes it easier to get involved as a librarian with teachers' lesson plans. Advocating for what you and your library has to offer to teachers is extremely important a the high school level. The library has a range of resources to offer to many of the high school teachers, as the role of the librarian is to connect and support teachers with these resources.

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Kylie Conley's mentor collaborates with the school psychologist and has the opportunity to run an official book club their high school. In their role, the librarian gets the wonderful experience of holding book discussions during lunch. Collaboration is a big part of school librarians work at all levels, including secondary. Not all librarians are fortunate enough to have the time to devote to book clubs, using lunch might be a great strategy to fit collaborations such as these into the school day.

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Brooke Hill interviewed a high school library media specialist

who described the role's importance for relationship building and establishing ongoing rapport with the learning community.  Rookie teachers frequently ask the librarian for assistance as the role of a librarian in a school supports teachers. This librarian shares ideas collaboratively with teachers and also collaborates on some lessons to ease the staff's stress. Again, the role of a school librarian can be one of great support for teachers at the high school level.

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Roberta Doremus interviewed a high school library media specialist that sets goals for students to learn various information skills. This librarian targets research methods using various databases.This librarian teaches research skills, by exploring articles through databases. Gale database and JSTOR are primarily used to teach students about research.  Students become efficient researchers through this high school library program. Students are able to use published articles for their information needs with the help of the librarian.  "Opposing viewpoints" via Gale is hugely popular to meet objectives that promote critical thinking and require effective research.

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Olivia Bauer's mentor stated their main goals of the high school library program to be: Making students responsible users of information. Helping students to practice good digital citizenship. Students should be aware of plagiarism and how to cite sources correctly. A large goal of this high school library is to foster a love of literature and reading in all students.

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Evan Gottfried's mentor My mentor teaches students and teachers how to access, evaluate, and use information in a variety of formats. A goal of the program is to teach students how to think freely and be able to communicate ideas effectively. School librarians in high schools create critical thinkers, teach technology and information literacy skills, cultural competencies, and collaborate with social skills. This mentor teaches  students about various information skills, such accessing databases and online resources, internet safety, research skills, citing sources, and digital citizenship.

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Sara Gorton's mentor sets specific goals for student learning, especially for the 4th and 5th graders.  Students will become with searching and accessing texts on systems such as SORA and Overdrive. The high school librarian takes the time to assess student needs in order to set specific goals both to the standards, grade level, and student learning needs.

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Marci Ranzer interviewed a high school librarian that emphasized goals and objectives that develop information skills and promote student engagement with literature. This librarian wants her students to be able to tell what is 'fake news'. This mentor selects resources that promote critical thinking skills for high schoolers. Long-term goals of the school librarian are increasing the engagement of students with literature, establishing a library Instagram to promote reading different genres. Another goal of the program is a recreation of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibit from the Museum (of Washington D.C.) in the high school library.

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Kaylyn Rose interviewed a school library media specialist who identified the goals of their high school library program. The high school librarian’s long-term goals are: to contrive warmth and welcomeness in the library space; increasing the technology resources available;  various literacy skills goals; and collaboratively working with the learning community.

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Rachel Lupinacci's mentor collaborates with teachers and learns about students' cirriculum to creative supportive resources for classes. This school year, Rachel's mentor utilized video tutorials that can be viewed remotely, as well as infographics that provide relevant information based on what students are learning.

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Jo Ann Mulligan had a mentor that stays informed about technology using resources including different subscriptions, the School Library Journal, Voya, blogs, podcasts, word of mouth, the Secondary Librarians Round Table, and book and technology reviews.

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Jennifer Diehl interviewed a high school librarian that shared their experiences using many resources. The librarian refers to Young Adult best sellers as a resource to promote literature. This mentor also utilizes bulletin boards, the library website, and online book clubs. Technology resources are critical for students with the Covid pandemic. This high school librarian is in charge of Chromebook carts and even 3D Printing projects. Google Suite Apps and Tech are popularly utilized within this high school, which the librarian is fluent in and is therefore able to offer technology support to teachers and students.

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Rachel Petrone had a mentor who also utilized the resources of School Library Journal and  library education social media accounts. An example being a Facebook group called “Hacking School Libraries.”  Much information can be gleaned from social media in regard to school library ideas. Social media can prove a valuable resource as there are many members that share  experiences, ideas, resources, and even humor during a hectic school  year.

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Merissa Marthage had an interview with a school librarian that mentioned many resources. A few of which include borrowing systems, like Overdrive and SORA, which other high school librarians have mentioned in other interviews as well. The local BOCES is another resource mentioned by this high school librarian that we have heard many other librarians utilize. Google Classroom is a resource used by teachers that the librarian supports them using. This school librarian helps teachers with functions such as how to record and post lectures. This school librarian encourages using resources like Hyperslides to link information, Jamboards to create an online whiteboard, and online chat features.

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Erin DiLorenzo interviewed a high school librarian who emphasized the utilization of online resources, which is especially relevant now with the Covid pandemic. This high school librarian has access to resources such as interlibrary Loan, Online Databases, and Ebooks to help students and teachers, especially during distance learning.  Supporting with online resources is one way that a school librarian can help a school community during remote teaching.

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During Covid, Tara Antolick's mentor has utilized resources for professional development primarily through virtual seminars.  Many are relevant to librarian practice, new programs and resources  for the library. Tara's mentor mentioned a multitude of webinars that have been created regarding remote teaching strategies and best practice. Resources such as these have helped Tara's mentor become a better equipped distance educator.

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KT McClune's mentor uses resources such as journals, School Library Journal, Teacher Librarian, conference opportunities once to twice annually. This high school librarian utilizes the resource of social media groups, like Facebook. Feedback is also a great resource for a school librarian, it is important to seek consultation with students and staff.

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Ali Stoll interviewed a high school library media specialist that used the resource SLMPE (School Library Media Program Evaluation) to evaluate their program's effectiveness. This resource helps provide feedback and reflection to adjust the program for increased effectiveness.

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Colleen Kochensparger interviewed a high school librarian that utilizes the resource  BookRiot and other blogs for collection development at the high school level. Another resource this librarian draws upon is the public library’s teen librarian’s Instagram to see new materials on an ongoing basis while they scroll on their phone. The collection is balanced to reflect diversity in race, gender, ethnic identity,  sexuality, and religion to expose students to a range of backgrounds.

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Malloryann Flanagan's high school library media specialist keeps up to date with trends in literature using the resources of School library Journal and their local School Library System (SLS).  Vendors and educator blogs also keep a high school librarian informed about the latest resources available.  Networking through organizations and colleagues also are resources that help to stay on top of developments within the field.

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Joan Lauria's mentor finds herself in a role of the "google help desk" as the Covid crisis has emphasized remote learning. Students, teachers, and parents require assistance with Google Classroom and other technologies. Not everyone is skilled with technology, so it is the role of the school librarian to support the community with their technology needs. This has been especially important during remote learning due to the pandemic.

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Marci Ranzer's mentor mentioned that in their role, they take care to acknowledge different backgrounds of race, cultures, and LGBTQ communities. This mentor learned of the importance of addressing these populations through a conference which presented on the issue. The role of a school librarian can expose children to diversity, which is an important concept to learn about!

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Roberta Doremus interviewed a middle school librarian who encouraged networking within the role. This mentor was a member of a multitude of committees, professional organizations, school teams, the LGBTQ student group (by student request), and book clubs. Through these memberships and interactions, rapport, and relationships are built with teachers and students in the school community. Networking is important to the role.

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Dan Lennane's mentor frequently reflects on their effectiveness in the role of a middle school librarian. They keep an ongoing document to update their teaching strategies to make activities, learning experiences, and projects more effective. Reflection, assessment, feedback, and adjustments to teaching/programs are important to the role and effective school librarianship.

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Olivia Bauer's mentor mentioned that in their role, a stance of mutual respect is taken with teachers and students. Olivia's mentor echoed the phrase that my own mentor said: 'you must give respect to get respect', which seems to transcend across middle school libraries.

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Merissa Marthage interviewed a middle school librarian who advocated for being available and open to collaboration within the role. The library is open during lunch and study halls to promote access. The librarian emphasized the importance of collaboration to develop meaningful instruction in coordination with other educators which can be fun for students.

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Valerie Pinto described her middle school librarian mentors role as the sole person running the library during the Covid pandemic. The role of this middle school librarian is in charge of keeping the library running, keeping resources available and current, as well as being available for teachers' and students' technology and information needs.

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Jo Ann Mulligan's mentor emphasized that the middle school librarian's role focuses on collaboration with teachers. School librarians must build rapport with teachers in their role over time. Collaborations are most effective when teachers and librarians have a close working relationship.

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Kylie Conley's mentor has a flexible schedule in their middle school. The librarian within the middle school uses Google Forms to sign teachers up to bring their classes to the library. This was an interesting role of a school librarian, as not all are on flexible schedules in middle schools.

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In the role of Jennifer Diehl's mentor, they made their library a more inviting and welcoming space for students by including games that students can use during lunch or study halls. The library is arranged with a soft seating area for students to gather, read, and do homework. Arrangements such as these make the library more inviting and play a role in student rapport.

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Brooke Hill's mentor phrased collaboration in her role as 'lead, follow, or get out of the way'.

In their role, teachers either want the librarian to lead a lesson, follow their lesson with resources, or sometimes teachers simply do not make efforts at all to utilize the librarian.

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Colleen Kochensparger's mentor established a goal for the library program to be a safe space for students. Goals and objectives focus on student collaboration and working together in order to learn. Students should learn to work collaboratively, which is a goal that aligns with the standards.

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Evan Gottfried interviewed a school library media specialist that collaborates with the ELA department and set goals for the library program. Goals and objectives for students center around research and information skills, such as the ability to determine an authoritative, credible, and valid website source.

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Liz Jamison's middle school library media specialist uses the resource FlipGrid to create engaging activities for students. The librarian also creates displays of library resources to promote their usage and student reading. It is important to advocate for the materials you have to offer as a librarian. Librarians in schools have knowledge of the collection of resources available to the school community in their library.

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Rachel Lupinacci's middle school librarian found themself wiithin a library that had an outdated collection. The librarian reviewed the resources and purged the collection, which is important to keep it updated and relevant. They kept the nonfiction material which still had value. The middle school librarian then turned primarily to technology resources. they especially rely on the online database resource, FactCite, for student information needs.

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Every school district will vary with how much emphasis and importance is placed upon formalized goals and objectives. It was interesting to learn of Rachel Petrone's middle school mentor, who does not have any formal library goals, mission or vision statements. Their administration is lenient with the library program's operation. This middle school librarian focuses on bringing together a collection that aligns with student needs and interests, making this their own goal for the program.

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Sara Gorton's middle school library media specialist works with teachers collaboratively in order to set goals. Some goals of this library program include the increased circulation of materials or the development of various student information literacy skills. The middle school librarian coordinates instruction with teachers through collaboration in order to meet these goals.

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Tara Antolick's mentor stated that their program is doing a good job

when middle school students are reading. Goals and objectives focus on increasing

the amount of time students spend reading, as middle schoolers often do not enjoy or read. Whether it is reading for schoolwork or reading for pleasure, a goal of the library program is to promote reading in this middle school. When students are independently reading, the librarian is satisfied that their goal has been met.

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Donna Phillip's mentor ensures that the library contains a diverse spectrum of materials that align with standards as well as student backgrounds. This middle school librarian emphasizes the importance of a well balanced collection in order to meet student needs and acknowledge diversity. Purging materials that are not utilized is important, as this mentor checks how often materials circulate in order to clear out and make way for new materials within the collection.

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Kaylyn Rose interviewed a middle school librarian that also utilized BOCES as a resource, which seems to be a primary go-to for many school librarians. Additionally, this middle school library media specialist uses SORA as a resource for students, which was a resource that my own mentor mentioned yet dit not appear in too many colleague presentations.

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Ali Stoll's mentor utilizes School Library Journal and the local BOCES to stay up to date with new resources. These two resources seem to be a trend for middle school library media specialists' collection development and updated information.

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Erin DiLorenzo's mentor, like my mentor, uses Follett as a primary resource for collection development. It seems that this resource is used by a large number of school librarians at the middle school level.

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Angela Ditri's mentor works as a middle school librarian in a high needs school. Children have 1-to-1 technology to support their needs, which are valuable resources for students with high needs and severe disabilities. The middle school librarian utilizes the local BOCES as a resource, having weekly meetings and correspondences. I found it interesting that this librarian was provided a mentor from the district when first starting out, which is a nice resource for a newbie.

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KT McClune interviewed a mentor that utilized the resources: School Library Journal, the New York Times Bestseller List, and other school library journals and websites. Staff input is considered the most helpful for collection development. The librarian also considers what resources within the library circulated the most and least throughout each school year.

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Krissy Welliver interviewed a middle school librarian who had a library in charge of the schools chromebook program as of 2019. In this middle school library, magazines are the least utilized resource while chromebooks are the most utilized resource. It is interesting to see which resources are the most popular in a school library, as it is usually the technology.

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Malloryann Flanagan interviewed a school library media specialist

who used social media as a resource in an interesting way. Following

authors on social media was noted to be an unique, but effective way to keep up to

date on middle school reading materials and resources.

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During Covid, Kylie Conley's mentor, like many of ours, have had their library closed. School librarians are flexible, as Kylie's mentor has started doing push-in lessons with teachers through collaborations. The role has shifted due to the virus; this is true for all School Library Media Specialists.

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Colleen Kochensparger's mentor conducts walkthroughs on Screencastify and tutorials for teachers and older students and parents in their role as a school librarian.

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Liz Jamison interviewed a librarian who is fortunate enough to oversee book clubs in their role. Not all of the mentors in each of the presentations were involved with book clubs at the elementary level. book clubs are beneficial in that the promote reading and children make text-to-world connections in a group atmosphere.

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Merissa Marthage was interestingly involved in a collaboration that her mentor did with a 4th grade social studies class about the revolutionary war. Collaboration is extremely important to the role, as students can receive enriched learning experiences through activities such as the one Merissa was involved in and described.

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Tara Antolick's mentor describes keeping expectations of behavior as difficult during remote learning. It is important to be firm and fair with students when managing behavior as a librarian in a school. When teaching them through remote modalities, one can imagine how a child might become more behavioral during lessons at home at the elementary level.

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Ali Stoll's mentor makes it a habit to reflect immediate after each lesson. They consider what was and was not effective, fine tuning their teaching methods to be more effective. This improves a librarians practice, as experience and feedback help make adjustments and improvements over time.

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Rachel Lupinacci's mentor, like many of ours, is teaching through remote learning modalities. Online Library lessons are 40 minutes at this elementary school, as Rachel's mentor uses apps such as ParentSquared to reach families learning from home.

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Angela Datri's mentor finds themself in a school with no technology point-person, therefore

her role has much to do with technology needs within the school. Angela's mentor creates how-to videos and runs professional development for school staff in the role.

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Dan Lennane's mentor uses humor in their role to establish

rapport and create warmth and joy

within the library.

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Kaylyn Rose interviewed an elementary school librarian

who is the head person for technology concerns and troubleshooting.

The mentor is also  responsible for delivering technology professional development

to school staff.

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Rachel Petrone interviewed a school librarian who advocated for the importance of collaboration. Similar to my own mentor, Rachel's mentor
has found it difficult to make time for collaborations outside of a few push-in lessons. Covid has only complicated matters further and made collaborations more difficult. Rachel's mentor hopes to engage in more collaboration post-covid.

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Valerie Pinto interviewed a school library media specialist that uses their lunch period to communicate and collaborate with teachers.
Teachers might frequently gather for lunch which provides an opportunity for
collaboration that fits smoothly into a school day that might be busily scheduled.

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Jo Ann Mulligan's elementary school library media specialist believes that it is her duty with the role to: teach students how to effectively access and process information, forming students' skills to conduct independent research and successfully
find the information you seek. This is what it means to be in the role.

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KT McClune's mentor has set new goals for their library program this year including: more collaboration, purging the collection to keep current, and bringing in more diverse books.

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Olivia Bauer interviewed an elementary school librarian who made their program's goal for students to develop a love of reading, as well as the development of reading skills.

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Evan Gottfried's mentor emphasizes that their students should

learn to not take all information that is out there at face value.

Students should gain the skills to know that information can be misleading,

and to be able to identify credible and reliable information.

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Sara Gorton's mentor differentiates their goals and objectives by the

students being served as well as the instructional setting. The librarian creates

goals for student learning and information skills, while also setting goals for themself

in order to reach the children with the library.

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Joan Lauria's mentor uses the ESIFC standards as they

find them easier to understand and implement,

user friendly, and  differentiated by grade level.

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Malloryann Flanagan interviewed an elementary school library media specialist that did not have a set of goals or objectives, which I found to be quite odd. Interestingly, the librarians within the district coordinate their own scaffolding curriculum which is approved by the district. STEM is also involved with the program.

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Jennifer Diehl interviewed an elementary librarian that used the resources: BOCES classes for library and technology, alot of webinars like SimpleK12 or School Library Webinars.

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Marci Ranzer's mentor brings resources that are diverse and reflect the students' backgrounds within the school. It is important to bring in materials that promote diversity and acknowledge different backgrounds in order to serve the school community.

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Erin DiLorenzo interviewed an elementary school librarian that utilizes the following resources for collection development:  School Library Journal, the Junior Library Guild (if you can afford it), Booklinks, and Series.

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Roberta Doremus' mentor uses School Library Journal to learn of new books. This elementary librarian also utilizes interlibrary loan as a resource.

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Donna Phillips' mentor adds resources to their collection using teacher and student requests, as well as Follett and email updates on

new books or series. School Library Journal and Booklist are also

collection development resources.

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Krissy Welliver's school library media specialist

primarily uses social media to keep up with trends in literature.

This is similar to one of the librarians from the panels!

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Brooke Hill interviewed an elementary library media specialist has

to an online catalogue which is provided for student use.

This is a favorite resource for the students and parents

within the community. I did not know about this kind of resource!

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26 Colleague presentations - 1 takeaway each

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26 Colleague Presentations - takeaway each

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26 Colleague Presentations - 1 takeaway each

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