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Empowering Students to be Digtial Leaders

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Empowering Students to be Digtial Leaders

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/109iAe6FKurETYvA9PM-hyXsssa2s-KPN/previewhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/109iAe6FKurETYvA9PM-hyXsssa2s-KPN/preview
Her slide deck: link above.
Adults tell us what not to do but instead should be telling kids what they can or should be doing online.
Empower a group of students to start working with your school and library social media accounts. 13 years and up. Connect students with the authors.
Examples:
#MonicaSitnikRocks
@mathinthenews

Kids can use Makerspace time to make things for other kids. And then share this like crazy on social media.

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tinyurl.com/txla18engage

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Turning a read aloud into an inquiry adventure 

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Turning a read aloud into an inquiry adventure 

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Librarydoor.com (symbology) for downloadable handouts good for staff development

Start by reading a descriptive excerpt
Then question students, is it fiction or nonfiction
Try to look for features to validate your answer

This isn’t about interrupting a read aloud; this is about creating a cultureof  curiosity

New standards (national and state) embrace inquiry

Inquiry isnt finding answers in the text; inquiry happens when you leave the text (wonder!, what if?)

This a Another way to collaborate with teachers

Wonder >investigate >synthesize >express

What question can you ask after a read aloud to compel students to dig a little deeper?

Activity: after reading Diary of a FLy have students to pick an insect, then ask them why it would make a good superhero?
or choose an insect/animal/etc. and make an All About Me book

Research shows kids absorb 5% of the words/vocab that they read (nonfiction generally has a better selection of vocabulary)

Activity: Play two truths and a lie to attack fake news

Activity: “Author on Trial,” research the setting/ an issue/ claim/ or quote an author has included in a historical fiction and research it (building evidence based claims and using text evidence)

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What Administrators Look for in an Effective School Program

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What Administrators Look for in an Effective School Program

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-rating a library by sight when you walk into it
-Rating the collection -age of collection-quality
-How Librarians are leaders in the school; make yourself indispensable
-Leading book studies, deliver professional learning
-access to books for special populations—spec ed and ESL
-digital community members

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Making Literacy: Promoting Literacy through Makerspace Activities

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Making Literacy: Promoting Literacy through Makerspace Activities

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@ginaseymour or ginaseymour.com
-Paper Magic (FB and YouTube) @papermagicreny
-You Can Do the Cube- Cube Lending Program where they'll send you up to 100 Rubix Cubes and when you're done with your project, you just mail them back. Then you use those hundred cubes to create a mosaic.
youcandothecube.com/build-mosaics-with-rubiks-cubes/create-your-own-mosaics/
-Cardboard boxes- Read the book What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen & Chris Sheban or Not a Box
-makedo kit
-Out of the Box: 25 Cardboard Engineering Projects for Makers
-If I Built a Car and If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen
-The Three Little Pigs
-Gumby: 50 Shades of Clay
-Claymates by Dev Petty
-Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot to make parachutes for chocolate kisses
-The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkawmba to use junk to make something useful
-The Geography of You and Me Jennifer E. Smith
-After the Fall by Dan Santat and Humpty Dumpty for Egg Drop
-Silly Billy by Anthony Browne to teach about and make Worry Dolls during Hispanic Heritage Month
-Beauty and the Beak by Deborah Lee Rose
-Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing by April Jones Prince for bridge building
-Kate Warne Pinkerton Detective for Breakout EDU
-Any music books and tie to Makey Makeys or just making instruments
-Kids Can Press or Citizen Kid are two publishing companies with many inventor books
-With My Hands Poems About Making Things for Poetry month
-Blackout Poetry with Doodle Buddy
-Post a Poem- like Poetry Magnets, but you write things on post-its and let students move words around to make poems
-More-igami by Dori Kleber
-Sock Puppet Creation by Capstone or Sock Puppet app

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@readjennymartin

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-Prepare a one minute speech with content.
Make it a thank you for something.
Credential yourself and give an announcement or reminder. Give the value behind it. Use persuasion principles.
-Tell your story on social media because if you don’t someone else will. Use Canva to create images with pics from inside your libraries.
-Create partnerships—faces and spaces. Treat it like a reference question. We can’t be active with everyone all of the time. Focus and prioritize. Can’t form it from your desk. Meet with them in the community. What are their challenges? Then treat this as a reference question.

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Collaboration with Teachers and Librarians (Very Powerful)

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Collaboration with Teachers and Librarians (Very Powerful)

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-Teachers said they appreciated having a flexible schedule where they can pick a time each week to come in instead of having a set schedule.
-They also liked that the librarian gave them a couple of weeks at the beginning of the year to get their feet wet, and then approached them
-Make the library flexible and easily accessible- let students check out at any time with self-checkout.
-The library can provide an outlet for a change of pace and setting with a rich literacy background for students!
-Tailor your lessons around what the teachers are working on- ask for lesson plans, then try to help them with a hook/intro lesson or an extension.
-Build relationships with the teachers to build that trust and offer help. Be persistent about wanting to help the teachers.
-Be the teachers' solution!
-Go after the new teachers to gain the trust of a team.
-Schedule ideas: Have first hour of every day reserved for kinder and first with a read-aloud, lesson, and checkout (especially in the first semester). Then the rest of the day is flexible (with one 11:00-12:00 conference/lunch with Friday bookclub lunch).
-Teachers said that time, trust, and set schedules are the biggest obstacles to collaboration. Be willing to come bring lessons to their classrooms, especially at times when the library is closed.

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https://goo.gl/7UwA2V

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Open MakerSpace to teachers
‘Appy’ Hour
MakerSpace 101
Internet Safety
Social Networks

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-look local first, then nationally
-have a very clear plan! Be prepared!
-reach out to fellow librarians and grant writers for advice
-look at amount being granted and think big! Don’t ask for $500 when they’re offering $5000
-talk to grantors, call or email them
-consider being a grant reviewer, helps see what stands out
-do research on the funder and previous winners and build relationships
-the project might not be able to be funded through one place
-be ready for things to go wrong

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-read the guidelines
-check the math and budgets carefully
-don’t wait until the last minute
-grammar and statistics
-plan ahead
-letting vendors drive projects (avoid this!)
-match activities to correct funding programs
-focus on community needs, not want you just want to give them.
-make sure you’re doing something program-based
-it needs to impact people’s lives, not be a money grab

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-contact the foundation your applying
-read/watch webinars and FAQs
-the foundations really want to hear from applicants
-have a proofreader and collaborator

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Tocker Foundation is proud to have played a significant role in realizing the remodeling and modernization of the Texas State Library.

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Hot Wheels - gives kits away for free

Future Ready YouTube webinars

#futurereadylibs

#futureready

#leadoutloud

Making for donation
Service learning
Sewing

ReMaking History Series
Upcycling
Curate for what students are learning about

Random Acts of Kindness week
Quilted Heart Project (leave around town)
Kindness Heart Project (leave around town)

School Library MakerSpace in Action book
Makers with a Cause book