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I have spent my career in education as a middle grades language arts teacher, a middle grades teacher librarian, and a coordinating teacher at the NC Department of Public Instruction. During my twenty-three years, I have focused on teaching and learning, student achievement, and teacher leadership. I have worked with beginning and veteran teachers through mentoring, internships, staff development, and professional learning teams.
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Monday Means Leadership: Intellectual Freedom
The American Library Association defines intellectual freedom as “the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Year End Reports – Highlighting Your Program
This is a tweaked repost of last year’s blog entry on year end reports. As the school year ends, school librarians find themselves completing inventories, chasing down overdue books, converting our spaces to testing sites, and compiling to-do lists a… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Professional Reading
The summer vacation of most educators is filled with more than just jaunts to the beach, visits to amusement parks, and trips with family and friends. We spend some of our time catching up on our leisure reading but also our… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: What Leaders Do You Follow?
There are probably a number of educational leaders, school library leaders, and educational associations and organizations that you follow. But have you every thought about following other gurus in the field of leadership, those outside of education? Many of their principles,… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Virtual Library Legislative Day
National Library Legislative Day will be held May 4-5, 2015, in Washington, DC. If you have the opportunity to attend the event and speak to your legislators about funding and support for libraries, it is an incredible experience. But if… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Literacy Leaders
When we talk about literacy, we no longer mean just reading abilities. We refer to digital literacy and information literacy and transliteracy in our discussions about how we work with students to improve their reading comprehension, their proficiency and their… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Your Professional Place on the Internet
Whether it’s through LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google or some other application or platform, we all should find our professional place on the internet: a website to share our resumes and professional activities, our lessons and research projects, our educational philosophies… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Showcasing Your Program During School Library Month
April is School Library Month and this year’s theme, Your School Library Where Learning Never Ends, once again gives us opportunity to highlight and showcase how our school library media and instructional technology programs impact student achievement. How will you… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Supporting Electives and Specialists
Mural created by art students in the library media center at East Cary Middle School in Cary, NC Collaboration, planning and team-teaching with my core teachers – English language arts, social studies, science and mathematics – is second nature for… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Voting for Our AASL Leaders
Some of our school library media colleagues have decided to take on the challenge of leading our association. They have crafted their biographies and shared their attributes and abilities which will help them lead in the positions they hope to gain. … Read More ›