Advocacy begins with each of us!
1. Every child deserves a qualified school librarian.
2. Quality preparation programs are key to the profession.
3. We must work to ensure that all stakeholders know the critical role that school librarians play in student learning.
It is an honor and a privilege to stand as a candidate for the office of president-elect of the American Association of School Librarians. What an exciting time to be a school librarian! We work with students, teachers, administrators, and parents. We work with print and the newest technologies. We are called upon to be teachers, instructional partners, information specialists, instructional leaders, and program administrators. We teach children skills; we help them to develop dispositions; we scaffold them as they take responsibilities; and we position them to self-assess. We genrefy our collections (or not); we set up makerspaces; we augment reality; we drive the learning that takes place in our schools.
And, yet, what a challenging time to be a school librarian! We are asked to do more with less—less funding, less staffing, less time. We face issues of access, not only with filtering but also with bandwidth, with the technology-haves and the technology have-nots. We face the ongoing task of informing others regarding the critical role that we play in student learning.
We must continue to work toward having a qualified school librarian in every school. We must work to insure that we have quality programs to educate and prepare future school librarians. We must continue to work to educate our stakeholders regarding the key contributions that strong librarians and strong library programs make to instruction.
Advocacy begins with each of us!
1. Every child deserves a qualified school librarian.
2. Quality preparation programs are key to the profession.
3. We must work to ensure that all stakeholders know the critical role that school librarians play in student learning.
It is an honor and a privilege to stand as a candidate for the office of president-elect of the American Association of School Librarians. What an exciting time to be a school librarian! We work with students, teachers, administrators, and parents. We work with print and the newest technologies. We are called upon to be teachers, instructional partners, information specialists, instructional leaders, and program administrators. We teach children skills; we help them to develop dispositions; we scaffold them as they take responsibilities; and we position them to self-assess. We genrefy our collections (or not); we set up makerspaces; we augment reality; we drive the learning that takes place in our schools.
And, yet, what a challenging time to be a school librarian! We are asked to do more with less—less funding, less staffing, less time. We face issues of access, not only with filtering but also with bandwidth, with the technology-haves and the technology have-nots. We face the ongoing task of informing others regarding the critical role that we play in student learning.
We must continue to work toward having a qualified school librarian in every school. We must work to insure that we have quality programs to educate and prepare future school librarians. We must continue to work to educate our stakeholders regarding the key contributions that strong librarians and strong library programs make to instruction.
Advocacy begins with each of us!
