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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater LIBMEDIA 751 Summer 2008

Course Competencies and Artifacts

 * ===**Program competency**=== || ===**WI DPI standards for professional licensure**=== || ===**AASL/ NCATE Standard**=== || ===**NBPTS**=== || === Possible artifacts === ||
 * 1. Demonstrate and apply knowledge of leadership skills, including strategies, planning and goal setting. Apply a working knowledge of management principles and change theory. Develop strategies for problem solving in the management area. || P6a, P7f ||  || 3, 6, 10 || [[file:DataCollectionPlan.pdf]][[file:DataCollectionPlan2.pdf]] ||
 * 2. Work with faculty, administrators, and other library media professionals to review and revise as needed library media program goals to assure that they remain an integral part of the educational program in the school and school district. Contribute to the development of district-level long-range plans for the library media program and other programs within the school district. (include program evaluation) || P6a, P6b || 4a (T), 4b (A), 4c (A), 4c (T) || 6, 10 || [[file:PlanCritique1.pdf]] [[file:PlanCritique2.pdf]][[file:PlanCritique3.pdf]][[file:PlanCritique4.pdf]][[file:PlanCritique5.pdf]][[file:PlanCritique6.pdf]] ||
 * 3. Advocate and promote the role and services of the school library media program regularly and purposefully within the school district and its community || P2a || 4b (T) || 10 || [[file:Libraries in the Middle.ppt]] ||
 * 4. Design, implement and communicate policies and procedures for the management of an effective school library media program to support program goals. || P6c || 4b (A), 4a (T) || 3, 6, 9 || [[file:LMCProcedures1.doc]] ||
 * 5. Advocate for sufficient budget / resources from local, state and federal sources to meet library media program goals at the school district level . || P6d || 4b (A, T) || 6 ||  ||
 * 6. Advocate and plan for new and remodeled school library media facilities to support the instructional program of the school district || P6e || 1d (A), 4b (A) || 5 ||  ||
 * 7. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of appropriate local, state, regional, and national professional associations and publications || P1c || 3a (A, T) || 8 ||  ||
 * 8. Identify legislation, legal issues, and policy at the local, state, and national levels that affect the development of school library media programs (e.g., intellectual property, Internet filtering, non-discrimination, ADA, confidentiality, privacy) and take appropriate action || P1d ||  || 9 || [[file:COPPA1.pdf]][[file:COPPA2.pdf]][[file:COPPA3.pdf]] ||
 * 9. Applies appropriate research findings to improve teaching and learning throughout the school and specifically within the school library media program || P6f || 1d (T), 3c (T) || 3 ||  ||
 * 10. Recruits, hires, trains, develops, evaluates and provides leadership for volunteer, paraprofessional and student staff in the library media program, examining personnel issues such as hiring, progressive discipline, firing, goals, roles, and mentoring. ||  || 4b (T) || 6 ||   ||
 * 11. Assess needs, plan, implement and evaluate staff development activities that make realization of program and district initiatives possible. || P5c || 3b (A) || 5 || [[file:StaffDevelopment.pdf]] ||
 * 12. Supports equitable and flexible access to information, ideas, resources, and service both within and beyond the school. ||  || 1c (T) ||   ||   ||
 * 13. Engage in continuous self-evaluation and self-directed learning for personal professional growth || P1b || 3c (T) || 7, 8 ||  ||
 * 14. Understands the principles, supports, and promotes the practice of intellectual freedom, free inquiry, and access to information that is requisite to effective and responsible citizenship in a democracy. || P3b, P5c || 1a (T), 1c (T) || 3, 9 ||  ||

Final Reflection
The Library Media Specialist plays an essential leadership role in the school. Like a principal, an LMS works with all staff and students, must know the entire curriculum and administers a large, vital program. Over the last five years I have increased my leadership role within the school and the district. At the school level I have been an integral part of the Leadership Team, the Language Arts Cadre facilitator, the Unified Arts team leader, and creator and leader of our Tech Futures team. At the district level I became a member of the district's Library Leadership Team this year, and have participated in the Madison CATS (a technology committee of school and community members). This year I also attended a four day intensive training in Adaptive Schools, which provides a system for running effective meetings with goal planning, team building and conflict resolution strategies.

My Plan Critique for the class looked at the 2006 MMSD (Madison Metropolitan School Districti) Technology Plan. The MMSD plan was updated in 2009 and the document became the focus for our Madison CATS committee as we focused on improving technology in the district. Unfortunately this group fell apart when the leader of the group left, but I'm hopeful we can get it back on track and accomplish our goals. In the meantime, LLT and our middle school LMS group has spent some looking at the plan to see how and where libraries fit in and discovered they do in a big way. We need to make sure we stay in the conversation with the other groups involved like Tech Services and Curriculum & Assessment to make them aware of how libraries fit into the Technology Plan. One way we can do that is to advocate. We can really emphasize our expertise in the area of technology. Also this school year the district undertook their Literacy program review. LLT was involved in providing the library-literacy link into the report when libraries were not even considered part of the conversation at first. This shows that we, as LMS, need to be constantly aware of what is going on in the district and constantly explaining to stakeholders the importance of the library program in all areas.

Another way to keep the library program on the radar is through staff development. A few summers ago the district had an in-district staff development day with teachers teaching teachers. The middle school librarians worked together to create a presentation on the databases available within MMSD. The Staff Development artifact shows my involvement. For this workshop we created a handout and used the graphic that I developed in class for the Libraries in the Middle power point presentation. Through the development of this power point I was able to think about the pertinent things I would want school board members to know about the library program. The Libraries in the Middle graphic really boils it down for me, as it shows library's connectedness to many areas of the larger school program.

Creating clear procedures in the library is essential for an efficient, well-run program. I included my procedures that I have developed specific to Whitehorse. As I switch to a new school this year I will need to revise some of those procedures as each school and each program is unique.

An area that I'd like to work on for my next licensure cycle is to create a PDP. While I've created one in the past, I've never implemented it due to taking classes. The more I've learned about them the more I see how would benefit to my practice.