[CASL-L] PD with your teachers?

[Sarah Briggs]

Hi Debbie,
My PLC meets twice every 6-day cycle (we're on an A-F day cycle). I am flex
scheduled, and most PLCs meet at a different time from mine. I made it one
of my personal professional goals (as in not the goal on my evaluation but
something I wanted to accomplish this year) to meet with each department
and talk to them about what the library can do to support their discipline,
and PLC turned out to be the best means of accomplishing this. I just
explained to each department head what I wanted to do and asked for a good
time to visit, and no one's turned me down yet! I do go over library
resources in general but the bulk of each presentation is specific to the
classes/units I know are being taught in each department. This makes it
more effective than presenting library resources to the entire faculty
because we spend the whole time we have together covering directly relevant
materials/services. After my presentation I share links and directions to
all the resources I went over using Google Drive so that teachers have it
to review whenever they want.

-Sarah Briggs

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you in a PLC too?
>
> How is the decision made about who you’re presenting to?
>
> When you say you differentiate, what does that look like?
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> *From:* Sarah Briggs [mailto:sjg.librarian at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:16 AM
> *To:* Debbie Abilock <dabilock at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* casl-l <casl-l at mylist.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [CASL-L] PD with your teachers?
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>
>
> Hi Debbie,
>
> This year I've started presenting to PLCs (you could also do departments
> if PLCs work differently at your school) on library resources and services
> specific to each discipline. I've presented to the entire faculty before,
> but just as with students, I've found that working with smaller groups with
> materials created specifically for them is more effective. This has already
> lead to increased feedback from the staff and several new collaborations.
>
>
>
> Sarah Briggs
>
> Library/Media Specialist
>
> Jonathan Law High School
>
> 20 Lansdale Avenue
>
> Milford, CT 06460
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> sbriggs at milforded.org
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>
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi CASL-members,
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> I’m working on a piece about school librarians who are doing PD with your
> own faculty and looking for examples…
>
> If you think this is of interest to the list, please reply to everyone
> with a blurb about what you’re doing.  If you’d just like to put out a
> feeler to me, please do!
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>
>
> best,
>
> debbie
>
>
>
> Debbie Abilock
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> NoodleTools/NoodleTeach
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> Abilock, Debbie, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Violet H. Harada, eds. *Growing
> * *Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers*
> <http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A3723P>. Santa
> Barbara: Libraries Unlimited-ABC CLIO, 2012.
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> SLC Column “Friction”
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