[CASL-L] Benefits of a LMS in a 1:1 school

[Shannon McNeice]

I can't even imagine having to defend this now!!

This morning I already:

-Made an immigration booklist for a teacher
-Found the Portuguese language version of Night and added to Overdrive for
an ESOL teacher
-Answered an email from the Drama Director about printing door hinges on my
3D printer
-Helped 5 kids find "books as windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors"
books that they would enjoy
-Called down my Kids' Lit Quiz students to give them an invite to the end
of season celebration
-And added to my Black History Month bulletin board.
-Emailed a student about where to find a History Day graphic organizer.

After this email, I have to score a website evaluation assessment, make a
form to ask kids for info about a "library takeover" event, add 6 books to
the catalog that said not in system when checked in this morning, change
the spine label and re-catalog a Holocaust diary, etc, etc. etc.

How do you explain that in a job description?



Shannon McNeice
*Library Media Specialist*
*Sedgwick Middle School <http://sedgwick.whps.org>*
*West Hartford, CT 06107*
Sedgwick Middle School Library <http://blog.whps.org/sedgwicklibrary>
 @smcneice <https://twitter.com/smcneice>      sedglibrary
<https://instagram.com/sedglibrary/>  sedgwicklibrary
<https://www.pinterest.com/sedgwicklibrary/>

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria
Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
<https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/314321> (Thanks to Anne Bogel
<https://modernmrsdarcy.com/> for the quote!)


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:53 PM Leslie Poulos via CASL-L <casl-l at mylist.net>
wrote:

> 1 . Need to have someone to teach/help teachers and students to use the
> technology well- LMS can go to classrooms to teach
> 2. Need to have a certified teacher for digital literacy/citizenship
> instruction
> 3. Expertise in promoting books and reading
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 24, 2020, at 8:22 PM, MARY LEE QUINN <maryquinn at snet.net> wrote:
>
> The ignorance of this is really appalling! The LMS is needed more than
> ever!
>
> Just wondering if your union is of any help?
>
> Good luck!!
> Mary Lee
>
> On Feb 20, 2020, at 7:22 PM, David Bilmes <dbilmes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 
> Our district is going to a 1:1 policy next year, with students being
> issued Chromebooks. We are also moving into a brand-new middle school, with
> a beautiful media center which the current LMS helped design. However, the
> superintendent has presented a budget which calls for eliminating the
> middle-school LMS and replacing that position with para/clerk, who will
> help supervise the 1:1 program. Reportedly, the administration claims that
> since the district is going to be 1:1, there's no need for a librarian at
> the middle school.
>
> We know it's an uphill battle, but we're going to speak at the upcoming
> Board of Ed meeting Tuesday night to advocate for the position not being
> cut. We've been gathering information, have been in touch with CASL and
> ALA, and are buoyed by reports that many of the middle school students have
> created and signed a petition to protest the position being cut. What would
> be helpful would be for those of you who work in 1:1 districts, and in
> particular in middle schools in those districts, to send me a few bullet
> points about the importance of having a fully certified LMS even in a 1:1
> school.
>
> Thanks in advance for everyone's help and support.
>
> David Bilmes
> Oxford High School
> _______________________________________________
> CASL-L mailing list
> CASL-L at mylist.net
> https://mylist.net/listinfo/casl-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> CASL-L mailing list
> CASL-L at mylist.net
> https://mylist.net/listinfo/casl-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> CASL-L mailing list
> CASL-L at mylist.net
> https://mylist.net/listinfo/casl-l
>

-- 
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE:
This West Hartford Public Schools e-mail may contain 
confidential information. It is intended solely for the original designated 
recipient(s). 
Any other use is prohibited and access to this email by 
anyone else is unauthorized.Any opinions expressed are those of the author 
and are not necessarily endorsed by WHPS.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mylist.net/archives/casl-l/attachments/20200225/d2f6be05/attachment.htm>