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[Carrie Seiden]

Good Morning, all!

This was posted in the* Marshall Memo 905* on October 5th.

6. How School Librarians Can Maximize Their Impact in Unsettled Times

            In this article in *Knowledge Quest*, Kristin Fontichiaro
(University of Michigan) and Wendy Steadman Stephens (Jacksonville State
University) suggest 40 ways that school librarians can maximize learning in
a time of uncertainty. A selection:

-   Realize your leadership potential – what Ewan McIntosh describes as
“agile, whole-school interdisciplinary work that is needed to create the
exceptional learning experience our young people deserve.”

-   Define success by the impact you make, not by how busy you are, leaning
into the influential, urgent, critical tasks in your building role.

-   Replenish your “surge capacity” by carving out time to connect with
others, exercising, practicing hobbies, and living your faith.

-   Retool your website so it works for students who are learning remotely.

-   “Go spelunking” into a database to find advanced features, tuning into
webinars, and updating assignments with new tools.

-   Reconsider punitive overdue policies – for example, letting items
auto-renew, permitting students to renew on their own, and ending fines.

-   Adapt online lessons for offline students, partnering with special
educators to keep lessons accessible for students with learning
differences.

-   Do a diversity audit of your collection and adapt selection criteria to
reflect the richness of a global society and a multicultural community.

-   Remember that parents are watching, with some ready to pounce on
cultural differences between home and school; anticipate these conflicts
and mediate a new level of family involvement in the curriculum.

-   Consider taking on the role of supporting families as they master
virtual connections with the school.

-   Tune in to school board and public library meetings.

-   Teach students how to explore multiple perspectives on the news,
including Freedom Forum’s collection of front pages.

-   Curate e-books available to students at home, creating “bookshelves” of
hand-picked titles.

-   Explore how you will address widespread misinformation and
disinformation – for example, by using Rand Corporation’s Media Literacy
Standards to Counter Truth Decay.

-   Explore and share Google Scholar, a powerful search tool to find
scholarly papers.

-   Evaluate your media diet and that of your school with tools like Ad
Fontes Media and AllSides.

-   Build in some time for students to wonder, using digital resources like
livecams or remote locales, Google Arts and Culture, and digitized museum
collections.

-   Do one thing you’ve put off. “You’ll feel relief and accomplishment,”
say Fontichiaro and Steadman.



“Pushing Forward While Treading Water”
<https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA676143124&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=10949046&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=mlin_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true>
by
Kristin Fontichiaro and Wendy Steadman Stephens in *Knowledge Quest*,
September/October 2021 (Vol. 50, #1, pp. 42-48); the authors can be reached
at font at umich.edu and wstephens at jsu.edu.
Take care,
Carrie
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*Carrie G. Seiden, M.L.S*
*Certified Teacher-Librarian & Gifted Education Specialist*
*Totoket Valley Elementary School*
*1388 Middletown Avenue *
*Northford, CT 06472*
*phone 203 484-1455 fax 203 484-6090*
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Quality school library programs ensure that all students learn essential
21st-Century skills

*"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."* --
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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