K-8 Library Media Specialist
CurrentThis position is a 40% FTE, so our library is staffed two days each week, with both fixed and flexible classes. Provides direct instruction for students, providing reading excitement, encouragement, and engagement with multiple literary elements. Primary classes are infused with the Red Clover Book Award, and middle elementary classes explore the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award list. Curriculum is based on the document I helped to create for my other school district, and I have initiated work on a similar document for this school district. Instruction is based on the AASL 21st Century Learner Standards, and the Common Core State Standards, along with skill practice with technology. Visitors to my classes will find our students engaged and having fun while adding tools to their toolbox for learning. This beautiful library had a very tired collection. I pursued automation for this school, and found a much more affordable online software to use, cataloging book by book after an extensive weeding of the collection. Updated holdings quickly each year through aggressive grant research and funding. Served as an approachable resource to all of my teachers, from providing book suggestions and ideas, to acquiring books outside our collection to support classroom instruction including many great discussions about literacy and technology. Community outreach includes two Scholastic Bookfairs, the annual One School One Book, which I help to select the title, and read the first chapter aloud to the community at our dinner event. Additionally I provide an extensive list of summer reading programs to help families support their readers during the summer.