EMBRACING THE FIVE ROLES OF THE TEACHER LIBRARIAN FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT Presenters: Michelle Powers: Teacher Librarian on Special Assignment Miranda Doyle: Teacher Librarian and 7 th Grade Language Arts Teacher San Francisco Unified School District
Leader Instructional Partner Teacher Information Specialist Program Manager
YOUR ACTIVITIES IN THE ROLES Consider your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly activities in your site library program. Choose one activity and write it on a sentence strip. Place your activity sentence strip on the role that it most fits under.
WHAT DO THE ROLES LOOK LIKE IN ACTION? Clip I—Matt McDonell & Tracy Heffernan Clip II—Molly Lazarus Clip III—Chris Lamb Clip IV—Valerie Barth Clip V—Karen Lee
YOUR EXEMPLARY ACTIVITIES IN THE FIVE ROLES Use the Five Roles’ table.Five Roles’ table Fill in one or two activities you believe to be exemplary for each role to begin your own table.
SFUSD PRODUCT Our Five Roles with Exemplary Activities High School Middle School Our Next Steps: Instructional Partner 4 facets : Coordination, Cooperation, Integrated Instruction and Integrated Curriculum Evidence of student achievement
SFUSD CONTRIBUTING MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER LIBRARIANS Daniel HollanderDenman MS Ren VolpeEverett MS Chelsey HartFrancisco MS Miranda DoyleMartin Luther King, Jr. MS Micah MeltonLick MS Valerie BarthHorace Mann MS Laurel PattonPresidio MS
SFUSD CONTRIBUTING HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER LIBRARIANS Molly LazarusBalboa HS Megan EngerBurton HS Nancy CussaryISA 6-12 Kathy GallardoLincoln HS Linda GuitronLowell HS Alison ShepardLowell HS Matt McDonellMission HS Elaine MoskowitzO’Connell HS
WORKS CITED American Association of School Librarians [AASL]. Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, Print. Montiel-Overall, Patricia. Introduction. Collaboration. Ed. Patricia Montiel-Overall and Donald C. Adcock. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, Print. Best of KQ Series. Purcell, Melissa. "All Libraries Do Is Check Out Books, Right? A Look at the Roles of a School Library Media Specialist." Library Media Connection 29.3 (2010): Print.
CONTACT INFORMATION Michelle Powers SFUSD Curriculum Resources, Libraries & Media Services Miranda Doyle SFUSD Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School