1. EMBRACING THE FIVE ROLES OF THE TEACHER LIBRARIAN FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Michelle-Introductions and Role Pie
Introduction: Today we are going to go through the process that teacher librarians in SFUSD have done in the past year; you will sample in a small way how it works, what the product is and how effective it is. +
Objectives for this session:
Become familiar with the roles and what they look like in practice;
Understand how collaboration as a central element to the library program enriches student achievement;
Reflect upon their own practice and add exemplars of their own to the roles.
Presenters:
Michelle Powers: Teacher Librarian on Special Assignment
Miranda Doyle: Teacher Librarian and
7th Grade Language Arts Teacher
San Francisco Unified School District

2. Michelle-Introductions and Role Pie
Leader
Instructional Partner
Teacher
Information Specialist
Program Manager
Michelle-Introductions and Role Pie
Look at the graphic—these are the 5 roles of teacher librarians (give citation)
What key words come to mind to represent each of the roles?
Record the words on a chart for each role.
Citation:
American Association of School Librarians [AASL]. Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, Print.

3. 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.
Miranda-Lead Activity and Discussion of Sentence Strips
Discussion Questions:
What do you notice about the chart and the placement of the strips?
What is the % of each of the roles in proportion to the time we work?
What roles make teacher librarians the most valuable?
What should we be doing?
What does exemplary mean?
How do we define each role?

4. 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
Michelle-introduce
Play-Discuss as below
Miranda-Clip I
Michelle-Clip II
Miranda-Clip III
Michelle-Clip IV
Miranda-Clip V
For each clip here are the discussion questions:
Where would this clip be placed in the role chart?
What makes this activity exemplary or not?
What thoughts do you have about revising the activity to be more effective?

5. YOUR EXEMPLARY ACTIVITIES IN THE FIVE ROLES
Use the Five Roles’ table.
Fill in one or two activities you believe to be exemplary for each role to begin your own table.
Michelle-Show table and Discussion
Write 1-2 exemplary activities into your own roles’ table.
Share 2-3 exemplary activities from group as a whole.
Ask: How has this small sample process changed your thinking about your work, the roles, and/or student achievement?

6. SFUSD PRODUCT Our Five Roles with Exemplary Activities Our Next Steps:
High School
Middle School
Our Next Steps:
Instructional Partner
4 facets : Coordination, Cooperation, Integrated Instruction and Integrated Curriculum
Evidence of student achievement
Michelle--
Show the high school and middle school documents.
What ideas do you have for our next steps?
Show the Instructional Partner role sheet.
Where did this information come from?
What is its purpose?

7. 2009-2010 SFUSD CONTRIBUTING MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER LIBRARIANS
Daniel Hollander Denman MS
Ren Volpe Everett MS
Chelsey Hart Francisco MS
Miranda Doyle Martin Luther King, Jr. MS
Micah Melton Lick MS
Valerie Barth Horace Mann MS
Laurel Patton Presidio MS
Miranda

8. 2009-2010 SFUSD CONTRIBUTING HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER LIBRARIANS
Molly Lazarus Balboa HS
Megan Enger Burton HS
Nancy Cussary ISA 6-12
Kathy Gallardo Lincoln HS
Linda Guitron Lowell HS
Alison Shepard Lowell HS
Matt McDonell Mission HS
Elaine Moskowitz O’Connell HS
Miranda

9. 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       (2010): Print.
Michelle-
Show resources.
Show journal article from LMC for November/December.
We know we are on the right track.

10. CONTACT INFORMATION
Michelle Powers
SFUSD
Curriculum Resources, Libraries & Media Services
Miranda Doyle
Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School
Michelle