1. COMMON CORE Our Call to Action

2. Leadership Wiki  https://lms-professional- development.wikispaces.com/Curriculum+Crosswalk s

3. Start With Why  Our Message  What Librarian Teacher Technologist  How Collaboration Flexible Schedule Library Skills Reading  Why – Your Belief Mission Statement

4. Start With Why  Communicate your belief about your job  Why: is your belief  How: is the road to get there  What: is your proof of what you believe

5. Importance of Leadership  Guts to stand alone with your “why”  Embrace your followers – nurture them  Easy to follow  Show others how to follow at the R&E Meetings

6. Districts Gear Up for Shift to Informational Texts  Why Informational Text?  Students weak in comprehending technical manuals, scientific/historical journals  What kinds of text?  Literary nonfiction  Historical documents  Scientific journals  Biographies  Autobiographies  Essays  Speeches  Information: charts/graphs, maps

7. Districts Gear Up for Shift to Informational Texts  How can we support the shift to informational texts in our schools?  Purchase of informational texts in a wide variety of formats  Creating lessons that include these texts  Making our staff aware of how our collections support their curriculum

8. Visibility, Core Standards, and the Power of Story  From invisibility to opportunity….  Stereotypical image  Administrator’s lack of exposure to value of libraries  Lack of understanding of our role  Lack of seeing strong connections to learning at the school level  Lack of visibility outside of library organizations The ability to increase our visibility thanks to Common Core are enormous.

9. Visibility, Core Standards, and the Power of Story  Dynamics of Visibility:  Advancing school goals and and including an explicit focus on instruction and curriculum  Team-based leadership in learning  Leadership in school wide professional development

10. Visibility, Core Standards, and the Power of Story  Interacting with text to create deep knowledge  Connecting ideas across diverse texts  Developing arguments  Crafting informed and evidence based conclusions through analysis of different viewpoints  Establishing and justifying viewpoints  Writing, listening, and speaking as a process to learning One Common Goal

11. Visibility, Core Standards, and the Power of Story  How did the power of the stories reflect the “why” of each school? LEARNING TEACHING POWERFUL Educators

12. TPACK as a Framework for Collaborative Inquiry in the Learning Commons  Begin with content knowledge  Know pedagogy  Flexibly use technology  Collaborative Questions

13. TPACK as a Framework for Collaborative Inquiry in the Learning Commons  How does TPACK change or reflect your process as you design lesson plans?  Develop technology expertise within your content area and an understanding of how learning develops within that content  Begin with content in mind  Collaborative inquiry 

14. Crosswalk Documents

15. How to Read the Document

16. Using the Documents  Review a set of documents at your table.  Think about how to create a lesson seed.  (Lesson Seeds: The lesson seeds are ideas for the indicator/objective that can be used to build a lesson. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive.  Use TPACK  Ask yourself the collaborative questions  Think about using a variety of informational texts

17. Post Your Seed to the Wiki