[CALIBK12] Query: Split library positions

[bwoolls at slis.sjsu.edu]

Richard brings us back to that age-old question, "Why aren't we finding
out what is working and do that rather than working to halt an avalanche
after it is started?" School district administrators will find the money
to keep what is percenived to be really important to them (and the school
board, and the parents, and the children.) This isn't something you start
after the cuts have been announced. It is something that is started the
first day on the job.

For those of us who have been in place for a time, the summer should give
ample time to figure out what you are going to do the first day school
begins to build that aura of necessity. If you have this wonderful list of
things that can be accomplished this year with a hint of next year and up
to five years out, you make an appointment with your principal and say,
"Harry (or Mary) here's what I need to be doing to make teaching easier
for teachers and learning easier for students,; and this is what we should
be doing together to make that happen."

You are the most important person in that school (although you can let
Harry or Mary think they are) except for the students, and it's time to do
this.

Blanche

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> I don't make it work.? I leave.
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> That was the decision back in 1991 in Torrance and I resigned and went to
> Garden Grove -- which still has LMTs in every 7-12 school.? Torrance then
> apologized and asked me to stay but I told them that the fact that they
> could consider the idea in an already understaffed district meant I needed
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> Ask them how other districts manage library staffing with the same money
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> DataQuest at < http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ > allows you to search for
> professional staffing information.
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> ?Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
> Huntington Beach, CA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dagmar Rea <Drea at hemetusd.k12.ca.us>
> To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu
> Sent: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 2:39 pm
> Subject: [CALIBK12] Query: Split library positions
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> Our district is looking at splitting the 4 remaining high school
> librarians between two schools each:? one middle school and one high
> school.? This option is in lieu of the prior plan to send us all?back into
> the classroom part-time.? Each site has at least one full-time library
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> Our question is, if you are currently split between two schools, how do
> you make it work?? How is your time split, and what do we need to know for
> this to be successful?? We are hoping this will only be temporary,?but
> want to be proactive about the situation.
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> Any advice on how to make a split between two schools successful is needed
> and appreciated.? I know how busy we all are this time of year...
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> Dagmar Rea, Teacher Librarian
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> Hemet High School
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