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Reinvent Your School Library Space

April 21, 2016

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• Library Services

• Purpose/Process/Principal

• Design

AGENDA

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LIBRARY SERVICES

Next Generation Learning EnvironmentREINVENT YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY SPACE

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Rain Rain Go Away

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READING EXPRESS

AN IMPLEMENTATION

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Sinek, Simon. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. New York: Portfolio, 2009. Print.

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The Golden Circle

"The Golden Circle." Flickr. Yahoo! Web. 20 Apr. 2016.

• The shift of the library from a place of consumption to a place of creation – the “Participatory Library”

• Makerspaces (low tech to high tech – knitting circles, lego leagues, robotics, hackerspaces, Minecraft/similar, 3-d printing, clean and messy)

• Programs promoting writing (NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), collection and curating local history, “storycore” oral histories, more)

• Media creation labs• Different spaces and/or services for different groups

• Re-design of staff resources to support active service models (roaming and one-desk)• Design of flexible physical spaces to adapt to new needs over time• Enhancements to patron self-service (more powerful “self check”) • Technology “showrooming” (a place for the public to see and experience new technology

devices – an expansion of the ‘technology pettign zoo” idea)9

Trends and Changing Library SpacesNew and Growing Spaces and Expectations

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Pivot Points

Include leaders in professional learning

Drive change with librariansEnact tiered visioning

Nurture content-specific PLCsSupport real risk-taking

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Learning Outcomes Knowledge Information Processes Technology Reading Independent learning Developing self-concept and personal agency Attitudes that value information and learning

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Next Generation Learning EnvironmentREINVENT YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY SPACE

PURPOSE / PROCESS / PRINCIPAL

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REFORMING SCHOOL CULTURE:

FOSTERING INNOVATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSFrom an archive of resources to an

Active Learning Commons

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What is driving transformation in education?★Fostering the 4 C’s

★Flexible Learning Environments

★New Digital Learning Environments - GAFE

Cultivating engaged, differentiated and meaningful learning

★Reform Best Practices - From a Library to an Active Learning Commons

Collaboration Critical Thinking

CommunicationCreativity

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TRANSFORM ACADEMY★Positive impact on culture and student

engagement - creating engaging learning for all students

★Emerging tools to help students own their learning

★How can teachers redesign assignments that we give kids through GAFE and Classroom

★Teacher from Klein ISD

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LEARNING OUTCOMES/TARGETSIN THE DISTRICT’S MISSION STATEMENT, THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS CHARGED US WITH CREATING ENGAGING LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS.

• RESEARCH THE USE OF LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR KLEIN CLASSROOMS USING A PROJECT BASED LEARNING APPROACH AND PILOT THE USE WITH STUDENTS.

• FACILITATE INTERACTIVE, ENGAGING AND FUTURE-READY CLASSROOMS THAT SUPPORT HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS.

• THE ROLE OF THE PRINCIPAL IS TO BE A LEAD LEARNER DOING THE SAME LEARNING AS THE TEACHER SO THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE TAKING RISKS IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT

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● Culture of our schools is changing!

● Teachers are taking risks to reform their instructional practices

● Students and teachers are creating, inventing, and sharing their excitement for learning

FINAL PRODUCTSCLASSROOM INNOVATION

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CO-TEACH

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BUILDING

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CATAPULTS

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CODING

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ENGINEERING

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LEGO

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MAKERSPACE

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MAKEY-MAKEY

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READERS THEATRE

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READERS THEATRE

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TOUCHSCREEN

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A TRANSFORMATION

Dayna’s / Brill library video(Jason’s video)

Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that problems cannot be solved using the same thinking that created them. How then can principals best support their libraries?

* Educate themselves to library and librarian potential. * Reconfigure the librarian's job to maximize realization of that potential. * Hire high-quality, forward-looking, energetic, innovative librarians. * Provide budget resources adequate to new roles and demands. * Effectively and accurately evaluate both the program and the librarian on jointly developed criteria recognizing library media work as simultaneously integral to instructional quality but distinct from classroom teaching itself.

WHY SHOULD PRINCIPALS SUPPORT SCHOOL LIBRARIES?

http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/libraries.htm

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DESIGN

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“Next generation learning” isn’t about educating the next generation of students. It’s about engaging with today’s students through “next gen” teaching and learning designs that promise significantly higher achievement for many more students than current generation approaches have been able to generate.

Next Generation Learning: The Pathway to PossibilityAndrew Calkins and Kristen Vogt

April 2, 2013 (Revised)

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“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

A NEW ARCHITECTURE OF LEARNINGNEXT GENERATION LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

- Yogi Berra

“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

“If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”

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What are Next Generation Learning Commons?... “Also known as “scholars' commons”, “information commons”, or “digital commons”, are educational spaces, similar to libraries and classrooms that share space for information technology, remote or online education, tutoring, collaboration, content creation, meetings and reading or study.[1][2]” Wiki

Next Generation Learning EnvironmentREINVENT YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY SPACE

Why the name “Learning Commons” ? - “It became clear that the focus of the

transformed traditional library should be on learning in its many manifestations, whether formal or informal, and the word “commons” could reflect a shift from a top-down organizational structure to the flat networked world where the clients, both teachers and students, consider themselves to be in command of knowledge building.” - ALA

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From a student’s perspective, next generation learning is...

• Personalized to the ways I learn best• Flexible so that I can try different ways to learn• Interactive and engaging so that I participate in the learning• Relevant to the life I’d like to lead• Organized around my own progress against goals I understand• Constantly informed by different ways of demonstrating and measuring my

progress• Collaborative with teachers and peers, unlimited by proximity• Agile and supportive when I need extra help• Challenging but achievable, with opportunities to become expert in an area of

interest• Available to me as much as it is to every other student

Next Generation Learning is about personalization & engagement in the learning environment.

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Changing Library ModelStore-Circulate-Distribute1958-2000

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Changing Library Modelhouse resources - connect resources—create resources

2000-presentFrom consumption to creation

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Trends and Changing Library SpacesWhat’s driving the trends?Demographics

Aging with or without Technology

Every age group has unique needs

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Education

How we learn

Growing economic divide

Trends and Changing Library SpacesWhat’s driving the trends?

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Social and Educational Shift

Desire to be near others

DIY Culture – Do It Yoursel

Trends and Changing Library SpacesWhat’s driving the trends?

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Trends and Changing Library SpacesWhat’s shrinking?

• Enhancements to patron self-service (more powerful “self-check”) such as mobile device checkout

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TechnologyMulti-mediaCollaborationFlexibility in spacesSocial media/have it your way

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TechnologyFurniture and outletsEvery seat is a technology seat—Bring Your Own Device

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TechnologyMaker spaces

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TechnologyMulti-mediaSocial media/have it your wayCollaborationPrint on demand/3-D printingMaker spaces

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TechnologyTechnology “Showcasing”

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Search for alternative service models/less emphasis on bricks and mortar• Retail spaces

• Pop up libraries

• Kiosks

• Portable reading rooms

• Shared spaces/libraries in municipal complexes

• Bicycle delivery

• Libraries at train stations

• Bookless libraries

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IMAGES

A TOUR OF INDUSTRY

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Seattle Central LibrarySeattle Public Library

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James B. Hunt LibraryUniversity of North Carolina

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So .............. where are you on your Learning Commons journey?

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2016 TLA Annual Conference - Texas Library Association

THANK YOU!