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Post-AASL, Inspired Brainstorming at a Lilead Project Think Tank
More 2015 AASL Coverage: “AASL 2015: Spirit and Surprises” “Hacking the Night Away at AASL” “Inside the Lilead Fellows Program” Following the 2015 AASL conference (Nov 5–8), the supervisors gathered...
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Inside the Lilead Fellows Program
Lilead Members (L to R) Lynne Oakvik, Kafi Kumasi, Jennifer Boudrye, & Ann Weeks discuss the role of school librarians with Upper Arlington (OH) Schools superintendent Paul Imhoff. On paper, the...
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Lead Brave: Buoyed by the Alliance of the Lilead Fellows | Editorial
Photo by Randy Asmo. What happens when you convene the top school library supervisors in the country and give them the space, time, and support to take their work to the next level? We are about to...
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Librarians as Instructional Leaders | Take the Lead
Take the Lead is a new series of monthly articles on leadership written by participants in the Lilead Fellows Program, which empowers school district library supervisors to be change agents in the...
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Gain Support When You Support District Goals | Take the Lead
In a relatively large district like mine—Albuquerque (NM) Public Schools—tying the school library to district priorities can seem simultaneously obvious and impossible. I have encountered few district...
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Connect With Your Principal | Take the Lead
Every school librarian media specialist wants to have the support of the school principal. Despite repeated efforts to talk with administrators, school librarians often feel ignored. This can stem from...
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Lilead Project Receives IMLS Support for New Round of Fellows
Current Lilead Fellows. The Lilead Project, established in 2012 at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies to study, support, and build community among school library supervisors in...
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Three Strategies for When the Going Gets Tough | Take the Lead
Lilead Fellow Leslie Yoder On the cork board near my desk is a green and white button that reads “Stand Up, Keep Fighting.” The buttons were handed out at the 2004 memorial service for our much-loved...
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Rebuilding Libraries at DC Public Schools| Take the Lead
In February 2014, I joined the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) as director of library programs. As in too many districts across the country, DCPS libraries had been marginalized for years....
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From Teacher Librarian to Thought Leader | Take the Lead
As I began my Lilead Fellowship in 2015, collaborating with two dozen powerful library supervisors from across the country, I quickly discovered I wasn’t a library supervisor in the traditional sense....
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Lilead Fellows for 2017–2018 Announced
The Lilead Project has selected its Fellows for 2017–2018. The goal of The Lilead Project is to study, support, and build community among those who coordinate school district library programs and to...
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Thriving During Leadership Change | Take the Lead
Changes in leadership are inevitable in today’s educational climate. Principals relocate and move up the career ladder with dizzying speed. District leaders switch school systems every few years. As...
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Digital Citizenship Education in Nine Steps | Take the Lead
Today’s students have an online playground in addition to the physical one at their schools. But unlike school playgrounds, digital spaces are rarely monitored or supervised. As students connect,...
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Building Bridges and Restoring Jobs | Take the Lead
Susan K.S. Grigsby Being a school librarian can be isolating. We are often the only one in the building, and we frequently run our libraries without clerks or paraprofessionals. That isolation can feel...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Why? Defining Your Mission | Take the Lead
When did you last think deeply about why you are a teacher librarian? I challenge you to articulate that. You will be empowered.
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Susan Grigsby has embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, leaving the U.S. for a school librarian position in Singapore. Here she shares some prized new finds as she begins to explore a whole new...
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