Leader of Research Hub MS HS Teacher Librarian

Requirements

• As a leader the school librarian creates an environment where collaboration and creative problem solving thrive. The school librarian is an excellent communicator who instills enthusiasm in others by making them feel that they are important members of a team. Strong leaders foster an environment of creativity innovation and openness to new ideas welcoming and encouraging input from others to create consensus. They anticipate future obstacles and continually retool to meet challenges. The school librarian demonstrates his or her role as a visible and active leader within the school community an advocate for the SLP and a professional member of the school library community by:
  
  serving on decision making teams in the school
  
• taking an active role in school improvement and accreditation activities
  
• benchmarking the SLP to school and national program standards
  
• sharing expertise by presenting at faculty meetings parent meetings and school board meetings
  
• creating an environment that is conducive to active and participatory learning resourcebased instructional practices and collaboration with teaching staff
  
• sharing with the learning community collaboratively developed and uptodate group policies concerning such issues as materials selection circulation reconsideration of materials copyright privacy and acceptable use
  
• encouraging the use of instructional technology to engage students and to improve learning providing 24/7 access to digital information resources for the entire learning community
  
• collecting and analyzing data to improve instruction and to demonstrate correlations between the SLP and student achievement
  
• maintaining active memberships in professional associations
  
• remaining current in professional practices and developments information technologies and educational research applicable to school library programs
  
• advocating for school library programs and the guiding principles of the school library profession; the school librarian is an active accessible and informed proponent of the school library profession by:
  
• advocating communicating and promoting opportunities to improve the profession
  
• maintaining frequent and timely communication to stakeholders through the school and library website parent newsletter email and other formats such as video/audio streaming and ondemand video/podcasts
  
• writing articles and submitting regular reports providing evidence of what the library and school librarian do to prepare learners to be successful in the twentyfirst century
  
• maintaining an effective public relations program
  
• demonstrating a commitment to maintaining intellectual freedom
  
• promoting the ethical use of information
  

• participating in the curriculum development process at both the building and group level to ensure that the curricula include the full range of literacy skills (information media visual digital and technological literacy) necessary to meet content standards and to develop lifelong learners
  
• collaborating with teachers and students to design and teach engaging inquiry and learning experiences and assessments that incorporate multiple literacies and foster critical thinking
  
• participating in the implementation of collaboratively planned learning experiences by providing group and individual instruction assessing student progress and evaluating activities
  
• joining with teachers and others to plan and implement meaningful experiences that will promote a love of reading and lifelong learning
  providing and planning professional development opportunities within the school and group for and with all staff including other school librarians
• 3.3 Information Specialist
  
  As information specialist the school librarian provides leadership and expertise in the selection acquisition evaluation and organization of information resources and technologies in all formats as well as expertise in the ethical use of information. The school librarian ensures equitable access and responsible use of information by:
  
• in accordance with group policy developing and maintaining a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum the learners and the teaching styles and instructional strategies used within the school community
  
• cooperating and networking with other libraries librarians and agencies to provide access to resources outside the school
  
• modeling effective strategies for developing multiple literacies
  
• evaluating promoting and using existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning supplement school resources connect the school with the global learning
  
• community communicate with students and teachers and provide 24/7 access to library services
  
• providing guidance in software and hardware evaluation and developing processes for such evaluation
  
• understanding copyright fair use and licensing of intellectual property and assisting users with their understanding and observance of the same
  organizing the collection for maximum and effective use
  
  

• using strategic planning for the continuous improvement of the program
  
• ensuring that school library program goals and objectives are aligned with school and district longrange strategic plans
  
• using effective management principles including the supervision of personnel resources and facilities in developing and implementing program goals and objectives
  
• using evidence of practice particularly in terms of learning outcomes to support program goals and planning
  
• generating evidence in practice that demonstrates efficacy and relevance of the school library instructional program
  
• conducting ongoing action research and evaluation that creates data that is used to inform continuous program improvement
  
• supervising and evaluating support staff which may include educational assistants computer education assistants volunteers and student assistants
  
• preparing justifying and administering the school library program budget to support specific program goals
  
• establishing processes and procedures for selection acquisition circulation resource sharing etc. that assure appropriate resources are available when needed
  
• creating and maintaining in the school library a teaching and learning environment that is inviting safe flexible and conducive to student learning
  
• selecting and using effective technological applications for management purposes
  
• participating in the recruiting hiring and training of other professionals educational library assistants students and volunteer staff
  
• arranging for flexible scheduling of the school libraries to provide student accessibility to staff and resources at point of need
  
• ensuring equitable physical access to school library facilities by providing barrierfree universally designed environments.
  
  

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