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Flexible? Fixed? Hybrid? . Adams 12 School Libraries. Norms. http://tinyurl.com/ad12tls. http://tinyurl.com/ad12tls1. Be boldly innovative or badly irrelevant. Sinkhole picture: July 23, 2010, http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100723-sinkhole-pg,0,2549976.photogallery.
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Flexible? Fixed? Hybrid? Adams 12 School Libraries
Be boldly innovative or badly irrelevant Sinkhole picture: July 23, 2010, http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100723-sinkhole-pg,0,2549976.photogallery
Accompanying “conditions”…. • Elementary teacher librarians are retained in full-time positions • Adequate clerk time is available • A district library coordinator position is maintained
Considerations: We need to think long and hard before jumping into fixed schedules….. Anonymous Adams12 TL
If students are taught without the teacher present, the teacher does not learn the skills. Fixed time does not allow for intensive instruction and student effort. If clerk time is limited, book check-out times are limited to flex time only.
General agreement that we need highly visible benchmarks for each grade level. Half fixed and half flex means I am doing two full-time jobs TL must have a true planning period if teaching half time, so flex time is very limited.
Many TLs have worked long and hard to get away from Fixed and are successfully collaborating regularly. Will we be able to retain our Power Libraries statuses? Would this work for Module 1 ESL schools or PYP schools?
This idea is responsive to our BOE direction that students have equitable opportunities to receive instruction. From LRS (CDE) Nov. 2010…# of endorsed TL positions is trending downward in CO public schools. % of Colorado schools with endorsed TL at elementary….. In 2008 – 27% In 2010 – 23%