Welcome to LIB5040

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Welcome to LIB5040

• Management of the School Library Media Center

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LIB5040Management of the School Library Media
CenterTodays Learning

• Questions and updates
• Leadership (Objs. 1 10)
• Organizations and Management (Obj. 10)
• Professional Development (Objs. 1 2)

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Questions Updates

• Geri Purpur sharing Best Practices in Designing
  Online Reference Guides - June 30th at 500 pm in
  the LIB 5040 Forum of Qwaq AETZ.
• Others?

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Leadership

• Think of someone you consider a leader.
• What practices make that person a leader in your
  mind?

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Leadership

• Kouzes Posner (2002).The Leadership Challenge.
  San Francisco Josey Bass.
• Over two decades of research
• Leadership is a set of skills and practices
  available to everyone
• Leadership can be found at all levels of an
  organization
• Leadership is a relationship (p.20)

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Leadership

• Kouzes Posner, cont .
• Five Practices Ten Commitments of Leadership
• http//www.leadershipchallenge.com/WileyCDA/Secti
  on/id-131055.html
• Video (to 649) - http//www.leadershipchallenge.
  com/WileyCDA/Section/id-306621.html

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Leadership

• How does your list compare with Kouzes Posners
  Five Practices?

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Leadership

• Examine the Five Practices of Leadership
• http//www.leadershipchallenge.com/WileyCDA/Secti
  on/id-131055.html
• Work in groups
• Each group selects a different Practice
• Provide an example of what that practice might
  look like if you are the media coordinator?
• Share with class

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Leadership

• How do the Five Practices of Leadership align
  with the roles of the school library media
  specialist as described in Empowering Learners?

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Leadership

• Do you think media coordinators can be/are
  leaders?
• Do other members of the school community perceive
  that media coordinators are leaders? Why or why
  not?
• Are you ready for leadership?

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Leadership

• Interesting to note .
• A team of evaluators from the Friday Institute
  at North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  conducted an evaluation of the IMPACT project.
  From the final evaluation report, media
  coordinators outscored principals on the LPI
  measure of leadership qualities.

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Organizations Management

• Managers handle the day-to-day operations
• Does not necessarily involve leadership
• Media coordinators are managers
• People
• Resources
• Budget
• Facilities ..

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Organizations Management

• Media coordinators manage within an organization
• The organization consists of people/personalities

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Organizations Management

• There are numerous theories about organizations,
  management, and personalities.
• Many are adapted and applied in schools.

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Organizations Management

• Exploration of organization, management, and
  personality theories
• Work in teams
• Find information on the topic
• Description of the theory
• How might the theory relate to schools, the media
  center, and/or the media coordinator?
• Share with class

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Organizations Management

• Chaos Theory/Complexity Theory
• Learning Organizations (Senge)/Systems Theory
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Myers-Briggs Personality Typing

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Organizations Management

• Power in organizations
• The ability to get what you want
• Influencing what others think, believe do
• Is a reality

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Organizations Management

• French Ravens (1960) Five Forms of Power
• Coercive able to force someone to do something
  against their will.
• Reward do something and you get something
• Legitimate based on the position
• Referent a person liking or wanting to be like
  you
• Expert having a skill or knowledge someone else
  desires

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Organizations Management

• Conversations about power in education .
• Empowerment of teachers
• Concept of shared leadership
• For more information you might read some of
  Michael Fullans work

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Organizations Management

• Power Chart Assignment
• Think about an organization you are very familiar
  with please use fictitious names for this
  assignment
• Analyze the power structure
• Who are the formal leaders?
• Who are the informal leaders?
• Who are the information brokers the people who
  may not have a formal position, but know the
  history of the organization, the people, and how
  to get things done?
• What are the implications for a media
  coordinator?

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Professional Development

• On a piece of paper
• List characteristics of professional development
  that you have participated in.
• Circle the characteristics you thought were
  effective.

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Professional Development

• Professional development is a systematic attempt
  to change teachers practice to ultimately
  improve student learning.
• National Staff Development Council (NSDC)
  Standards for Professional Development
• http//www.nsdc.org/standards/index.cfm
• North Carolina Professional Development Standards
• http//www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/TandL.htm

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Professional Development

• Professional development conceptual framework
• Content - the new knowledge, skills, and teaching
  practices that are the foundation of what is to
  be learned.
• Process - the instructional processes,
  strategies, and structures in the delivery of
  professional development.
• Context - the organization, system, or culture
  surrounding the professional development.

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Professional Development

• Standards tied to the research on professional
  development best practices.
• http//www.lesn.appstate.edu/matzen/LIB5040.html
• Compare these to the characteristics that your
  circled earlier.
• What are the implications for the design of your
  Resident Experts Professional Development?

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Professional Development

• Evaluation of professional development
• Guskey (2000) suggests 5 levels
• Participants reactions
• Participants learning
• Organizational culture
• Use of new skills
• Student outcomes

Guskey, T. R. (2000). Evaluating Professional
Development. Thousand Oaks, CA Corwin Press.
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Professional Development

• Instrument to use to look at Participants
  Reactions
• Professional Development Evaluation Tool
  available at http//www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/igran
  t/

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Assignments

• Read Morris Chps. 4, 5, 8,
• Read Stephens/Franklin Chps. 3, 5,14
• Read Empowering Learners Chp. 3
• Do Organization Power Chart Analysis