Salary Credit for Teacher Librarian Workshops & LIBinars!

Salary Credit Information

Salary Credit for Teacher Librarians Workshops & LIBinars!

• If you signed up for salary credit (did so by telling Nannette or entering it onto our meeting sign in), these are the expectations! 
• Total=15 hours of worktime!
• You must attend 7.5 hours of face-to-face workshops OR LIBinars AND complete the following requirements.

Date	Hours Worked	Work Required	How will you document this work has been completed?
2015-16 School Year	3	Implement workshop learning in the library and/or in instruction and collaboration with teachers	Salary Credit Log
2015-16 School Year	3	Share to other teacher librarians how they have implemented the workshop learning by sharing images, video and/or student products and exemplars of this work	BVSD Teacher Librarians Google Group & Salary Credit Log
2015-16 School Year	1.5	Compose and publish a BVSD Libraries blog post on how a workshop has impacted how to do work in library and with students	BVSD Libraries Blog & Salary Credit Log
		TOTAL HOURS	7.5 (many TL’s will work beyond this time) SALARY CREDIT LOGS DUE To Elene Medicraft MONDAY, MAY 16, 2016

December Newsletter!

“One of the magical things about reading to me is it helps me imagine life outside of myself”

~John Green, We Need Diverse Books

Think!

“If this all seems too intimidating, gather a few of your adventurous students and let them lead you. I know kids at our school will practically demand it, not only because they understand that these skills are important, but because they’re excited to tinker around with these ideas to see how and why they all work.”

~Phil Goerner, Tips for Celebrating Hour of Code at your Library

Phil Goerner, teacher librarian at St Vrain Valley School District’s Silver Creek High School, recently posted an article to School Library Journal about how he celebrates Hour of Code--check it out!

Why read this article?
Phil shares practical ideas for how to celebrate hour of code in your library and with your students! Join him on Twitter (@pgoerner )  and share how your school is celebrating hour of code!

What to Know @BVSD this Month!

• Special Announcement: Collection Development Mini-Grants Available to you!
• Through collaboration with the Library Advisory Council, we are excited to announce that this year, the CDE State Grants to Libraries funding, is available for you to write a mini-collection grant!
• Please submit your grant interest through this form. Grant requests MUST follow the guidelines set by CDE for this funding AND demonstrate need for collection development in the particular area you are requesting.
• Hour of Code & CSED (Computer Science Education Week) begins Saturday! See this valuable info from Jackie Weber and the CSED team!!! Share in the comments section below how YOU are celebrating hour of code and be entered to win a prize!
• Boulder Book Store is giving away THOUSANDS of books to educators!! Read more about it and share with your teachers!

Insignia Info

• Who do you contact for Insignia questions?
• As always, you can contact Insignia directly when issues arise: Insignia 866-428-3997 x2 insigniasupport@insigniasoftware.com
• Submit a case within the ILS (under Help menu)
• Insignia Training Site
• Rae Ciciora, rae.ciciora@bvsd.org
• Rae is our assistant cataloguer and will be fielding Insignia questions until we can post and hire for replacing Amy’s position
• Discovery Layer is coming! See email from Rae and blog posts from October for information. We appreciate your patience as we’ve been testing and making sure our environment was ready for this change.

Learning for You!

• Salary Credit --if you have not told Nannette that you would like to earn salary credit for this year’s TL workshops and LIBinars, please let her know. Look for a blog post soon about what is required to earn this credit.
• Upcoming BVSD LIBinar: Increasing Student Library Engagement & Circulation with Colleen Jiron, Teacher Librarian @Community Montessori Wednesday, December 9th 2:45pm
• Upcoming CDE Library Webinar: The Irresistible Library: Renovate and Rejuvenate! Wednesday December 9th from 3:30 -4:30 pm. Access the webinar here!
• January Professional Development Day for ALL Elementary Teacher Librarians: January 4th from 8:00am-12:00pm @IT Copper Room. Please park at Arapahoe Campus and then enter through IT!We will have coffee provided for you this morning!

• Look forward to these amazing guest speakers!
• Becky Russell, CDE School Library/Digital Literacy Instructional Specialist: The Future of Libraries
• Casey Veatch, CDE Digital Literacy Instructional Specialist: Integrating Technology in the Elementary Library--an experience from planning to implementation!