Collaboration+&+Leadership

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=Collaboration & Leadership=

Connection with the Library Community

 * Member of ALA-AASL, NYLA-SLMS, SSLMA, LM-NET, LISN, Librarians of Second Life, and Phi Beta Mu
 * School Library Media Center Website Evaluation, [|website evaluation.doc]
 * Contributing author: Small, Ruth V. et al. “ Reading Incentives that Work: No-Cost Strategies to Motivate Kids to Read and Love It!” //School Library Media Activities Monthly// v. 25 no. 9 (May 2009) p. 27-31.

Instructional Partner

 * Collaborated with eighth-grade English teacher to create a Book Chat Wiki. See also [|book chat wiki lesson plan.doc]
 * Spent time in elementary classrooms observing and co-teaching--[|Teacher Observation Log.doc]
 * Worked with humanities scholar to co-facilitate New York Council for the Humanities' //Together--Book Talk for Kids and Parents// program, [|Together in Suffolk Times.doc]

Educational Leader

 * Wrote successful grant for New York Council for the Humanities' //Together--Book Talk for Kids and Parents// program, implemented February-April 2009, see above and the Together website
 * Wrote another successful grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to implement a second Family Reading & Discussion Program for Fall 2010--[|FRDP_syllabus.doc]
 * Collaboratively planned family literacy program, //From Boys to Books to Men//--[|family literacy program.doc]
 * Introduced a supplementary blog to the Port Jefferson Middle/High School Library, @http://pj612library.edublogs.org/

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