Since May 5th has already been designate the National Day
of Prayer (http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/), this might
make for some confusion in the faculty restrooms. But then
again, I am sure that there are many multi-taskers out
there who could handle the challenge.
Submitted with good humor,
Angela Wilcox MS
IEJ Elementary School
Laurinburg, NC
On Mon, 2 May 2005 13:36:08 -0400
"Hastings, Jeff" <hastingj@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM> wrote:
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> In order to cultivate a richer understanding of The
> school library media
> profession among classroom teachers and administrators,
> school library media
> specialists everywhere are being called upon to take part
> in the first
> annual worldwide "Leave Your Library Journals in the
> Staff Bathroom Day" on
> Thursday, May 5, 2005.
>
> School librarians, due to their unique position in the
> typical school
> setting, are among the most misunderstood professionals
> anywhere--inside or
> outside of the education realm. That lack of
> understanding can take its toll
> on professional morale, causing school librarians to feel
> disconnected,
> undervalued, and marginalized in the workplace. Moreover,
> when potential
> teaching collaborators fail to understand the modern
> School Librarian's
> training, backgrounds and stake in the overall
> educational process, teaching
> opportunities are needlessly lost. Ultimately, especially
> during hard
> financial times, undervalued professionals can be the
> first to lose their
> jobs to staffing cuts--all because those with whom they
> teach never quite
> "got" what they were all about...
>
> Worldwide "Leave Library Journals in the Staff Bathroom
> Day" (LLJSBT) can
> help prevent those negative scenarios by helping school
> librarians
> everywhere reintroduce their teaching peers and
> administrators to the
> mission of school librarianship. Unlike other forms of
> professional
> proactivity, LLSBT is never "nudgy." Instead of
> attempting to loudly
> self-advocate by overtly grabbing the spotlight and a
> bullhorn-- which would
> merely breed resentment-- LLJSBT is an event that works
> by employing stealth
> and subtlety; tapping the latent curiosities of, and
> providing an
> illuminating diversion for, a target audience which is,
> in fact, already
> held captive by mother nature herself. Indeed, during
> such sessions, your
> colleagues, coworkers and supervisors may never realize
> that they're
> learning to better understand the increasingly important
> role of school
> library media specialists in education, but you'll find
> that they'll be
> grateful, nonetheless, to be able to conveniently grab
> n'graze back issues
> of "Library Media Connection," "Teacher Librarian,"
> "School Library
> Journal," and your other professional favorites. Everyone
> appreciates
> something to read when they're in a pinch.
>
> To participate in LLSBT, simply leave a stack of your old
> professional
> Journals in your school's staff bathroom(s)on Thursday,
> May 5th. If your
> school has single-sex facilities, you may need to ask an
> empathetic coworker
> of the opposite sex to place half of the journals. Should
> reading material
> already exist in your staff lavatories, be sure to remove
> that material.
> once the journals are in place, just sit back, relax and
> reap the rewards as
> your begin to feel your professional esteem-o-meter begin
> to climb.
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Hastings,
> School Library Media Specialist
> Highlander Way Middle School
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http://www.howellschools.com/~hwmedia/content/library.html
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