Well, if even YOU say that neither you nor your program is important, then why
should anyone ELSE think you are important?
Maybe you should FIND a way to be directly connected to THE TESTS.
Many of us do NOT consider ourselves ICING and are fighting to get that point known.
Kate
Kate Gallion
"A school without a librarian is like a library without any books."
School Librarian ~ Teacher
TUSD Alternative Education
Project MORE H.S.
440 S. Park
Tucson, AZ 85719
520-225-2624
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Hunt
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:32 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] What is it we are missing?
Currently my philosophy about this is "we are icing." I don't actually teach the
students who take the tests. I'm on-the-side, and so I'm easy to cut. My current
situation is that I have support, and I'm allowed great latitude. I can pretty
much do what I want; however, it is abundantly obvious that neither me or my
program is important. I'm respected by my staff. Many teachers want to teach with
me, look to me as a knowledgeable partner in education, and I'm considered the
children's literature expert in my building. The fact is though I'm NOT at the top
of the list for consideration of things.
I've done all the proper PR. Plenty of people know about what I can and do offer
to support instruction. I'm important to students. I'm just not directly
connected to THE TESTS. As long as that is the case I will be icing. Icing is
something people will cut when push comes to shove.
Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
School Library Media Specialist
Apple Creek Elementary
Moore, OK
lisa3moon@yahoo.com
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From: Kathy Graves <kgraves@4FAST.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Sun, February 7, 2010 8:26:07 PM
Subject: What is it we are missing?
Will all of the current budget cuts and decisions to cut library positions as well
as the arts, what is it that we are missing? What is it that we aren't doing to
build awareness of the value of these programs?
I am retired from the public school system in California where I spent 18 years in
the classroom, 4 years as a school site librarian, and 15 years as the director of
a county schools library-media center program. From the time I started teaching in
1967 we constantly worried about school support staff and programs being cut, so
this isn't new.
Over the years our profession has developed strategies and resources to help
prevent proposed cuts but it always seems like those are localized successes.
Nothing seems to change at the state and national levels. Why? What is it that we
aren't doing? What are we missing? Why do we constantly reinvent the wheel when
it comes to advocating for our programs? We know the right thing to do - we have
the results of over 20 studies to support us, yet we continue to be back at where
we were 40 years ago trying to justify our programs and fight for them.
We must be thinking and working in too small a sphere. What will it take to make
this a national campaign?
Kathy Graves
IMC Director/County Schools Librarian, Retired Siskiyou County Office of Education
Yreka, CA 96097
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