[Please excuse cross-posting.]

Nationally known Colorado librarian and educator Su Eckhardt has authored this
new practical, self-paced, online course for people who work with and for school
libraries. We hope you will help us spread the word. Details about content and
pricing can be found at:

http://leadonline.info/

Su has packed a comprehensive review of what school librarians and associates
need to know to manage their libraries. She inspires participants with the
question: How to you turn your library into an award-winner? I see this course
as helping school librarians create their own personal development plan. Also,
it addresses the issue of what can be done to improve the effectiveness of
school libraries even as budgets crash.

As you would expect, this course will help librarians working at all grade
levels (K12). But it will also assist community college librarians, teacher
librarians, media specialists, and library information specialists, along with
school classroom teachers. Public librarians, technicians, and paraprofessionals
will also find value, whether the sole professional staff member or a clerical
employee just starting out.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

* Look for school library issues you may not have "seen" before
* Review your school library program and activities
* Develop plans for personal professional growth and staff development
* Explain and accomplish your role within the school community
* Apply leadership when planning instruction with classroom teachers
* Deal with the effects of declining budgets on your school library programs
* Describe the financial duties involved in the job of school librarian
* Implement different methods of funding allocations for programs
* Discover advocacy, marketing, and public relations, and when to use each
* Find grants, awards and recognitions for you and your school library
* Create and implement school library policies and procedures
* Locate and create resources for school library policies and procedures'
files.
* Produce essential documents for your school library program

For those of you who don't know Su...

* Principal-certified, district-level library coordinator
* Graduate university-level senior instructor (online and face-to-face)
* Elementary classroom teacher
* Elementary, middle, and high school teacher librarian
* Published co-author of Teaching Internet Basics and
* Action Research: A Guide for Library Media Specialists
* Small district public library director
* Consultant, speaker, and mentor throughout the U.S., and parts of Europe,
Asia, and Australia
* And, most important for this class: award-winning librarian

Hope you find this useful.

Happy New Year!

Pat Wagner

"We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds." ~Leif Smith

Leif Smith and Pat Wagner
Pattern Research, Inc., PO Box 9100,
Denver CO 80209-0100
303-778-0880
pat@...; www.pattern.com

http://www.librarything.com/profile/PatternResearch (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/PatternResearch (catalog)
http://www.leadonline.info/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/patternresearchinc
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