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  I just finished an article y Joellen Killion called Are You Coaching Heavy or Light? I'm having a hard time finding it online, but if you search for it, you can download it.  Again, I'm drawing parallels from a coaching article to school librarianship, but they really aren't outside the realms of possibilities. I'm at the beach right now, so while the author uses the terms light and heavy, I'm thinking shallow and deep. We start out in the shallow end. We learn the terrain, grasp the temperature, better understand the way the water is moving. If we want to get more than our feet wet, however, we have to venture out into deeper waters. I laughed when I saw Ms. Killion used these terms near the end of the article! Possible shallow behaviors: book recommendations lists of websites materials that support read-alouds attending PLCs teaching that supports subject standards These are important as the help build relationships with teachers and students and they are defini

I’ve been thinking a lot about the place that librarians have in the curriculum continuum in a school, and this has led me to reading books, blogs, and websites of curriculum coaches and a few principals.  Ms. Houser recently posted titled, “ How to clarify instructional coaching roles & responsibilities .” As I was reading it, I thought this could really be beneficial to school librarians too. I’m going to modify the list a bit to fit what we do.  1. Define what school librarians do .  Make a list of what you do daily, weekly, monthly, and even annually. As an elementary librarian, what people see me do is teach, and at times it may look like I’ve got a good bit of spare time. But there are so many things that go on in the background when I’m not teaching.  I loved that she included the question, “Where am I stretched thin?” Those times are on us before we know it, so let’s highlight them and see how we can make those times or tasks less cumbersome. Find a partner librarian! Every

  Last school year was a bear for us all. We taught remotely, we taught combinations of remote and in-person, we taught multiple groups on different days, and we taught in person. We were told 6-feet was very important until there were too many kids in school to do 6-feet, then 3-feet became important. And let's see, how many first days did we have? Well, I quit counting so, I'm not really sure anymore! Thank goodness for summer! We have 8 weeks of summer break, and it's been a little more than a month now. When people ask what I've done, I say nothing. Glorious nothing. So I have done the following: watched TV read napped spent untold hours on social media lunched with friends played with the grandkids went on lots of long walks with Ron and lots of no-brain needed things ;) I focused on all those good nothing things that there just never seems to be enough time for during the school year!  But doing nothing isn't quite right. More tangible things have slipped into