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SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY IMPACTFUL LIBRARIANS
• Learning the district’s specific strategic goals and
how your work fits into those goals better
positions you to integrate your own objectives, such as building a culture of avid-readers, into
the larger district plan.
How?
• Repeatedly present district administrators with the variety of ways you and your library can:
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Integrate college and career readiness skills
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Integrate information technology skills into curriculum
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Plan and deliver professional development, especially technology-based
• Collaborate in planning and developing curriculum and assessment
Impact Habit #2 – Speak the Language of School Leadership
Highly impactful librarians
know that they must be great at communicating and proselytizing the
vision they have for the library in the context of the district’s learning objectives and strategic plan.
Why?
• District leaders need to understand how your goals for
the library compellingly support the larger goals of the
district, that without the school library function, their
district-wide goals for literacy and learning are not
possible. Being cogent and specific, weaving in the
language most readily present in your district’s strategic
plans represents the best way of going about this.
Impact Habit #1 - Build Strong and Trusting Relationships
Highly impactful librarians
know that relationships are critical in order to obtain belief and buy-in
from their school administrators.
Why?
• Understanding what keeps your district administra-
tors up at night allows you to strategically plan ways
to support their key objectives and goals, making
your role not only relevant, but critical to the success
of the school and the district.
Recent research has shown a
strong relationship between
test scores
and the degree
to which the
principal
values and supports the
librarymedia program.
(Lance, 2007).
Reading
on Level
Evidence-based
Learning
Digital
Reading
Stamina
Metaliterate
Equitable
Access
College and Career
Ready