Bottom up teacher librarians: model, share and promote Bottom up sustainability is a concept my friend Bob, a geography teacher, taught me about on a trip to a Kathmandu orphanage over two years ago. In the context of Kathmandu, the bottom up approach involved many small projects working with the people so poor the government […]
Read more "ETL 504- Reflective Critical Analysis"The Teddy Bear Wants to Smash Hierarchies? I admittedly was frustrated with the initial reading in this course. I smugly considered myself as a leader already and thought reading theory about transformational (Marzano, Waters and McNulty 2005) and contingent (Bush & Glover 2014) leadership was unnecessary. “If I already am a leader, then what […]
Read more "ETL 504 Assignment #1: Reflective Critical Analysis"Time for the Aspiring TL to Grow Up! I noticed in our “Introduction” chat that fellow classmates were scoffed at for beginning a teacher librarianship program. I vented in my first submitted blog post and the feedback from Lee Fitzgerald encouraged me to focus on the positive aspects of my work environment and attempt to win […]
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