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1 Cuts will happen
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Advocacy not enough – telling others what they can do for you
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Marketing- telling others what you can do for them (see Seth Godin)
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All need to be leaders
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Must explain what we do
2. Don’t be an easy target
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Don’t have a no, negative approach
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Focus on instruction, inquiry, connections and standards for the 21cy learner
3. It’s probably too late now
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Build for next year, plan for now
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Be indispensible, especially to students to increase achievement and meet studentneeds
4. Increased achievement
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Communicate to Principal often and in bits
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Do things that work
Applying the Principles of Epigenetics for a (R)evolution in SchoolLibrarianship
1.Make Library practice transparent to the world
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Visual representation of library program e.g. flickr- living archive
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Data – monthly library reports, showcase student learning
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Share practice via social media
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Embrace instructional leadership – Buffy spends 90 % or her day with staff andstudents on instruction
2.Create and nurture a participatory culture
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Multiple modes of learning and multiple modes of literacy e.g. Henry Jenkins
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Rethink what collection means look at Library and self organization
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E-books, mobile readers – liberate tools they already have, gaming, digital equipment
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Information evaluation and social scholarship via research pathfinders