Team+11+Workspace


 * Team 11 Workspace**

Group Participants:

__ANSER Charter School__ Suzanne Greg - Principal Annie Langston - Librarian Staci Shaw - Parent/Library Educator

__Boise Public Library - Library! at Cole & Ustick__ Conner Bevis - Librarian

__Boise State University__ Rick Stoddart - Librarian Sara Seely - Librarian/Inst Coordinator

__Top Three Concerns__ 1. Funding (budget) 2. Space (providing areas for technology access) 3. Time (resources and personal for grant writing and fund raising)

__What do you hope to get out of this workshop?__ (Conner) - Finding ways and avenues to get involved with advocacy in the legislative process for funding for school libraries, libraries, and library programs in general.

__Susan McBurney and Lisa Layera Brunkan - Washington Library Advocates suggest__: -Build a relationship with administrators and legislators -After a relationship has been established, don’t always show up when things are going wrong, when cuts are being made. -No Whining – positive approach (always) -Librarians, teachers, parents, administrators,concerned citizens, etc., need to advocate for libraries as a new place – A Library and Information Technology Center. The reasoning is that the rate of change is mind numbing for students in today's world. Legislators need will respond to unifying issue of preparing youth and the future generations of Idaho workers. Social/educational programs are not going to receive money and funding unless planning and proactive steps are taken. -Think about what needs to change (policy wise) and innovations.

__Group Main Ideas__ License to flourish Encourage students to take ownership of their own learning Teach safe searching not abstinence Schools will look the same, but the inside will be different

__Website__ - with ANSER CHARTER SCHOOL in MIND E-Branch (Student Run - Tech Team, with Teacher and Parent involvement to help development the website.) Because when the students take ownership and make it theirs then it becomes all the more powerful and used.

__New School Library__ The Third Space Idea - Not Home, Not School, Their Space - Commons of sorts - Treated as a School Community Center. Theater Sets - that can we reworked and transformed for multiple learning sets (not just movable furniture). Basic Library Access - with books to checkout, but also includes checking out laptops, technological devices, puzzles, school Study Areas, equipment (playground) possibly, technology that supports game learning. Microwave, coffee, food, Show case student work either (digitally online) or in the library. Wi-Fi Comfortable furniture. beanbag chairs, etc.

__Sources__ Assessment: A 21st Century Skills Implementation Guide []