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Creating Ripples…Making Waves
How to Influence your Senior Leadership Team
Anne Robinson, MA MASLA School Librarian of the Year 2005
Librarian, The Dixie Grammar School, Market Bosworth
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A PebbleJames W. Foley (1847-1939)
Drop a pebble in the water:Just a splash, and its gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripplesCircling on and on,
Spreading, spreading from the centreFlowing on out to the sea.
And there is no way of tellingWhere the end is going to be.
Drop a pebble in the water:
In a minute you forget,But here's little waves a flowing,And there's ripples circling yet,And those little waves a flowingTo a great big wave have grown;You've disturbed a mighty river
Just by dropping in a stone.Feuillu
on Flickr
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Day 3• Breakfast: A CRAPULENCE of librarians• Keynote 6: A SILENCE of librarians• Workshop 7: A BILIOUSNESS of librarians• Morning Tea: A QUEAZE of librarians• Trade Display Continues: A MEANDER of librarians• Keynote 7: A PRESENCE of librarians• Workshop 8: An ENDURANCE of librarians• Plenary/Evaluation: A TENACITY of librarians• Annual General Meeting: A RESIDUE of librarians• Optional Lunch: An ABSENCE of librarians
Collective Nouns for Librarians: The Conference Mutation Process
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Day 1• Arrival: An EXCITEMENT of librarians• Registration: An ANTICIPATION of librarians• Keynote Address: A REFLECTION of librarians• First Workshop: A DEVELOPMENT of librarians• Morning Tea: A CHATTER of librarians• Trade Display: A FRENZY of librarians• Keynote 2: A CONSIDERATION of librarians• Workshop 2: A RENEWAL of librarians• Lunch: A LINKAGE of librarians• Workshop 3: An ANIMATION of librarians• Optional Tour: An AMUSEMENT of librarians• Formal Dinner: A GLAMOUR of librarians
Collective Nouns for Librarians: The Conference Mutation Process
Credaro,A.B.(2002). Collective Nouns for Librarians Part 2: The Conference Mutation Process. Warrior Librarian Weekly [online] http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/ROFL/nouns2.html [Accessed: 27/03/06]
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From “Librain” to FLIRT to Librarian and back again!
6 School Library Posts
SLA School Librarian of the Year 2005
FLIRT Leader!
Learning Resources & Information Services Manager
Now - Librarian at the Dixie Grammar School
10 Headteachers!
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The Dixie Grammar School
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Session aims
To understand the importanceof influencing school leaders
WHY?
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Session aims
To understand the needs of your senior management team
WHAT?
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Session aims
To suggest strategies to increase your influence
HOW?
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…we need to be clear…
…what we want!
But first of all…
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…ormoney?
Autonomy?
Recognition?
Celebrity?
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Why try?
Increased self-esteem
Increased job security
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Why try?
Improved pay and status
Increased job satisfaction
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Vision for the Library
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ReadingDevelopment
Extending the
Curriculum
Impact on achievement
School AssetPersonal
Development
InformationLiteracy
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Present situation
What is happening now?
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Does it seem that School Leaders do not appreciate our work?
WHY?
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The “Invisible School Librarian” exists, in part, due to ignorance and a “failure to
communicate.”
Tapping your influential potential: building influence with teachers and administrators PSLA Professional Development Workshop, 2001http://www.psla.org/pslaworkshops/Fall2001Workshop.ppt
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“Why don’t teachers and administrators rally to support librarians? Even worse, why are they often the ones who, in fact, get behind library cuts?”
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“Many, perhaps most of them, do not understand the value and educational potential of libraries and librarians…”
“Mostly, it’s just a matter of indifference – and people regard as expendable those things about which they are indifferent.”Gary Hartzell 1997
Simple answers…
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So… why are some school managers indifferent to libraries?
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Some thoughts…
Head teachers and teachers in general receive very little
training about school libraries
Some teachers may make little or no use of Libraries for professional
or personal purposes
How many teachers went toschools with poor libraries?
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Maybe like this…
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25Jennerally on Flickr
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But probably more like this?
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28What was their librarian like?
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Acting against?
Image
Lack of confidence
Invisible
Not “teachers”
Belief systems – books outdated
Library as “add-on”
Not part of large department
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Session aims
To understand the needsof your senior management team
WHAT?
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“The principal’s success and reputation is based on student achievement, the quality of the school climate, and the community’s perception of the school.”
Tapping your influential potential: building influence with teachers and administrators PSLA Professional Development Workshop, 2001http://www.psla.org/pslaworkshops/Fall2001Workshop.ppt
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Improving transition?
Better exam results?
Raising achievement?
Improving literacy?
Working with their agenda
Self-evaluation for inspections?
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Session aims
To suggest strategies to increase your influence
HOW?
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Contribution of the library to teaching and learning
High Quality
Use of LRC
InformationLiteracy
Independentlearners
Reading
Raising achievement
Exploration & extension
Social & leadership skills
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35So where do we start?
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First impressions count
Intervie
w Image
First
meeting/
visitInduction
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Find out what the main challenges/issues are for your school
Keep up-to-date with developmentsin education nationally and locally
Then – seek out information helpful to the head’s agenda:
Recent research findingsEducational resources
Other information that addressesthe emerging issues in your school
Head teacher 1
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Head teacher 2
Solutions to problemsSupport school initiatives
and policies
Contribute to meetings/INSET
Shared ethos and vision
Positive attitude - “can do”
Research-based evidence
Personal commitment
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Head teacher 3
Examples of higher level skills
Get out from behind the desk!
High quality communication
Tie in with school policies
Use positive OfSTED comments
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Impact on teaching and learning!
Yuan2003
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Line Manager
Advocate and mentor
Leadership style
Find out their interests
Regular meetings
Suggestions for agenda
Sounding board
Manageyour
Manager!
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Strategic not the trivial
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The whole of SMT
Soundingboard Mentors Advocates
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What has worked for me!
• Deputy Head as line manager• Quality of written reporting and
communication• Attendance and contribution at meetings• Positive and proactive attitude• Positive feedback to head!
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Examples of effective
communication
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Written
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Contribute to school SEF
High quality monitoring and evaluation:
Annual report with summaries
Financial plan and report
Termly updates for governors
Information for line-managers
Self-evaluation package for library
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Meetings & INSET
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Invite yourself!Check agendas/plans
“Sound out” beforeFind out best approach
Contribute positivelyBuild allies
Work beyond the comfort zone
Tochis
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Impact on raising achievement
Heads hate problems – love solutions
Outline problem in 2 or 3 sentences
Back up with evidence
Demonstrate implications in terms of:Health & safety
School finances
Law – e.g. employment laws
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Seize the moment!
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OpportunitiesTiming
Positivelanguage
Supportinitiatives
Network
Head’s concerns
Head’s PA
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“The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it’s a
ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave”
David Marcus
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The Librain
http://librain.edublogs.org/