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Kilker, J. (2012). School and community connections for collaboration and coteaching.Knowledge Quest, 40(4), 38-45.
In this article, the author articulates how she transformed the 1950’s style, hardly used library at her inner-city Phoenix HS into a thriving environment for learning. She tells of her journey to promote collaboration with teachers by reaching out to them and showing them how she could be a valuable resource to them. For example, she would create hotlists of web resources to go along with teachers’ instructional units. Deeper collaborations on lessons ensued, with co-planning and co-teaching, shared assessment duties, and more. Helping teachers become comfortable with technology, first by introducing web 2.0 tools into lessons, and then by offering teacher trainings, moved her solidly into the center of instruction. This librarian helped to link teachers and students to the community in many ways, including arranging evening and weekend field trips to museums and historical sites, and on one occasion, a tour of some sites in a historical novel read by many English classes, with the author serving as docent.
This article helped me to get a sense of how to move forward with putting myself at the center of teaching and learning, one step at a time. Eventually, the momentum will build.
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