Reading Well(s)

 My final interview was with Lauren Henderson, the elementary school librarian at Hamilton Elementary in Troy, MI. I did my internship with Henderson.  For this interview I chose the foundation: curate. Like most of the librarians I interviewed in Michigan, Henderson does not consciously apply the AASL standards to her daily lessons. She doesn't have a copy of the standards and can't name the shared foundations. Still, it wasn't hard to find how the curate foundation is a part of her program. She has multiple lessons at various grade levels teaching the students to use databases. A thorough inspection of her collection reveals diverse characters, authors, and experiences both in fiction and nonfiction. Her collection is up-to-date with an average of 2016 in nonfiction and 2012 in fiction. Hamilton's large and generously funded maker-space allows for more exploration of various tools for. Henderson does not collaborate much with teachers. Her media lessons tend to be ind

Finally, I found a Michigan librarian who knows and uses the AASL standards. She does not use them in every lesson, but she uses them when she sets her goals for the year.  Catherine Kerns is the only certified teacher librarian in the district where I work. Her job is vast-running both the middle and high school libraries, checking out Chromebooks to every student in both schools and controlling textbook check out in the high school. She is a past president of MASL (Michigan Association of School Librarians) and has served on numerous committees. She came to the interview carrying her post-it marked book of the new standards.  For this interview, I chose the foundation of inquire. Most of this foundation she implements through collaborations. She mainly collaborates with English teachers. She teaches research skills, introduction to databases, noodle tools, and note taking. What she tells students is that she has completed any assignment that they have. She shows them the steps she go

 The domain I decided to focus on for this interview was collaborate. I interviewed Terri Ahlers from Swan Valley High school in Saginaw, MI. The idea to interview Terri came from the shock of reading about her school in a Knowledge Quest article in ISCI 720 (Wejrowski & McRae, 2013). Seriously, there are three certified librarians in my area, how could one of them have all these awards and I didn't know about it? It turns out, the librarian in the article, Kay Wejrowski, no longer works for Swan Valley High School and neither does the principal who partnered with her. But the position still exists. Based on article, I expected there still might be a collaborative culture there where the librarian "demonstrates the importance of personal, social, and intellectual networks. "  Just like my last interview with Amy Hermon, getting answers to any of the required questions proved difficult. Once again, Ahlers does not know the AASL standards, and they do not play a role i