STEAMers Think Tank, Rochester Hills Public Library

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You can find the slide deck here.

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New article: Leadership: Beyond the Memes, with Susan D. Ballard

Quote that reads, "Real leadership involves a persistence of vision and an indefatigable belief in the work you do. It is about framing that vision in a way that truly connects with others' wants, needs, and aspirations. Susan D. Ballard and Kristin Fontichiaro, "Leadership: Beyond the Memes." School Library Connection, February 2019"

This month’s School Library Connection features an essay on leadership, “Leadership: Beyond the Memes,” that I co-authored with Susan D. Ballard. Here’s an excerpt:

Stakeholders

[S]peak the language of stakeholders. So many of us leave library school fired up to talk about information literacy and flexible schedules, having implicitly or explicitly been told that it was our job to turn the school’s schedule around. Kristin tried that. It fell flat and felt downright demoralizing; worse, it did not increase library usage, much less student learning. Instead of fighting an uphill battle to instill those concepts, Kristin turned elsewhere. She subscribed to Educational Leadership, which she saw on her principal’s desk, so she could connect to her principal’s knowledge base. She became familiar with the district’s strategic plan and technology documentation to see the goals the administration had set for itself, then adopted their language to show how library-based efforts could enhance progress toward those goals. In short, make it a priority to create a positive working relationship with your administrator. Find something that fires them up and build on it. Every administrator is proud of something—find their “love language” and then figure out how to connect your goals to their aspirations …

Leadership doesn’t mean working in a vacuum. Susan, as a district director who met regularly with administrators, had regular opportunity to convey program needs and share what the school librarians could do to help the district achieve its goals. She needed her team of librarians to keep her in the loop so she could be an effective leader in helping them help their learning communities. Too often, librarians would “sit on things” because they didn’t want to complain or admit that they needed assistance. As an adherent to the old adage that a “stitch in time, saves nine,” Susan instituted a monthly form—first paper-based, and eventually electronic—that at first, was perceived as onerous by the librarians, but which they became accustomed to over time. The form prompted each school librarian to reflect on these questions:

What went right this month?

What went wrong?

What would fix what went wrong?

Instructional strategies I am excited about?
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The responses provided critical information and gave Susan a “heads up” to any problem that might be brewing, as well as alerted her to wonderful things that the school librarians were doing. She could further her relationship with their principals by sharing positive stories with them to facilitate their own “boasting” as well …

Keep asking yourself, “How can the library help solve problems?” not, “How can my administrator solve my problem?” and you’ll find that your helpful approach will not only gain you more administrative respect, but likely more face time as well. Once the rapport is established, it becomes easier to make an ask of an administrator, because there is a sense of mutuality established …

Work Culture

Be mindful of the work culture of your building. Too often, we impose conditions on educators’ library interactions. Consider, for example, our profession’s insistence upon collaborative teaching. Most of us were taught that co-teaching and flexible scheduling are the ideal. But, as one of Kristin’s former colleagues once posed, “I wonder why your profession thinks I can’t teach by myself?” What a powerful question! (Consider this from an administrator’s position, too: “Why do I need a certified librarian if there’s got to be a teacher there already? A para could do that stuff under a teacher’s supervision and that would free up the funds I need for summer school.”)

Our classroom colleagues must balance everything from students’ mental health to standardized tests. Librarians justifiably see collaborative teaching as maximizing pedagogical expertise and halving the student-teacher ratio. Classroom teachers may feel differently, seeing collaborative planning and team-teaching as luxuries their time-strapped schedules cannot accommodate …

For a limited time, the full article is available here.

 

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Presentation at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Beyond the Numbers Conference

Photo of St. Louis Arch, located steps from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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Hello! It’s been a while! Team member Wendy Stephens and I are presenting about our project at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Beyond the Numbers Conference, an economic data conference for librarians, today.
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North Texas Expo – Design Thinking

design thinking prototype making in michigan libraries

I’m happy to be back in Texas today for the North Texas Library Expo to talk about design thinking in our libraries both in our makerspaces and as a way of attuning ourselves to our building and designing responsive instruction, programming, and more.

Thanks to Brandi Rosales, Terry Roper, and MaryLynn Skinner for having me!

You can download these resources:

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Makerspaces presentation for Liz Kolb’s Teaching and Learning with Technology Class

Thanks to Liz Kolb for inviting me to speak to her Teaching and Learning with Technology course to talk about the maker movement. It’s always great to have an excuse to hang around with her.

You can find slides from that talk here.

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And here’s one response in particular that tickled me:

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Our friends at Niles District Library featured in their local newspaper!

{Reposted from the Making in Michigan Libraries blog}

We were excited to see a flurry of local interest in the Niles District Library’s Skillshare space and Library of Things. Check out the summary below or enjoy the full article here!


Library workshop series offers skill sharing

by Kelsey Hammon, Niles Daily Star
Monday, August 27, 2018

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NILES — It is not always cost effective or timely to wait for a repair man to show up and mend that cracked drywall or wayward appliance.

Thanks to the efforts of the Niles District Library, those looking to spare their wallet and learn to be handier around their home can gain the tools during a new workshop series called SkillShare.

How it works

For the past month, volunteers have been lending their skills to locals, teaching them how to do everything from household repair and maintenance to skills in the kitchen. The workshops are free and open to the public and people are welcome to make suggestions for workshops via the library’s Facebook page.

Those without a diverse toolbox need not shy away from this workshop series. Part of SkillShare is also offering participants a whole tool closet, called the Library of Things. Here, people can check out and return the tools needed to complete a project.

Laura Hollister, the adult services team leader, who was among those with a vision for SkillShare, saw it as a way to help her community garner new skills while saving on resources they might not have.

“Instead of spending $30 on drywall mix to fix two screw holes, spend $3 on a little bit of spackle and you check out the drywall kit,” Hollister said. “We are trying to provide the tools to go along with the information.”

Those who visit the space can also experiment with their own Do It Yourself project during Open Shop, which takes place 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

An example for other communities

The idea garnered not only a response from the community, but also the University of Michigan. The partnership helped to transform a portion of the library’s basement into a thriving workshop space.

Kristin Fontichiaro, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, first took an interest in the project about 11 months ago. Fontichiaro had visited the library to host a workshop of her own, when she struck up a conversation with Hollister about the vision for SkillShare.

“We were really captivated by the scope and the scale of what Laura was trying to share with SkillShare,” Fontichiaro said.

Through the partnership, Fontichiaro said the university donated about $1,000 in funding and some of the tools residents can find in the Library of Things.

To help, Fontichiaro said the university served as a “peer and thinking partner,” while those involved also studied how the Niles District Library got the project off the ground. Now, SkillShare in Niles will serve as an example for other communities, Fontichiaro said.

On Friday, university students shot a commercial at the Niles District Library and captured the project. The footage will debut in a couple of weeks and be used on the university’s social media platforms and YouTube.

“It was exciting and humbling to have them identify us as an example of what they are trying to help communities accomplish,” Hollister said. “It was exciting for them to be able to be in place where the community was so active in this space. This is not an example of us doing something for the community. It’s an example of us doing something with the community.”

Hollister welcomed people to contact the library and teach a workshop or make a suggestion for something they would like to learn. People are also asked to donate their unused tools or decorations for the Library of Things.

Without community support, Hollister said SkillShare would not exist. Volunteers’ desire to teach classes and the community’s donation of tools are aspects that will help to keep it going and making it a success.

Additionally, SkillShare is part of a larger transformation to utilize the basement space of the library. In the future, Hollister said the library hopes to have adult education classes and even a café and vocational training space in the downstairs space.

As for the overall goal of SkillShare, Fontichiaro said she could see it serving the community.

“Laura thinks about not just what any library could do, but what Niles District Library can do for the community of Niles,” Fontichiaro said. “She’s being very intentional about using this thing to solve real challenges that Niles citizens face every day.”

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Our friends at the Benzonia Public Library featured in SLJ in May!

{Reposted from the Making in Michigan Libraries blog}

 

In getting organized for the new school year, I realized that we had never blogged about our friends Finn McLaren and his mom, Benzonia’s director Amanda McLaren, being featured in School Library Journal! Enjoy the excerpt below, and click here if you have an SLJ subscription and want to read the entire piece!

Kristin


Making the Difference;
More than cool materials and DIY learning, makerspaces build confidence, expand worlds, and teach life skills
by Marva Hinton
School Library Journal, May 2018

FINN McLAREN WAS A SHY TEEN who never showed an interest in sports or school clubs. He hadn’t quite found his place or an activity that sparked his interest. But when a group from the University of Michigan conducted a maker workshop at his local library in the summer of 2016, his mother saw “a total transformation.”

“It lit something up in him,” says Amanda McLaren, Finn’s mom and the director of the Benzonia (MI) Public Library that hosted the workshop.

Now 15 and a high school sophomore, Finn runs the Benzie Guild of Makers, a club he created consisting of mostly fourth to sixth graders. He is also thinking about his future.

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Makerspaces and the maker-centered educational philosophy of open-ended, student-driven learning through discovery and experimentation can change kids’ lives. Like Finn did, many children build confidence in a makerspace. They find a place where they belong. Children who are without many friends can develop a social circle of those with like-minded interests. Students who struggle in a traditional academic setting experience success. Those who are afraid to try and fail discover how much can be learned when things go wrong. They feel the satisfaction of perseverance and problem solving …

 

 

 

 

Finn McLaren is the mentor. His group meets at the library twice a month and … one of their favorite things to do is deconstruct mechanical toys.

“They learn how things work,” Finn says. “It’s a lot of fun.”

Finn’s mom finds joy in seeing his confidence and emerging personality.

“The kids are so drawn to him, and he is so patient and lovely with them, that I could not be more proud,” she says. “He’s just completely come out of his shell.”

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Making in Nursing Homes

We loaned some MML equipment we wouldn’t be using this summer to Kayla Carucci, a doctoral student at U-M School of Information. Check out what she’s doing with it! From the article on My Central Jersey:

You might think that a nursing home is the last place you will find an innovative workshop where people can create works of art, on their own schedule, using some pretty high-tech gadgets.

But think again, because that’s exactly what’s going on at Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge this summer.

The brainchild of Kayla Carucci, a Middletown resident and PhD student at the University of Michigan, “Creations with Kayla” has found great traction among RCH residents as they explore traditional crafting using some pretty cutting-edge technologies — ones that might even surprise some millennials.

And the best part is, they are creating mainly on their own, with little instruction from Carucci herself.

The concept is known in popular culture as a “makerspace,” but Carucci has added her own spin by applying the fundamentals of the maker movement in the senior, long-term care setting. Her goal is to determine if the well-being of long-term care residents can be improved by offering self-directed sessions using low- and high-tech tools to create whatever the participant chooses …
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Indeed, the makerspace model has been around since the early 2000s, fueled mostly by an interest in computer science and robotics. It has evolved to become a hands on learning environment for children, DIY-ers, crafters and entrepreneurs. Equipment used in some makerspaces include 3D printers, iPads, digital embroidery equipment and even sewing machines, all of which are in place at Reformed Church Home for the residents to explore …

“I could do this all day, I really enjoy it,” says Mary Puskar, an assisted-living resident at the Home. “I’m learning so many things, like candle making and how to paint on an iPad using a stylus. We even digitally embroidered my name on a sweater so I wouldn’t misplace it again.”

Nursing home resident Sabina McCarthy agreed. “I have arthritis and can’t write or do much with my hands, but I can design something on the 3D printer and watch it print,” she said. “I can finally do crafts again.”

Great job, Kayla! Be sure to click through to the original article to see the photos!

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FRED Resources Highlighted in Today’s New York Times

Economics reporter Neil Irwin wrote about his technology-related workflow in today’s New York Times. In, “Why ‘Fred’ Is the Best Friend of Economics Writers,” he says:

Economics is a topic full of data. What tools do you use to parse that data? And what sites or apps do you use to keep on top of the latest economic trends?

Every economics writer’s best friend is named Fred. It stands for Federal Reserve Economic Data, and it’s maintained by the Fed bank in St. Louis. It allows you to use a single interface to pull, at last count, 509,000 different data series from 87 different sources of economic and financial data.

A big part of the advantage is simply that once you’re familiar with the interface, which is intuitive, you don’t have to relearn the data retrieval tool for each statistical agency every time. So, for example, I write about the European economy only now and again, so I have to relearn how to use the Eurostat database every time if the data isn’t in Fred. That’s not for the faint of heart.

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Or for a quick calculation of, say, percentage change I use a Texas Instruments scientific calculator I keep on my desk…

Congratulations, FRED team!

We were thrilled to have Katrina Stierholz from FRED and Charissa Jefferson of Cal State Northridge introduce FRED at our recent 4T Data Literacy conference. Check out the archived session here.

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REALISD presentation to Buffalo Cohort

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