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I've been thinking quite a bit about the skills essential for an information and communication specialist (aka teacher librarian) in our schools today. And I am working on a short list.  I don't believe I have all the answers, or the full picture, so I'd like to do this as a meme. 

Think about it.  If you were advising a principal on who to hire, if he or she wanted to hire a fully tooled or retooled library professional, what news skills and mindset should he or she seek.  We are not only responsible for having these skills, we are responsible for sharing them with and teaching them to faculty and learners.

Here are the skills I'd be looking for as an administrator.

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I can feel the grass roots growing.  But they need a little water, or perhaps, some tea.

Daily, my email box and my Twitter stream fill with the passionate statements of teacher librarians and classroom educators who see what needs to be done, but find themselves continually blocked by stronger powers. 

During our first TL Virtual Café, with guest host Mike Eisenberg, we explored and, yes argued, AASL's official adoption of the brand school librarian.  I worried for several days that releasing this argument may have done more harm than good.  That, as a profession, we might have appeared serio...Read More

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