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AASL Licensed Institute
Collaborative Leadership
"Learning comes not from the activity, but from thinking about the activity."
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To make the most of this AASL Licensed Institute:
Before Coming...
PREPARE
- Clarify your personal goals
- Write 3 goals on a card and put in your planner to bring
- Do the homework
- Ask a colleague what they'd like you to bring back
During the Day...
MEET PEOPLE
CAPTURE IDEAS
- Capture your ideas in key words
- Highlight ideas and add notes to the workshop materials
- Make your notes as clear as possible as you write since there's never time to rewrite
DEVELOP MEANING
- Relate what you hear to your own interests
- Relate ideas and techniques to your projects and priorities
- Listen actively by thinking how you can use the information
- Recognize all the ways the information reinforces what you are doing
PARTICIPATE
- Ask questions
- Make contributions
- Encourage others to participate through your listening
- Help facilitate in groups
ENJOY
- Decide to have fun and be recharged
- Focus on possibilities, not risks
- Try something "out of character"
- Take responsibility for your own comfort
PLAN AHEAD
- Make notes on specific actions you plan to take
- Write specific plans on your calendar while enthusiasm is fresh
- Set up an appointment share ideas with a colleague within the next two weeks
When You Get Back...
CONNECT TO OTHER AGENDAS
- Report back to and thank whoever helped you to attend
- Contact three people (groups) whose agenda you might support with your learning
- Use the workshop as an excuse to write about your ideas
- Start a "study group" to discuss leadership priorities
MAKING THE MOST OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
developed for the American Association of School Librarians
by Betty Bankhead based on materials from the
Colorado Regional Library Service System
2003
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