YIKES!

I have been a bad blogger and I apologize.  I told you in a previous post that I was heading off to Spring Break and then, POOF!, I disappeared into a land of nothingness.  Trust me when I assure you that I have not been sitting around idle.  School resumed this week (Can that really be correct? It seems like so much longer!).  That means welcome backs, what did you read and guess what new unit we are starting for most of my students. 

It also means a new round of standardized testing which means, along with these new research units utilizing online resources, many of the laptops and netbooks I was given to be used in the library have been "borrowed" for testing resulting in a technology shortage in library land yet again.  Oh how I long for the day when the students in our building finally have one to one digital devices accessible to them.  It is coming.  So close and yet so far.  This does present a challenge when planning and an additional challenge when planning for a substitute. 

That's right ladies and gentlemen, let the Spring chaos begin.  Over the course of the next 4 weeks, I will be participating in a 1/2 day district wide staff development (sub needed), multiple afterschool meetings with Kelly regarding our Common Ground presentation (no sub needed thankfully), accommodating for standardized testing (sub again), multiple days attending Common Ground (sub again), 2 afterschool presentations to librarians in our district (no sub needed) and graduation of my own son from college (sub again).  This has resulted in my plan book looking similar to this flowchart (which has nothing to do with education except it reminded me of my librarian friend Laura in some weird way and I know it will make her chuckle when and if she sees it - Are you reading this, Laura?) instead of it's normal ordinary orderly way because there are so many contingency plans coming up with subs and schedule changes due to standardized testing.

But life is good library friends.  I have a stack of books kiddos read over Spring Break that they can not wait to tell me (and their peers) about and a few circulation reports that I can not wait to run, see the results of and share those with you.

So off to work I go.  Check back soon for some (hopefully) impressive numbers!