I keep wondering what to actually say about COVID-19 because this time has been some of the most crazy, anxiety driven, and creative I have been since the beginning of this school year. I keep finding it hard to believe that this is only my first year as a librarian and my 6th year in education when all of this happened. The other day when I was on a video call with my administration during our weekly Instructional Leadership Team meeting, and my principal and I are both in our first years in our position and at our campus. We were reminiscing about how this year has felt like 5 years. The experiences I have been able to get this year by far surpassed what I ever expected. Then COVID-19 happened.
In some ways I feel that COVID has pushed our professions in a way to hep us all succeed and see how the future may look with more incorporation of technology. I have worked in many schools and districts that were advanced in technology, had one to one initiatives, and my current school district that is trying to get there, but has its own financial limitations. When all of this started, all of the other librarians and I were worried about our stability and what we could do to help support teachers and students during this time. Here are some of the things we have learned:
Honestly, I was just trying to stay afloat this year, but because of being a teacher and being flexible I have been able to thrive. Like who knew that I would have high schoolers that would log in to video conferences just to hear their librarian read aloud scary stories? I sure didn't think that would happen, but now it happens at last once a week. It has allowed me to get survey data for projects for next year, because I would have never gotten my students to stop to fill out a survey for me in person or during their free lunch time. I am having nearly the same amount of students interact with me online than I did when we were in the physical building. I have also been able to advocate more with my administration and my parents than I was ever able to do before. The support I have seen in the past few weeks has been so astounding! To all the librarians out there- KEEP IT UP!
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