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So... what exactly do I do?
In August of this year, I was hired as the sole K-12 librarian in Eastpointe Community Schools after the position had been eliminated for over a decade. In essence, I get to rebuild the entire library program, which is awesome ; but it certainly comes with some challenges. Let’s start with the basics. Every morning, I teach second grade, kindergarten, and first grade (in that order) as part of the specials rotations at one of the lower elementary schools in the district. On Wednesday afternoons, I teach a single first grade computers class at the other lower elementary school (sounds kind of random, but our district has a late start on Wednesdays and my colleague who primarily teaches K-2 computers would be without a lunch and planning period that day were he tasked with this section). As I add to the blog, I’ll share my lessons and reflections from the year up to this point as well as moving forward. The fixed teaching schedule is only about 50% of the job (including planning time...
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