Concentration on School Library Media
Education
Certifications
Work experience
Leadership Roles
Birmingham Public Schools Elementary Library Facilitator, 2021-present
MASL President-Elect, January 2023
MAME Vice President of Continuing Education, January 2021- December 2022
Model 21st Century School Library for the State of Michigan, 2021/2022
MASA Conference Presenter, 2022
MAME State Conference Presenter, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
MAME Summer Institute Chair, 2021, 2022
School Library Workgroup member, 2017-2021
MEMPSA Presenter, 2017
MAME Parliamentarian, 2017-2020
MAME State Conference Round Table Presenter, 2016
Committee Work
AASL Professional Learning Committee, 2022-Present
Reviews and weeds digital professional learning content. Analyzes current professional learning needs of school librarians. Creates professional learning content needed and markets content to users.
School Improvement Planning Committee, 2022
Reviews, analyzes and uses school achievement data to create school improvement goals each school year.
BPS Better Together Steering Committee, 2022
Collaborates with stakeholders districtwide to communicate actions and goals of the district strategic plan.
Social Justice Committee/Diversity Committee, 2010-Present
Member of West Maple Diversity Committee which works to integrate culturally responsive teaching strategies into our everyday classwork and meetings with peers.
Member of the first cohort group to complete four day training in West Bloomfield, Communicates with parent groups the purpose of the group, produced committee website, created social justice library for common core instruction, facilitates staff training activities, confers with staff on social justice issues, advises principal in social justice matters.
MAME Advocacy Committee, 2016-Present
Composes literature and speaks with purpose to the Michigan Department of Education, state and local legislators, and community members on making changes in policy that affect school libraries.
BPS Strategic Planning Advisory Committee, 2022
Stakeholders across the district came together to identify district values, assets and goals which were used to create a five year district strategic plan.
School Library Work Group, State of Michigan, 2017-2021
Discusses the current state of school libraries in Michigan including resources and issues. Advises on School Libraries 21 standards.
AASL Practice Committee, 2017-2020
Research future forward issues of practice and make recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding what the board should pursue in ways of policy support and initiatives.
Continuous School Improvement Team, 2014-2016
Creates plan for executing surveys for staff, students, and parents, evaluates and shares data collected from surveys, collects artifacts of work for evidence files, participates in Advanced Education evaluation interview, advises on ways to curate and use data to show advancement toward or achievement of goals.
Technology Integration Advisory Committee, 2010-2015
Advised on use of technology bond dollars, assisted in revision of district technology plan, assisted in the production of district acceptable use policy, advised on adoption of School Wires website provider, school trainer for website use, helped determine implementation strategy for one-to-one roll out of chrome books, delivered staff professional development for using Google Chrome and Google Apps for Education, and helped implement strategies for preparing students for online testing.
Grants Received
BEF grant recipient for district wide MiSelf in Books Author Visit, 2022
BEF grant recipient for district wide Baggage Program, 2019
Michigan Humanities matching grant recipient for district wide Baggage Program, 2019
Librarian Continuing Education grant recipient
- AASL National Conference, 2021
- AASL National Conference, 2019
- AASL National Conference, 2017
- ALA Leadership Institute, 2016
BEF grant recipient for Google Expeditions, 2018
BEF grant recipient for K-2 NGSS eBooks, 2017
WBEF collective grant for Mentor Texts, 2006
WBEF collective grant for TrueFlix, 2007-2010
Specialized Skills
BrainPOP Certified Educator
Common Sense Educator Certified
Website Organization
Scheduling
Google Apps: Docs, Forms, Draw, Sheets, Slides
Microsoft Office: Publisher, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Follett Destiny District Administration
Professional Development Facilitator
Professional Memberships
ALA, member since 2010
AASL, member since 2010
MAME, member since 2015
Professional Development
AASL National Conference Attendee, bienially since 2015
MAME State Conference Attendee, annually since 2016
ALA Leadership Institute, 2016
ECET 2 Michigan Conference Attendee, 2015
MACUL Conference Attendee, 2011-2013, 2019