 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10am central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays that's fine. We do record the show every week and it will be posted to our website for you to watch later and I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives. We post both the recording of the show and any presentations, handouts, anything to the slides you see that our presenter today has. Those will be included as well on the archive page afterwards. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products. Pretty much runs the gamut here. Our only real criteria for our show is that it's something to do with libraries. Something libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing. Services or products are things that we offer here through the Nebraska Library Commission, very broad. So you will find things on our show and in our archives for public libraries, academic, corrections, K-12, museums, anything that's a library. We're all about it. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on sometimes to talk about things that we're doing here, but we also have guest speakers that come in sometimes, as we have, and that's what we have this morning. This morning with us is Duran, Duran Avey. Good morning, Duran. Good morning. All right. Your camera view went away. Yeah, I don't, it's spinning. I don't know what happened. There it is. Okay. Come back. Oh, did briefly. There we go. Just needed a minute to think, I guess. All right. So with us this morning, there she is, is Duran Avey, who is the Nebraska Department of Education, the Digital Learning Director there. And she's going to talk to us about Future Ready Nebraska and what's going on with this whole program that's been around for a little bit now and getting really up to speed, I think. Yeah, so Future Ready's been around for just a little bit over a year. It's one of the big projects that we're doing here at the Nebraska Department of Education. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. In addition, I am also the school librarian's content specialist here at NDE. So if you're a school librarian, you ever have any questions or anything I can help you with, feel free to also contact me. The slides are being shared, but you can also, if you want to follow along, jump to that bit.ly know that the capitalization does matter for those bit.ly addresses. So be sure to capitalize NEB for Nebraska and the L in librarians. Okay. Oops. There we go. So today I really want to tell you a little bit about the Future Ready framework. It's something that's kind of new to Nebraska. We're going to talk about the work that we've been doing for just a little bit over a year around that framework. Then we're going to get specific into some Future Ready librarian's goals. We do have a Future Ready group here made up of school librarians and pre-service librarian leaders that also are doing some behind-the-scenes work. In case you didn't know, Rule 10 which governs school accreditation and has some rules around librarians and media specialists. And so that is currently open for review and revision and we're working on that. So I want to share some of the work that we've done with that and then let you know about a new conference that we're starting to offer for the first time ever in Nebraska. It'll be open to everyone in June. So what is Future Ready and why did we choose it? Well, Future Ready was started by the Obama administration and it was a way for the Office of Educational Technology to provide resources. It is now a nonprofit and we chose it because of its all-encompassing viewpoint around technology within schools and within school districts as a framework that we felt was easily understandable and also comprehensive enough that it would prepare all school districts for kind of the future of learning and we'll talk a little bit about what that looks like. There are over 30 states that have adopted Future Ready schools projects and districts and all of those have also signed up to be a Future Ready district and you can kind of see the breakdown for the types of districts that are involved but it is meant to be a system in which all types of districts can use the framework and also benefit from some of its work. I did include this is a live link and you're welcome to look at it but it does have the Future Ready schools national site does have a lot of really great resources especially for librarians so Future Ready librarians the national group is a very robust group and they provide probably more resources than any of the other groups and supports and professional development and so if you're ever looking for information related to their work you can go to that hub and check that out. In addition they have summits all around the country and we are offering our first one in Nebraska this summer it does have a free planning dashboard that districts can sit down with a group of folks and go through and make planning around all things educational related to digital learning and ed tech and see where they're at and make plans for how to advance in the future and then there are some micro-condentials that you could also pursue or seek out through the program. Future Ready Nebraska I put the link here in the top if you want to take a look at it we did create a little over 40 page document that is the first ever Future Ready PK through 20 digital learning plan for the state of Nebraska. We built that just over a year ago and released it it is a three-year plan that hopes to move forward digital learning in the state of Nebraska since we knew you know most likely people wouldn't read the 40 pages we created a website that's very interactive and you can look just by here you can look at the goals specifically you can see progress made towards the goals and get information about specifically what we plan to do in the state of Nebraska. In addition when we built that plan it was really important for us to kind of tie that to other initiatives that schools are either required to participate in or our guidelines we have to at NDE participate in and we tried to tie everything together to make the work as seamless as possible so you could integrate it into multiple things that might be happening within your school district or within your school building itself. So when you look at the Future Ready vision and goals you'll see everything is aligned to the state board of education's goals ESSA and our statewide planning goals the A-Quest system and its tenants as well as the national education technology plan so you'll see little icons in there and it explains on the website how to read so you can see which goals fulfill some of those other missions as well. The biggest reason why we moved to this was we needed to break down some of the silos around technology there were lots of things happening in technology but it wasn't expanding any further than small silos or areas which was creating some inequity for digital learning across the state and that was something that we wanted to help increase the collaboration around so that we could expand some of those really great things that are happening further across the state so that that's really what our hope in adopting the Future Ready concept and using it to to provide guidance. The Future Ready plan is kind of basically made up of like seven gears they call them gears around different portions of digital learning and they include the list there. The biggest area for librarians is the first one that curriculum instruction and assessment and we'll talk specifically around goals for librarians related to this a little bit later. The whole goal though is to really get to both collaborative leadership and then student personal learning as well as personalized learning for professionals as well so you'll see some things related to those occurring within the plan for the statewide vision. The statewide vision was built by the Future Ready Nebraska Council. This is a statewide group membership and on the website you can see all of the original members. We also have some new members but it's a subset of superintendents, educators, ESU PD folks, librarians, all sorts of individuals came together to help us write and build the plan and we used their goals to build and action steps to build that out. When you look at the the plan on the website you'll see that as you look the integration was really really important and you can see that there are so many things that are tied to other work that schools are usually working on so for example for ESSA there are 28 goals and action steps that we put into the state plan that really align with meeting and achieving the goals of the ESSA state plan that districts will need to provide feedback to us so that we can provide feedback to the federal Department of Education as well so there's lots of things in there that are really tied we didn't want this to be one extra things well districts needed to do we wanted them to see how the work in digital learning and ed tech can move them forward towards all different types of goals that they might be working on when you look you'll see these icons next to a goal so if you see the icon for a quest you'll know that that is a action step or goal that is directly tied to an a quest tenant that can be used when you're presenting information to the Department of Education related to a quest in showing achievement towards those tenants so all of the different icons are within the plan from a federal viewpoint this is kind of a high high view of each gear and kind of what they're meant to do and then we'll look specifically at how that relates to the library and librarians here in a minute the the main thing about the budget and resources gear was really to do a better job with our e-rate reimbursement reimbursement and providing training and making sure that all districts were getting the funding that they deserved to help schools access grants and budget funds that we could provide that the feds might provide that other grants might provide so that we could make sure that we had sustainable models for technology a lot of times school districts would have money up front for a project but wouldn't have ongoing money for replacement materials for ongoing costs for training and those kinds of things and so we really wanted to build a plan that helped districts vision and include budget to support the work a good portion of the future ready partnerships gear is really looking at at what you have available in your state and outside the state and partnerships that you can build to have successful collaboration around digital learning and the plan helps to provide tools to districts on how to reach out it provides resources like letters and things like that to start to build some of these community partnerships both locally and long and nationally potentially depending on what products you're interested in or what work you're needing assistance with the other part of this is also working more with the higher education institution so that we have a long-term vision of what students need to know and should be able to do with technology in addition to what future teachers should know and be able to do with technology and so we're working in those areas as well curriculum instruction and assessment is one of the biggest things because it's really the heart of what school is about and all things that take place so there are lots of goals in this this area specifically around providing PD providing quality digital content tools and resources we know we have an equity gap and the prices that districts are paying for the same products across our state depending on their size and we want to see what we can do as a state to help minimize some of that and provide products add a little bit better prices for all districts so that together those products that we deem a high need can be provided to everyone and not just the few that can afford it the data and privacy gear is really focused on understanding all of the laws kappa furpa and hippa that have been mandated to school districts and how it relates to your digital components whether it's the applications that you're sharing with students are having students use whether it's how you house or store your student data all of those things can be confusing for districts they don't always have the personnel to spend a lot of time looking at these laws and making sure and so we are trying to provide some tools back to districts and some training around what districts should be doing to help protect student and also staff privacy within that law personalized professional development is really looking at ways that we can provide personalized learning for educators and stakeholders in this in the school districts in a way that meets their needs sometimes it's about time and providing it in a timely manner sometimes it's about providing more face-to-face opportunities it can be a variety of things but we're building partnerships to kind of bring all of those things to the table so that districts can expand the learning opportunities to their staff and we have lots of different ways that we are working on that and I'll share a few of those today the future ready robust infrastructure gear in Nebraska we're pretty fortunate we are one of the most advanced states due to our network Nebraska initiative and providing fiber to all of our school districts around the state and many states don't do this yet and there are still schools that don't have internet access due to their location within a state uh in Nebraska this is pretty limited but our goal here isn't so much about access at school but now we're focused on trying to get access to students outside of the classroom and ways that we can bring some equity in that homework gap so that students that don't always have access at home have other methods for accessing the internet to do school work and there's several initiatives going on there that I'll share with you and then the last gear is the use of space and time it's it's really about thinking less about seat time and more about student achievement and and looking more at what students can demonstrate in their learning versus the number of minutes in which they sit and attend to classes and so this really kind of gets to the heart of personal learning and allowing students that are ready to move on and allowing students that need additional assistance to to get that assistance to help move them forward and so this is kind of looking at education in a lot of different ways it can also just be as simple as doing flipped or blended learning providing other opportunities to extend the learning so there are lots of things that happen in this space to move students forward in use of space and time so the current year this is the work that we have done that's tied to the goal so we've been doing presentations like this to let folks know that we do have a statewide plan many states have had statewide plans for many many years and this is the first one that we've put together for the state of Nebraska to kind of help guide everyone and move everyone kind of forward from where they're at including the Department of Education we've also purchased and have begun work on a Nebraska OER Commons hub and that is up and running it's live you can join it today it's at the oercommons.org website and if you look under Hums you'll see a Nebraska one there it's completely free we're doing lots of training around that work we're also using librarians a lot for that work and moving that work forward because there's definitely a need for copyright very use and commons licensing information that teachers don't have or that they have incorrect information on on what that means to them and that's information we need to really share to make our OER hub work and to make sure people understand what kinds of materials can be put in there saved and sharing how they can save and share those items and so we've been doing a lot of training around that we're really using a lot of the librarians to help with that work Doran yeah actually a comment about that we're actually doing an Uncoming and Compass live show is going to be about that oh wonderful on uh where's my date here April April 10th um Beth Cabish from um yes uh good coordinating council is going to be with us about OER wonderful wonderful yeah Beth and I have been presenting all over about that as well so I'm glad that I would definitely recommend it um because it's going to be one of the biggest projects for librarians to be a part of in the district as we move districts into this space I do think about yeah specifically for people aren't sure like you're saying what is OER what is it all about versus and then about the hub that you guys are part of yeah yeah wonderful I want to work out that look on our schedule April 13th we get the right April 10th I'm sorry April 10th okay wonderful yes I definitely recommend that you do that especially if you don't if you haven't worked a lot with open education resources or the repository itself so definitely take a look at that um we're also with Beth actually um doing the blend ed uh cohort so we have uh cohort one which ended last year um was a blended ed pilot project and this year we are on cohort two uh working with teachers on implementing blended programs um and that is another ESU CC project that's tied to our future ready work um single sign-on is something that we've added at most districts ESU so are really implementing this for many of the districts and some of the larger districts already had it or implemented it themselves but this provides one sign-on for students and staff um which accesses all of the applications that a district might have access to or needs for and so um it makes it makes the work of digital learning a lot easier when students don't have to remember a lot of different passwords and logins it also helps teachers who also uh then don't have to remember or reset students um logins and passwords all the time the advisor dashboard has also been part of this work and this is mostly done through your district office where they upload their um systems and information each school year to our advisor dashboard for upload to the fed but in addition the advisor dashboard um is designed to provide teachers with um statewide data about their students so students that are migrants students that um have been in more more than one districts um it gives us the ability to keep track of that students information and data and share it um throughout the entire state which um they're finishing up that project and continuing to work on that the IMLS Sparks grant is a grant again working on that providing infrastructure to students outside of the school day um so we had five public libraries and schools um that partnered this year um to provide internet service that comes directly from the school into the local public libraries and that would allow students who are using the library's network system to access all of their school applications and information using the internet through through the library and we hope to expand on that we should be getting an update on how that project is going that just started this year with our goal of seeing if that does help bring students in and provide them a place that they can get access where they might not have it at home um as part of LB 994 uh we do still have the rural broadband task force there working to continue to improve the infrastructure um within our districts and providing better connections and connectivity um we did rewrite the district technology plan it we called it um now it's called the district technology profile it used to be a federal requirement um in order to get e-rate funds but we it was a little updated um so we updated it we brought it to make it a little bit more current and we're actually now going to share that data out through the Nebraska Education Portal which is a site connected to the NDE website where you can get student demographic data teacher data um about a district statewide information about how the state of schools are doing how many total students we have those kinds of things now we're also going to be including some statewide technology information what lms is are being used um what types of machines how many schools have one-to-one programs so that students are taking machines those kinds of things all of that will also now be shared back out where before we just gathered the data but it was never really shared back out with stakeholders or schools and so um we're providing that information this spring for the first time that technology profile just closed in february so we're now cleaning the data and preparing it for um updating the NEP site so if you're you're curious about any of those things you'll be able to find it then uh rule 10 um has been opened for the it'll be open another 18 months before it will be completely finished uh rule 10 is being updated in all areas and as part of that work um the future ready council has identified some things that they would like to see either clarified or changed in order to make digital learning and ed tech work a little bit better in school districts um and provide some wiggle room for schools to try to pilot and do some things um that are um innovative around digital learning so we're working with the policymakers here to get those runway rights considered um we did join a national consortium for student data privacy and esu 3 is currently out um leading the charge on this and training district tech folks so your technology um district technology specialists would know a lot about this um but basically the consortium is a being provided to all school districts free of charge um and it provides information around student data privacy it provides information around applications and what applications follow um the law um in a way that the law is interpreted so that you're not violating and which application school should avoid using or having students use because they are in violation of student data privacy so that's another tool that's going out and again mostly through the technology person at your district um but that training is started this beginning in january is when we purchased that consortium and so you should hear more about that in the next year and then we're also piloting um a potential statewide learning management system it is canvas based um our hope is that we can have our own state iteration of this so that we could provide that as a product to all school districts at a very very low cost and save some of the districts that are paying high per student costs some money um but still allow them to have a high quality um learning management system so those are some of the fun little um activities that are that are occurring right now throughout the state related to future ready and that come from the future ready funding and and plans really our goal has that um they asked that i'm not sure if you're going to get into the more details of it but i figured i'd throw it out right now and um getting the students access at home and and you know when they're outside the library and um so someone wants to know is is funding for one-to-one technology for schools part of this effort so um access to funding is part of the effort and we you know Nebraska is a very local control state so we don't like to tell people what to do but we would highly encourage and give a wealth of information about how to access funds that yes could provide one-to-one initiatives in addition looking at putting wi-fi on buses um especially in rural areas where students spend a lot of time on them um is part of that that piece and that work in providing funding for districts to also do that so that that yes is part of it um that was another reason we needed to do the district technology profiles we weren't sure where we were at as a state as to how many districts are already in a one-to-one environment and at what grade levels um and so once we have that data we'll be able to provide more information to specific districts that might need assistance in moving into that space but definitely that is the goal you used to collect the data on that then we're not sure who is going we have it gathered in total who's doing it already or who needs to right no we just closed that in February so we're just now getting all of that data analyzed so we will know in a couple months um but yeah and we'll be sharing it out too so others will know what percentage of school districts have one-to-one programs and things like that and then from there we can better uh look at innovation grant funds and things like that to help move um districts forward in that space but definitely it is a goal because with personalized learning having a one-to-one environment is really important yes yes great thanks um yeah so I'm here I'm not going to show this video but this was a news story that CBS did recently just this last fall on personalized learning and it shows the thing I like about this is it shows a small rural district in Idaho um 1700 people live in this and um in the city or the town and um they switched to personalized learning they kind of show you how it how it benefited them how they were one of the lowest scoring school districts and how they have moved forward um in growth uh towards better test scores and things like that um and also just engagement of students and getting students to come to school so it's it's kind of a quick video you're welcome to check it out but um the thing I like is that it's not just about the big districts it shows how small districts can use personalized learning okay so future ready librarians in Nebraska um so we have a committee um of both small school district librarians and our large our two largest districts LPS and OPS um have come together we also have some ESU representation and then the Dr. Becky Pasco from UNO is also helping us in some of the work around how to move librarians and their work um forward in the state you can see a list there of some of the things that they're working on I mentioned the OER but they're also working on some digital fluency which used to be called like digital citizenship and then digital information and just the all of those kinds of words all compassed into one um and trying to provide lessons and lesson plans to help librarians um in that work um we're also working with the Nebraska Library Commission so we have a member of the Nebraska Library Commission on our future ready Nebraska Librarians group um and trying to provide both professional development um trying to do some joint projects so we have some exciting things there um we're working on beefing up the website for Nebraska Librarians um and providing resources that they might need in addition to some information for new librarians we have a lot of um librarians that are retiring from school districts and a lot of new younger ones um that have a lot of questions um and we're trying to provide them a toolkit to help them move and be successful um uh librarians at their school districts so some work there um I also linked the frame the national framework for librarians specific so you can see kind of what work we're framing the Nebraska work off of um and I'm going to kind of go over that next so um this is what the future ready librarians um framework looks like it uses again all of the same years but they have a little bit different goals um and the way that the goals work for for each um of those gears is a little bit different you'll also see on the curriculum instruction and assessment that light blue that that the edge of that goes out quite a bit further most of the goals um and the tag lines for the work for future ready librarians is in this area um and so I'll show you some sample work that's taking place some ideas around how librarians can can use the framework to advance work at their own uh library um this is the backside of that handout if you if you clicked on the link um it kind of shows all of the different tag lines you can see there's three of the light blue ones there and then it it goes a little bit deeper to explain what kind of outcomes um that they want to see coming out of the library or from the librarians in support of their school and so we're going to take a look at each of these and and see how this looks um day to day so we'll start with the curriculum and instruction there are three things that really work around this that the librarians can help and assist their district in one is building some instructional partnerships with themselves and teachers um empowering students to be creators and we've seen a massive move in the maker space um work realm in the libraries and libraries really kind of leading the charge around um maker spaces and then of course the curation of digital resources and tools which is a little bit different than print curation um that most people think librarians do um all the time and that's all they do um and trying to show how they can be helpful around the digital space as well so what you might see um some sample strategies that school districts in Nebraska um are using or librarians are using is you might see some collaborative Skypes or zooms with classes and libraries and other schools um you might see librarians meeting regularly with teachers to plan um you might see them working um and providing all of the digital fluency or digital citizenship lessons and setting up planning sessions um that match to maker spaces that they've created uh within the library um you might also see um students doing more work in the library um whether it's doing video book talks working on their digital portfolios um working on steam activities again a lot of times those are in the maker space section um of the library um and in really making a focused maker program so not just things that look fun and are fun to do but also helping students tie the maker space back to the standards that they're responsible for in the variety of classes that they they attend and so making those connections for students um around digital resources we see the use a lot of symbols um around content areas and things uh the library and builds these they provide access um and links to the resources to help move the teacher forward in a certain area that maybe they're not as strong in or maybe the textbook that they're using is not as strong in um some ideas that are currently mostly in the symbols are coding there's a lot around computer science uh making digital citizenship all of those things they also um are helping teachers with blogs and curating resources together within those blogs for classrooms um using youtube channels teaching teachers about how to create a youtube channel of their own keeping playlists for both the teachers um and the students but also even for parents um and providing training in that realm um to help parents work with their students at home and then of course a collection of virtual field trips or vfts we have several in Nebraska um and we're trying to again provide more information around those and what ones tie to specific standards state standards uh within the course content um professional learning a lot of librarians are asked to do this more and more especially around technology resources um and so some things that you might see them doing is actually teaching a professional development course for their district around a specific topic um working with them to on the machines with their either the students devices um or the teacher devices sometimes as well in addition to helping assist parents um as school districts go one to one and familiarize them with the devices and helping their student manage the device and care for the device um and then also help them get unstuck when the device um is not functioning properly um they also are building some of our oer training especially around the copyright creative commons and fair use um they're also helping assist um us in building the um tags metadata tags that we're using for searching so that we can easily find materials um and so they are assisting in that work as well and then of course you always um have the opportunity to present you're welcome to present at our our um conference this summer if you have a hot topic that you'd like to share out um with others or an idea or a plan around any of these future writing gears you're welcome to submit a proposal for that and share with others to help community community partnerships um we suggest um and some districts have done digital literacy nights for the community and parents um this is a hot topic because of all the different things going on in the digital space um both positive and negative and so it helps um to share information with those that maybe don't know or understand technology as well um we've seen people work with college art departments to showcase student artwork um and do partnerships there presenting at a school board meeting whether it's about oer digital resources any of those things and then social media um and sharing how to use those tools in an educational setting um as well the infrastructure making sure we have equitable access as the ultimate goal um and so some different things um we do have school districts that have hot spots that are available for checkout um to staff um and for student use outside of the day in addition to what we talked a little bit about wi-fi on buses and and making those things available so those are available for checkout through usually the library um promoting oer and using oer among students and staff um doing some curriculum on the wall uh within the library so again making connections between makerspaces and and work going on in classrooms or vice versa and then flexing their media center hours um to provide for more availability for students and parents either before school or after school or on specific days like conferences and other events uh where community is coming to your space um some data and privacy work that's occurring um we have some again parent training on privacy and we have a lot of tools through common sense media um that you can provide out uh regular or weekly lessons on digital citizenship um this is um embedded usually within content areas like social studies and places like that english um but just instead of getting it in one long one time trying to organize your district's plan so that this work is embedded throughout a student's time with your district um so they're getting regular information and updates that are appropriate for their age um teaching students and also staff members how to create strong passwords they can remember we have a lot of training going on around that um it helps to have one to one but for personal use as well it helps its students understand how to do these things and how to make them memorable and then modeling digital citizenship and collaborations helping others to see how to best especially teachers model good use of digital tools and resources for budget you have I know librarians do not have large large budgets and so we have to be careful with our budgets um and some libraries have reached out with permission you have to get sometimes permission from your district to do things like title wish or amazon wish list or first book some people still do the corporate um book buys and things like that and those all work really great um using more free materials through OER is also helpful um investing and convincing your school to invest in maker studio items again it helps a lot if it's tied to content because then you can also use department funding or curriculum funding to um purchase and get those materials um and make them available because it does tie to a learning goal um and then we also have some folks that are looking at augmented reality and apps as a maker space or a station that students can learn from and use within the library space and then use of space and time in the library again reevaluate you waiting your maker space design where you have it placed changing the library when you can to use shorter more mobile cases versus the tall built in so that you have flexibility and moving and seating and space use within this space making sure signage um is available in all areas and clear to make it easy to locate things that are occurring in the library now that there's so much more going on um and creating a functional classroom area um is important so that librarians can assist in co-teaching especially around the digital citizenship and and research and all of those wonderful things um and so being able to move the space um and making the space adaptable is something that we see in a lot of new libraries and then older libraries are doing over time um with small purchases and ideas and planning so rule 10 is another large piece of the work that's going on in the next year um and so some changes that we have kind of embedded um or are requesting again all we can do is ask for these changes um really are around some clarification um and some safety issues that we and just misunderstanding um as well so currently each school building does have to have a library open the entire school day um that is part of the rule it's not super clear but it is part of the rule um they do have to be have materials catalogued in shelf they have to have one set of encyclopedias which the library commission provides through Nebraska access so um you don't you shouldn't have to pay for that um because it can be digital or print and since they provide a digital one we highly recommend that you use that um and use their resources there um each elementary school currently has to have the 25 resources per teacher per year up to 150 we are looking at modifying that um the other thing about the school being building having a library open is that it doesn't say it has to be staffed and we are discovering that many districts in their efforts to cut expenses are leaving these spaces open so the doors are unlocked but there are no adults uh within the space um either helping students or are they monitoring students and so we've requested a change that it does need to be staffed by an adult and so whether that's your library para or the actual librarian varies but that it's just not an open space where students are not cared for um and we are looking at increasing the minimum um up to 200 titles um again this is a change to all three grade level or all three sets elementary middle and high school we are looking to eliminate the periodicals um it's getting harder and harder to find appropriate periodicals for students um and many periodicals for research and evaluation projects are available again through the Nebraska Library Commission um and so we're looking to eliminate the requirement of having those subscription and instead um putting that money into more resources for uh better digital in format and available to students um we we are still um we you know we currently have a an endorsement we have two of them technically um and a library media specialist has to either have already earned the endorsement or be working at six hours credit hours earned per year to be working there was some confusion and that the word technology was placed in the rule at some time and so people thought their technology endorsement allowed them to um work as a library media specialist and that is not the case um school districts that are doing that are in violation um and could have their accreditation dinged so we are working to correct that and to make sure that everybody has the proper endorsements um and then staffing is defined within rule 10 we're looking to um increase that um a little bit in that mostly the math doesn't work very well because you have to the way that the rule is written um you have to have somebody there um a quarter of the time every district has to have at least a quarter time um every district but each building has a different requirement and so the timeframes um and dividing um was not specified by building so we're looking more at at saying that the buildings um not just the district have to have access to a media center we have some districts where a student in K5 never sees a library media specialist because they only have one for their whole district and they're in the middle school high school building instead and so we want to make some corrections um there um there is um some a summary there that you can take a look at um to see the some of the proposed changes we're still working on this document so you're welcome to email me if you have some ideas or thoughts on like what you would like to see within rule 10 um like I said we still have over a year left um to do this and if you'd like um to take a look at the most recent revision you can email me at any time and I'm happy to share that but we are still kind of working out the kinks and the details um on how we can better improve the services that school districts um are providing through their library media service um and building libraries as well so um any questions on rule 10 I suppose that might be um nobody has typed in any but anybody if you have any questions any more clarification you want on rule 10 obviously it's something that is very important in the schools yes I'm very surprised to hear the you you said about um they have a library but they just leave it open with no staff no adult supervision I'm surprised that schools would go for a while yeah I thought the same thing this even self-checkout so there's just a little scanner there and they trust the kids to self-check out and check in it's nice to have that honor system trust going yeah but it really is it really is um until you know a tragedy occurs and then the students are tracked without any assistance and if they need to do any actual research and they need the research assistance there's nobody there's nobody there to help them yeah so that's unfortunate and and that's one of those things is the way the rule is written it's allowable and so then districts when they're looking at cutting that's one of the things that they considered so like you said we wouldn't have thought of that but now that we know we're going to try to fix that yeah didn't think about it in the region originally yeah yeah so the last um a couple things I have for you um there is like I mentioned the first ever future ready Nebraska conference so um like I said there's been future ready summits and conferences all across the country but we've never had one in Nebraska before um it is tied to the southeast Nebraska ed tech conference which um has been occurring every year for ESUs um three and four no four and five sorry four and five um and they've collaborated each year to to bring this to folks um and now we're expanding it and providing it as a future ready um conference and we're making it open to the whole state it will take place in Lincoln um most likely at southwest high school here in Lincoln um and so if you're interested I included the flyer so you can see the dates and the different strands librarians will have a strong strand there and they will have their own um kind of sequence of um information that will be provided specifically for librarians so um if you're looking for a conference it's really tied to what you do um this one should be a strong one for you in addition I provided the link if you're interested in um presenting at the conference or just signing up and um and coming to the conference you can see um all of the information pricing uh we are recommending schools bring teams it becomes very very cheap I think it's down to like 30 30 per day for people um if you bring a team in um but uh take take a time to check that out see if those dates will work for you we would love to have you come out um and be a part of this conference we are having some national speakers and the Nebraska Teacher of the Year will be there and um many many others will be providing more details around kind of all of the things that I shared with you today and looking at the site it looks like the call for proposals is still open too yes yes you have until I think it's April yeah it's the first of the site so yeah and Erin you think it's a good place uh to do that and yeah absolutely so if you're interested in the library commission is also welcome and and to bring and provide information as well we have a couple of days um and we hope to have kind of give them their own space so that there'll be like a room or two that everything is related to libraries so that's our goal um on the next slide I do have some other links that you might find helpful as I mentioned before the future radio librarians national group is just phenomenal and they provide so many resources in different ways one is their facebook page which um you may or may not like facebook but their facebook page is incredible and has a wealth of resources and information they also have a twitter feed that they put things out on and then they have just a whole program overview and strand within the national site that provides resources specifically for librarians they do also have a Pinterest page and then I did provide a link to the Nebraska OER Commons there is a school librarians group that is open um and so if you make a free account there and you sign up you can go to the Nebraska hub and if you scroll down to where our groups are located you'll see it's red um the Nebraska school librarians group and you can join that there's um materials that are starting to be curated um and there you're welcome to add materials uh within that space there's also discussions so if you have questions you can post them um and hear from other librarians um and whatnot so there's a lot that can happen if you want more training on OER Commons again we will have it at the conference this summer as well as you might find it um at other conferences um throughout the state of Nebraska we try to we try to get it to as many as we can that's everything oh good and I didn't go over were there any last minute questions or no perfect timing yeah um let's see anybody have any questions you want to ask them during before we wrap things up go ahead and type into your um question section of your go to webinar interface um as you mentioned the slides here I've already got them linked off of our page for um this show and of all of the links that are on here that you've been seeing are all hot links I've been actually going to them behind the scenes yeah it's kind of helpful I I don't have time for that but I I want you to go there yeah so when you go into those slides you'll actually have hot links you can just click on right away and I'll open up a new new tab that will have the link to um the conference the different pages the different resources and everything that she's mentioned today um I was very glad to have you on um to do this today I know um you'd mentioned that library commission is working with this as a staff member um Amanda Sweet who is our technology innovation librarian is the person who's involved with the future of Nebraska um on behalf of the library commission and attending all of your your meetings and sessions and whatnot um so if anyone is wondering what more about what we're doing I guess involved with it or what she thinks of it that would be the person to talk to at the library commission yeah absolutely but doesn't look like anybody is typing in any questions so we had the few during the show but um I think that's great um this is great information we're gonna have it all out there um and as things go on with this because this is an ongoing project and process and things are being worked on um I'm sure we will do more updates with you um and maybe also with um bringing in Amanda to talk about from the library point of view um from what the library commission is doing um that so look for some other you know future shows you know updating on things like when you get all statistics gathered together and when some of the projects have come you know wrapped up or uh the updates that need to be done um this is an ongoing thing this isn't just a one time you know this is how to make sure everyone is all the students are getting the great education that they need absolutely yes and we'll continue to work at it slowly but surely yes all right so it doesn't look anybody had any questions so I'm gonna pull back presenter control the my screen now to wrap up and I can show you here there we are going yeah um here I've put the link in that to that uh to open up the slides there and there you go and you can click on anything in here as I said and it will bring up a a link that you can then click on and it opens up a new and there's the first one there yeah and I was looking at this is where I was looking at the actual information about the conference coming up too yeah all right so that will wrap up for today's show we are recording as I said and it will be on our main page thank you very much Joran for being with us thanks for having me like I said I definitely want to keep up with you and and get more updates as we're going through this absolutely it will be um today's show be here in our archives are at the very bottom here the screen right underneath our upcoming shows this was the most recent one we'll have a link to the recording and the presentation is already there I will just add a link to the recording that should be done and wrapped up by the end of the day today um everyone who attended this morning and registered I'll send you a link that you can use to get directly to that when I've got it all done and ready up there um I'll be joining us next week when we're talking about um internet access improving internet access in libraries um the toward gigabit libraries project is a new thing that's just become available for libraries to use to check out on what their how their technology is how their internet is and what they can do to improve it Carson Block who's the creator of this uh library technology consultant will be with us and Tom Ralfus from the um Nebraska Information Technology Commission and our own Holly Woltz from here at the Alaska Library Commission are also both involved in this project um they'll be here with me um next week to talk about that so if you're looking about in how to you can get um better or faster internet in your library please do sign up for that one that's next week also since we're talking about um Amanda she's been doing a series a couple of shows or she's the one that we after that ethics behind emerging technology um on February 13th she did a session on what is emerging technology and then next next week we after she'll have a follow-up about the ethics behind it so if you want to know more about emerging technology and what's going on with that which is us related to all the digital Nebraska things future in Nebraska um take a look at the recording of our previous show and then her upcoming one um and then the one I mentioned that Beth Cavich is doing here it is on our schedule April 10th what is OER outstanding extraordinary raw materials no yes partially yeah uh Beth Cavich will be here to talk about that so uh serendipitously we had things on our schedule related to what you were talking about today Teresa yeah it's all related yes this all very important so definitely uh sign up for any of those upcoming shows that we have um also and come aside is on facebook you see I've got a link here and our facebook pages here we post updates to things here um reminders here's your reminder login today show when our recordings are available we have them up on here we post they're ready so if you um are a big facebook user and do like use it excuse me please do give us a like over there another wraps up today's show thank you everyone for attending thank you Duran for being here with me this morning yeah thank you and hopefully we'll see you next time on 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