Professional Goals and Plans

Goal Statement:

In the coming five years, I intend to continue my position as the School Library Media Specialist with East Forsyth Middle School. Within the frame of my role, I am continuing to seek opportunities to obtain professional development as well as share professional development with my colleagues within the building, region, and state. In terms of collection building, I am dedicated to bring greater representation to our collection. One of the areas of highest need is our language inclusive resources as a dual language immersion program and as a building where over 40% of our learners speak a language other than Englist as their first language, I recognize the importance and impact of increasing this representation for our students. As a professional completing my Masters degree, I will be actively seeking to become more involved in regional, state, and national professional orgnaizations.

While I am not certain of a completion timeline, I am also committed to researching, presenting, and drafting articles surrounding the idea of bringing more trauma-informed librarianship into all aspects of school library programs. This is something that has recently struck a chord of need within me as I examined who intentionally media specialists/librarians seek to include this lens in literature collections, but also how often we forget to include it in some of our more difficult tasks and student interactions. It is a personal moment of reflection as well as a professional goal to expand this knowledge and create simple practices that allow school library media specialists to act with compassion first even in a challenging situation.

My Five Year Plan

2026-2027

Seek to present a minimum of two professional development sessions within my building and/or district
Participate in one professional learning opportunity outside of the required sessions by my district
Increase representation within our collection with an increase of at least 15% of our titles in Spanish
Begin exploring roles and opportunities within regional, state, and national organizations
Continue to work with PLCs and teachers within our building to build instructional programming within the library space to increase student opportunity

2027-2028

Seek to present a minimum of two professional development sessions within my building and/or district
Present at one regional or state event
Participate in one professional learning opportunity outside of the required sessions by my district
Increase representation within our collection with an increase of at least 10% of our titles in Spanish
Commit to participating in at least one role or learning opportunity within regional, state, and national organizations
Continue to work with PLCs and teachers within our building to build instructional programming within the library space to increase student opportunity
Work to build community partners to increase the programming possibilities within our space and building including working with the public library to increase summer access and connections to libraries

2028-2029

Seek to present a minimum of four professional development sessions within my building and/or district
Present at one regional or state event
Participate in one professional learning opportunity outside of the required sessions by my district
Increase representation within our collection with an increase of at least 10% of our titles in Spanish
Increase representaiton within our collection with an increase of 10% representation of authentic authors and voices in the nonfiction sections of our library
Actively participate in at least one role or learning opportunity within regional, state, and national organizations
Continue consistent programming with collaborative partners within the school and community
Create a data dashboard to share library successes

2029-2030

Seek to present a minimum of four professional development sessions within my building and/or district
Present at one regional or state events
Participate in one professional learning opportunity outside of the required sessions by my district
Continue to add diverse and relevant voices to our library based on assessment of needs
Actively participate in at least one role or learning opportunity within regional, state, and national organizations and reflect on how this impacts practices and what is the next step in my professional growth in the areas of leadership
Continue consistent programming with collaborative partners within the school and community
Continue using a data dashboard to share library successes

2030-2031

Seek to present a minimum of four professional development sessions within my building and/or district
Present at two regional or state events
Participate in one professional learning opportunity outside of the required sessions by my district
Continue to add diverse and relevant voices to our library based on assessment of needs
Assume a leadership role in a regional, state, or national organization
Continue consistent programming with collaborative partners within the school and community
Create a data dashboard to share library successes
Begin the process of becoming a National Board Certified School Library Media Specialist

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