School Library Journal published an article in December written by Jennifer Sturge titled "What's Your Why? Defining Your Mission | Take the Lead." Ever since I read that article a couple of weeks ago, it's been sitting in the back of my brain waiting for me to have time to make it concise. This is why I do what I do. This is my mission: Help students foster the desire and ability to: independently find materials they can enjoy or utilize, independently locate reliable information, and be lifelong readers and learners. Provide the the school with quality resources and to be a powerful resource to support and ignite endeavors. It’s hard to believe that two sentences can encompass all of what I have done, currently do, and hope to do in the future in my school's library in one sentence. But everything I do for students, staff, the library, and anything in between really takes me back to that. (I drafted my mission easily but revised it probably twenty times before it felt right.) What's your mission?
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Shortly before winter break back in December, I had a day where I was just completely spent, as I'm sure many educators can relate to. My small children hadn't been sleeping through the night much, which of course meant neither had my husband and I. My schedule was all over the place with different disruptions happening. It'd been an amazing but also tiring first semester. Needless to say I was having a rough day and not having a particularly great attitude about it. I found my sleep deprived self that morning thinking about all the things I had to do when I got to my school, but then by some miracle, I caught myself in my negative thinking. Wait. Have to? No. Get to. I get to do x, y, and z with 1, 2, and 3 in the makerspace and library today. I get to. I love this job. Snap out of it. I get to do this!
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