Excite Project - Survey of School Librarians

The CT State Library is developing a grant application to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a professional development program to teach innovation and collaboration skills to librarians. We've tested the project design with a pilot cohort of teams from seven public libraries. We’d love to include school librarians in the larger IMLS project and would appreciate your feedback on the best way to do that.

We’ve found that this training works best and has a better chance of being sustained when librarians attend in teams. For school librarians, your two-person team may consist of a classroom teacher from your building, or a library aide or volunteer, or another collaborative partner.

Because the project would be funded through a grant (we hope), there would be no registration fees. The participants would just have to get themselves to the training location each day (probably Middletown) and feed themselves lunch.

In addition, we hope to be able to offer seed funding of between $500 and $1000 per school for teams to implement the new ideas they develop during the training process.

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* 1. Based on what you know so far, how much do you LIKE this idea?

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* 2. Why?

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* 3. How interested would you be in participating in this program?

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* 4. Why?

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* 5. What would have to be true for you to want (and be able) to participate?

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* 6. Why?

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* 7. What questions do you have that you would like to learn more about before knowing if you are interested?

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* 8. What would the answers to your questions need to be for you to participate?

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* 9. Who would you be most likely to bring with you as a team member? If a teacher, what subject?

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* 10. The program length that you would be most likely to attend:

2 days in a row: Gives the basics of collaboration, design thinking & includes a discussion on applying the tools to your everyday work

3 days in a row: Give the above, plus an opportunity to practice developing an innovative idea for your school

5 days in a row: Give a deeper dive into the tools of collaboration, design thinking and how to make a plan to implement. Offers an opportunity to develop a program that can bring these same tools and ways of thinking to students in your school.

One of the above, split into multiple sessions.

If split into multiple sessions, indicate total # of days and how you would like to see them spaced out.

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* 11. The timeframe in which you would be most likely to attend:

	Not at all				Very likely
During fall semester	During fall semester Not at all	During fall semester	During fall semester	During fall semester	During fall semester Very likely
During spring semester	During spring semester Not at all	During spring semester	During spring semester	During spring semester	During spring semester Very likely
During February break	During February break Not at all	During February break	During February break	During February break	During February break Very likely
During April break	During April break Not at all	During April break	During April break	During April break	During April break Very likely
In July	In July Not at all	In July	In July	In July	In July Very likely
In August	In August Not at all	In August	In August	In August	In August Very likely

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Type of school where you work:

Elementary

Middle

High

Other (please specify)

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* 1. Based on what you know so far, how much do you LIKE this idea?

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* 2. Why?

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* 3. How interested would you be in participating in this program?

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* 4. Why?

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* 5. What would have to be true for you to want (and be able) to participate?

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* 6. Why?

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* 7. What questions do you have that you would like to learn more about before knowing if you are interested?

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* 8. What would the answers to your questions need to be for you to participate?

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* 9. Who would you be most likely to bring with you as a team member? If a teacher, what subject?

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* 10. The program length that you would be most likely to attend:

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* 11. The timeframe in which you would be most likely to attend:

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* 12. Type of school where you work:

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* 13. Is there anything else you’d like to tell us or ask us?