What are the responsibilities and job description for the Long Term Substitute Library Media Specialist position at Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union?
2024-2025 School YearJob Posting Long Term Substitute Library Media Specialist (Windsor School K-5)At WSESU, we are committed to engaging hearts and minds for a limitless future - where students want to learn, staff want to work, and families want to live. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and strive to be a place where everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We seek to create a more diverse institutional culture because teams are stronger and more innovative with different perspectives and experiences. Windsor School is a public PreK-12 school serving approximately 560 students, with 110 students in grades 6-8.
Our school is dedicated to a student-centered approach through proficiency-based learning and student voice, through their learning, leadership initiatives, and their academic and social-emotional choices. We value educating the whole child through a team approach. We are a truly collaborative team and enjoy working together to support student agency and self-directed learning. Summary: The Library Media Specialist is responsible for ensuring all students are effective and ethical users of ideas and information.
He/she is responsible for empowering students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, and skillful researchers. The LMS will ensure equitable access to information and work to instill a love of learning in all students. He/she will collaborate with teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons and units of instruction. The Library Media Specialist will provide leadership to ensure the school library program is aligned with the mission, vision, and goals of the Windsor School District.Qualifications: Vermont Library Media Specialist certification.Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Develop a school library media program that addresses 21st-century skills, including life and career development, learning and innovation, and information, media, and technology literacy;Create an environment in the Library Media Center/Learning Common and Maker Space that is conducive to active and participatory learning;Plan and deliver high-quality lessons aligned to the CCRS, ISTE, and AASL Standards and ensure that the curricula include the full range of literacy skills (information, media, visual, digital, and technological literacy) necessary to meet content standards and to develop lifelong learners;Provide instruction in the use of technology to access information within as well as outside of the library media center;Use a wide variety of teaching methods, media, and ways of communicating information to ensure that students can access and use all types of information sources;Work as part of a team to integrate library/media resources with grade-level curriculum content;Incorporate Maker Space and STEAM activities including coding, green screen, animation, wevideo, legos, robotics, and tinkercad design into the library curriculum;Collaborate with teachers and students to design engaging inquiry-based learning experiences and assessments incorporating multiple literacies (including information literacy) and fostering critical thinking.Collaborate with library-media specialists across the supervisory union in the development and promotion of equitable opportunities for all students and staff including library programming as well as how library/media supports the entire curriculum Interest, willingness, and experience in integrating and advancing practices of diversity, equity, and inclusionDesired Skills and Experiences: Strong oral and written communication skillsAbility to work collaboratively Demonstrated skills with instructional technologyExperience with current research modelsExperience with developmentally appropriate, inquiry-based teaching and learningDemonstrated experience in meeting the needs of all learnersCommitment to equityWSESU is a diverse community of learners where: Every learner has the potential to be a leaderStudents have a strong voice in shaping their school experiencesLearning is personal, connected, and relevantHigh expectations exist in caring, nurturing environmentsIndividuals grow into larger communities, while also broadening a sense of selfPositive relationships define the interactions between the school and the communityStudents get better at making decisions by making decisionsEveryone can bring their full selves to the learning experienceWe encourage women, people of the global majority, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and individuals from diverse lived experiences and backgrounds to apply.
Please apply on SchoolSpring.com or send a cover letter, resume, three current letters of reference, transcripts, and references to: Tracy Thompson127 State StWindsor, VT 05089tracy.thompson@wsesu.netEOE
Our school is dedicated to a student-centered approach through proficiency-based learning and student voice, through their learning, leadership initiatives, and their academic and social-emotional choices. We value educating the whole child through a team approach. We are a truly collaborative team and enjoy working together to support student agency and self-directed learning. Summary: The Library Media Specialist is responsible for ensuring all students are effective and ethical users of ideas and information.
He/she is responsible for empowering students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, and skillful researchers. The LMS will ensure equitable access to information and work to instill a love of learning in all students. He/she will collaborate with teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons and units of instruction. The Library Media Specialist will provide leadership to ensure the school library program is aligned with the mission, vision, and goals of the Windsor School District.Qualifications: Vermont Library Media Specialist certification.Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Develop a school library media program that addresses 21st-century skills, including life and career development, learning and innovation, and information, media, and technology literacy;Create an environment in the Library Media Center/Learning Common and Maker Space that is conducive to active and participatory learning;Plan and deliver high-quality lessons aligned to the CCRS, ISTE, and AASL Standards and ensure that the curricula include the full range of literacy skills (information, media, visual, digital, and technological literacy) necessary to meet content standards and to develop lifelong learners;Provide instruction in the use of technology to access information within as well as outside of the library media center;Use a wide variety of teaching methods, media, and ways of communicating information to ensure that students can access and use all types of information sources;Work as part of a team to integrate library/media resources with grade-level curriculum content;Incorporate Maker Space and STEAM activities including coding, green screen, animation, wevideo, legos, robotics, and tinkercad design into the library curriculum;Collaborate with teachers and students to design engaging inquiry-based learning experiences and assessments incorporating multiple literacies (including information literacy) and fostering critical thinking.Collaborate with library-media specialists across the supervisory union in the development and promotion of equitable opportunities for all students and staff including library programming as well as how library/media supports the entire curriculum Interest, willingness, and experience in integrating and advancing practices of diversity, equity, and inclusionDesired Skills and Experiences: Strong oral and written communication skillsAbility to work collaboratively Demonstrated skills with instructional technologyExperience with current research modelsExperience with developmentally appropriate, inquiry-based teaching and learningDemonstrated experience in meeting the needs of all learnersCommitment to equityWSESU is a diverse community of learners where: Every learner has the potential to be a leaderStudents have a strong voice in shaping their school experiencesLearning is personal, connected, and relevantHigh expectations exist in caring, nurturing environmentsIndividuals grow into larger communities, while also broadening a sense of selfPositive relationships define the interactions between the school and the communityStudents get better at making decisions by making decisionsEveryone can bring their full selves to the learning experienceWe encourage women, people of the global majority, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and individuals from diverse lived experiences and backgrounds to apply.
Please apply on SchoolSpring.com or send a cover letter, resume, three current letters of reference, transcripts, and references to: Tracy Thompson127 State StWindsor, VT 05089tracy.thompson@wsesu.netEOE
