Ha! Fooled you! Not a single one of the people in today’s photo is a librarian – except me, of course.
As a SLS Director, you are a part of the larger library community, but you area also a part of your BOCES community and that is where I was today. This group is a sub-committee of the over 400 people employed at BOCES. Our charge is to identify a vision of an overall professional development plan for our schools (Special Education and Career and Tech. Center) as well as for the educators in our component districts. This includes everything from bus-driver training and “Right To Know” training, to literacy training and even to our Information Fluency curriculum design project.
It is huge project and I’m proud (and a little overwhelmed) to be a part of it. On this day we were reviewing the charge and trying to determine what a long-range plan would look like.
From the far left – Karen Rattman is our facilitator, guiding us through the whole process. Tracy Gyoerkoe is the Curriculum Director for the Career and Tech Center, Marie Brander (front left) is an administrator at Maywood School, DevenHorne oversees professional development for all of the Special Educators, Hilary Delevare is a NERIC trainer (she may have trained you!). Pat Gogol works in the area of violence and substance abuse prevention in schools. Amy Svirsky is the BOCES Data Analyst specialist – and then there’s the librarian!
Cathy Welling had to leave early and is absent from the photo – she is a trainer for schools in the areas of violence and bullying prevention.
