Answering the Calls of "What's Next" and "Library Workers Cannot Live by Love Alone" through Certification and Salary Research

Members and staff of the American Library Association (ALA) worked diligently over more than a decade to develop a certification program for public library managers. Spurred by a long-standing trend in many other terminal-degree professions that have post-degree, voluntary certifications, the Certified Public Library Administrator Program was born. Legal authority recommended the establishment of a service organization, a 501(c)(6) to manage the program, which has become one of several programs that will be offered to library employees under the imprimatur of ALA. After the American Library Association???Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) was instituted, advocacy for salary improvement initiatives was appended to the mission. One means of salary advocacy was to improve available data by expanding the scope and usefulness of the ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries, which resulted in the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Non-MLS???Public and Academic, conducted in 2006 and 2007 to collect salary data from more than sixty positions in the field that do not require a master's degree in Library Science. The experience of establishing two certification programs, the Certified Public Library Administrator Program (CPLA??) and the Library Support Staff Certification Program, has been a study in creating new national models of professional development. This article will also discuss the insights that have emerged from fulfilling elements of ALA strategic plans concerning the needs of support staff through certification and the salary survey.published or submitted for publicatio

Innovator, 1979-07-10

The Innovator was a student newspaper published at Governors State University between March 1972 and October 2000. The newspaper featured student reporting, opinions, news, photos, poetry, and original graphics

Male Teachers\u27 Exit Decisions: A Qualitative Interview Study Examining the Experiences of Male Teachers Who Left Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS)

This qualitative interview study utilizing phenomenological methods investigates the experiences of three male teachers who exited Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). The goal was to identify their rationales for resigning from M-DCPS. Using phenomenological methods, this study reduces individual experiences with the phenomenon of being a male teacher to a description of the essence of the participants’ experiences. The participants were chosen from M-DCPS because it is the fourth largest school district in the country, and it is grappling with teacher attrition just as many other large, diverse, urban districts in the nation. Three participants who shared the characteristics of self-identifying as male and who had left M-DCPS were included in the study. This study relied on the participants’ recollection of their experiences, taking into account their perceptions of particular experiences in their teaching careers and how they made sense of those experiences. This study examined two sources of data: (a) questionnaires which provided information on participant demographics, educational backgrounds, teaching certifications, years of teaching experience, and employment histories; and (b) two in-depth interviews per participant. The spacing of each interview, with each participant, was three to seven days a-part. This study sought to address the call for more male teachers in school districts across the United States. Through rich storytelling, the findings provide insight into the essence of three male teachers’ experiences. While not generalizable, the findings from these participants, in this study, in a large diverse urban district, hold implications for other school districts’ policies and practices with regard to retaining male teachers

Spartan Daily, May 4, 1998

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The Anchor, Volume 88.25: April 23, 1976

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). As of Fall 2019 The Anchor has moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular

The Texas Standard - September, October 1958

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Teacher-stress and present day grading practices

Includes bibliographical references

Central Florida Future, July 21, 1999

Justice impeachment overruled; SG leaders address students\u27 concerns at Town Hall meeting.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2502/thumbnail.jp