Each of these groups has their own framework, which can be found here

Once the Future Ready Librarians framework was released, I knew this was an initiative I wanted to be part of.  The framework for Future Ready Librarians makes it easy for librarians to see what they should be doing to make transformations in their space and become agents of change in their building(s)  This past week I attended the ISTE Conference in Chicago, and the new Future Ready Librarians Framework was released!  The new framework is so exciting, because Literacy is such an integral part of the framework!

In addition to providing an excellent framework, Future Ready Librarians offers many webinars, Twitter Chats, a Newsletter and in--person trainings for librarians.  Here is a direct link to their website.

Future Ready Schools New Jersey is a coalition between the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the New Jersey School Board's Association, and the New Jersey Department of Education.  It is a school certification program designed to support the efforts of the national Future Ready Schools initiative.

In 2016/17 school year, Future Ready Schools NJ began creating task forces to begin writing indicators which are used in each school's certification process.  When a school decides to take the path to certification, they must produce evidence under each indicator.  The three main areas for certification include:  Leadership; Education and Classroom Practice; & Technology Support and Services.  As a district works towards certification they accumulate points to get certified, and they can get certified at either the Bronze or Silver level.  The Bronze area requires less points than the silver and is a little less involved.  Both levels however require a lot of time and effort on a schools part.  When a school begins certification efforts, there are three phases they must work through:

• Phase 1:  District Committment
• Phase 2:  School Participation (This is done by school and not by district)
• Phase 3:  School Certification

In April of 2017, after serving on the NJ Future Ready Schools Task Forces, I brought the Future Ready School initiative to my superintendent and director of technology.  We began communicating with Jeremy Reich (NJ Future Ready School's Project Manager) through a Skype conference.  Jeremy explained the steps to us, and we began planning our road to school certification.  In October of 2017, we attended one of the national Future Ready School Institutes in Philadelphia area.  This was very helpful and allowed the other members of our future ready team to work in breakout groups.  This spring my school began working on producing evidence to Future Ready Schools NJ.  Our technology director assigned different indicators to different members of our future ready team and we had designated work periods to complete the creation of our evidence.  On our final day of meeting, we were thrilled to welcome Jeremy Reich, Linda Carmona-Bell (NJ Department of Education) and Chris Murphy (Principal Extraordinaire from New Zealand) to our school, to show them some of the ways our school is future ready.  We are in our final stages of planning/submitting for certification and hope to receive this October of 2018 at the New Jersey School Boards Convention.

     Our Future Ready Team and Visitors Jeremy Reich, Linda Carmona-Bell, and Chris Murphy

Our Future Ready Transformations Slideshow