Presented by Mary Kelleher and Karin Kugel
Goal: To come out of the session with a working plan to make your library important in your school.
Example of Problems:
students not reading at grade level
narrowing the achievement gap
quality of open response answers
This session is using literacy to model the process of making the library important to the school.
Try to tie in all other library goals to the larger scale plan.
Our presenters attended a Big 6 conference over the summer. And we are all familiar with Big 6...so the seminar was structured around this research process.
1 Task definition: how can your library best support the neesds of your school
2. Information seeking: what resources will I use
3. Location and Access: how can I access these resources?
4. Use of Information: Action steps
5. Synthesis: How can I get others to buy into my plans
6. Evaluation: Was I effective in my actions?
Hints:
Set attainable goals
Set deadlines
Use resources
Always refer back to overarching goal
Make sure everyone knows about your mission and how it ties into the overall goals of the school.
Promote your programs
Put your library name on correspondence
Use vistaprint.com for professional looking library products
(you only pay for shipping)
Color code your newsletters
Handout for this session are on pages 119-126 in your binders
Showing posts with label Advocacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advocacy. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Building the Advocacy Picture
By Debra Kay Logan, Sunday @ 1:30pm
Website: http://www.deblogan.com/ On the right side of her website, there's a section labeled "Deb's Presentations". Notes for this weekend's presentation will be forthcoming in the next week or so, but feel free to browse through some of her others in the meantime.
" Get your message across to your stakeholders".
The message is to demonstrate exactly what impact School Libraries have on student achievement.
Who are our stakeholders? Our students, our teachers, our parents and other community members, our administrators, and our state and local officials.
What are their concerns? Grades, homework, student safety, MCAS scores, getting into good schools, projecting the "right type of image" for the school and community, application of information in the workforce, 21st century skills relevance, etc, etc, etc. The list is endless!
So, just what role does the school library play in helping students achieve their goals?
Combine marketing and public relation skills to get our message out...what is it we do and how.
Deb recommends data collection to validate our efforts. Not just the usual circulation statistics, reference questions, number of students and classes, but real meaningful data that demonstrates the impact school libraries have on student learning. After each lesson, Deb has the students fill out a questionnaire:
1. Name something that the student has learned from this lesson
2. How will they use this new information?
3. What did they like about this lesson?
4. Any suggestions that would make the lesson more valuable to the students?
All information is tallied and shared with the collaborating teacher, and is used to improve existing lesson plans. When conducting your own data collection, it is important to decide how this information will be used, collected, managed and shared. To add credibility to your findings, link your data to research (refer to the handout by Ross Todd, "School Libraries and Evidence"). Point out any obvious and pertinent connections.
Deb also recommends creating Lesson Plans, even if you your district does not require you to have them. Link your objectives and goals directly to state standards; identify topics from other subjects that are covered in your lessons. Having this information in place and sharing it with your stakeholders BEFORE there's a problem is key. Documenting information in the form of assessments, instructions, finished products or projects, photo galleries, quotations, humorous anecdotes are all excellent ways to share. Make it all about the students, and it won't look like you are just tooting your own horn!
In closing, I will leave you with 2 messages from Deb:
"NO WHINING!"
and
"Libraries are an investment, not a cost" (Gary Hartzell)...it's up to al l of us to be sure that our stakeholders get that message.
?
Website: http://www.deblogan.com/ On the right side of her website, there's a section labeled "Deb's Presentations". Notes for this weekend's presentation will be forthcoming in the next week or so, but feel free to browse through some of her others in the meantime.
" Get your message across to your stakeholders".
The message is to demonstrate exactly what impact School Libraries have on student achievement.
Who are our stakeholders? Our students, our teachers, our parents and other community members, our administrators, and our state and local officials.
What are their concerns? Grades, homework, student safety, MCAS scores, getting into good schools, projecting the "right type of image" for the school and community, application of information in the workforce, 21st century skills relevance, etc, etc, etc. The list is endless!
So, just what role does the school library play in helping students achieve their goals?
Combine marketing and public relation skills to get our message out...what is it we do and how.
Deb recommends data collection to validate our efforts. Not just the usual circulation statistics, reference questions, number of students and classes, but real meaningful data that demonstrates the impact school libraries have on student learning. After each lesson, Deb has the students fill out a questionnaire:
1. Name something that the student has learned from this lesson
2. How will they use this new information?
3. What did they like about this lesson?
4. Any suggestions that would make the lesson more valuable to the students?
All information is tallied and shared with the collaborating teacher, and is used to improve existing lesson plans. When conducting your own data collection, it is important to decide how this information will be used, collected, managed and shared. To add credibility to your findings, link your data to research (refer to the handout by Ross Todd, "School Libraries and Evidence"). Point out any obvious and pertinent connections.
Deb also recommends creating Lesson Plans, even if you your district does not require you to have them. Link your objectives and goals directly to state standards; identify topics from other subjects that are covered in your lessons. Having this information in place and sharing it with your stakeholders BEFORE there's a problem is key. Documenting information in the form of assessments, instructions, finished products or projects, photo galleries, quotations, humorous anecdotes are all excellent ways to share. Make it all about the students, and it won't look like you are just tooting your own horn!
In closing, I will leave you with 2 messages from Deb:
"NO WHINING!"
and
"Libraries are an investment, not a cost" (Gary Hartzell)...it's up to al l of us to be sure that our stakeholders get that message.
?
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