Hard Core Libraries: Supporting Instruction Using Common Core

1. Hard Core Libraries: Supporting Instruction Using Common Core Kimberly Dyar Elkton High School Cecil County Public Schools kdyar@ccps.org

4. Core Student Competencies • Compare perspectives across time and culture • Process and critique information in various formats and media • Debate and argue in orally and in writing • Analyze, reflect, research • Display info dynamically • Answer questions • Solve problems • Sustain focusin challenging reading and writing tasks • Develop coherent understanding • Publish, interact, collaborate through technology • Evaluate claims, arguments, evidence • Analyze relationship between primary & secondary sources on same topic

5. CCPS Curricular Framework • Touchstones – Socratic Seminar • Close reading • Universal Design for Learning • Understanding By Design • Concept-based Learning (cross content) • University of Kansas Content Enhancement Tools • Routine writing (daily)

8. Curriculum Writing & Changes • Serve on committees • Learn the curricular framework & use it as the basis of communication • Make yourself useful as a resource to teachers • Advocate for how library program can help with the process of curriculum change to supervisors • Connect to teachers’ needs and anxieties & help them with instructional resources and reassurance

9. Librarian Curriculum Support • Study the curriculum framework for the “big picture” • Audit the process for common errors in thought; address them appropriately (discussion, identification of professional development needs - literary nonfiction) • Know where you are not an expert; listen & learn • Ask for specific direction in terms of the curriculum team’s needs & gather stellar resources • Offer these services to all content areas • Promote library services at each school (“Your librarian is fully equipped to do this for you. Ask for it!”)

10. Changes to Library Program • Rethink use of space: accessibility, capacity, multi-purpose or multi-class uses • Rethink scheduling: “just in time” research vs. soup to nuts research projects • Rethink services: greater variety of instructional services situated within research cycle, strategic training & use of student volunteers/aides, researchers’ advisory (see uploaded Reflection Conference Questions, Research Goal Tracking forms on MASL wiki) • Rethink communication: AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners, STEM & math practices, capacities of literate individuals, & research cycle • Rethink collection

11. Beefing Up Resources • Dust off the databases – explore their features more deeply, find new ways to “sell” them • Create self-support resources for users (screenshots & screencasts) http://ehsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/ScreenshotDirections+-+Public+Library+DB • Locate and suggest alternate book selections based on text complexity/lexile

12. http://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/aasl-poster.tif by Paige Jaeger, used with permission

13. One-liners for teachers coming to the library with low-level, non-CCSS "projects“: • I can help you make this more interesting for the students. • What are your learning targets for this lesson? How do they fit into our curriculum? • What 21st Century skills can we integrate that align with standards? • I'm sorry, but research and information is my certification area. I would love to make some improvements here. • Would you mind if I do a 10 minute info-mercial at the beginning of your lesson? I'm sure it will save these students more than 10 minutes in wasted time. • This lesson will make us look "less than stellar" - but I would love to help you improve it so you don't get a poor APPR rating. (Use this if you have nerve:) • I don't bring students to the Home and Careers room and announce "I would like to bring my students down to bake a cake, and this is the recipe I'd like them to use." So, would you mind if we collaboratively repackage this for common core alignment? http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/06/common-core-carp-diem.html http://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/superhero%20powerverbs.pdf posted by Paige Jaeger – used with permission

14. Lesson Planner I Handed Out: http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/ccsslessonplanner.pdf http://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/common%20core%20alignmentboceschecklist.pdfposted by Paige Jaeger – used with permission

15. A Resource To Administrators • Video clips going over CCSS facets from Vimeo https://vimeo.com/search?q=common+core+EngageNY & NYC CC Resource Library http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/default.htm • Saving $ with databases • Professional Development Sessions

16. Professional Development Topics • Database Resources (strategically instructed by content area and standards) • Primary sources - where to get them & how to use them (LOC, Digital Archives) • Multimedia: access, integration, creation & analysis • Teaching and learning from multiple perspectives • Teaching students deeper research strategies

17. Public Library Collaboration • Develop database support resources • Provide professional development database support resources in self-serve format • Use need of the moment to integrate both libraries more meaningfully within curriculum

18. Multimedia & Technology • Not all multimedia is created equal • Go beyond YouTube and initial engagement • Elevate conversation and content • Ted.com – power of media used well http://www.ted.com/talks/beeban_kidron_the_shared_wonder_of_film.html • Paige Jaeger’s Use of Web 2.0 Tools http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/10/7-toolsto-empower-common-core.html

19. Implications for Purchasing • Manage budget differently so have resources to purchase materials “just in time” • Broader ranges of reading levels in texts • Expanded nonfiction collection – with reading choices as well as research choices • Tailoring optional purchases more specifically to the tastes/needs of students to promote ongoing literacy development and develop more dynamic relationships with students • Library may be/become students’ main source of fiction • Department budget considerations of spending requirements may influence their purchases and/or lead to problems down the line as needs evolve – AP English “wish list”

20. Implications for Advocacy • Get thee to a content supervisor! • $ value for instructional resources – we will save you $ because we already have the resources teachers need • Raise a cry from Whoville! “We are here!”

21. Example: Primary Source Analysis • LOC image archives • LOC Primary Source Analysis Tools • National Archives Digital Library • Using ALL the resources in the databases Grouped sets of images to show multiple perspectives – students explore and analyze to create essential questions

22. Political Cartoons & AP History • Library of Congress - “It’s No Laughing Matter” http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/index.html • Gale’s U.S. History in Context’s Political Cartoon portal page (search “political cartoon”, then click on images gallery)

23. Complex Text http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/factors%20that%20interact%20to%20affect%20complexity.pdfposted by Paige Jaeger - used with permission

24. Instructional Example: Science • Today’s Science • Ebsco • ProQuest • Google Scholar (& links) (See STEM Practices Ex PPT posted on MASL wiki)

25. Services to Students • Text selection a.k.a. “personal curation” • Targeted displays: nonfiction, tough reads, paired fiction/nonfiction • Empower them to articulate their needs • Give them what they need instructionally and personally • Suggestions box? • Log sheet like doctor’s office or clinic (Why are you here? What service do you need?) – like Apple genius bar – after school appointments for info needs or appointments like guidance visits – need to facilitate communication – online form/email/askyourlibrarian type feature on a website • Test prep practices sessions after school • Redefine “underserved” students

26. Depth & Complexity • Icons to represent different perspectives or lenses • Waters Foundation Systems Thinking Infographic (downloadable if you register for free) http://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.habits

27. Then librarians have to… Demonstrate how to analyze, critique, and revise questions http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/About/InstructionalShifts/default.htm NYC Department of Education Facilitation Guide For Making Connections In Literacy

28. Research Project Examples Baltimore County • In The Time Of Butterflies http://bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html • I Declare! Founding Fathers Sound Off http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/declaration/index.html

29. Challenges • Inertia • Stamina for problem-solving • Learned helplessness • Perseverance despite challenges • Engagement • Teacher capacity

30. Things That Concern Me • Reading comprehension strategies being touted as analysis tools • Surface level understanding of lexile level and text complexity • Instructional decisions based on a perceived lack of resources • Information poor resources • Lack of communication among stakeholders • Hobby teaching that gets repackaged with each iteration • Teacher and administrator stress

31. Resources Baltimore County Schools High School Research Models http://bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html Common Core Lesson Planner http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/ccsslessonplanner.pdf Common Core Video Clips on Vimeohttps://vimeo.com/search?q=common+core+EngageNY Elkton High School Media Center Wiki Self-Serve Screenshots http://ehsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/ScreenshotDirections+-+Public+Library+DB Free Educational Resources from Federal Government http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm Lehman, Katharine B., and Lori E. Donovan. Power Researchers: Transforming Student Library Aides into Action Learners. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011. Library Door Blog by Paige Jaeger http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/06/common-core-carp-diem.html Library of Congress “It’s No Laughing Matter” Political Cartoons http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/politicalcartoon/index.html

32. MD Common Core Curricular Frameworks http://mdk12.org/instruction/commoncore/index.html MSDE Educator Effectiveness Academy Materials http://mdk12.org/instruction/academies/resources_2012/ELA/eea_ela2012.html New York Schools Common Core Resources http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/About/default.htm TED Video http://www.ted.com/talks/beeban_kidron_the_shared_wonder_of_film.html Waters Foundation for Systems Thinking Infographic http://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.habits