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Improving Student Achievement in SSD

Improving Student Achievement in SSD. Peter G. Mohn Glacier Peak High School Snohomish, WA peter.mohn@sno.wednet.edu. Question?. If you could significantly improve student achievement in our district would you?. Library Research Results. Colorado Studies, 1993; 1999 Alaska Study, 1999

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Improving Student Achievement in SSD

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  1. Improving Student Achievement in SSD Peter G. Mohn Glacier Peak High School Snohomish, WA peter.mohn@sno.wednet.edu

  2. Question? • If you could significantly improve student achievement in our district would you?

  3. Library Research Results • Colorado Studies, 1993; 1999 • Alaska Study, 1999 • Pennsylvania Study, 1999 • Oregon, New Mexico & Texas, 2000 & 2001 • The total is now 20 state-wide studies

  4. Library Research - Colorado • The size of a library media center’s staff and collection is the best school predictor of ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, whether their schools & communities are rich or poor and whether adults in the community are well or poorly educated.

  5. Library Research - Colorado • Five sets of predictors of academic achievement were yielded by the second Colorado study. • Library media program development • Leadership of the LMS • Collaboration of LMS and staff • Technology Integration of LMC materials • Flexible Scheduling

  6. Library Research - Alaska • Five major predictors of academic achievement • Level of LMS staffing • Time spent by LMSs • Delivering information literacy to students • Planning with teachers • Providing staff in-service training • Collection Development Policy • Potential Internet connectivity • Relationship with public libraries

  7. Library Research - Pennsylvania • Five major predictors of Academic Achievement • Presence of both LMSs and support staff • Level of library expenditures • Presence of rich collections of print and electronic information sources • Extent to which technology is utilized to extend the LMCs reach into the classroom • Extent in which information literacy is integrated in the school’s standards and curriculum

  8. Key Common Findings • LMSs can and do exert a positive and significant effect on ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT • Principal support & teacher collaboration are critical to making the LM program integral • For LMSs to be pivotal players, support staff are essential • The LMS is a teacher of students & staff • LM programs that contribute most strongly are those with technology

  9. What we do well in our District • Full-time LMSs in all but one school • Librarians being asked to serve on District curriculum and technology committees • LMCs are automated • Access to ProQuest and other premium dBs • Students have access to library materials from home

  10. Long Term Solutions • Restore full time library EAs in secondary LMCs • Improve library budgets that have lost purchasing power to inflation over the last 15 years • Flexible schedules for elementary librarians • Implement a K-12 Information Literacy program tied to state Common Core Standards • Greatly expand the number of computer workstations in school libraries • Expand Internet library resources into classrooms and, if possible, to homes

  11. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning … Because Student Achievement IS THE BOTTOM LINE

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