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Who Are We

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    1. Who Are We? CB Sellen

    2. What We Are

    3. Four elementary districts One regional high school district Five boards of education Three district economic factor groups Seven professionals 3526 students A Diverse Group

    4. Why Did We Do This??? Kingsway District’s Five Year Evaluation Plan Ensure effective use of resources and materials Recognize the school library media program in each building and district Encourage growth and support at the building and regional levels

    5. Timeline Gloria Horvay

    6. Timeline Year 1 Needs Assessment Year 2 Curriculum Development Year 3 Text Review - Lesson Development Year 4 Implementation Year 5 Evaluation/Revision

    7. Needs Assessment Mary Ellen Malloy

    8. Evaluation Process Needs assessment - Where we are Methods - How we’ll find out Committee review - Where we want to be Needs report - How we’ll get there

    9. Needs Assessment Surveys Community Staff Self Assessment Enrollment & Demographic factors #Students # Staff # Books, Materials # LMC Staff

    10. Community Survey Distributed through each school in selected grades Designed to be read on Scantron cards Carefully worded to NOT include educational jargon Explanatory letter to accompany survey

    11. Community Survey Facilities Materials collection Instruction / Curriculum Special Programs School information Comments

    12. Staff Survey Distributed to all teaching staff Designed to be read on Scantron cards Results indicated staff’s desire to be positive (even if answer wasn’t valid) South Harrison’s staff inadvertently got the community survey and were not re-surveyed

    13. Staff Survey Facilities Materials collection Instruction Comments

    14. Self Assessment Needed to get clear picture of what is actually in each Library Media Center Written to include materials in High School/ Jr. High which would not necessarily be in elementary schools Allowed for comments

    15. Self Assessment Pupil Expenditure Facilities Collection Media Equipment Instructional Access Comments

    16. Final Report Opening Statement Composite listing of Library program strengths/weaknesses Closing Statement Recommendations Appendix

    17. Final Report Tallied surveys community staff Discussed individual self assessments, strengths and weaknesses, Compared similarities and differences Written Re-evaluated and revised

    18. Distributed (finally!) reported at staff meeting to Curriculum supervisors & Administration to BOE

    20. Matrix and Standards Mary Moul

    21. Matrix Developed to incorporate all content areas Instructional goals were divided into 7 broad categories such as: Using materials responsibly, Locating skills, Literature and Media appreciation Broad categories were necessary to accommodate the different needs of the individual schools

    22. Matrix Specific skills were written for each broad goal Grade levels were added when skills would be introduced Skills were generalized to meet needs of the regional school structure

    23. Standards Goals and objectives were developed to meet NJ Core Curriculum Standards AASL (American Association of School Librarians) AECT (Association for Education Communication and Technology) Information Power

    24. Standards Emanations (Newsletter of the Education Media association of NJ Other schools Randolph School District Cherry Hill High School District

    25. Curriculum Mary Moyer

    26. Library Curriculum Philosophy Mission Goals Objectives

    27. Resources Final Report - Kingsway Region Information Power New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards and National Information Literacy Standards

    28. Philosophy / Mission Statement Critical thinking skills, lifelong learning and information literacy Integral part of the educational program Media specialists, administrators, teachers, parents and students as active partners Mission - students and staff become effective users of resources, ideas and information

    29. Instructional Goals 9 overall goals for the curriculum Provides direction for the objectives Broad categories were necessary to accommodate the different needs of individual schools Promotes atmosphere of the LMC as a source of literature, information and resources.

    30. Objectives 5 broad objectives of the LMC program Cover locating and using resources for academic and personal learning Interested in students applying information by analyzing, evaluating, critiquing, and synthesizing Students prepared for the workplace

    31. Activities Myra Gross

    32. Activities Used Library Skills Objectives Matrix Wrote introductory and reinforcement activities for each goal and objective Integrated activities with subject content areas of the school-wide curriculum Linked activities to state and national standards

    33. Implementation -- Conclusion Holly Taylor

    34. Implementation Use matrix, lessons, and activities Meet to revise

    35. Conclusion RCPCs for all teaching departments Release time Invaluable Enjoyable

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