A 21st Century Library Program - As We See It!! Susan E. Kell PSLA Conference West Shore School District May 2, 2009

I believe  Information literacy is an essential part of each child’s educational program  Each school must have a library filled with up-to-date books and other materials  Each student must have equal access to their school library

I believe  Students need to learn about copyright, but their teachers really need to learn about copyright  We must all practice the ethical use of information and provide students with the proper resources for their projects

I believe  Librarians need teaching materials the same as any other educator in the school  Librarians need a well-designed curriculum that provides them a road map of the skills they need to teach students

I believe  The best way for students to practice using information-seeking skills is through collaborative research projects that are planned and executed by both the classroom teacher and the librarian

I am fortunate  To work in a district that employs twelve librarians and seven library support staff members  To have the responsibility of supporting the librarians in my district  To have the ear of the central office administration in my district  To have a superintendent who strongly supports libraries

Our Library Team  High School Librarians  John Lorigan, Christine Metcalfe, Deb Phillips  Middle School Librarians  Barb Chestnut, Becky Cotich, Kelly Guistwhite, Missi St. Cyr  Elementary School Librarians  Jessica Devine, Mona Kreitzer, Christine Lancaster, Nancy Persing, Tina Wech

The Very Beginning  Curriculum Design Cycle  Seven Year Cycle  Two Years for Rewrite  One Year for Textbook Review and Adoption  One Year for Textbook Implementation  One Year for Curriculum Review and Monitoring  One Year for Pilot Projects and Assessment  One Year for Research

Our Challenge  Backmap the Existing Library Curriculum to Pennsylvania Standards  Develop a Scope and Sequence  Write a New Curriculum  Implement Learning Focused Schools  Develop KUDs  Develop Units and Lessons

Getting Started  Learn About Backmapping  Become Familiar with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening  Become Familiar with National Standards for NETS-S from ISTE and AASL’s Standard’s for the 21st Century Learner

Getting Started  Review High-Quality Library Curricula  Ephrata Area School District  West Chester Area School District  San Diego Unified School District  Baltimore City Public School System

What We Learned  A curriculum is required by the State, but it doesn’t provide a road map for teaching  Getting everyone to agree on ANYthing is very difficult  Someone needs to be the decision maker  Change is difficult

The Important Stuff: Housekeeping Tasks  Someone needs to post the work that is being done by the committee  Someone needs to be the proofreader  Someone needs to keep a master copy of every document that is created or revised  Someone needs to keep work that is done at each stage of the rewrite (consider using Google Docs)

Critical Decisions  What the instructional priorities are at each grade level  Which research model will be taught to students (Super3 and Big6 in our District)  Which bibliographic standard will be used and how will it be implemented (MLA and Citation Maker in our District)

Getting it Done  Work in groups  Set deadlines  Have a clear plan  Always think ahead to the next phase  There must be a “good enough” point  Nothing is forever - we continually plan to tweak and revise

Making the Road Map  We created a scope and sequence modeled on the best examples we found  We backmapped the scope and sequence to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening  We created curriculum maps for each elementary grade  We need to add the AASL Information Literacy Standards and NETS-S

Teaching Materials  Online Databases  Reference Materials  Periodicals  Literature  eBooks  Digital Multimedia

Teaching Material Essentials  Buy the same materials for each school at the same level (elementary, middle, high school)  Decide on a refresh schedule  Share materials that already are available locally (Atlases, Dictionaries, Thesauri)  Make administrators aware of the materials that are used in the library for instruction

Essential Materials for Students   Online databases  eBooks  Royalty-free music  Digital images  Digital video  Access to Web 2.0 tools  Online curriculum materials

Where We Are Today  Our administrators know what we must teach to students  We are proud of our library program  We all know what we must teach to students  We know there is always room for improvement

Curriculum Maps and Scope and Sequence Online  Workshop-2009-Curriculum?unlock=true Workshop-2009-Curriculum?unlock=true