2. Who Are We? CB Sellen

3. What We Are

4. 4 Four elementary districts 4 One regional high school district 4 Five boards of education 4 Three district economic factor groups 4 Seven professionals 4 3526 students A Diverse Group

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

6. Timeline Gloria Horvay

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

8. Needs Assessment Mary Ellen Malloy

9. Evaluation Process 4 Needs assessment - Where we are 4 Methods - How we’ll find out 4 Committee review - Where we want to be 4 Needs report - How we’ll get there

10. Needs Assessment 4 Surveys –Community –Staff –Self Assessment 4 Enrollment & Demographic factors –#Students –# Staff –# Books, Materials –# LMC Staff

11. Community Survey 4 Distributed through each school in selected grades 4 Designed to be read on Scantron cards 4 Carefully worded to NOT include educational jargon 4 Explanatory letter to accompany survey

12. Community Survey 4 Facilities 4 Materials collection 4 Instruction / Curriculum 4 Special Programs 4 School information 4 Comments

13. Staff Survey 4 Distributed to all teaching staff 4 Designed to be read on Scantron cards 4 Results indicated staff’s desire to be positive (even if answer wasn’t valid) 4 South Harrison’s staff inadvertently got the community survey and were not re- surveyed

14. Staff Survey 4 Facilities 4 Materials collection 4 Instruction 4 Comments

15. Self Assessment 4 Needed to get clear picture of what is actually in each Library Media Center 4 Written to include materials in High School/ Jr. High which would not necessarily be in elementary schools 4 Allowed for comments

16. Self Assessment 4 Pupil Expenditure 4 Facilities 4 Collection 4 Media Equipment 4 Instructional Access 4 Comments

17. Final Report 4 Opening Statement 4 Composite listing of Library program strengths/weaknesses 4 Closing Statement 4 Recommendations 4 Appendix

18. Final Report 4 Tallied surveys –community –staff 4 Discussed individual self assessments, strengths and weaknesses, 4 Compared similarities and differences 4 Written 4 Re-evaluated and revised

19. 4 Distributed (finally!) –reported at staff meeting –to Curriculum supervisors & Administration –to BOE

21. Matrix and Standards Mary Moul

22. Matrix 4 Developed to incorporate all content areas 4 Instructional goals were divided into 7 broad categories such as: Using materials responsibly, Locating skills, Literature and Media appreciation 4 Broad categories were necessary to accommodate the different needs of the individual schools

23. Matrix 4 Specific skills were written for each broad goal 4 Grade levels were added when skills would be introduced 4 Skills were generalized to meet needs of the regional school structure

24. Standards 4 Goals and objectives were developed to meet NJ Core Curriculum Standards 4 AASL (American Association of School Librarians) 4 AECT (Association for Education Communication and Technology) 4 Information Power

25. Standards 4 Emanations (Newsletter of the Education Media association of NJ 4 Other schools 4 Randolph School District 4 Cherry Hill High School District

26. Curriculum Mary Moyer

27. Library Curriculum 4 Philosophy 4 Mission 4 Goals 4 Objectives

28. Resources 4 Final Report - Kingsway Region 4 Information Power 4 New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards and National Information Literacy Standards

29. Philosophy / Mission Statement 4 Critical thinking skills, lifelong learning and information literacy 4 Integral part of the educational program 4 Media specialists, administrators, teachers, parents and students as active partners 4 Mission - students and staff become effective users of resources, ideas and information

30. Instructional Goals 4 9 overall goals for the curriculum 4 Provides direction for the objectives 4 Broad categories were necessary to accommodate the different needs of individual schools 4 Promotes atmosphere of the LMC as a source of literature, information and resources.

31. Objectives 4 5 broad objectives of the LMC program 4 Cover locating and using resources for academic and personal learning 4 Interested in students applying information by analyzing, evaluating, critiquing, and synthesizing 4 Students prepared for the workplace

32. Activities Myra Gross

33. Activities 4 Used Library Skills Objectives Matrix 4 Wrote introductory and reinforcement activities for each goal and objective 4 Integrated activities with subject content areas of the school-wide curriculum 4 Linked activities to state and national standards

34. Implementation -- Conclusion Holly Taylor

35. Implementation 4 Use matrix, lessons, and activities 4 Meet to revise

36. Conclusion 4 RCPCs for all teaching departments 4 Release time 4 Invaluable 4 Enjoyable