Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Current Practices:

• Subscriptions to online databases

  • • PebbleGo

    • Culturegrams

    • Newsela

    • Badgerlink Resources

    • BrainPop & BrainPop Jr

    • ProQuest/Sirs

    • Tumblebooks

    • Discovery Education

    • Breakout Edu

    • Book Creator

    • FactCite

    • WSDLC Overdrive/Sora

    • New York Times All Access

  • Membership to the WSDLC - digital books for grades K-6, 7-8 and 9-12

  • Destiny Collections created when teachers reach out with a research need

Possible Areas for Growth:

• Collect data annually about digital resource usage

• Create a comprehensive roadmap that outlines the development of technology skills, digital citizenship, and research skills for students 

• Collaborate with the Technology Director on adding Library How To videos to a central online space for teachers and students

• Collaborate with the Technology Department on allowing single sign on for software that supports that technology.

• Continue to collaborate with the Technology Department and Curriculum Department on databases and trainings

• Work on creating more Collections in Destiny and teaching teachers and students how to use them

• Promote free resources such as Badgerlink and WISELearn 

Current Practices:

• Pull curricular materials for classroom teachers

• Collaborate with grade levels on SEL book resources for students

• Collaborate with teachers to provide resources, instruction and technology support

• Support teachers by teaching Digital Citizenship and robotics in the classroom when requested

• Monthly book recommendation

• Quarterly meetings with middle school ELA teachers to support their curriculum

• Purchase middle school book room books for GMS/HMS with building funds using LMC vendors for better pricing

  • Pockets of training occur for students and teachers for online resources

  • Member of  the HASD Artificial Intelligence Team

Possible Areas for Growth:

• Collaborate with grade levels and the curriculum director to put research skills/process in place for grades K-4

• Collaborate with grade levels and the curriculum director to put research Digital Citizenship Skills in place for grades K-4

  • Topics to incorporate:

    • media balance & well being

    • privacy & security

    • Digital Footprint & Identity

    • Relationships & Communication

    • Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech

    • News & Media Literacy

• Book talks - that will engage students and expand their view of the world

• Teach students how to access and use the reading materials by co-teaching in the classroom and by creating an online library of how-to videos

• Collaborate with curriculum director, literacy coaches and teachers using the Benchmark Advance curriculum to see where the library can support the curriculum 

Current Practices:

• Offer Breakout EDU kits as a creative way to build problem-solving skills

• HES is teaching monthly makerspace lessons that tie into school goals and 4th grade learning targets

• HES is offers independent makerspace time to 3rd grade students

• HES offers makerspace activities to various grade levels through the year using the estimation station for class selection

Possible Areas for Growth:

• Add Makerspace lessons to GES, NGES, HMS and GMS over the next 3 years

• Find other creation tools for younger grades to use

• Create presentation material for students teaching the use of our online databases

• Work with teachers to bring STEAM to all students through makerspace activities in the LMC and/or the classroom