All Aboard! Plan and Report to Build Library Support

Program assessments generally cause far too much stress for school library media specialists. This workshop will help the participant develop and use effective program evaluations that are NOT long and tortuous and that truly help increase budgets, improve working conditions, and make the library media program essential to student learning.

The second part of the workshop will help the participant learn how proactive, collaborative planning and reporting efforts based on needs assessments can have a tremendous impact on the support given to media program by teachers, administrators and the community.

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Back Channel

• Soapbox for this workshop. (Add your concerns!)

Activities and resources:

• Creating Long Term Change
• Assessing and Planning
• Developing a Communications Plan

Articles by Doug Johnson

• Advisory Advice
• Collaboration and Reflection
• Demonstrating Our Impact - Putting Numbers in Context Part 1 Dec/Jan 2006/07
• Demonstrating Our Impact - Putting Numbers in Context Part 2 March 2007
• No Principal Left Behind
• Rules of Advocacy, 2012
• Starting Off on the Right Foot, May/June 2009
• Trick Question (about the impact of libraries on student achievement), Feb 2007
• Using Planning and Reporting to Build Program Support
• What Gets Measured, Gets Done. Guide for Program Evaluation
• A Few Words About Collaboration

Additional Resources

• AASL Advocacy brochures <http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/brochures/advocacybrochures.cfm>
• AASL Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, 2009.
• AASL A Planning Guide for Empowering Learners,
• Calling all Parents.pdf
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• Colorado Department of Public Education "Highly Effective School Library Programs: Power Libraries for All", 2011
• Krashen, Stephen. Power of Reading 2nd ed., Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
• Loertscher, David V. Reinvent Your School’s Library in the Age of Technology: A Guide for Principals and Superintendents. San Jose, CA: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 1998.
• MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs, 2000
  • MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs (Intro)
  • MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs (Elements)
  • MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs (Checklist)
  • MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs (Bibliography)
• School Library Program Evaluation guidelines. NYSED
• School Library Research Summarized, Mansfield University, 2013
• School Libraries Work Scholastic, 2008 version
• Zmuda, Allison. The End of an Era…Falling Off a Cliff http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Zmuda2010-v27n1p5.html

MEMO Video: Building Skill for Tomorrow: Minnesota School Library Programs Make a Difference, 2001

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