Program assessment and planning

This session 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 session will help the participant learn how proactive, collaborative planning based on needs assessments can have a tremendous impact on the support given to media program by teachers, administrators and the community.

Articles by Doug Johnson

• Demonstrating Our Impact - Putting Numbers in Context Part 1 Dec/Jan 2006/07
• Demonstrating Our Impact - Putting Numbers in Context Part 2 March 2007
• Using Planning and Reporting to Build Program Support
• What Gets Measured, Gets Done. Guide for Program Evaluation

12 Point Library/Media Checklist (Read only) (GoogleDoc. Make a copy for your use.)

Teacher Survey on SurveyMonkey

Mankato School Libraries' End of Year Report

Goal/objective setting template

Goal: a broad statement describing a desired condition (Areas for goal setting - add to them!)

Objective: a short term statement describing the result of specific actions

Remember goals and objectives should be "SMART"

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Result-centered

Timebound