I would like that power point. My supervisor, a former student of
mine, did a ppt in verse that showed each of us and said something
about our particular niche or love about librarianship. When this
poem was put together, it really showed what we ALL do.
Another colleague did a ppt for National Library Week. Both of these
were shared with the Board of Education to educate them about what we
do.
Thanks,
Deb Hendrickson
Deborah J. Hendrickson
Teacher-Librarian & Technology Coordinator
Westernport Elementary School
172 Church Street
Westernport, MD 21562
301-359-0511(phone) 301-359-0411 (fax)
DHendrickson@allconet.org
http://boe.allconet.org/wt/
On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Beth Backus wrote:
> I've been following our conversation thread about the role and
> future of
> libraries and librarians with interest. We had the same concern in my
> district, and last year our group (media specialists from the 18
> schools in
> our district) petitioned our superintendent requesting ten minutes
> to speak
> to all of our administrators at their first fall meeting (this
> including all
> central admin people and all building principals and assistant
> principals).
> We came up with the presentation, “Why Care about School
> Libraries?” that
> gave them evidence from various studies that “school libraries are
> critical
> for student achievement.”
>
>
>
> We cited a 2005 Illinois study that listed the following as key
> components
> as they correlate to higher test scores across all grade levels:
> “Flexible
> scheduling, Fully staffed, Larger collections, Well funded,
> Educational
> technology.” We also talked about a 2007 Indiana study whose findings
> indicated, across all grade levels, schools tended to perform
> better on
> ISTEP tests where there were “Better staffed, Better stocked, and
> Better
> funded libraries,” and across all grade levels, schools also
> performed
> better whose “principals valued flexible scheduling of the library,
> regular
> meetings between the principal and library media specialist
> occurred, and
> collaboration was practiced between the library media specialist and
> classroom teachers.”
>
>
>
> We went on to talk about the importance of collaboration with
> teachers, the
> kinds of work we do with students, information literacy,
> correlation with
> state academic and information literacy standards and so on. The
> bottom
> line is that the four of us who presented the information
> (representing our
> four types of schools (K-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12), tried to get
> across to all
> our administrators together who we are and what we can do for our
> schools.
> We developed a polished, concisely written set of PowerPoint slides
> that
> stressed what we were saying. I think we “wowed” them; they asked
> good
> questions in that meeting and once we were back in our schools.
>
>
>
> I’d be happy to share our notes and the PowerPoint we developed
> with any who
> would like to adapt them for your own use. Please email me directly.
>
>
>
> Beth Backus
>
> Retired School Library Media Specialist, June 2008
>
> Hamilton Southeastern Junior High School
>
> Fishers, IN
>
> 35 years in education
>
> bbackus1@att.net
>
>
>
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