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School Librarians
PSA
Advocacy
PSA 1
Fact 1:
School librarians in the Hawaii DOE must be licensed teachers. School librarians must have successfully completed a master's degree in Library and
Information Science (LIS).
PSA 2
Fact 2:
School librarians teach students LIFE skills to succeed in their class work and, more importantly, to succeed as future citizens in a changing workplace. Some examples of
what they teach:* Finding information in sources ranging from books to the Internet
* Evaluating what is true and accurate in all types of resources* Realizing that Google is not the only game in town
* Using a variety of tech tools such as Inspiration, KidPix, PowerPoint, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and HyperStudio.
Who needs a
School Librarian?
Have you ever looked
But never found what you needed?
Frustration
Wasted time and effort
I finally found it!!
….apply scanning tunneling microscopy to laterally nanostructured materials obtained by using SPM-based nanofabrication based on strong mechanical electronical interaction between probe tip and..
So what?
I don’t understand it
School Librarians ensures age and content
appropriate resourcesare available to
your child at school
PSA 3
Fact 3:
School librarians work side by side with their teachers. By doing this, they:* Provide the busy teacher with resource materials beyond what is available in the
classroom* Mentor new teachers
* Team teach* Create lessons that the teacher may not be able to provide
School librarians collaborate with teachers in over 3,000 planning sessions a week(<--2000 stats)in our 259 school libraries. This averages almost 12 meetings per week (<--
2000 stats)in every school. These meeting often take place before and after school as well as during lunch hours.
PSA 4
Love of reading
Fact 4:
Classroom teachers teach students how to read. While school librarians also reinforce reading skills, they also
motivate in students a love of reading. Students borrow over 1,440 books daily, (______ books a month) from
259 school libraries. This averages about ______ books a month per student.
PSA 5
School Librarians teach
School librarian teach an average of 4 lessons a day in the 259 school libraries.
They align all of their lessons directly with the
DOE General Learner Outcomes and the
Hawaii Content and Performance Standards.
They work with all grade levels and all curriculum areas in their respective schools.
PSA 6
A wealth of knowledge
School librarians handle over 2,300 information reference questions (<--2000 stats) in any given week in 259 libraries
. This help can range from finding necessary resources for a busy teacher to helping a student find materials for a
research assignment.
PSA 7
School Librarians are
Nationally Certified Teachers15 school librarians have successfully gone through the rigorous review process for
National Board Certification for Teachers. Seven of them were among the first cohort of librarians in the nation to
receive this distinction.
(above figure provided by Julie: list on http://www.nbpts.org/nbct/director2.cfm)
PSA 8
School Librarians
impact student achievement
Students in 16 states have shown consistent and positive correlations between academic achievement and strong school library programs administered by licensed professional librarians. The impact of the library programs could not be explained
away by such school conditions as teacher-pupil ratio, per pupil spending and teacher characteristics.
PSA 9
School librarians are often school leaders. They assume leadership duties as chairing curriculum committee, leading and coordinating curriculum mapping, heading
accreditation review teams, serving on technology training cadres, mentoring new teachers, and coordinating reading incentive programs.
PSA 10
Impact of Weighted Student
Formula
Hey mom….hey dad…
“I need a book on purple dinosaurs To finish my homework tonight...”
Why didn’t you get a book
at school?
I went to my school library - it was closed.
Our library is open only ½ time now due to Weighted Student Formula Budget cuts
And we lost our school librarian…who’s going to help me now?
Did you know that
• In 8 schools, children have lost their school librarian for the school year 2006-7
• In 14 schools, children will have access and help from their school librarian for only ½ the day?
And this is only the first year …
•Many school budgets were cut by 10% for school year 2006-07
•Budget cuts of ___% will be implemented for school year 2007-08
•Budget cuts of ___% will be implemented for school year 2008-09
Will our schools survive?
What will be left for our children?
Act 51’s Weighted student Formula has
• Cut essential funding for educational services that are available to our children
• Schools are losing– Librarians– Counselors– Elective courses
Do you know what your child’s school has lost due to the
Weighted Student Formula?
PSA 3
Curriculum mapping
HCPS III
Scaffolding
Do you know what these terms mean?
Do you what to do with this?
Your child’s school librarian does.
He/she teaches this to your child every day at school
PSA 4
School Librarians
offer…
Tailored book collections and websites to…
specific curriculum needs of students
PSA 5
Others can fill the
school librarians job…
Ever lose a position due to budget cuts?
Who picks up the slack?
Where does the ‘extra’ work go?
We all have full plates
“Others” in the school have the
knowledge, time and energy to
ensure collections
contain accurate,
reliable resources?
Will others take turns to keep the library open
• Before school
• Recess• Lunch
• After school
Or will your child’s school library be closed during these times?
Who will remove outdated material from the library?
PSA 6
Proposal for
PTT’s and EA’s to cover the
library
PTTs and EA’s can
Check in and check out books
Shelve books
PTT’s and EA’s
Surf Internet
• use it effectively and critically as a research tool?
• 0 or 10,000 search results
Teachers & Parents
45 hour course
University of Hawaii
to effectively teach
basic database searching
The other option…
Library closed
Who will select what your child reads?
volunteer…..
different agenda
Volunteer….
beliefs….
religion….
lifestyle
Intellectual freedomAmerican Library Association
seek and receive information from all points of view
all expressions of ideas
Quality reading material and information
Hawaii DOE Standards
“Students have access to a variety of
information….the collection is well
balanced…”
Would you shop at a store…
• That has no sales clerks?
• Business
• no people
• Hospital
• No doctors
a classroom…
that has
no teacher
A library is …
A classroom
A librarian is a teacher
So why send you child
To an empty library?
Library Media Program
It is part of the main course
Not the butter on the bread
Back to our single question.
Should we have a
Librarian Media Specialist?
Beyond Technology Questioning, Research and the Information
Literate School
By Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D.
Copyright:2000
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Essential ?
How do we cope …with a shrinking budget?
What does it mean to be ….a school with no librarian?
What kind of people …. shall our children be?
Subsidiary ?
Take essential questions
break down into small questions
provide insight
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- Essential question –
Do we have a school where our children have no access to a school librarian media specialist?
-Subsidiary ?.-Potential benefits
-Obstacles to overcome
-Available resources?
-Who is involved?
Potential Benefits
Savings pennies
But at the cost of losing ….
Our children’s literacy?
Subsidiary ?
• Neil K. Duke
Mean of 3.6 minutes per day spent reading in 1st grade class room
– Reading Research Quarterly 35 (2000)
Anne McGill-Franzon
“Simply providing teachers with a generous supply of children’s books had little effect on the educational outcomes of students”
“Putting Books in the Classroom Seems Necessary But not Sufficient.” The Journal of Educaiton Research 1993 (2) 67-74
Stephen Krashen (5):
Literacy is a problem to throw money at
…pour money into library books
…Make sure they get read
Potential Benefits
100 years of research
Free voluntary reading - lots of it
Best predictor of 7 essential achievement basics:• Comprehension, spelling, grammar, vocabulary
• Writing style, verbal fluency, general knowledge
Subsidiary ?
National Assessment of Educational Progress 2000US Federal Government
Hypothetical ?
Suppose….What if…
What’s the worst / best that might happen?
3
Worst that could happen..
Children go to the library less
read less
Children’s books = 50% more rare words than adult prime-time TVLoertscher, David. Reinventing Your School’s Library in the Age of Technology 2002
Best that could happenKeeping a Librarian Media Specialist:
– Avid readers
– Strong research skills
– Positive impact on raising students’ achievements
– Teachers have a collaboration partner
Ontario School Library Association 2002
Hypothetical
Best that could happen
Children – can read
Students - Information literate
Employees - Problem-solve and propose solutions
Hypothetical
Telling ?
Precise, quantifiable
Percentages %
Statistics
Improve student achievement
Achieve standardized test scores
15% – 20% higher than schools
without a library media specialist(1)
• Ontario School Library Association
National Education Association
Task force on Reading
2000
14 states can’t be wrong
Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed
Alaska (1999)Students with a full-time librarian – twice as
likely as those without librarians to score average or above average on the California Achievement Tests
The more often students received library /information literacy instruction from library media specialists, the higher their reading test scores
Lance, Keith Curry. Information Empowered: The School Librarian as an Agent of Academic Achievement in Alaska Schools. Alaska State Library 1999
Minnesota 2003
in grades 3, 5, 8 - above-average reading tests scores
66.8% students came from schools with a full-time library media specialist
Telling ?
Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed
Consistant results (6)
• Full time certified Library Media specialist
• High Reading Test scores
– Iowa (2002) Missouri (2003)– Colorado (2000) New Mexico (2002)– Massachusetts (2002) North Carolina (2003)– Michigan (2003) Oregon (2001)– Florida (2002) Pennsylvania (2000)– Texas (2001)
Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed
Also discovered…
large collection of reading material in the school library ….
is NOT enough to generate high academic achievement by students
increase reading scores…Staffed with qualified school librarians
Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed
Planning ?
Which search tool or index will speed the discovery process?
Which medium will provide the most reliable and relevant information with optimal efficiency?
Is it backed by solid evidence and sound thinking?
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Internet
Clarification ?
Mountain of information
block
rather than promote understanding
Internet Quality Control
cesspool of waste
Strategic ?
American Library Association
Info-glut and data smog
Pertinent and useful
Opinions vs facts
Reliable from the unreliable
Beyond Technology – Jamie McKenzie
Internet Quality Control
Doesn’t Exist
Race relations from Klan sites
Strategic ?
American Library Association
Who’s going to help your child
Recognize
propaganda,
bias
distortion
Beyond Technology – Jamie McKenzie
Why the Internet is no substitute for a librarian
1) Not Everything Is on the Internet
over one billion Web pages
only about 8% of all journals are on the Web, and an even smaller fraction of books are there
very few substantive materials on the Internet are free..
Strategic ?
American Library Association
Internet vs Librarian
• Internet searches limited
– Here are 10 articles on Native Americans. We have 40 others but we’re not going to let you see them
– Need to go through several search engines
Strategic ?
American Library Association
States Can Now Buy One Book and Distribute to Every Library on the
WebVendors delivering e-books allow only one
digitized copy per library.
If you check out an e-book over the Web, I can’t have it until you return it.
if you’re late getting the book back, it’s charged to your credit card automatically
Strategic ?
American Library Association
Virtual electronic library
• California Polytechnic State University
• World’s highest concentration of engineers and computer geeks,
• explored the possibility for two years.
• Their solution?
• traditional library with a strong digital Media Librarian
Strategic ?
American Library Association
Only need what’s writing in the past 15 years?
• Internet - Scholarly material 15 years old
• Vendors offering magazine access routinely add a new year while dropping an earlier one.
Internet
It is not a librarian teacher
tool
Clarification ?
• What does ‘temporary’ mean?
• How was the case developed for eliminating a position?
• Who made this suggestion?
• Based on what data?
• What have other’s tried before?
• What worked and didn’t work?
Strategic Questions
Why are charter Schools Lagging?
• ... "Almost no charter school employs librarians or media specialists,“
Howard Nelson, senior associate director of the American Federation of Teachers
10/1/2004 -- School Library Journal
Organizing ?
-Power Point–KidPix
–HyperStudio
–iMovie
–Page Maker
Is this good enough?
Probing ?
never satisfied - enough to get by
never stop investigating
Desmond Morris
Probing ?
Convergence of
• Logic * Prior knowledge
Trial-and-error
Take raw data…..
Information
insight
Deep thinkers
Translate
infer
apply what is learned
Sorting and sifting ?
What’s worth keeping?
Student
Questions& wonders
Consumes& absorbs
Think& create
Summarize& conclude
communicate
Reflect Find &sort
Reinventing Your School’s Library (3)
Strategic Questions
What do you do next?
Perfect opportunity
Fight to keep librarian media specialist for your children in our schools
Work together to help raise funds
Look to the future….Expand library staffing after school
Unanswerable
How would life be different if…
How will you be remembered?
Whatever the cost of our libraries,
the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
-- Walter Cronkite, broadcaster
Bibliography
1) Ontario School Library Association, www.accessola.com/osla/osla_home.htm 2002
2) McKenzie, Jamie, Ed.D. Beyond Technology: questioning, Research and the Information Literate School FNO Press, Bellingham, WA, 2002
3) Loertscher, David. Reinventing Your School’s Library in the Age of Technology Hi Willo Research and Publishing c 2002
4) U.S. Federal Government, National Assessment of Educational Progress, c 2000 Accessed on the Internet at: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ on Nov. 19, 2004
5) Krashen, Stephen. The Power of Reading Libraries Unlimited, 19936) Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed on the
Internet at: http://www.scholastic.com/librarians/printables/slp_rfp_804.pdf on 19 Nov. 2004
7) Clip Art from MicroSoft Power Point