Who Are We?

CB Sellen

What We Are

District Grades Factor StudentsEast Greenwich K-6 FG 520South Harrison K-6 DE 228Swedesboro-Woolwich K-6 B 540Logan K-8 FG 950Kingsway Regional 7*12 DE 1288

Four elementary districts One regional high school

district Five boards of education Three district economic

factor groups Seven professionals 3526 students

A Diverse Group

Students pe r d is trictF GK -6E as t G reenwich

D EK -6S outh Harrison

BK -6S w edesboro -W oo lwich

F GK -8Log an

D E7*12K ings wayR eg ional

Why Did We Do This???

Kingsway District’s Five Year Evaluation Plan

Ensure effective use of resources and materials

Recognize the school library media program in each building and district

Encourage growth and support at the building and regional levels

Timeline

Gloria Horvay

Timeline

Year 1 Needs Assessment Year 2 Curriculum Development Year 3 Text Review - Lesson Development Year 4 Implementation Year 5 Evaluation/Revision

Needs Assessment

Mary Ellen Malloy

Evaluation Process

Needs assessment - Where we are Methods - How we’ll find out Committee review - Where we want to be Needs report - How we’ll get there

Needs Assessment

Surveys– Community

– Staff

– Self Assessment

Enrollment & Demographic factors– #Students

– # Staff

– # Books, Materials

– # LMC Staff

Community Survey

Distributed through each school in selected grades

Designed to be read on Scantron cards Carefully worded to NOT include

educational jargon Explanatory letter to accompany survey

Community Survey

Facilities Materials collection Instruction / Curriculum Special Programs School information Comments

Staff Survey

Distributed to all teaching staff Designed to be read on Scantron cards Results indicated staff’s desire to be

positive (even if answer wasn’t valid) South Harrison’s staff inadvertently got the

community survey and were not re-surveyed

Staff Survey

Facilities Materials collection Instruction Comments

Self Assessment

Needed to get clear picture of what is actually in each Library Media Center

Written to include materials in High School/ Jr. High which would not necessarily be in elementary schools

Allowed for comments

Self Assessment

Pupil Expenditure Facilities Collection Media Equipment Instructional Access Comments

Final Report

Opening Statement Composite listing of Library program

strengths/weaknesses Closing Statement Recommendations Appendix

Final Report

Tallied surveys– community– staff

Discussed individual self assessments, strengths and weaknesses,

Compared similarities and differences Written Re-evaluated and revised

Distributed (finally!)– reported at staff meeting– to Curriculum supervisors & Administration– to BOE

Matrix and Standards

Mary Moul

Matrix

Developed to incorporate all content areas Instructional goals were divided into 7

broad categories such as: Using materials responsibly, Locating skills, Literature and Media appreciation

Broad categories were necessary to accommodate the different needs of the individual schools

Matrix

Specific skills were written for each broad goal

Grade levels were added when skills would be introduced

Skills were generalized to meet needs of the regional school structure

Standards

Goals and objectives were developed to meet NJ Core Curriculum Standards

AASL (American Association of School Librarians)

AECT (Association for Education Communication and Technology)

Information Power

Standards

Emanations (Newsletter of the Education Media association of NJ

Other schools Randolph School District Cherry Hill High School District

Curriculum

Mary Moyer

Library Curriculum

Philosophy

Mission

Goals

Objectives

Resources

Final Report - Kingsway Region

Information Power

New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards and National Information Literacy Standards

Philosophy / Mission Statement

Critical thinking skills, lifelong learning and information literacy

Integral part of the educational program Media specialists, administrators, teachers,

parents and students as active partners Mission - students and staff become effective

users of resources, ideas and information

Instructional Goals

9 overall goals for the curriculum Provides direction for the objectives Broad categories were necessary to

accommodate the different needs of individual schools

Promotes atmosphere of the LMC as a source of literature, information and resources.

Objectives

5 broad objectives of the LMC program Cover locating and using resources for

academic and personal learning Interested in students applying information

by analyzing, evaluating, critiquing, and synthesizing

Students prepared for the workplace

Activities

Myra Gross

Activities

Used Library Skills Objectives Matrix Wrote introductory and reinforcement

activities for each goal and objective Integrated activities with subject content

areas of the school-wide curriculum Linked activities to state and national

standards

Implementation -- Conclusion

Holly Taylor

Implementation

Use matrix, lessons, and activities Meet to revise

Conclusion

RCPCs for all teaching departments Release time Invaluable Enjoyable