AASL 2013: Clearing the Bar
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Month Day Year Clearing the Bar for School Librarian Best Practice Highly Effective School Library Programs
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Describes Colorado's "highly Effective School Library Program" and how to write a measurable growth plan
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Month Day Year
Clearing the Bar for School Librarian Best Practice
Highly Effective School Library Programs
Evidence Outcomes
Components/concepts of the program
Essentialness of leadership
Evaluate/begin school-aligned growth plan
Leadership Is a Key Focus
What is one thing you do that helps youto be recognized as aleader in your school?
Shift to Leadership is Essential
Highly Effective School Libraries (HESL)
Multiple Possibilities
• Evaluating you and your program
• Professional Development
• Award – CDE Recognition
• Raise awareness and change perceptions
I. Evaluation of You/Your Program
Assess collaboratively with your principal
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• Use the Evaluation Rubric to assess your program.
• Select 2 or 3 areas for improvement and formulate these into school-aligned goals.
• Use these goals to fill out the Growth Plan and upload on the HESLP wiki
II. Professional Development
• Final product that shows measurable evidence of how you met your goals
• Principal commits to 8 hour release time, and gets wiki link of outcomes
• Personalized professional growth in 2-3 rubric areas with help of your peers
• Develop a school-UIP aligned Growth Plan and upload to wiki
III. Recognition
Rigorous Process with Higher Rewards
CDE Commissioner
• Your school-aligned “Growth Plan”
• A link to your library website
• Multimedia Presentation (3 minutes)
• Two letters of recommendation (one from principal or direct supervisor)
Key Ingredients
Risk-Taking Leader Persistent Collaborator
Shift in perception among TL’s/Non-TL’s
Instructional/Digital Literacy Coach
Components/concepts of the program
Essentialness of leadership
Evaluate/begin school-aligned growth plan
Evidence Outcomes of Today
Becky Russell, MLIS |School Library/Digital Literacy Content Specialist | Colorado Department of Education | 303.866.6772 | [email protected] | [email protected] |http://tinyurl.com/COSchoolLibraries | @beckyjorussell
Judy Barnett| Highly Eff ective School Library
Coordinator | Colorado Department of Education | 719.964.5352 | [email protected] |highlyeff ectiveschoollibraryprogram.wikispaces.com
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