"Growing Innovators, Building Community, Connecting Globally"
This is my mantra, my attempt to concisely capture all that I want our library program to be for our students and teachers. This mantra stems from our goals for instruction, programing and professional development, and I would like to use them as the base for gathering evidence to speak to the success of the high school library program. These are big ideas and goals, and I am continuing to work through specific, concrete methods for identifying and gathering evidence. I have started by breaking each of these big ideas into concrete goals for this school year:
Growing Innovators:
Growing Innovators:
- Continue to develop inquiry skills in our students.
- Identify and gather meaningful data in our library program.
- Implement a badging system in the MakerSpace.
Building Community:
- Move forward on the redesign of our library learning commons.
- Create and work with a library advisory club
- Increase promotion of literacy
Connecting Globally:
- Begin to infuse lessons with design thinking concepts.
- Build authentic audiences
- Invite in real world voices
In order to move forward with gathering evidence, and not becoming overwhelmed at the enormity that this task could become, I have developed a few steps I can take immediately within each element of my vision. As I am gathering evidence I also want to be aware of ways that I can share this information with stakeholders, so this is also outlined in the chart below.
Goals
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Evidence Gathering
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Sharing Strategies
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Growing Innovators
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Continue to develop inquiry skills in our students.
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Identifying benchmark lessons/ inquiry skills at different grade levels to identify "holes" in the implementation of our WISER inquiry curriculum.
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Teachers:
Newsletter
Blog
PD opportunities
Infographics
Administration:
Student Achievement
Connection- Infographic
Strategic Planning
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Implement a badging system in the MakerSpace.
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Participation numbers in the MakerSpace
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Students:
Social Media
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Building Community
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Create and work with a library advisory club
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Numbers participating in library programs... though I also want to capture quality participation and not only quantitative data on this topic.
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Students:
Survey
Social Media Presence
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Increase promotion of literacy
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Literacy Promotion ---- Book Checkout (Do the books I promote/ display/ booktalk get checked out at a higher rate than other titles?)
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Students:
Displays
Social Media Presence
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Connecting Globally
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Begin to infuse lessons with design thinking concepts.
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Track opportunities to implement Design Thinking
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Teachers:
Newsletter
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Build authentic audiences
Invite in real world voices
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Participation from community members (both local and global) in library programs and/ or instruction.
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Students:
Social Media
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