Envisioning+Your+School+Library

**Read for Envisioning Your School Library Session & Evaluating the Program**
//Linking for Learning//, p. 5-8, 16-18, 19-56 [|Vision Mission Goals and Objectives for the School Library Media Center] [|Strategic Planning Toolkit]

**Agenda for Session**
1. Guest Speaker - Don Hamerly, Director of SLMP. He'll be speaking about DU's School Library Media Program Requirements. Publication Date: August 27, 1998 | ISBN-10:  0838934706 | ISBN-13:  978-0838934708 | Edition: 1st Amazon.com - $11.99

2. Course Housekeeping
 * Reflection Assignment
 * Turning In Materials - created a shared folder through Google Docs for each of you. This will in essence be a drop box. You can turn things in as Google docs, pdf files, Microsoft Office files here.
 * [|Issue Presentation Sign-Up] - go through issue presentation requirements

3. Talk on History of School Libraries [|History of School Libraries Presentation Slides]

4. Developing a Mission and Vision for the School Library Examine Mission & Vision Statements from //Linking for Learning// (p.5) and //Empowering Learners (//p.7-8)
 * Read through the mission & vision statement from each document
 * What are key ideas?
 * What overlap do you see?
 * How would you describe a mission/vision statement from reading the examples?

From //Empowering Learners//: "The mission of the school library program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The school librarian empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information by: from AASL //Empowering Learners//, p. 8
 * collaborating with educators and students to design and teach engaging learning experiences that meet individual needs
 * instructing students and assisting educators in using, evaluating, and producing information and ideas through active use of a broad range of appropriate tools, resources, and information technologies
 * providing access to materials in all formats, including up-to-date, high-quality, varied literature to develop and strengthen a love of reading
 * providing students and staff with instruction and resources that reflect current information needs and anticipate changes in technology and education
 * providing leadership int he total educational program and advocating for strong school library programs as essential to meeting local, state, and national education goals."

[|Creating a Mission and Vision Presentation Slides] Go through Vision and Mission Statement Assignment

Other Resources:
 * "[|The Mission of Librarians is to Empower]" by Roy Tennant
 * Vision & Mission Assignment
 * Creating a Vision - []
 * Mission and Vision Statements - []
 * [|Top 50 Nonprofit Mission Statements]

6. Evaluating Your Program Look at Evaluation Areas from //Linking for Learning// (p. 17). Keep in mind that for the assessment of school library program assignment that you'll be rating a library on some of these areas.
 * Oak Park River Forest Annual and Monthly Reports
 * [|Annual Report]
 * media type="custom" key="20051730"
 * [|Connecting the Dots Between Your Library and Student Learning]
 * [|Creekview Annual Report 2010-2011 - Buffy Hamilton]
 * Evaluation Portfolio - Erin Wyatt

7. Next Class Readings - in addition to the readings from the course texts as they are available to you, please make yourself familiar with the following documents: Topic Preview Upcoming Deadlines
 * ISAIL - take a look at the ISAIL Standards.
 * [|ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION & THE COMMON CORE]
 * [|ELA (English Language Arts)]
 * [|Math]
 * [|NGSS (Science)]