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?

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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