Florida PowerLibrary Schools Program

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Florida Power-Library Schools Program!
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Welcome!

• Welcome and Introductions
• Ms. Miriam Needham
• FAME President

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Program Rationale

• Ms. Janeen Pelser

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Collaboration with Colorado
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Strong library media programs have a positive
impact on student achievement in

• Alaska
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Massachusetts
• Michigan

• Minnesota
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
• Wisconsin

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Library Media Program Studies

• Student Achievement Impact
• Improved standardized test scores related to
• Higher circulation statistics of books and
  materials
• Increased facility usage
• Collaborative/integrated information skills
  program

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Program Rationale

• Statewide program
• Recognition for role of school library media
  programs and staff
• Banner and pins
• Highlighted on website
• Mentoring school
• Improved student achievement

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Program Awardees

• Schools that
• Support quality school library programs
• Place focus on collaboration and student
  achievement
• Agree to serve as visitation sites for teams of
  educators desiring to increase their own
  collaborative practices

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Program Awardees

• Schools that
• Meet the Outstanding criteria in the ExC3EL
  Evaluation Rubric
• Promote high degree of administration/teacher/libr
  arian collaboration
• Provide flexible scheduling for students to
  utilize the library individually as needed

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Program Awardees

• Schools that
• Have library media specialist included in school
  administrative and staff functions
• Provide computer networks that extend the library
  media programs reach into classrooms and labs

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ExC3EL Evaluation Rubric
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EXC3EL Evaluation Rubric

• Why evaluate program?
• Fulfill recommendations from Florida Study
• To check your library media program against
  standards

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EXC3EL Evaluation Rubric

• Why evaluate program?
• To measure your schools program with other
  school library media programs
• To plan for program improvement
• To better meet the needs of your students in the
  goal to higher achievement

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EXC3EL Evaluation Rubric

• Based on continuum

Outstanding
Advancing
Developing
Entering
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EXC3EL Evaluation Rubric

• Development process
• Rubric Drafts (sent via email)
• Focus Groups
• District, school, university representatives
• Supervisors and university educators suggestions
• DOE Standards Commission recommendations

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EXC3EL Evaluation Rubric

• Rubrics purpose
• Program evaluation tool
• Define statewide program standards
• Instrument for sparking dialogue on library media
  program standards
• Administrators
• Teachers
• Parents
• Other Library Media Specialists
• University educators

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Collaboration Strand

• Mr. Albert Pimienta

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Team Planning and Sharing

• Ms. Sharon Reynolds
• Ms. Jacqueline Rose

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Good School Libraries Boost Readers

• Well-staffed, well-stocked libraries improve
  reading scores
• Elementary reading scores by 9 percent
• Middle school scores by 3 percent
• High school scores by 22 percent
• Orlando Sentinel, October 13, 2003

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Florida Power-Library Schools

• Quality Indicators
• Provides inviting and accessible facility
• Provides a wide variety of print and electronic
  resources
• Supports all facets of instructional program
• Promotes critical thinking and active learning

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Florida Power-Library Schools

• Quality Indicators
• Is well-staffed and well-funded
• Provides a collaboratively planned instructional
  program
• Is promoted throughout learning community

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Becoming a Florida Power-Library SchoolWhat YOU
can do

• As an administrator
• Provide financial support
• Promote flexible or open scheduling
• Insist on continuous professional development
• Actively promote library/classroom collaboration
• Work with your library media specialist and
  faculty to reach Outstanding level of ExC3EL

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Becoming a Florida Power-Library SchoolWhat YOU
can do

• As a teacher
• Communicate your curriculum resource needs to
  your library media specialist
• Collaborate regularly with library media
  specialist to meet curriculum standards
• Work with your library media specialist and
  faculty to reach Outstanding level of ExC3EL

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Becoming a Florida Power-Library SchoolWhat YOU
can do

• As a library media specialist
• Communicate your curriculum resources to your
  faculty and take purchasing input from them
• Collaborate regularly with the teachers in all
  subject areas
• Work with stakeholders to reach Outstanding level
  of ExC3EL

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Think, Pair, Share

• Based on what you have seen this afternoon, think
  about what specific things you will do next.
• Share your plan with the others from your school.
• Work together to write out the next steps of your
  action plan.

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What a school thinks about its library is a
measure of what it thinks about education.
Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
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Application Overview

• Application Elements and Timeline
• Statement of Intent
• October 15, 2008 to District LM Supervisor
• November 1, 2008 to FASM president
• Application Packet
• April 30, 2008 to FASM president
• Regional Observer Visitations
• November 2008 May 2009

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Application Overview

• Application Packet
• Element 2
• Application Coversheet
• Element 3
• Copy of Teaching Certificate
• Element 4
• Narrative Statement
• Element 5
• ExC3EL Rubric Scoring Sheet

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Application Overview

• Application Packet
• Element 6
• Survey Results
• 70 School-base faculty
• 10 Parents
• 25 Students
• 1 Administrator
• Element 7
• DVD Documenting Outstanding library media
  components (5 minutes)

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Questions and Answers

• Ms. Nancy Case