Strategic Planning for SAISD Libraries: The HUB of the Campus

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Strategic Planning for SAISD Libraries The HUB
of the Campus

• SAISD Library Media Services
• August, 2004
• Presenter Laura K. Alfaro

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Todays Topics

• What is STRATEGIC PLANNING?
• Why is strategic planning important to student
  achievement?
• What tools does the librarian need to plan
  strategically?
• Beginning, Middle, No End!

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Strategic Planning Is

• Goals
• Big picture of what students should be
  accomplishing
• Objectives
• Specifically targeted concepts to support student
  success
• Strategies
• Overall method of targeting concepts
• Activities
• Specific activities/lessons which will meet the
  objectives

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Implications to Student Achievement

• Building student meta-cognitive skills
• Development and enrichment of problem-solving and
  information literacy
• Appreciation of information and its uses as
  needed, or desired, for an enriching life
• Development of professional skills and expertise
  for all educators and staff members.

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Tools to Plan Strategically

• Collection Development Analysis
• Annual Inventory Forms
• Campus Instructional Plan
• SAISD Scope Sequence
• Purchase Orders from last two years
• CREW/Mustie Evaluations
• Previous years strategic plans and librarians
  reflections of future modification suggestions
• Alexandria Statistics

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Beginning

• Gather tools as previously described
• Carefully analyze information from each that
  would target campus/student needs towards
  academic success. You may need to develop a data
  organizer for all of the information you will
  collect.

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Middle

• Discuss your findings, preferably with a group
  such as
• the CLT, or
• a campus library support group, or
• the principal/administration.
• Determine with the group how the data could be
  used to support target areas.
• Develop a first draft of what could be
  realistically accomplished,
• both in collaboration with teachers and/or
  departments AND
• independent support from the library.

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2003-2004 Strategic Plans

• Review and discuss plans from the previous school
  year as found on the LMS website
  http//lms.saisd.net/web/strategicPlans/index.htm
  during your collaboration
• Create a second draft for review by the group and
  include relevant suggestions from the first
  meeting.

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NO End!!!

• A strategic planning document is not written in
  stone.
• It is a reflection of an open-minded and flexible
  structure to support student academic
  achievement.
• Librarians will be expected to reflect and
  continually modify the annual strategic plan at
  the end and beginning of each school year.

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Handouts and Forms

• Strategic Planning article
• Five Documents
• Librarian Historical Form
• District Example
• Campus Strategic Plan Form
• Cluster Strategic Plan Form
• Area Strategic Plan Form