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Improving Student Achievement in SSD

Peter G. Mohn

Glacier Peak High School

Snohomish, WA

peter.mohn@sno.wednet.edu

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Question?

If you could significantly improve student achievement in our district would you?

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Library Research Results

Colorado Studies, 1993; 1999 Alaska Study, 1999 Pennsylvania Study, 1999 Oregon, New Mexico & Texas, 2000 & 2001 The total is now 20 state-wide studies

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Library Research - Colorado

The size of a library media center’s staff and collection is the best school predictor of ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, whether their schools & communities are rich or poor and whether adults in the community are well or poorly educated.

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Library Research - Colorado

Five sets of predictors of academic achievement were yielded by the second Colorado study. Library media program development Leadership of the LMS Collaboration of LMS and staff Technology Integration of LMC materials Flexible Scheduling

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Library Research - Alaska

Five major predictors of academic achievement Level of LMS staffing Time spent by LMSs

Delivering information literacy to students Planning with teachers Providing staff in-service training

Collection Development Policy Potential Internet connectivity Relationship with public libraries

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Library Research - Pennsylvania

Five major predictors of Academic Achievement Presence of both LMSs and support staff Level of library expenditures Presence of rich collections of print and electronic

information sources Extent to which technology is utilized to extend the

LMCs reach into the classroom Extent in which information literacy is integrated in the

school’s standards and curriculum

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Key Common Findings

LMSs can and do exert a positive and significant effect on ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Principal support & teacher collaboration are critical to making the LM program integral

For LMSs to be pivotal players, support staff are essential

The LMS is a teacher of students & staff LM programs that contribute most strongly are

those with technology

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What we do well in our District

Full-time LMSs in all but one school Librarians being asked to serve on District

curriculum and technology committees LMCs are automated Access to ProQuest and other premium dBs Students have access to library materials from

home

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Long Term Solutions

Restore full time library EAs in secondary LMCs Improve library budgets that have lost purchasing

power to inflation over the last 15 years Flexible schedules for elementary librarians Implement a K-12 Information Literacy program

tied to state Common Core Standards Greatly expand the number of computer

workstations in school libraries Expand Internet library resources into classrooms

and, if possible, to homes

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Information Power:

Building Partnerships for Learning

… Because Student Achievement

IS

THE BOTTOM LINE