All resources in School Library Planning

FRS Library Plan Project Tracker

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This is a Future Ready School Library Plan tracker. It will support your priorities, goals, and actions to help your plan come to fruition. There is a tab for tracking and for a timeline. This can help organize your plan, as well as keep vital evidence of your progress to use with your stakeholders.

Material Type: Curriculum Map

Author: Beth Clarke

SLJ 2021 Collection Development Weeding Survey Summary.pdf

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A survey invite was emailed to approximately 13,000 U.S. school librarians and 10,000 U.S. public librarians on February 5, 2021, with a reminder to non-responders on February 15. The survey was also advertised in SLJ newsletters and via social media. The survey closed on March 6 with 784 U.S. responses. Tabulation and analysis was done in-house by SLJ research. The data is unweighted. The majority of survey questions were worded to apply to both school and public libraries. Select questions were broken out by library type if the question wording and/or answer choices warranted it. Tables in this report are segmented by type of library for easy comparisons.

Material Type: Primary Source

Author: School Library Journal

Transitioning to college: Impact of high school librarians

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High schools try to help their students become college-career ready. Information literacy is part of that picture, although the role of teacher librarians is less clear. While the value of librarians within the education environment has been demonstrated, less research about the transferability between high school and higher education was evident. The research question emerged: what relationship exists between the presence of a high school teacher librarian and freshmen college students' academic success? To answer this question, this study examined five years of a large comprehensive university's freshmen data about their course load, the first semester GPA, and information about the high school from which they graduated: its Title I status and the presence of a high school librarian. The study found that the presence of a high school librarian employed at least half time is significantly correlated with college freshmen's grade point average, However, more explicit attention and support needs to be given to students in Title I schools.

Material Type: Reference Material

Authors: Lesley S.J. Farmer, Skyler Phamle

Literacy Leadership Brief: The Essential Leadership of School Librarians

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A document that aims to clarify the role of school librarians, show how to maximize the power and partnership of school librarians, share the importance of librarians during COVID-19, illustrate the value of school librarians as essential, and advocate for all children to have school librarians. Includes a bibliography - all points backed by research.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Julie E. Torres, Margaret K. Merga, Molly Ness, Susan J. Chambre

Media Literacy Guide from Britannica Digital Learning

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 A digital literacy guide for students in grades 6-12. Set up for instructors to use with students.  It includes videos, discussion guides, and encourages students to assess and evaluate their online literacy.  It is created by Britannica - so there is promotional material, but it is minimal, and easy to access TONS of Britannica through Badgerlink. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Anne Smith

SLIDE: The School Librarian Investigation - Decline of Evolution?

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From Website: SLIDE: The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? is an exploratory project submitted by Antioch University Seattle and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services for $348,905, to be conducted from September 2020 through August 2023. The research will determine patterns in the continuing, national decline in school librarian positions and how school districts decide to staff library, learning resources, and instructional technology programs for K-12 students.

Material Type: Reference Material

Authors: Debra E. Kachel, Keith Curry Lance

“First years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed?”

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Article Abstract: This survey-based research explores whether first-year college students who have had previous interactions with library instruction, services, and resources at the high school level are better prepared to undertake information literacy challenges and are better equipped to adapt to the rigors of academic research. In this collaborative project, academic librarians across six colleges in New Jersey surveyed first-year students regarding their research preparation and their experiences in high school and in their first year of college. Additionally, the team surveyed a group of vetted, certified high school librarians in New Jersey regarding their resources and instructional practices and followed members of their senior class to college Based on student survey responses relating to their high school experiences, the team was able to identify, study, and compare three groups of first- year students: novice researchers, non-novice researchers, and a subset of non-novices from the high schools with vetted librarians. These were labeled alumni non-novices. The team found that students with prior high school research experiences (non-novices), especially those followed from schools identified as having certified li- brarians (alumni non-novices), felt more prepared for academic research and performed at a higher level relating to their understanding and use of research tools and strategies. The results point to equity concerns and suggest that students require differentiated attention at the college level.

Material Type: Reference Material

Authors: Brenda Boyer, Cara Berg, Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott, Gihan Mohamad, Heather Dalal, Joan Dalrymple, Joyce Kasman Valenza, Leslin H. Charles, Megan Dempsey, Rebecca Bushby

A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit

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A true digital citizen understands how to ethically use the works of others to build his or her own creative products—music, art, video, stories, presentations--and share them with the world. Just as you’d want others to respect your originality, others expect the same of you when it comes to reusing and remixing their intellectual property. As you create and publish media yourself, please be conscious of how you use the work of others. Here are some guidelines, categories, and tools to consider that will help you as you create, contribute to, and enrich our shared culture!

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Joyce Valenza