School Library Media Advisory

1
School Library Media Advisory Committee Briefing
Howard County Staff Development Center Faulkner
Ridge - November 16, 2005
2
MSDE Updates

• SLM VSC Update
• Certification Issues Survey
• Program Standards
• SLM Annual Report
• Program Standards Visits
• K-16 Subcommittee on Information Literacy and
  Ethical Use
• Legislative Updates/Advocacy
• EdTech Program Status
• Maryland Plan for Technology in Education
• Maryland Comic Book Initiative Update
• Web Presence
• Questions (?)

3
SLM VSC - moving forward

• Development of Expectations for Primary Students
  Document (Dr. M. Ellen Jay)
• National review - work on RFP
• Late Spring 2006 Presentation State Board
• Integration of SLM VSC with other curricula areas
  (matrices to be created)
• Link to the work of TL8 committees
• Interactive site on web

4
Certification Issues

• SLM Directors Survey
• Issues
• Difficulty with smaller counties finding
  qualified candidates declared a critical
  needs area
• Issues with local human resources departments
  reassignment of classroom teachers to school
  library media centers
• Can the State help with the development of
  cohorts?
• How can the role of the SLM specialist and
  program be incorporated into pre-service teacher
  and admin. programs?
• Development of strategies with MSDE/LEAs/Colleges
  and Universities

5
Standards for SLM Programs in Maryland

• Formation of Workgroups by Standard
• Proposed timeline
• December 1, 2005 - Form Workgroups by Standard
• January 2006 - Face-to-Face Meeting
• January - March 2006 - Virtual Committee Work
• April 2006 Recommendations to School Library
  Media Advisory (including draft)
• April - August 2006 - Revisions to printer
• April 2006 - Aligning the SLM Annual Report to
  revised standards
• Spring 2007 Review cycle to begin
• SLM Annual Report
• What kind of information do we want to gather?
• Program reviews
• Protocols, Timelines

6
K-16 Sub-committee on Information Literacy and
Ethical Use - Maryland K-16 Partnership for
Teaching and Learning

• Statewide dialogue and development of policies
  that demonstrate the
• importance of academic integrity and ethical use
• destructive impact of plagiarism on student
  achievement
• significance of library information literacy and
  its correlation to student success
• importance of critical thinking skills when
  dealing with the use of information
• Co-Chairs
• Diane Harvey,
• Undergraduate Studies Librarian, U of MD -
  McKeldin Library
• Jayne Moore, Director, ITSLM MSDE
• Dominique Raymond, Educational Policy Analyst,
  MHEC

7
Advocacy/Legislative Updates

• Feb. 1, 2006 Maryland Library Day, State
  Legislative Reception and Visits (details
  forthcoming request for local SLM summaries,
  statistics)
• ALA National Library Legislative Day
  Briefing Day May 1, 2006 Legislative Visits
  May 2, 2006

8
Ed Tech Program Status

• Advocacy Funding Update
• Funded Partnerships for 2005 (Year 4)
• 4TL8 (continuing)
• 4 MDK12 (continuing) 4 Shore Readers!
  4 Algebra Collaborative
  

9
Maryland Plan for Technology in Education

• Input gathered from local Technology Directors
  from around the State
• Revised plan to be circulated to MSDE
  stakeholders for input - December 2005
• Review by external stakeholders - Winter 2005
• State Board of Education approval and release -
  Spring 2006

10
Maryland Comic Book Initiative Update

• Pilot schools in Baltimore, Harford, Carroll,
  Queen Annes Counties
• lessons will be piloted in 6-8 schools across MD
  from January through May, 2006
• comic Toolkit for grades 3-4 with 10 lessons that
  reflect Marylands Standards and VSC
• evaluation study is being conducted by UMBC to
  look at reading skills and motivational impact
• Future
• create lessons for upper elementary and middle
  schools
• web site
• Innovation Award from the Daily Record

11
MSDE Web Site for School Library Media

• Work in progress
• To include links to national and state standards
  documents
• COMAR
• Professional organizations
• MSDE Publications
• (ex. Fact Book)
• LM VSC and seeds, cross-curricular matrices
• Advocacy resources
• - _at_ your library campaign
• - School Libraries Work!
• - AASL NCLB brochure

12
MEMO (Maryland Educational Media Organization)

• Name Change
• Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL)
• Katrina Relief Effort w/ MLA
• Pearlington, Mississippi
• Black-Eyed Susan Cruise
• Saturday April 29, 2006
• Conference 2006 Baltimore Marriott Hunt Valley
  Inn - October 19-20

13
Special Thanks

• Kathy Marzola and Sheile McAllister, MSDE
• Beth Richards, Faulkner Ridge Center, Howard
  County Public Schools

14
Questions (?)
Jayne Moore jmoore_at_msde.state.md.us
Jay Bansbach jbansbach_at_msde.state.md.us