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Enhancing Common Core Participation and Budget Impact Surveys

This survey explores Common Core topics, professional development preferences, and budget impacts on school libraries. Suggestions focus on increasing participation, addressing ELA shifts, and coping with budget reductions. Share your insights to improve librarian roles and services.

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Enhancing Common Core Participation and Budget Impact Surveys

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  1. Common Core/Budget Impact Surveys February 2013

  2. Goals: • Share survey results: • Discuss and identify 2013-2014 professional development topics • Inform council of regional budget impacts/reductions: • Make recommendations for BOCES programs and resources

  3. Common Core Survey 9 individuals responded out of 46 librarians • How can we increase participation and feedback?

  4. Overview of ELA Shifts 1: Balancing Informational & Literary Text: Students read a true balance of texts 2: Knowledge in the Disciplines: Students build knowledge about the world through TEXT rather than the teacher or activities 3: Staircase of Complexity: Students read/instruction focuses on a central, grade-appropriate text Teachers are patient and create more time, space, and support in the curriculum for close reading. Adapted from Engage NY: http://engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/common-core-shifts.pdf

  5. Overview of ELA Shifts 4:Text-based Answers: Students engage in rich and rigorous evidence-based conversations about text 5: Writing from Sources: Emphasizes use of evidence from sources to inform or make an argument 6: Academic Vocabulary: Students constantly build the transferable vocabulary they need to access grade-level texts. This can be done effectively by spiraling like content in increasingly complex texts. Adapted from Engage NY: http://engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/common-core-shifts.pdf

  6. Survey Results Respondents answered questions about: • Comfort with Common Core topics • Preferred future professional development topics and formats • Additional suggestions and comments

  7. Balancing Informational & Literary Texts:

  8. Building Knowledge in the Disciplines:

  9. Staircase of Complexity:

  10. Writing from Sources:

  11. Text-Based Answers:

  12. Knowledge/Familiarity with Vendor-Created Modules:

  13. Would you benefit from workshops on…?

  14. Close Reading Tasks:

  15. Creating a Regional Library Curriculum/ Empire State Information Fluency Continuum:

  16. Non-ELA Common Core Workshops:

  17. More Best Books Talks:

  18. A Librarian/Administrator Workshop on APPR:

  19. Preferred Formats:

  20. Comments/Suggestions for Future PD • A regional conference or series of presentations by colleagues • Mobile technology (BYOD) and school libraries

  21. Comments/Suggestions on PD Format • Hands-on, active workshops • In-person • Time to collaboratively work with colleagues

  22. Top 3 Topics: 1) Vendor Modules for ELA 2) Curriculum/Information Fluency Continuum 3) Best Books/Resources Do you agree?

  23. What does this mean for us? • What should our focus be for next year? • Where do librarians fit into the Common Core? • How can we step up as Common Core leaders in our schools?

  24. Budget Impact Survey 12 total responses 8 schools with reduced positions: • 4 with two librarians positions or more eliminated • 2 with one librarian position eliminated • 5 with two or more support staff positions eliminated

  25. Budget Reduction • 8 schools with reduced library budgets: • “We are down to just whatever the state gives us for books.” • “Budget has been reduced by half—no more district funds.” • “Some buildings have received NO funding for library materials over several years.”

  26. Program Cuts Half of the respondents have cut programs: • “I can’t collaboratively work with as many classroom teachers because I’m in multiple buildings.” • “We can no longer systematically offer Library Orientation/Internet Training and Evaluation to incoming 9th grade students.” • “The library has reduced open hours.”

  27. Other Comments • “All elementary buildings now share a 1/2 or 1/3 librarian.” • “Providing quality service to teachers and students precludes running the library. Attending to those activities means denying service to students and teachers.” • “My attendance and circulation has dropped dramatically - it's hard to serve your population when you are traveling between schools.” • “I am currently doing the job of what had previously been done by 5 people.”

  28. What does this mean for us? • Proving our value is essential • We can’t change budgets but we can make ourselves indispensable • We need to find creative ways to meet student and teacher needs

  29. How can the BOCES School Library System help? • What would you like to see BOCES offer? • Resources • Programs • Services

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