Hard Core Libraries: Supporting Instruction Using Common Core

Kimberly DyarElkton High School

Cecil County Public Schoolskdyar@ccps.org

Core Student Competencies• Compare perspectives

across time and culture• Process and critique

information in various formats and media

• Debate and argue in orally and in writing

• Analyze, reflect, research• Display info dynamically• Answer questions• Solve problems

• Sustain focus in challenging reading and writing tasks

• Develop coherent understanding

• Publish, interact, collaborate through technology

• Evaluate claims, arguments, evidence

• Analyze relationship between primary & secondary sources on same topic

CCPS Curricular Framework

• Touchstones – Socratic Seminar• Close reading• Universal Design for Learning• Understanding By Design• Concept-based Learning (cross content)• University of Kansas Content Enhancement

Tools• Routine writing (daily)

Curriculum Writing & Changes

• Serve on committees• Learn the curricular framework & use it as the

basis of communication• Make yourself useful as a resource to teachers• Advocate for how library program can help with

the process of curriculum change to supervisors • Connect to teachers’ needs and anxieties & help

them with instructional resources and reassurance

Librarian Curriculum Support

• Study the curriculum framework for the “big picture”• Audit the process for common errors in thought; address

them appropriately (discussion, identification of professional development needs - literary nonfiction)

• Know where you are not an expert; listen & learn• Ask for specific direction in terms of the curriculum

team’s needs & gather stellar resources• Offer these services to all content areas• Promote library services at each school (“Your librarian is

fully equipped to do this for you. Ask for it!”)

Changes to Library Program• Rethink use of space: accessibility, capacity, multi-

purpose or multi-class uses• Rethink scheduling: “just in time” research vs. soup to

nuts research projects• Rethink services: greater variety of instructional

services situated within research cycle, strategic training & use of student volunteers/aides, researchers’ advisory (see uploaded Reflection Conference Questions, Research Goal Tracking forms on MASL wiki)

• Rethink communication: AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners, STEM & math practices, capacities of literate individuals, & research cycle

• Rethink collection

Beefing Up Resources• Dust off the databases – explore their features more deeply,

find new ways to “sell” them

• Create self-support resources for users (screenshots & screencasts) http://ehsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/ScreenshotDirections+-+Public+Library+DB

• Locate and suggest alternate book selections based on text complexity/lexile

http://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/aasl-poster.tif by Paige Jaeger, used with permission

http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/06/common-core-carp-diem.htmlhttp://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/superhero%20powerverbs.pdf posted by Paige Jaeger – used with permission

One-liners for teachers coming to the library with low-level, non-CCSS "projects“:

• I can help you make this more interesting for the students. • What are your learning targets for this lesson? How do they fit into our curriculum? • What 21st Century skills can we integrate that align with standards? • I'm sorry, but research and information is my certification area. I would love to make some improvements here. • Would you mind if I do a 10 minute info-mercial at the beginning of your lesson? I'm sure it will save these students more than 10 minutes in wasted time. • This lesson will make us look "less than stellar" - but I would love to help you improve it so you don't get a poor APPR rating. (Use this if you have nerve:) • I don't bring students to the Home and Careers room and announce "I would like to bring my students down to bake a cake, and this is the recipe I'd like them to use." So, would you mind if we collaboratively repackage this for common core alignment?

http://www.wswheboces.org/files/595/common%20core%20alignmentboceschecklist.pdf posted by Paige Jaeger – used with permission

http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/ccsslessonplanner.pdf

Lesson Planner I Handed Out:

A Resource To Administrators

• Video clips going over CCSS facets from Vimeohttps://vimeo.com/search?q=common+core+EngageNY

& NYC CC Resource Libraryhttp://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/default.htm

• Saving $ with databases • Professional Development Sessions

Professional Development Topics

• Database Resources (strategically instructed by content area and standards)

• Primary sources - where to get them & how to use them (LOC, Digital Archives)

• Multimedia: access, integration, creation & analysis

• Teaching and learning from multiple perspectives• Teaching students deeper research strategies

Public Library Collaboration

• Develop database support resources • Provide professional development database

support resources in self-serve format• Use need of the moment to integrate both

libraries more meaningfully within curriculum

Multimedia & Technology• Not all multimedia is created equal• Go beyond YouTube and initial engagement• Elevate conversation and content • Ted.com – power of media used well

http://www.ted.com/talks/beeban_kidron_the_shared_wonder_of_film.html

• Paige Jaeger’s Use of Web 2.0 Toolshttp://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/10/7-toolsto-empower-common-core.html

Implications for Purchasing• Manage budget differently so have resources to purchase materials

“just in time”• Broader ranges of reading levels in texts• Expanded nonfiction collection – with reading choices as well as

research choices• Tailoring optional purchases more specifically to the tastes/needs of

students to promote ongoing literacy development and develop more dynamic relationships with students

• Library may be/become students’ main source of fiction• Department budget considerations of spending requirements may

influence their purchases and/or lead to problems down the line as needs evolve – AP English “wish list”

Implications for Advocacy

• Get thee to a content supervisor!• $ value for instructional resources – we will

save you $ because we already have the resources teachers need

• Raise a cry from Whoville! “We are here!”

Example: Primary Source Analysis

• LOC image archives• LOC Primary Source Analysis Tools• National Archives Digital Library• Using ALL the resources in the databases

Grouped sets of images to show multiple perspectives – students explore and analyze to create essential questions

Political Cartoons & AP History

• Library of Congress - “It’s No Laughing Matter” http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/index.html

• Gale’s U.S. History in Context’s Political Cartoon portal page (search “political cartoon”, then click on images gallery)

Complex Text

http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/factors%20that%20interact%20to%20affect%20complexity.pdf posted by Paige Jaeger - used with permission

Instructional Example: Science

• Today’s Science• Ebsco• ProQuest• Google Scholar (& links)(See STEM Practices Ex PPT posted on MASL wiki)

Services to Students• Text selection a.k.a. “personal curation”• Targeted displays: nonfiction, tough reads, paired

fiction/nonfiction• Empower them to articulate their needs• Give them what they need instructionally and personally • Suggestions box?• Log sheet like doctor’s office or clinic (Why are you here?

What service do you need?) – like Apple genius bar – after school appointments for info needs or appointments like guidance visits – need to facilitate communication – online form/email/askyourlibrarian type feature on a website

• Test prep practices sessions after school• Redefine “underserved” students

Depth & Complexity

• Icons to represent different perspectives or lenses

• Waters Foundation Systems Thinking Infographic (downloadable if you register for free)http://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.habits

If students have to… (know and be able to) Then teachers have to…

Develop questions that increasingly engage others

Model questioning and highlight the different purposes of questions

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/About/InstructionalShifts/default.htmNYC Department of Education Facilitation Guide For Making Connections In Literacy

Then librarians have to…

Demonstrate how to analyze, critique, and revise questions

Research Project Examples Baltimore County

• In The Time Of Butterflieshttp://bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html

• I Declare! Founding Fathers Sound Offhttp://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/declaration/index.html

Challenges

• Inertia• Stamina for problem-solving• Learned helplessness• Perseverance despite challenges• Engagement• Teacher capacity

Things That Concern Me• Reading comprehension strategies being touted as

analysis tools• Surface level understanding of lexile level and text

complexity• Instructional decisions based on a perceived lack of

resources• Information poor resources • Lack of communication among stakeholders• Hobby teaching that gets repackaged with each iteration• Teacher and administrator stress

ResourcesBaltimore County Schools High School Research Modelshttp://bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html

Common Core Lesson Planner http://www.wswheboces.org/files/419/ccsslessonplanner.pdf

Common Core Video Clips on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/search?q=common+core+EngageNY

Elkton High School Media Center Wiki Self-Serve Screenshotshttp://ehsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/ScreenshotDirections+-+Public+Library+DB

Free Educational Resources from Federal Government http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm

Lehman, Katharine B., and Lori E. Donovan. Power Researchers: Transforming Student Library Aides into Action Learners. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.

Library Door Blog by Paige Jaeger http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/06/common-core-carp-diem.html

Library of Congress “It’s No Laughing Matter” Political Cartoonshttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/politicalcartoon/index.html

MD Common Core Curricular Frameworks http://mdk12.org/instruction/commoncore/index.html

MSDE Educator Effectiveness Academy Materialshttp://mdk12.org/instruction/academies/resources_2012/ELA/eea_ela2012.html

New York Schools Common Core Resources http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/About/default.htm

TED Video http://www.ted.com/talks/beeban_kidron_the_shared_wonder_of_film.html

Waters Foundation for Systems Thinking Infographichttp://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.habits