FRIT7331 Strategic Management Plan

PART 1 CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEARNING COMMUNITY

Broxton-Mary Hayes is located in Broxton, GA. It is part of the Coffee County School Systems in southeast Georgia. Broxton is made up of about 1185 people and is considered low socioeconomic with a median income of $22,672 (City-data.com). Broxton-Mary Hayes Elementary has a staff consisting of one principal, one academic coach, one media specialist, and one counselor. The 334 students are served by twenty teachers, six paraprofessionals in 14 classrooms. Support staff includes one nurse, one day porter custodian, four nutrition services personnel, one secretary, one computer operator, and four bus drivers. The average daily attendance for students is 96.9%. One special education teacher serves students in an inclusion setting. The school has been a Title 1 Distinguished School for 10 years (http://broxtonmaryhayeselem.ga.cce.schoolinsites.com/). Broxton-Mary Hayes has met AYP since school year 2005-2006. Broxton-Mary Hayes had a score of 94.8 on the College and Career Ready Performance Indicator. For school year 20112012 the school had an 82.3% meets or exceeds pass rate for math. The school had a 93.1% meets or exceeds pass rate for reading/ELA. (gadoe.org) The school mission statement is Destination Graduation for College, Career, and Life. The goals for the school are to have students score the following meets or exceeds rates in state standards: Science 90%, Social Studies 90%, Math 90%, Reading 97%, and ELA 97% (http://broxtonmaryhayeselem.ga.cce.schoolinsites.com/). The philosophy for the school library should support the teachers and be a place where students can collaborate and create works. Students are online and complete assignments socially online as well as quick searches. A teacher/librarian should encourage and foster social interactions in preparation for 21st century jobs by teaching students how to properly use Web 2.0 tools. The school media center mission is the school library shall provide opportunities that allow students and staff to become more effective users of ideas and information (Empowering Learners: Guidelines 2009).

References Data for Broxton, GA. (2013, October 21). City-data.com. Retrieved October 21, 2013, from http://www.city-data.com/city/Broxton-Georgia.html. Broxton-Mary Hayes Elementary School (2013, October 17). Schoolinsites.com. Retrieved October 17, 2013, from http://broxtonmaryhayeselem.ga.cce.schoolinsites.com. GAdoe (2013, October 15). Gadoe.org. Retrieved October 15, 2013, from http://ccrpi.gadoe.org/2012/. American Association of School Librarians. (2009). Empowering learners: Guidelines for school library programs. Chicago, Ill: American Association of School Librarians.

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Ms. Karen Batten (2013) stated the circulation policy is all students may check out 2 books for a 2 week period. If one or more books are overdue, this must be brought current before they can check out other books. If a student damages the book beyond repair, they must pay the replacement cost of the book. If the book can be repaired, then it is repaired and the student may check out books. Staff has unlimited checkout. Parents are allowed to checkout 5 items from the media center (books) and 5 items from the Parent Resource Room for a two week period. Any material not returned, damaged beyond repair, or lost the parent must pay the replacement cost of the item or items. During a normal school year we have an open access/flexible schedule where students are allowed to come on an as needed basis. Teachers can schedule a 15 minute time to bring their class for a story time or a checkout period. Teachers may also schedule times for research, class projects, or collaborative lessons on an as needed basis. Most of these are for a 40 to 45 minute period (Batten 2013). Services include providing books, information services, computers, internet access, and book fairs (sales). Broxton-Mary Hayes does not have a bring your own technology policy. Only school devices are allowed to be used at school. Ms. Batten stated that e-books are available through the destiny program, but it is password protected. It has over three hundred titles available. Web 2.0 and creative commons are not currently being used (Batten 2013). Broxton-Mary Hayes media center was built in the early 1990s between two outer buildings. The media center is an open area that is basically two adjoining rooms that are offset with storage and offices on the second rooms outer walls. The main entrance is not visible from the office/workroom or storage room areas. The back of the circulation desk faces the main entrance. The media center is staffed by a full time media specialist with 26 years of experience in the education field; ten of those years as a media specialist with an S5 certification. In addition to the media specialist, there is one full-time media paraprofessional. Furnishings include six foot shelving lining the outer walls and 42 double-faced shelves on the open floor. The wall shelving houses non-fiction and fiction books, while the double-faced shelves house easy/everybody and reference books. The media center has a check-in computer and a separate computer to check out books with at the circulation desk, which is manned by the paraprofessional. There are two table sizes, one for smaller kids and one for adults. Approximately 25 people can be seated in the media center. Wi-Fi access is currently open only to school-owned devices at this time. The media center is equipped for classes/presentations via an activboard and projector. Destiny is the circulation software and it is accessible to students for ebooks and searching from home. The workroom for teachers includes two laminators and an Ellison Die Cut machine along with two cutting boards. The media center receives minimum light due to the layout and number of windows. The main problem with temperature is during the summer when maintenance turns the a/c to high to save money. The media center is not totally ADA compliant. Only one of the double doors will open to allow entrance. The circulation desk is not lowered in the front for handicap access (Batten 2013).

Broxton-Mary Hayes has no real presence on the web. At school the students have access to Galileo, Wikipedia, and OPAC. Students are blocked using a filter system called Lightspeed. It blocks a lot of sites, teachers can have site reviewed. You can link the website at the following address: http://broxtonmaryhayeselem.ga.cce.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=%27Library%27. The media center was built more as a high school media center and doesnt meet the needs as well as it should for the age group of students. In addition, the age of the facility and the floor plan make it hard to make changes that would improve the facility. Basically, the staff has rearranged some shelving to make things flow smoother. The biggest barrier at this time to access of materials is funding. Good news is a new school will open next school year. Current source of funds is state funds that do not follow a dollar amount per FTE formula. Legislation in the past gave local boards the option to not follow the FTE formula for budgets if monies needed to be diverted to critical areas. Two book fairs a year where we receive a 30% profit from sales. Every other year we have been able to apply for a grant via Satilla REMC. In the ten years Ive served as media specialist, I have seen my state budget cut 50%. Currently, this does not meet our needs as a media center with an aged collection (Batten 2013).

References Batten, K. (2013, 10 22). Interview by G Burkett .