Folkston Elementary Library Media Center Strategic Plan

FRIT 7331Fall 2013Instructor: Dr. Jones

Sandy Slater

Table of Contents I. Community Profile

DEMOGRAPHICS 3 SCHOOL REPORTS ..............................................................................................................8

II. Current District Media Center Status

DISTRICT LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER CURRENT STATUS ..................................................... 13 FOLKSTON ELEMENTARY LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER CURRENT STATUS ...................... 13

III. Philosophy, Vision and Mission Statement

SCHOOL DISTRICT PHILOSOPHY, VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT ............. 14 FOLKSTON PHILOSOPHY, VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT............................. 15

IV. THE FES SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

FACILITIES .............................................................................................................. 15 SERVICES .................................................................................................................16 BUDGETS .................................................................................................................20

V. THE FES SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER PROGRAM PLAN

STAKEHOLDER SURVEY ..................................................................................19 GOALS ...................................................................................................................19 Long Range Goals .........................................................................................19 Short Range Goals ........................................................................................20 Charted Goals/Objectives/Evaluation\Timeline ............................................20 EVALUATION ......................................................................................................22 ADVOCACY ..........................................................................................................23

REFERENCES ................................................................................................ 24 ATTACHMENTS A, B, C .............................................................................. 25-29

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Community Profile

Current Demographic Status: Charlton County is located on the edge of the internationally renowned natural treasure, the Okefenokee Swamp. The Charlton County School System employs faculty and staff who realize that the countys most important treasure is its children. It is our job to work with students, parents, and the community to ensure their success. To that end, the district serves 1712 students in four schools St. George Elementary, Folkston Elementary, Bethune Middle School, and Charlton County High. The 251 full-time employees work together to provide the best possible experiences that we can for our students. The system is accredited by the Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC) and complies with the rules, regulations and standards set by the Georgia Department of Education. Charlton County High School is a Southern Associated of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accredited school. Folkston is nestled in the southeastern part of Georgia, dipping down into Florida river borders. The county is shaped like an Indian Hatchet and the land mass are made of the majority of the Okefenokee Refuge (Dr. Lairsey, Superintendent message posted on our school website, 2012). The statics for our county are:
Population, 2012 (estimate) Population, 2010 (April 1) estimates base White alone, percent, 2012 (a) Black or African American alone, percent, 2012 (a) American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent, 2012 (a) Asian alone, percent, 2012 (a) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent, 2012 Two or More Races, percent, 2012 Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2012 (b) White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2012 13,295 12,171 65.3% 32.0% 0.5% 0.6% 0% 1.5% 3.5% 62.2%

Socioeconomic Facts - Folkston, GA Income and Economy (usacityfacts.com) Folkston Unemployment

Folkston, GA unemployment information can be viewed in the table below. The unemployment rate city-wide is 13.1%. Nationwide, the average is 7.9%.

Unemployment

City 13.1% High

State 8.8% Very High

USA 7.9% National Average 14.0% National Average

Unemployment Rate

Black or African American

16.5% Near Average

13.7% Near Average

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White

9.7% High

6.7% Near Average

6.8% National Average 9.6% National Average 6.4% National Average 10.5% National Average 12.2% National Average 13.9% National Average

Hispanic

0.0% Very Low

8.7% Low

Asian

N/A N/A

6.0% Near Average

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

N/A N/A

12.0% High

Two or more races

N/A N/A

13.5% High

American Indian and Alaska Native

N/A N/A

13.6% Near Average

Folkston Median Income by Race The table below displays median income by race. Hispanic people make $85,938 on average; this is the highest paid group. Race City $85,938 Very High State $19,383 Low USA $21,505 National Average $31,133 National Average $25,062 National Average 4

Hispanic

White

$21,836 Low

$31,834 High

Black or African American

$16,819 Low

$25,350 High

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$0 Very Low

$30,768 High

$34,418 National Average $26,563 National Average $22,664 National Average $21,510 National Average

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

$0 Very Low

$30,092 Very High

Two or more races

$0 Very Low

$23,413 High

American Indian and Alaska Native

$0 Very Low

$24,000 High

Folkston Median Household Income by Age The median income, by age, is shown in the table below. The age range that has the highest income in Folkston, GA is < 25. Age City $23,750 Near Average State $25,291 Near Average USA $26,465 National Average $57,132 National Average $63,398 National Average $33,906 National Average

< 25

25 - 44

$36,800 Near Average

$53,271 Low

45 - 64

$40,809 Near Average

$58,569 Low

> 64

$30,679 High

$31,899 Low

Folkston Median Worker Income

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Folkston, GA individual median income data can be seen in the table below. The city's median individual worker income is $18,961. Nationwide, the average is $29,701. Worker Type City $21,457 Very Low State $33,773 Near Average USA $35,201 National Average $24,139 National Average $51,914 National Average

Male

Female

$12,618 Very Low

$24,136 Near Average

Median Household Income

$34,513 Near Average

$49,347 Near Average

Folkston Household Income Other than Earnings Data for Folkston, GA household income, other than earnings, is shown in the below table. At $15,759, Retirement Income is the highest category for other earnings. For the city, social security is $11,528 of a household's other annually income. Income Type City $15,759 Low State $22,169 High USA $21,489 National Average $15,308 National Average $15,495 National Average $3,553 National Average

Retirement Income

Interest, Dividends, or Net Rental Income

$14,487 High

$14,352 Near Average

Social Security Income

$11,528 Very Low

$14,793 Low

Public Assistance Income Top Folkston Occupations

$6,374 Very High

$3,250 High

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The following table lists the most popular occupations for Folkston, GA. The largest occupations are listed first. Occupation City State USA 17.1% National Average 25.4% National Average 12.4% National Average 10.6% National Average 9.8% National Average 14.3% National Average 5.2% National Average 5.2% National Average

Service occupations

27.1%

15.7%

Sales and office occupations

21.1%

25.8%

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

16.3%

13.3%

Education, legal, community service, arts, and media occupations

12.4%

10.3%

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

11.0%

10.5%

Management, business, and financial occupations

9.1%

14.9%

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations

1.8%

4.7%

Computer, engineering, and science occupations

1.0%

4.7%

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Geography Quick Facts

180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 773.58 Charlton County 57,513.49 Georgia Persons per square mile, 2010 FIPS Code

Folkston Elementary School

Charlton County Grade Range: PK, KK, 01, 02, 03 Enrollment: 414

Fall and Spring Enrollment for the Three Academic Year

Program Special Education (Grades K-12) (PK) English to Speakers o Other Languages (ESOL) (Grades K-12) Early Intervention Program (EIP) (Grades K-5)

Program Enrollment 37 4 1

% of Student Population 8.9% N/A 0.2%

77

18.6%

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Enrollment in Compensatory -

Percentage of Enrollment

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To meet AYP, each school and system must meet the following criteria: 95% Participation, Academic Performance (Annual Measurable Objective), and Second Indicator. The summary page recaps a school's or system's performance on each AYP component for each student group.

School Current Status:

Folkston Elementary School serves 478 students in grades PK-3. Certified staff 36, Classified 15, and Administrators 2. The student: teacher ratio of 15:1 is equal to the GA average of 15:1. Minority enrollment is 46% of the student body. Folkston Elementary School operates within the Charlton County School District (Public School Review, 2013).

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Scholastic Standing:
(Folkston Elementary School CRCT Instructional Assessment Data, 2012) 2nd Grade IA comparison for 2011 & 2012 Math - Meet or Exceed All AA White SWD 2012 85 72 95 43 2011 76 59 87 ? Reading All AA White SWD 2012 95 90 98 50 2011 86 74 92 ? ELA - Meet or Exceed All AA White SWD 2012 80 77 84 50 2011 72 50 84 ? 1st Grade IA comparison for 2011 & 2012 Math - Meet or Exceed All AA White SWD 2012 85 74 91 67 2011 71 57 82 ? Reading All AA White SWD 2012 94 92 95 100 2011 85 78 91 ? ELA - Meet or Exceed All AA White SWD 2012 73 62 82 50 2011 67 59 73 ? Key: IA Instructional Assessment AA African American White White SWD Students with Disabilities

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II. Current District Media Center Status

District Library Media Center Current Status:
Each

of our four schools houses a Library Media Center (LMC). Certified full-time professional staff in our middle school, part-time professional and paraprofessional staff in our two elementary and one high school. The recommended standard is 1 full-time, certified library teacher for every 500 students and one full-time support staff for every 500 students. We have one elementary and the high school that both met these numbers but a full-time certified library teacher is in place or full-time support person (parapro) at one location and part-time split between two schools. High ratio of books per pupil. The recommended standard is 20 titles per student and we average 22 titles per student. The age of the district collection is at 70 percent and should have a copyright less than 15 years old. The average age of our collection is 1998. This information was generated from our Destiny program. Steady and consistent funding is provided for each school media center. The funding is based on each schools FTE (Full-time Equivalence) count. Each school has budget line items for purchase of books & periodicals, computer repair, and software programs. All schools utilize the Destiny on-line program and provide access for students and parents from home. Each school has circulation desk computer(s) designed for checkout and student use. Patron stations are wireless laptops at the elementary schools. The middle school has three wireless laptops and two desktop patron stations. The high school has two banks of 34 desktop computers lining two sides of the media center walls. Set scheduling at the PreK-6 level and flexible scheduling at grades 7-12. The elementary schools schedules provide every Friday for the media specialist to work with 8 classrooms for special projects. Cooperative instructional planning with classroom teachers is being developed at the elementary and middle school media centers. High school media specialist assist when asked by teachers on special projects. Each library has a Web site inside Destiny program Folkston Elementary Library Media Center Current Status: Part-time certified library media specialist and part-time support staff (parapro) Parent volunteers rotating in and out daily during the week assisting media specialist and staff Charts provided to show the number of books and periodicals found in the library below:

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(Piktochart, Sandy Slater Infographic, Mar 2013)

VI. Philosophy, Vision and Mission Statement School District Philosophy, Vision and Mission Statement:
District Philosophy: The Charlton County School System library program strives to encourage the enjoyment of reading. The graduates are armed with information skills necessary to access, evaluate, and ethically use information from a number of sources. The technology emphasis for our students K-12 is interwoven into our curriculum to ensure that all students are skilled to be responsible digital citizens. District Vision Statement: The Charlton County School System will consistently meet yearly progress goals and will lead South Georgia in improving student achievement.
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District Mission Statement: The Charlton County School System will provide a quality education for all students - NO EXCUSES. Folkston Elementary School Media Center Philosophy, Vision and Mission Statement: We are FES Be Amazing! This is our school motto. FES Philosophy Statement: The young groups of children from Pre-Kindergarten through 3rd grade are just getting comfortable in our school with looking at and reading a book, let alone going into a large room filled with many different types of books spread out all over the room. This is where the media center becomes a place for our students to explore the different genre of books with open eyes and minds freely without fear of failure or disappointment. The media center is where we allow our children to talk freely with each other about a book they have read or plan to read. This is a place where our students love to grab a beanbag or chair and sit by themselves reading about a new adventure or facts about whales in the ocean or outer space travel. This is their library where they can feel free to learn and grow beyond the walls of the school through books. The collaboration built with the teachers and the media specialist helps to expand their classroom walls into the library utilizing books and computers to research different curriculum projects. The media center/library is home to all the staff, teachers and students. My desire is for everyone to love to come to the library! FES Vision Statement: Folkston Elementary Library Media Center strives to encourage enthusiastic readers, promote critical and inquiring thinkers, and active users of information and technology. Our desire is to enable cooperative global citizens who initiate positive action in the world. FES Mission Statement: The library is an extension of the school classroom, the library will strive to teach, guide and provide resources to enrich the classroom teachers core curriculum goals and objectives with emphasis on their abilities to utilize research tactics.

V. THE FOLKSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER:

FES School Library Services Overview: The Charlton County School Libraries support the Georgia State Core Curriculum Standards. Our Library staff utilizes, the MSLA Recommended Standards for PreK-12 Information Literacy Skills, aligned to the Georgia State Core Curriculum Standards, to instruct our students about information literacy in order to use information effectively, efficiently, and ethnically. The library staff adheres to the American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st Century Learner learning process of information literacy skills in the library curriculum. The media specialist has collaborated with classroom teachers in order to build a collection that supports curriculum and classroom instruction. The library has a collection, which include all formats of information including print, online sources, eBooks, audio and visual media. Teachers and media specialist have worked together to build supplemental collections for
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summer reading, fiction, nonfiction, and reference titles, which meet curricular needs. The summer reading programs have been established with the one public library in the community to continue and encourage reading. The media specialists has created a list of themed book lists and activities to help the community library promote the summer reading program. Additionally, the lead and middle school media specialist serve on the committees and communicate well with the public library staff. A loaner program is being developed to provide eBook access to the public library over the summer months. BYOT program was developed and added to the Acceptable Use Policy three years ago for all schools to allow students to bring their own devices if their parents signed an agreement. All media centers have access for special needs for students and staff to enter and access library facilities. Folkston elementary grade students visit the library daily and on Friday under the direction of the media specialist for a 45-minute class that usually involves a read-aloud, and book exchange. Library policies and procedures are addressed during the first library visit with each classroom. The Friday schedule allows for most teachers to send their students to the library but leaves out some classrooms. The library schedule does allow for access in the afternoon for special projects with classroom teachers. The lack of a parapro in the afternoon makes it difficult to do a class project without the teacher in attendance. All the media specialists collaborate with teachers to support classroom curriculum, and plans information literacy lessons along with enrichment activities to support the Georgia Core Curriculum standards. The media specialists teach information literacy lessons in the library during the Friday schedules classes. Media specialist maintains her own Destiny webpage, which provides access to library information, databases, blogs, and wikis links. The media specialist supplies articles to parent newsletter and communicate with their school communities through the email and phone services.

FES School Library Facilities

Each school has a designated library. All media centers allow resource sharing and interlibrary loans between schools are completed through emails or phone calls. All library areas offer a reading area for classes and one or two workstations for the parapro and/or media specialist. All libraries have areas with plenty of tables for student work on research projects or to read. The overall educational climate is very positive at most of the schools with students, staff and administrators. The temperature is maintained at each media center to ensure proper moisture control to minimize damage to books and equipment. All media center provide the best lighting for staff and students to read to cause eyestrain. All schools have access to a networked copier(s) from their classroom and the media center. All the media centers are located in the front of each school so easy to find and access. The media centers all have one full or part-time media parapro, one elementary school has a part-time media specialist/technology coordinator for the district, a once a week media specialist, full-time media specialist at the middle school, and a part-time media specialist at the high school. See attached pictures of the FES media center, Attachment A). Folkston Elementary school has bean bags provides to students to sit in different parts of the
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library for reading on a number of colorful rugs. Folkston Elementary school media center is six years old and has had some changes made over the last three years, but still needs some changes. FES has one equipment storage room, workroom, teacher resource room, videos production center in kitchen area for piped cable & video programs to classrooms, data storage room, and office for media specialist. Teachers and administrators utilize both media centers for a number of parent involvement events and student extension from classroom curriculum programs. St. George Elementary has one television production room with video broadcasts to classrooms, office, and working on creating a reading in the resource room for special projects for teachers so they can have multiple classes at one time in the library. Both libraries have a SMART BOARD multimedia center (Document camera, VCR/DVD player, Digital camera) for instruction. One networked printer and two networked copiers are available to all staff. Folkston Elementary has 15 wireless laptops for students to access for book lookup and special projects. Folkston elementary school has wireless access throughout the building, which provides mobile computing. The elementary school provides access to their on-line catalog program, Destiny to all staff, students and parents. The site is: http://books.charlton.k12.ga.us. Folkston Elementary media center will need to add different furniture, and upgrade technology equipment in the next three years to meet the student and staff needs for seating and technology access for all students.

Library Collections
Print Materials The following table illustrates the number of print materials in each collection and the GSLA standards for all library collections. FES collection is highlighted in yellow.

Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS)

Number of Students Charlton County High School Bethune Middle School Folkston Elementary School St. George Elementary School Number of Print Titles 13,600 14,500 13,163 10,051 CCGP Standard (20 books per student) 3980 5510 5520 1420 Meets or Exceeds standard? Yes Yes Yes Yes

398 551 552 142

Periodical/Audio/Visual Titles
Number of Students Charlton County High School Bethune Middle School Folkston Elementary School St. George
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Number of Periodical Titles 8 6 4 2

Number of Audio/Visual Titles VHS 1,110 DVD 267 VHS - 330 DVD - 420 VHS 701 DVD - 360 VHS - 998 17

Elementary School

DVD - 250

Georgia DOE 2012 Library Media Program, 2012 (http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-andAssessment/Curriculum-andInstruction/Documents/Rubric12.pdf) 1. 7a. If less than base size: A school system shall provide no less than half-time services of a Library Media Specialist for each school less than base size and shall provide adult supervision in the library media center for the entire instructional day. Base Size definition defined by unweighted FTE: Grades K-5: 450; Grades 6-8: 624; Grades 9-12: 970.
Staff Library Media Program
Number of Students Current Staff FTLT = Fulltime Library Teacher PTLT = Part-time Library Teacher HT = Half Time 1 PTLT 1 FT Parapro 1 FTLT 1 HT Parapro 1 PTLT 1 HT Parapro 1 PTLT (once a week) 1 HT Parapro Meets or Exceeds GSLA standard?

Charlton County High School Bethune Middle School Folkston Elementary School St. George Elementary School

398 551 552 142

Yes No No No

Budget sources:
The formula example I was given by the financial clerk for distribution of our budget was: Example: Kindergarten PGM Base weight on page 2 is 2430.57 x the weight of KG 1.6508 = 4012.38 per student x the % for Media personnel 2.1053% = 84.47

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This calculation is based on 15 students in the class (Teacher student ratio). This is what all the budgets are set for in classrooms. This does affect the media center budget, too. They could not explain how but I receive monies according to the overall FTE count for the school. Any additional funding the media center receives are from Book Fairs held each year and lost book funds. These budgets generally are around two thousand to one thousand each per school. These funds are used primarily for purchase of books or book supplies.
FY 2013 School Library Budgets Charlton County High School Bethune Middle School $ 5,500.00 $5,554.00 $8,200.23 $7,234.00 $7,110.18 $5,03.45 $7,788.00 $7,245.09 $6,368.96 $4,456.00 Software Licenses Supplies/Technology Books/Subscriptions

Folkston Elementary $4,435.00 School St. George Elementary School $2,340.34

V. THE FES SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER PROGRAM PLAN

Stakeholder Survey: An online survey was administered to teachers using the Google Survey tool. Only my classroom teachers were selected to respond to this first survey. The survey addressed a number of questions asking teachers about the library. The survey can be viewed at this link and example (Attachment B): (https://docs.google.com/a/charlton.k12.ga.us/forms/d/1uh1waYIS4QH1yG6L6ZkaUkYGW8TeFk3lumJ6MU3Yy4/viewform#start=openform) The graphed results provide a clear understanding of what needs to be addressed and provided an outlined what goals needed to be set (Attachment C). GOALS: Long-range goals: Based on the survey, the greatest needs are for collaboration and increased hours of usage of the library. The teachers will need training in order to use the library affectively to integrate library resources into their curriculum and a library curriculum. The lack of an integrated library curriculum shows a need to create one to bridge the gap between the classroom curriculum and the library (non-existent) curriculum. Some teachers feel they are never able to visit the library with their students as a whole group for selected projects due to the rigid schedule developed by administrators to visit the library.
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Providing more books, eBooks, and technology equipment (eReaders) to access a wider variety of venues to meet the digital students. Additionally, the annually meetings reflected additional long-range and short-range goals to improve the library program and facilities. They are listed in the planning charts below targeting: Goal 1: Teaching & Learning (Information & Technology Literacy) Goal 2:Access & Delivery of Information Objectives (Resources & Staff) Goal 3:Program Administration (Collaboration) Goal 4: Student Literacy Program (Reading Motivation) Goal 5: Celebrate the Library Program (COMMUNICATION)

Short-range goals (or objectives): The short-range goals and objectives are all will be administrator by the media specialist and administrators to ensure the goals are met. The chart below lists both short-range (annually) and long-range (ongoing) goals. These will be adjusted as needed and recommended by staff, parents and administrators during annually meetings.

Goals
Goal 1: Teaching & Learning (Information & Technology Literacy) To provide a collection of resources in all formats, with the necessary equipment, to support the requirements of the Georgia Core Curriculum, and the varied interests, new technologies, and literacy needs of all students. Strategy 1.1 Continue analyze, weed, inventory and purchase books and resources for the library 1.2 Update technology in the FES LMC annually with one or two new pieces of equipment for student access to on-line research requirements 1.3 Train teachers and students on how to use the web-based catalog program Destiny 1.4 Increase the use of eReaders (iPads) and purchase of more eBooks for library collection 1.5 Post district policies and procedures for inter-library loans
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Objective

Evaluation/Timeline

1.1 Update collection to meet all age groups reading levels and staff needs 1.2 Purchase new equipment in library and classrooms as needed

Ongoing (long range goal)

Ongoing (long range goal)

1.3 Destiny utilized by all teachers and student 1.4 eReaders and eBooks purchased and used. 1.5 Library resources being shared between buildings

Pre-test and post-test (annually)

Track usage (annually)

Ongoing (long range goal)

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Goal 2:Access & Delivery of Information Objectives (Resources & Staff) To review and update our K-12 Library Curriculum. Strategy 2.1 Develop curriculum, curriculum maps, unit guides and assessments 2.2 Develop and use grading rubrics for library report to school staff 2.3 Provide sufficient staffing (certified school librarians) in the library to support library program.

Objective

Evaluation/Timeline

2.1 New library curriculum document for K-3rd grade 2.2 Rubrics used to generate K-3rd report on library curriculum use. 2.3 Secure a full-time parapro to ensure the media specialist can be accessible to staff

Provide a pre-test and post to teachers (annually) Create a rubrics for use by library staff and classroom teachers (ongoing) Survey collecting information improving hours for teacher access to the library (long range goal)

Goal 3:Program Administration (Collaboration) To strengthen the collaboration between classroom teachers and library teachers Strategy 3.1 Develop online calendar of library events for staff 3.2 Develop and distribute a library brochure to staff at the start of the school year 3.3 Make presentation at staff meetings a minimum of 2 times 3.4 Update library webpage to include information regarding the services and lessons that can be taught 3.5 Provide professional development for staff at least once per year during full day or release days 3.6 Develop online collaboration tools to be access library and classroom programs

Objective

Evaluation/Timeline

3.1 Library calendar posted on library webpage 3.2 Brochure distributed

Track access through log on webpage (annually) Annual survey (annually)

3.3 Agenda item on 2 staff meetings 3.4 Update webpage with information about lessons/activities/curriculum 3.5 Professional development documentation

Monthly meeting (annually) Monthly meeting (annually)

Survey of library facilities (annually)

3.6 Sites are developed and being used by staff by accessing on-site Symbaloo listing all programs available to students and staff

Training provided (annually)

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Goal 4: Student Literacy Program (Reading Motivation) Provide an Atmosphere that Engages Students and Encourage them to Read Strategy 4.1 Create reading incentive programs for students 4.2 Make presentations at a school committee meeting

Objective

Evaluation/Timeline

4.3 Start a host Book Club for students and pilot Book Clubs for staff

4.1 Library runs one incentive program 4.2 Present to leadership team and parent involvement meeting agenda 4.3 Creation of Book Club meetings for students and staff

Ongoing (long range goal) Annual

Annual

Goal 5: Celebrate the Library Objective Program (COMMUNICATION) To raise awareness of resources and encourage use of library services and the importance of libraries in community and school staff Strategy 5.1 Establish uniform and consistent 5.1 Post to webpage, blog, newsletter, newspaper, and email communication with students, PTO parents/guardians and school personnel to keep them informed about the types of services provided by the library program. 5.2 Improved communication 5.2 Higher percentage access to with parent regarding library eBooks activities and programs for students and parents to read online free eBooks by sending information home in, newsletter, and posting to website, blog and emails.

Evaluation/Timeline

Ongoing (long range goal)

Ongoing (long range goal)

Evaluation: The review process is completed at the beginning and end of the school year to review what we need to accomplish and complete, with staff, parents and administrators. The initial meeting with staff and administrators is accomplished during one of our first weekly staff meetings. The parent meeting is during our first PTO/Parent Involvement meeting. During each meeting a discussion involved in targeting what our library needs are for both groups. Staff presents what books and collaboration programs need to be created.
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The parents zero in on what activities they can help to bring in more funding to the library for more books and eBooks. An annual report will be presented to the staff, parents, and administrators providing data from our Destiny reports, annual survey, pre-test and post-tests administered to students and staff. This data will project what adjustments will need to be given to our library program to improve our library program. Advocacy: During our annual meetings a report will be presented to staff, parents, and administrators. The local library is involved in our parent involvement team and will receive the report during our annual meeting. The same report will be posted to our school website along with the school improvement plan and library improvement plan.

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References:
ALA AND AASL: Assuring Quality in School Librarianship Education Programs (2010). ALA & AASL Standards for initial Preparation of School Librarians, http://www.ala.org/aasl/education/ncate CensusViewerFolkston (2010). Georgia Population: Census 2010 and 2000 Interactive Map, Demographics, Statistics, Quick Facts, http://censusviewer.com/city/GA/Folkston Distasio, Sekiguchi, & Woo (2010). Danvers School Library Media Center Long Range Plan 2011-2016 Folkston Elementary Webpage (2102). CRCT Instructional Assessment Data, http://charlton.bes.schoolfusion.us Follet/Destiny software program (2013). Book collection data report FES library, http://books.charlton.k12.ga.us Georgia Department of Education (2010). Folkston Elementary Report Card Data, http://www.gadoe.org/Pages/By-School.aspx GADOE Curriculum Instruction and Assessment (2012). Georgia Library Media Program SelfEvaluation Rubric, http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculumand-Instruction/Documents/Rubric12.pdf GADOE Georgia Standards.Org (2013). Library Media Services, https://www.georgiastandards.org/resources/Pages/Tools/LibraryMedia.aspx ) Lairsey, Dr. John (2012). About Us, Welcome to Charlton County School System statement, http://www.charlton.k12.ga.us Piktochart Programs (2013). Sandy Slaters Infographic created for FRIT 7134 Public School Review (2013). Folkston Elementary School, http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/20421 SSlater SMLP (2013). SSlater Strategic Management Library Plan, http://bm123456.pbworks.com/w/page/68651110/SSlater%20Strategic%20Management%20Plan USA City Facts.com (2013). Folkston, GA, http://www.usacityfacts.com/ga/charlton/folkston/economy/ Westview's Library Media Program (2013). Mission Statement, http://westview.adams12.org/Library Wikipedia.org (2013). Demographics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_County,_Georgia
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ATTACHMENT A:

FES (Folkston Elementary School)

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ATTACHMENT B Teacher Survey

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(https://docs.google.com/a/charlton.k12.ga.us/forms/d/1uh1waYIS4QH1yG6L6ZkaUkYGW8TeFk3lumJ6MU3Yy4/viewform#start=openform) First eight questions are not showing dropdown selections: Strongly Agree, Agree, Dont Know, Disagree, Strongly Disagree (Danvers School Library Media Center Plan, 2010).

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