Year+in+Review


 * __Goals and Actions:

__** § **//Improve student/staff information literacy, specifically independent location and access of information through facility upgrades, systematic collection maintenance, and design of collaborative instructional tools.//**

§ **//Improve SIS Library Media Center utilization by students and staff.//**
 * __Facility/ Upgrades:__
 * Converted to online library catalog system, Destiny, with increased functionality and home/school access
 * Added cluster seating for independent reading and small group collaboration / PTO Donation
 * Opened Technology Lab with 27 student computer workstations and 1 printer
 * __Systematic Collection Maintenance__:
 * Added 9 subscription databases aligned with SIS curriculum
 * Added 23 periodical subscriptions to increase free, voluntary non-fiction reading options for students
 * Created collection analysis using TitleWise
 * Labeled non-fiction shelves with Dewey classification
 * Revised labeling of fiction shelving due to new acquisitions
 * __Design and Deliver Collaborative Research and Technology Instruction__:
 * Designed and maintained a comprehensive [|SIS LMC] web page to support information literacy and technology with extensive curriculum and professional development content, on-going
 * In-serviced staff on expanded content in April 2009
 * Authored (Grades 7 – 8) Information & Technology Literacy curriculum. Approved by Central Office.
 * Met with faculty at cluster meetings to ‘market’ collaboration, produced and published preliminary Curriculum Map resultant from these meetings
 * Designed and published a [|Current Events Pageflake] for current events resources used across the curriculum
 * Revised SIS Research wiki for 24/7 research support for students
 * Revised SIS Cluster wiki’s for each (10) clusters as means of providing teachers tools to collaborate on information / communication literacy projects
 * Designed Internet Safety web quest for Grade 7; implementation projected for 2009/2010
 * Seek scheduling changes
 * On-going discussions for scheduling changes to building administration for SSR and Flex.
 * Improve effectiveness of SSR program
 * Pending Administrative Action - Proposal to improve student achievement against SSR objectives; under consideration of SIS Literary Team for 2009/2010
 * Implemented loan of flash drives to support students completing assignments that require in-school and home technology use.
 * Scantron equipment was recently acquired and is available for faculty use in the LMC back workroom.

Summary Curriculum Map General Program Stats and Admin A Look Ahead