Entries Tagged as 'PLC'

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Annual Report 2009-10

Annual Report for 2009-10
Our Annual Report highlights the various ways the LMC impacts students at Blue Valley West.  We noted many positives, expressed areas of concern, and discussed progress on our SMART Goals. 
We welcome any comments and suggestions to improve the report.
 

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

First Semester Report

Typically, we provide monthly reports to our administrators – we keep stats, count classes, and make copies.  These go in their mailboxes until the next month.  However, this year we changed to semester reports and added a new feature, assessed indicators.  We looked at our KS State Reading Assessment tested indicators and noted each time [...]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

It’s a New Year!

With the new school year, we are again revisiting our norms, vision, and goals from last year to update for this school year.
Smart Goals for 2008-2009
1. By the end of 2008-2009 school year, the library media specialists will integrate 21st Century Skills into 50% of the lessons collaborated.
Initiatives: Training for teachers
New knowledge of 2.0 tools
Integration [...]

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Welcome back!

Another exciting year at BVW! (I thought about the beginning line for some time – how do I begin to look at the new school year? Exciting, full of change, anticipation….)
So, as we begin the new school year, there are many dreams/hopes for the library. 
We decided to come up with specific SMART Goals for our department.  [...]

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

College Knowledge Information

Many of you have expressed interest in obtaining the powerpoint slides from Dr. David T. Conley regarding College Knowledge:  What it REALLY Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready. 
Info:
Center for Educational Policy Research
877-766-2279
contact@s4s.org
According to Conley, specific skills that are necessary for college no content area “owns” the instruction.  [...]

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Handouts from TriConference

Handouts from TriConference Presentation

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Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Back from Triconference

I am back from KASL Triconference.  I was able to attend many great sessions.  Of course, Alan November was great.  I was so inspired to begin podcasting – put weekly podcasts on the LMC website.  I will give a try next week – I will post some of them here & see how it works.  [...]

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Upcoming Presentation – KASL

Coming in April, I will be presenting at Tri-Conference!  PLC, NCLB, AYP, NCA:  What is our role as school library media specialists?
With the Rick DuFour model of Professional Learning Communities, we have an outstanding opportunity to be involved in the discussion with other educators about how we impact student learning.  However, there is also an [...]