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Lauren Parren

DesignShare: Imagining the Future of the School Library - 0 views

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library design future Rowland PD

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  • edefine their “value-added” qualities.
  • Growing affluence means that many readers can and will purchase information rather than borrow it.
  • high touch environments
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  • growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effect of school libraries and school librarians on student reading abilities and academic achievement
  • uber information experts.
  • virtual environment.
  • no good reasons to design school libraries that are based on an outdated model
  • nnovative design
    • Lauren Parren
      Lauren Parren on 27 Aug 12
       
      Yes!  This is exactly what we are thinking!
  • school officials will strive for a philosophical, functional, and physical merger of the school library with the IT program, with a faculty center and spaces for staff development, as well as spaces where teachers can work with (and learn from) students, school librarians, and IT staff; and
  • beyond the library walls
  • viewed primarily as a cost, rather than as an investment,
  • trying to create a good program by simply redesigning space without paying attention to staffing.
  • Teaching people to effectively find and use information to meet their needs.”
  • the 21st century school library must look beyond tradition to the future, to what is needed to help fulfill the educational mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
  • he library will be a sacred space dedicated to honoring those who use the library to meet whatever informational, educational, socialization and personal needs they might have.
  • broadest mission
  • Today’s library is a learning place, not a warehouse space.
  • fluid
  • Libraries must be spaces where multiple activities can take place simultaneously.
  • ifferent types of environments
  • ook at places where kids DO want to be
  • brary staff and a library program in place before facility planning
  • help as you can from an experienced, reputable school library facility design consultant—
  • Involve the stakeholders
  • Be adventurous,
  • complex
  • And I always say, design for the technologies that are available NOW, not those just over the horizon. The horizon might be further away than you anticipate.
  • libraries and librarians are needed now more than ever
  • a mix of print and non-print materials
  • consider providing more space for instructional purposes.
  • As much as possible we should be designing flexible spaces so that space required today for book storage can easily be converted for other purposes in the future.
  • he emphasis must be on the quality of the collection, not the quantity.
    • Lauren Parren
      Lauren Parren on 27 Aug 12
       
      Is this still true?
  • quiet reflection will remain a need of humans for a very long time.
    • Lauren Parren
      Lauren Parren on 27 Aug 12
       
      Hence our 'requirement' that both teachers and students work on their portfolios at the end of a unit after using the MALT Center.
  • The glut of information that keeps expanding overwhelms most people, and libraries and librarians are needed to help guide and teach students and teachers to cope.
  • November 2nd, 2006
  • knowledge production areas.
Caroline Camara

Lindenwood University - Our Grades Were Broken: Overcoming Barriers and Challenges to I... - 0 views

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Standards Based Grading assessment grading performance based grading grades sbg

shared by Caroline Camara on 27 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Caroline Camara on 27 Aug 15
     
    Abstract The purpose of this study was to describe the barriers and challenges school leaders face as they implement a standards-based grading (SBG) system.  The researchers used a multiple case study methodology to investigate how key school leaders described their implementation journey at three schools that differed in size, demographics, and location.  Purposeful sampling was used to identify key administrators at three different schools who were in the process of implementing a SBG system.  Data were collected primarily via semi-structured interviews.  In the analysis, researchers used three phases: horizontalization, thematizing, and textural-structural synthesis.  Each of the three schools had very different implementation stories.  Barriers in the process included: student information and grading systems, parents/community members, the tradition of grading and fear of the unknown, and the implementation dip.  This study suggests that implementation of SBG must be purposeful and well communicated.  That is, in order to enhance the likelihood of success, an intentional plan with a reasonable timeline, ongoing professional development and collaboration, and effective two-way communication about the purpose of grading is needed.  Also maintaining A-through-F final grades-even as they simultaneously implement more progressive assessment and reporting strategies-is often seen as a necessary concession.  Finally, the authors explicate SBG's relationship to competency-based education and professional learning communities (PLCs).
Dustin Corrigan

Working as a Team for Student Success: The Middle to High School Transition - Transform... - 0 views

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transformation

shared by Dustin Corrigan on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bring the middle and high school administrators, teachers, and counselors together to learn about the courses, curriculum, and requirements of each school; to develop a mutual understanding about the young adolescent; and to create a smooth transition plan. Include input from students and parents. Include in the transition plan visits to the new school, counseling, and summer experiences that help students acclimate to their new schools.Plan activities that provide incoming students with social support, including opportunities to develop relationships with other incoming students and with older students.Provide an advisory program that assigns each student with an advisor or mentor — an adult advocate. Put significant, purposeful effort into engaging parents and families in the school. Parent and caregiver involvement tends to decrease in the middle grades and even more so during the transition to high school. Provide activities throughout the school year that involve students from both the middle and high schools. Peer mentoring programs that connect a ninth grader or older student with an incoming eighth grader are a popular way to accomplish this.
Dustin Corrigan

Time to Start Grading Middle Schools on High School Readiness - SchoolBook - 0 views

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transformation

shared by Dustin Corrigan on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Dustin Corrigan on 24 Sep 12
     
    The city progress reports for high schools this year included new information about college readiness of students. As part of the chancellor's attempt to improve middle schools, the city should also start including a high school readiness index for students, a high school principal writes.
Lauren Parren

Changed but Still Critical - Part One of Two - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Sku... - 0 views

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library2.0 ISTE 2012 Rowland johnson

shared by Lauren Parren on 13 Jul 12 - Cached
  • 1.  Social learning spaces
  • the best school libraries are not just surviving, but thriving, in this new digital information
  • but not without seriously re-purposing their physical spaces.
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  • Comfort and aesthetics are increasingly important
  • “learning groups” in which participants collaboratively construct personal meaning
  • content studied is the most important factor in college students being successful.3
  • school libraries also fit the description of a “third place”-
  • specially before and after school. Allowing gaming, research on topics of personal
  • learning ‘commons” i
  • the place, either physical or virtual, that is the hub of the school where exemplary teaching and learning are show cased; where all professional development, teaching and learning experimentation and action research happens; and where various specialists of the school have offices, physical or virtual.5
  • schools with good library programs are more successful than those without, v
Ellen Repstad

TEP Charter - The Equity Project Charter School - 1 views

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education innovation teaching CharterSchools school

shared by Ellen Repstad on 12 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Ellen Repstad on 12 Aug 12
     
    TEP is a groundbreaking school! 
  • Lauren Parren on 13 Aug 12
     
    Maybe we should visit together? Sorry that I saved this article again in our group rather than just commenting the first time. Let's find some PD time to introduce our amazing teachers to Diigo!
Lauren Parren

How Students Lead the Learning Experience at Democratic Schools | MindShift - 0 views

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democratic PBL middle school

shared by Lauren Parren on 13 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • The freedom of democratic school does not translate into license to do whatever students wish
  • level of skill students need
  • the ability to devote themselves to projects for as long as they want.
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  • democratic judicial system have made bullying almost non-existent
Ellen Repstad

Spaulding High School Competency-Based Assessment - 2 views

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education transformation competency

shared by Ellen Repstad on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Ellen Repstad on 02 Oct 12
     
    How one school is doing it
Lauren Parren

Debney Meadows Primary School - Home - 0 views

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Australia Rowland ISTE languages

shared by Lauren Parren on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Lauren Parren on 16 Oct 12
     
    This is one of the schools we visited, and was one of my favorites.  I have some footage of their language class.  All these little ones have iPads and it is just amazing to watch them use them.
Dustin Corrigan

High School Readiness Assessment - ParentingPreTeens.BizCalcs.com - 0 views

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transformation

shared by Dustin Corrigan on 27 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Dustin Corrigan on 27 Sep 12
     
    Yes/No checklist for parents to assess teens readiness for high school
Ellen Repstad

iPads for All: Public Schools in Northwestern Vermont Make Education Interactive | Seve... - 2 views

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ipad

shared by Ellen Repstad on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Lauren Parren on 30 Oct 11
     
    I like the idea of 1:1 a lot, particularly as we transform the school. I'm not yet convinced that the iPad is the way to go, though.
Lauren Parren

Free Technology for Teachers: Extending Digital Portfolios Beyond High School and How t... - 0 views

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portfolios forward domain

shared by Lauren Parren on 06 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Lauren Parren on 06 Jun 14
     
    What if we purchased a domain for each graduate who has a digital portfolio? This school does it, and teaches kids how to forward a domain.
Ellen Repstad

http://woodstockmiddleschool.nbed.nb.ca/Documents/DoE%20-%20PIP%20(NB3-21C)%202010-201.pdf - 0 views

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transformation education competency

shared by Ellen Repstad on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Ellen Repstad on 02 Oct 12
     
    This is one of the first schools I learned about using these competencies.  
Dustin Corrigan

Are we overloading our students - 1 views

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transformation MALTcommons Homewok

shared by Dustin Corrigan on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Dustin Corrigan on 16 Jun 13
     
    A good discussion for us to have as we're transforming our middle school
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