Articles+for+Oct+inservice

Here's the page to add the links for articles, etc. for the Oct. 10, 2011 inservice.

**“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.”**
--Harold Howe former U.S. Commissioner of Education

Draft of the School library survey and PSLA's response: []

Studies, etc. about the importance of libraries:
[|School Librarians Continue to Help Students Achieve Standards: The Third Colorado Study (2010)]- Most recent study by Lance

[|School Libraries Make a Difference to Student Achievement]- Site from The International Association of School Librarianship- contains links to many different articles/studies

[|School Libraries and MCAS Scores]- a study from Oct. 2000 in Massachusetts

[|Proof of the Power: Quality Library Media Programs Affect Academic Achievement]- Keith Curry Lance Sept. 2001- summary of 4 different studies.

[|The Impact of Michigan School Librarians on Academic Achievement:Kids Who Have Libraries Succeed]- 2003 Michigan Study

[|Make the Connection: Quality School Library Media Programs Impact Academic Achievement in Iowa]- 2002 Iowa Study

[|Library Media Programs and Student Achievement]- Summary of findings from various studies, complied in 2009 by Andy Spinks, Cobb County School District

Ideas, Worksheets, Websites, Etc. to share:
[] Dewey, or Don't We?: A Look at the Future of Books

[] Let's Make Information Literacy a Priority: A Librarian Speaks Out

The velcro worksheet is for elementary level. I am attaching a ppt. presentation that I use with high school students. I wish I could take credit for it, but one of my student teachers found it, developed the lesson and shared it. It is the CRAAP test link below.







Link to the Rolling Acres PortaPortal: [] a great site to keep all of the sites you use with your classes. It's also easy for them to access from home.