1. Implementing the ALA School Library Media Program Assessment Rubric for the 21 st Century: Targeting Exemplary! Hanover County Library Media Specialists January 26, 2007

2. Moving from Good to Great… My role today? –Facilitate discussion of rubric target indicators –Offer suggested resources Your role? –Examine your scored ALA Assessment Rubric –Select three (3) non- exemplary level targets –Develop S.M.A.R.T. goals with strategies for these three

3. S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific Measurable Agreed Upon Realistic Time-Based Your end goal today is to develop three

4. From Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, ALA, 1998, p. 48

5. Assessment Rubric for the 21 st Century Twenty-five (25) total elements Three areas –Teaching and Learning –Information Access and Delivery –Program Administration Three levels (p. 33) –Basic –Proficient –Exemplary

6. Rubric and Resources

7. S.M.A.R.T. Goal: Examples

8. Goal of choice: B. Information Access and Delivery, 1b—Resources S.M.A.R.T. Goal: To increase usage of subscription databases Two strategies: 1.Add database information to library Web page 2.Hold staff development for teachers  For each strategy,  Who? When? How assessed?

9. Goal of choice: C. Program Administration, 2. Administrative Support S.M.A.R.T. Goal: To increase principal’s awareness of instructional role of library media specialist Two strategies: 1.Meet to discuss Academic Success @ Your Library brochure 2.Submit monthly report that not only shows numbers but also connects library activities to SOL and content instruction and schedule follow-up discussion  For each strategy,  Who? When? How assessed?

10. Task: Choose three (3) target indicators to move to exemplary. For each, develop a S.M.A.R.T. Goal. For each S.M.A.R.T. Goal, develop two strategies. For each strategy, tell who, when, and how to be assessed.

11. Audrey Church Coordinator, School Library Media Program Longwood University churchap@longwood.edu 434-395-2682