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For Wheeling High School Library Media Center Mitchell Berman LIS 773 Spring 2015 School Profile Wheeling High School is a middle income high school and is one of the six High Schools in District 214 WHS serves the village of Wheeling ID: 442744

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Action Plan For Wheeling High SchoolLibrary Media Center

Mitchell Berman

LIS 773

Spring 2015Slide2

School ProfileWheeling High School is a middle income high school and is one of the six High Schools in District 214. WHS serves the village of Wheeling, sections of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, and Prospect Heights. The total enrollment in 2013-2014 was 1,792 students. Currently the school’s principal is Angela Sisi.Slide3

Library Media Center ProfileThe WHS Library Media Center is on the first floor of school. The head librarian is Barry Hanrahan and his assistant is Norbella Pena. The library has vast fiction and non-fiction sections, as well as DVD’s for student checkout. The Library also includes computer classrooms on either end of the LMC plus an area for the children in the daycare center.Slide4

Barry Hanrahan,Head LibrarianBarry has been the Head Librarian at WHS for the past 5 years. His first career in education was a High School Social Studies teacher. His educational credentials include a B.A. in Education (Social Sciences) from Illinois State University, a M.A. in History from Northern Illinois University, a LIS endorsement from NIU, plus a full Masters in Education-Library Informational Specialist from Olivet Nazarene University. Barry provides instruction and research assistance, builds the collections, programming, and promotes a love of reading for the students at Wheeling High School!Slide5

Norbella Pena,Library Technology AssistantNorbella has been with District 214 for 13 years, but this is her first year in the WHS Library Media Center.

Norbella

is pursuing a Masters’ in Education-Bilingual Education from National Louis University.

Norbella

provides the clerical support for the LMC, as well as does some book talks. She has a good relationship with the students at WHS, which makes the LMC a popular place to come to!Slide6

Information Access and DeliveryWHS Media Center uses a Sirsi circulation system—Barry isn’t a fan of Sirsi because he feels the system isn’t user friendly, he wishes he had Destiny and is in process of advocating for it to be bought.The Circulation Policy consists of 5 books, 4 E-Books, and 14 Flipster magazines. The books can be checked for 3 school weeks.

Overdues

are $.10 per day and students are alerted via email for overdue books.

Barry has around $5,000-$6,000 yearly to spend on Databases. E-Books come out of the database budget as well.

WHS doesn’t have a huge multicultural section, but Barry is working on it.

As for book requests, both students and faculty can request alike.Slide7

Teaching and LearningAs far as teacher collaboration, Barry meets with a PLC (Professional Learning Community) both online and in person to discuss lesson plans. They are groups in each department school wide.Barry does a lot of teaching on school issued iPads. He teaches basic reference and instruction skills. The way he measures success is giving students a quiz before and after the lesson to see what the student learned.Barry says he has a lot of reluctant reader programs to attract students to the love of reading. Most of the reading programs are on display in the LMC and students who participate has a chance to win something (usually gift cards).Slide8

CommunicationBarry’s mission is for the administration to work with him in the LMC.Barry teaches 21st century skills and technology to staff in various ways. One of his popular ways is Lunch and Learn and he also teaches the staff on institute days.As far as Public Relations for the library, Barry’s main focus is Twitter and tweets daily about the WHS LMC. He also uses data and programs to entice interest in LMC.

Barry has a great relationship with the public library, Indian Trails, and with the Teen

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ibrarian. They do a joint book club Book Bytes.Slide9

AdministrationBarry contributed with the LMC mission with the other librarians in the district.Barry’s selection policy comes from the board and reviews for student’s needs.His $20,000 annual budget comes from the Administration and Barry has to balance the budget between the students and faculty.His library statistics include books, e-books, and computer lab usage.He does assess his program, but to his administrators and not the board.

Barry uses both fixed and blocked scheduling for library classroom usage.

Norbella

and Barry alternate between a 7-3 and 8-4 schedule.Slide10

Administration Cont’dThere is also a mentoring program between the librarians in the district. Barry was mentored by the librarian at Buffalo Grove High School and he mentored the librarian at Hersey High School. Mentoring sessions are online or in person and goals are needed to be met for the mentoree.Barry also belongs to many committees including: Tech Committee for Instruction, Summer Reading, New

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eachers at WHS, and AVID (Advanced Via Individual Determination).Slide11

MiscellaneousBarry’s mission in the WHS Media Center is to make students readers, aside from teaching them reference and instruction.The LMC will be going through a renovation process to be completed by Fall 2016. The LMC will get new desks/chairs and bookshelves, plus furniture compatible with current technology. Barry wants the LMC to be a place where students can come and relax out of the daily grind of school.Barry’s biggest professional challenge is balancing his duties between being the LMC director and working with students. Sometimes he feels like he could be distracted, but wants to focus on his task at hand.The biggest takeaway from Barry that I learned is when you first start in the field, always say “Yes” because it will make people want to work with you and get people to trust you.Slide12

A Reading Promotional YouTube VideoWhile talking with Barry, he showed me this video that was produced that focused on Summer Reading. It was nice to see some of the teachers/staff in the school participating in this video and how they value the importance of reading outside of school:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55xh9ufKOMSlide13

TheAction PlanSlide14

Action Plan ObjectiveAt Wheeling High School, one of the passions that Barry has is to promote the love of reading to his students. Barry has many reading incentive programs in place currently, but the idea of combining technology (which would benefit the current ELA common core standard of integrating content presented in diverse media and formats) and reading might entice some students to participate. By purchasing Nooks (they are proven to be more school friendly), students can enjoy some of their favorite novels virtually. This would also help with the Faculty Summer Reading Club. A

ll the books would be pre loaded on the Nooks, which would be accommodating for everyone. And even though the students have iPads, just having a “reading only” device might not distract them from going online or playing games if they read on iPads.Slide15

Device CostA Nook Glowlight is currently priced at $99 per device. The total cost for purchasing roughly 30 Nooks is $2, 970. The number 30 is good because each account can have 5 devices on them, which means that Barry would have to purchase 6 copies of each book for each account. Having roughly 30 is the size of a classroom, so a teacher can even check them out for a class. If the project becomes successful, Barry can buy even more Nooks for the students to enjoy.

Picture from BN.com.Slide16

Nook Book Cost AnalysisThe average cost of a Nook Book runs anywhere from $1.00 to about $15.00. Depending on the book and how long it has been out, it might be on clearance. For example Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is currently priced at $4.99. It is easily affordable to load up a Nook with a wide variety of books, with a minimal budget. Since Barry purchases e-books from his database budget, purchasing books for the Nooks can come out of that budget as well. Or he can use some of his $20,000 annual library budget to cover the cost of some of the Nook Books.Slide17

STEPS TO IMPLEMENT THE NOOK PROJECTStep 1Barry researches different grant opportunities that would help fund him the cost for the devices. For example Starbucks (and other companies) have grants for school technology, so Barry could start applying for them.Step

2

Barry uses some

of his budget money (or leftover grant money) to purchase Nook Books for each device.

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3

Barry starts to collaborate with teachers on how to use the Nooks in their classes with the students.

Step

4

After

collaborating with the teachers, both the teachers and Barry promote the idea of using Nooks to students and how it is beneficial for them to start reading on a digital device.

Step 5

Students and teachers come to the LMC to check out the devices and start using them.

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6

After the success of the students loving

the Nooks, Barry can start promoting the Summer Faculty Book Club to the faculty to engage them to be current on what their students are reading.Slide18

ConclusionIn purchasing Nooks, students will most likely become more interested in the Overdrive books Barry purchases for the library. Using an E-Reader will be training students to read virtually, and having this project in place, will also help students become more comfortable reading on a device. Since, technology is the wave of the future, starting kids out early will help them achieve success in college and beyond, when things become more virtual (i.e. Canvas or Blackboard in college). Plus, the Nooks will force them to read and not play online and this project achieves many goals in the ELA common core curriculum.Slide19

Works CitedELA common core standards retrieved on March 30, 2015 from: http://www.isbe.net/COMMON_CORE/default.htmGrant Information. Retrieved from web on April 20, 2015: http://www.k12grants.org/Grants/nation-no_deadline.htmHanrahan, B. (9 April 2015). Personal Interview. Nook device and Nook Book costs retrieved on April 10, 2015 from:

www.bn.com

Pena, N. (9 April 2015). Personal Interview.

Wheeling High School (2015). School information. Retrieved

on April 10, 2015 from: http://whs.d214.org/

Wheeling High School (2015). Summer Reading Video. Retrieved from YouTube on April 10, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55xh9ufKOM