Describes Colorado's "highly Effective School Library Program" and how to write a measurable growth plan

1. Highly Effective School
Library Programs
Clearing the Bar for
School Librarian
Best Practice
Month Day Year

2. Evidence Outcomes
 Components/concepts of the program
 Essentialness of leadership
 Evaluate/begin school-aligned growth plan

3. Leadership Is a Key Focus
What is one thing
you do that helps you
to be recognized as a
leader in your school?

4. Shift to Leadership is Essential

5. Highly Effective School Libraries
(HESL)
Multiple Possibilities
•
Evaluating you and your program
•
Professional Development
•
Award – CDE Recognition
•
Raise awareness and change perceptions

6. I.
Evaluation of You/Your Program
Assess collaboratively with your principal

7. • Use the Evaluation Rubric to assess
your program.
• Select 2 or 3 areas for improvement
and formulate these into schoolaligned goals.
• Use these goals to fill out the Growth
Plan and upload on the HESLP wiki
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8. II.
Professional Development

9. •Personalized professional growth in 23 rubric areas with help of your peers
•Develop a school-UIP aligned Growth
Plan and upload to wiki
•Final product that shows measurable
evidence of how you met your goals
•Principal commits to 8 hour release
time, and gets wiki link of outcomes

10. III.
Recognition

11. Rigorous Process with Higher Rewards
CDE Commissioner

12. •Multimedia Presentation (3 minutes)
•Two letters of recommendation (one
from principal or direct supervisor)
•Your school-aligned “Growth Plan”
•A link to your library website

13. Ensure Today’s Students Thrive
in 21 st -century Workforce

14. Key Ingredients
Risk-Taking Leader
Persistent Collaborator

15. Shift in perception among TL’s/Non-TL’s
Instructional/Digital Literacy Coach

16. Evidence Outcomes of Today
 Components/concepts of the program
 Essentialness of leadership
 Evaluate/begin school-aligned growth plan

17. CONTACT INFORMATION
Becky Russell, MLIS |School Library/Digital Literacy
Content Specialist | Colorado Department of Education |
303.866.6772 | russell_b@cde.state.co.us |
brussell@coloradostatelibrary.org
|http://tinyurl.com/COSchoolLibraries | @beckyjorussell
Judy Barnett| Highly Effective School Library Coordinator |
Colorado Department of Education | 719.964.5352 |
jbarnett@coloradostatelibrary.org
|highlyeffectiveschoollibraryprogram.wikispaces.com