It is possible for librarians and content area teachers to make connections and find common ground when writing and delivering curriculum. Presented to IU 8 (webinar)

1. CURRICULUM:
CONNECTIONS AND
COMMON GROUND
Allison Mackley
Hershey High School
November 2014

2. A Peek Into the Process
 Building a Foundation
 Defining and Refining the Plan
 Envisioning the Future

3. BUILDING A FOUNDATION
2007 - 2008

4. Start Small
 Academic Culture
 Accessibility
 Communication

5. Create Connections
 Building on Current Relationships
 Finding Common Ground
 Reinventing Library Orientation

6. Curriculum Without Students
 Information Literacy Instructional Timeline
 Goals:
 Empower students to become effective information problem solvers, discerning readers, and successful life-
long learners.
 Provide students with the resources and skills that will be needed in today’s information-based society.
 Information literacy skills and strategies cannot stand in isolation; therefore, library lessons are
integrated with academic subjects across the curriculum throughout the year. This collaboration
with content area teachers promotes the students’ development towards enhancing and expanding
upon the lessons and topics taught elsewhere in the school. The library experience should
supplement the objectives of each content area as students refine information problem solving skills
and increase technology-for-learning proficiency. Students build on previous learning and benefit
from increased academic success by refining their skills and developing the ability to think carefully,
critically, and creatively about the world around them.
 The scope and sequence provides teacher-librarians with the structure needed to plan for students’
library experiences, thus ensuring an exposure to the range of information literacy and library-
specific skills needed for life-long learning.

7. Plugging in the Standards
 Concepts for Life-long Learning
 Existence of Libraries and Librarians
 Essential Nature of Information Literacy Skills
 Standards
 AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
 Pennsylvania Reading, Writing, Speaking,
Listening Standards

8. Plugging in the Standards continued
 Skills and Procedural Knowledge
 Scope and Sequence
 Resources Consulted
 AASL – Standards for the 21st Century Learner
 Ephrata School District: K – 12 Information Literacy
and Technology Skills Curriculum
 Pittsburgh Public School: Information Literacy for
Life-long Learning
 Upper Merion School District: K-12 Library
Curriculum

9. Hit and Miss
 Too Many Targets
 Consistency
 Equal Access to Instruction
 Systemic Implications

10. DEFINING AND REFINING THE PLAN
2008 - 2014

11. Core Subjects: English, Science and Social Studies
Supports
 Director of Curriculum and Instruction
 Principal
 Department Coordinators
 Department Members
 Curriculum Mapping Process
 Curriculum Consultant
 Technology
Barriers
 Collaborative Planning Time
 Urgency to Cover Curriculum
 PSSA Tests
 Keystone Tests
 Culture of Independence
 Teaching Spaces
 Technology

12. Science: Biology – Advancing Genetic Applications
PA
Standards
Collins
Writing
Technology
Integration
Project
Outline
2008 -
2009
Implement
Librarian as
Instructor
Phase Out
2009 -
2012
Keystone
Tests
2012 –
2013
Curriculum
Review
2013 -
2015

13. English: 9th Grade - Social Survival
PA
Standards
Upcoming
Keystones
Embedded
Research
Skills
Librarian as
Resource
Project
Outline
2009 -
2010 Consistency
and Equal
Access
Resource
Sharing
Librarian as
Instructor
Librarian as
Co-teacher
2010 -
2012 Librarian as
Consultant
Project
Revision
2013 -
2014 Curriculum
Review
2015

14. 11th Grade English: American Dream
 Research Resulting from Of Mice and Men
 Ownership of Topic
 Self-selection from a Variety of Research
Strategies

15. AP English: Literary Analysis
 Multimedia Presentation
 Variety of Presentation Tools
 Attention to Intellectual Property

16. Social Studies: Civics – Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Course
Creation
Response to
Proposed
Keystone
Library
Model
Curriculum
Project
Outline
2011 -
2012 Consistency
and Equal
Access
Librarian as
Instructor
Project
Revision
2012 -
2014 Continued
Refinement
2014

17. Social Studies: World History – Divided by Districts/Rescued by
Rivers
Combined
I & II
Model
Library
Curriculum
Skills vs.
Content
Shared
Rubric
2012 -
2013 Consistency
and Equal
Access
Library as
Instructor
Balanced
Literacy
2013 -
2014 Project
Revision
2014

18. ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
2015 and Beyond

19. Mapping Our Way: Elementary School
 K-12 Department Writing Team
 Summer 2013
 2013 – 2014 Implement and Refine
 Unit Maps
 Course Essential Question
 Unit/Topic
 Unit Essential Question
 PA Core Standards
 Concepts
 Skills
 Content Vocabulary
 Resources
 Formative/Summative Assessments
 Key Lesson Questions

20. Everything New- Middle School
 Librarian
 Academic Support Team
 PLCs
 Articulation

21. 12th Grade English: Research Rotation
 Choice of 4 Electives
 Film Studies
 Science Fiction
 Creative Nonfiction
 Words That Changes the World – Literature of Peace,
War, and Social Justice
 First Semester
 Written Presentation
 Second Semester
 Multimedia Multimedia Presentation

22. Foundations of Ethical Research
Rationale
• Empower Students
• Effective Information Problem Solvers
• Discerning Readers
• Successful Life-long Learners
• Apply Critical Thinking Skills in Collecting, Organizing, Evaluating, and Using Information

23. CONTACT
Allison Mackley
amackley@hershey.k12.pa.us
717-508-2259

24. Image Credits
 Bertalan Szuros – Timeline: Minutes
 Nomadic Lass – Dream Big
 Daniela Hartmann – Close Connection –
Verbundenheit
 Rennett Stowe – Wall Plug
 James Wheeler – Yoho Road
 Mararie – darts at the biennale (jacob
dahlgren)
 Journal of Cell Biology - Vol.193 Issue 1-
toc1
 Chris – Diversity Clucks
 Rita M – American Dream
 Gioia De Antoniis – Our Armor
 Neil R – Supreme Court – Sepia
 Praveen Selvam – Indus River
 Paul Papadimitriou – Requests.
 Josef.stuefer – Birth
 Fotografeleen – Research Before
Producing a Video