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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Mater Christi College

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From Library to Learning Commons

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Mater Christi College

A school of Good Samaritan

education

1,050 girls

Years 7-12

Celebrating 50 years

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Our curriculum framework is the MYP - Middle Years Program 7-10 (IB) VCE, VCAL and VET are offered at Year 12.School is divided into Middle (7-9) and Senior (10-12) schools.

Information Fluency program

Tuesday, 10 September 2013IF program has run for over 9 years - lessons once a fortnight to all Year 7 classes, taught out of context and rotated through the DomainsBased on the Five As - Aquire, Acces, Analyse, Apply and Assess (Lee Crockett)2013 - different approach, as a class begins a research task the T-L will work with them to ensure the 5As are taught in context and just-in-time.Evaluate at yearʼs end.

Wide Reading andYear 9 Literature Circles

Tuesday, 10 September 2013English classes from 7-12 read once a fortnight or once a weekYear 9s Literature Circle

Homework & Study Club

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Homework Club for Middle School and Study club for Year 10s, teacher staffed, hot drinks and biscuitsScholastica - for silent study for senior school - always supervised by staff and open late until 8.00 twice a week.

The Edge

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Edge - all year levels - for those who love reading and writing, meet once a fortnight - excursions to Reading Matters, incursions of writers.

“Creating schools for the 21st century requires less time looking in the rear view

mirror and more vision anticipating the road ahead”

Ian Jukes (The Committed Sardine)

Tuesday, 10 September 2013This is from Ian Jukes whose Committed Sardine blog is a great resource and it sums up the dilemma we faced when we began formulating a vision for the library in 2010.We needed some help trying to predict what we would be doing and the role of the library with the change that was about to take place - 1:1 computing.How do you anticipate the road ahead if you donʼt know what the future holds?

My revised manifestofor a 21st century teacher-librarian

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Joyce Valenza - manifesto written in October 2010.Joyce articulated the types of activities and skills that were neededsince revised it earlier this year.

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Adapted the manifesto to our own mission statement for the space and the staffing in the libraryCommunicated to - principal and whole school staff meetingAdvocacy - important to target the staff and how it can support them and affect educational outcomesbegin by establishing relationships with staff and then proposing an opportunity to work with themInduction day for new staff - take-away brochure about the services and the support you offer

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013First thing was to change the cultureThis costs nothingWe became a “Yes we can” libraryRespond in this way to every requestExamined what we do with regards the students as a first priority rather than the library staffʼs benefit

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Get rid of as many rules as you can especially those that were made for the benefit of the staff rather than the students3 rules only - no food, no borrowing without a card, no borrowing with overdue booksdoors were opened - security gates dismantledbags were allowed inno limit on loansincreased loan period to 3 weeks for all resourcespuzzle table, cards sit on the floorincreased opening hours 7.45-5.00pmopen all recess and lunch (closed first 10 mins)bumper crowds

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Does it impact on student learning?Does it make their life easier.why were they lining up in a corridor packed with lockers prior to entering the library which was supervised?

have use of all areas without asking permission

Tuesday, 10 September 2013we supply coloured paper, they can use the laminator, they can come in the out-door and go out the in-doorthey can use poster paper, we hold books for them if no card,

we basically donʼt say no, we find a solution to their problem and fix it.

Scholastica VCE study centre

Tuesday, 10 September 2013ScholasticaSupervised by staff at all timesOpen late on Tuesday and Thursday until 8.00pmFor Year 10 (Higher Study) Year 11 (mandated to attend) & 12Changed culture of study for VCE students

20111:1 laptop program

Tuesday, 10 September 20132011 - MAC introducedwhole school went from windows and PCs to Mac LaptopsYear 12 did not receive a laptop - class set of ipads provided

20111:1 laptop program

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Next year will see roll-out of new computers to Years 9, 10, 11 and staff. Year 12s will inherit staff machinesYear 7s will have an ipad and keep until year 9 - then a MACbook

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Classroom tools LibGuideAdvocacy is more than providing data to principalsSupporting the students and teachers at every opportunityRaises your profile and that of the libraryWord spreads especially if you celebrate achievements alongside the teachers you have supported at staff meetingsRefreshers to staff briefingsMany staff were finding it difficult to move to MACMade a conscious effort to be ahead of and provide support, one-on-one sessions, workshops on professional learning daysBuilt the classroom tools LibGuide - work in progressPromote applications and websites through the LMS rather than the email system

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Fewer classes were coming to the libraryT-L still visiting classes but print collection was not being used - began a deselection process - discarded books that did not support the curriculum, over 10 years old, hadnʼt been borrowed and unattractiveRe-think and change IWB in every classroom and everyone had a deviceDemand for the Seminar room declined dramaticallyWhat to do?

David Loertscher

David LankesIan Jukes

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Inspiration came from Personal Professional Learning Blogs, tweets, journals

Tuesday, 10 September 2013David Loertscher is the driving force behind the Learning Commons ideaThese publications are invaluableBegan reading these and envisaged a Learning Commons for MCCPassed them to the Director of Curriculum

Learning Commons

Engagement

StudentCentred

Flexible

spaces

Connectivity

HigherOrder

ThinkingPARTICIPATORY

LEARNING

COLLABORATION

ShowcasedLearning

Loertscher 2010

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Presented to Curriculum and Learning Team (Learning Leaders, Domain Leaders and specialist learning leaders)Then to Leadership team - deputies and facilitiesInnovations Group and then whole staffThe Learning Commons would become the learning centre for the whole school - teachers and studentsESL, Tech experts, Tutors, careers, ed support would be on-hand, one-stop-shop for learningNeed for a bigger spaceWhat could we accommodate initially?Careers and pathways were now on site with office modification

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Study Tour to USA (2012) - attend ISTE and more recently the CEFPI conference has provided inspiration

Tuesday, 10 September 2013I visited some University Libraries and Public Libraries and arranged interviews with librarians to speak about Learning CommonsPace University NYC

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Learning Commons at Pace University

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Pace University Learning CommonsEnglish tutors had offices within the library

NYC Public Library

Tuesday, 10 September 2013NYC Public Library - traditional

Brooklyn Public Library

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Brooklyn Public Library - Have since built an information commonsMeeting with planners and librarians who showed me the plans and drawings

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Brooklyn Public LibraryInformation Commons

Tuesday, 10 September 2013providing for users who have begun using Public libraries as their place of businessInternet connections, computers, book making machine, break out spaces, small lecture and meeting rooms, conduct workshops.

CEFPI ConferenceNZ 2013Council of Educational Facility Planners International

Tuesday, 10 September 2013CEFPI conference Auckland NZVisits to new learning spacestalks from leaders in the fields of education and architectureHow we learn and how we need to change our thinking and pedagogyFor change to succeed we need to make it hard to imagine how to use the space in the old way - e.g. Seminar room - does not support or work if teacher centred learning

Library Auckland Girls’ GrammarTuesday, 10 September 2013Planning for the future must involve the studentsnew systems are required to generate new ways of doing thingsKey role design and furniture has is in enabling teachers to change pedagogyWhen planning for the future, do not draw from the pastmust have the right pedagogy in place - no building will provide this but it can help to drive change forward

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Change to the physical space required change to the virtual space and so went from Wordpress Blog to a LibGuide as our webpageEasier to edit, easier to navigate.with the deselection of books and reconfiguring the shelves we found an increase in usable floor space - we could now accommodate 4 instead of 3 classesHalf the Year 8 cohort working on an IDU using the space in a flexible manner

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Learning Boothsidea stemmed from visiting Bialik a few years ago (with principal and deputy) and observing students who would come out of class to the library in small groups and they would gather around one computer and all watch a small screen.students display their work and present to smaller groups rather than the whole class sitting through 24 presentationscollaborate when working on a common taskcompare their homework discussion pointslunchtimes - play an interactive game onlinesupports extra curricula activities Anime club - drawings by members can be displayed to small groupsbrainstorming online - using Padlet

2010 Vision Statement

Communicate

Culture  Change

Help  Desk  Proposal

2011  Learning  CommonsProposal(Physical  and  Virtual)

Communicate2012Careers  &  Pathways

2013Learning  Booths

From Library

To Learning Commons

Tuesday, 10 September 2013this is our journeycommunication at every stepsuccessful because this library has a high profile and support of the principal and teachers have benefited from the support of the libraryAdvocacy:keep records of every request from teachersall the LibGuides I preparespreadsheet of all classes where Information Skills are taught attend year level meetings and circulate especially to Humanities and Science domains -research focused subjects

Thank you

Tuesday, 10 September 2013Thank youQuestionsTour

Acknowledgements

The Library as Incubator Project. 2013. Announcing: The Shelby White & Leon Levy Information Commons at Brooklyn Public Library | Library as Incubator Project. [online] Available at: http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=8612 [Accessed: 25 Jul 2013].

School Library Journal. 2010. A revised manifesto. [online] Available at: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2010/12/03/a-revised-manifesto/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Tumblr. 2013. President Obama yes we can. [image online] Available at: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/yes-we-can [Accessed: 25 July 2013].Unknown. 2012. Change. [image online] Available at: http://lifewithmisty.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/change_button.jpg [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. David Lankes. [image online] Available at: http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/?page_id=27 [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. Lucacept banner. [image online] Available at: http://jennyluca.com/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. David Loertscher. [image online] Available at: http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/about-2/staff/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. The paradigm shift banner. [image online] Available at: http://www.marktreadwell.com/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. Daring librarian banner. [image online] Available at: http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. Free technology for teachers banner image. [image online] Available at: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. Ian Jukes. [image online] Available at: http://www.nesacenter.org/page.cfm?p=1142 [Accessed: 25 July 2013].

Unknown. 2013. The unquiet librarian banner image. [image online] Available at: http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/ [Accessed: 25 Aug 2013].

Unknown. 2013. SCIL banner image. [image online] Available at: http://scil.com.au/ [Accessed: 25 Aug 2013].

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013Acknowledgements