D-West Library Report

9th Grade Persuasive Speech: We worked with several classes through this research project. This year we added the instruction of screencastify-- a screencasting add on to Chrome-- to assist the students with recording their final products, most of which were completed in google slides.

12th Grade Influential Artist

Green Screen Use: Our new green screen studio was used by the Contemporary Issues classes to film projects for their class.

Lifestyle Diseases Project: We worked with 9th grade health classes on a small research project. This year we brought in a few databases and used google docs as well. Libguide

Independent Reading Selection: Lifeskills students came down to the library to select their independent reading from our "E is for everyone" section.

12th English, A Small Place paper: We worked with Mrs. Wilson's 12th English classes to add a literary criticism component to their expository writing.

Crisis in the Middle East: We worked with the 9th grade history classes on this annotated bibliography project. We focused on the use of NoodleTools and using annotations, searching within a Gale Database, and we introduced a new source evaluation tool that we will be utilizing in our courses.

10 English, History and Nature of Prejudice Paper

9 History, Middle East Update: We worked with 9th grade history classes to research current issues and culture of various Middle Eastern and African Cultures. The product was a collaborative padlet on which the students shared their learning and media that told the story they were trying to uncover.

12 Multicultural Lit Projects

11 English, Metamorphosis Papers

12 Government, Fake News: In a collaboration with History teachers, we built and co-taught a three day lesson on Fake News and how it is impacting us as consumers of information and our democracy as a whole.

12 English, Mental Illness Projects

We are so excited to begin working with students at our Drop-In Writing Center. It is open every Thursday, all day. Theme reader, Mrs. Fletcher, looks forward to working with students in all subject areas on their writing. No appointment needed!

• Met with four West teachers to develop new and strengthen recurring projects to be co-taught in the library.

• Attended a two day Future Ready Schools Institute.

• SAS Team meetings: Monday and Wednesdays, period 6
  
• PAC Team meetings
• Innovation Lab Leadership Team
• West Diversity Committee

The STAC is staffed by students for three periods out of the day and has supported 18 students during the month of October

• The Maker Table in October was focused on Black Out Poetry
• The Maker Space was moved to the front of the library to provide more access to students who may have felt intimidated by a closed space. We have seen an immediate rise in student usage-- especially of our sewing machine!

Library club and West students are participating in our first caremaker project, making browsing totes for our elementary libraries. This year, we hope to engage in several caremaker experiences, where we make to learn but also to give.

Library Club has re-started their Writer's Club. This is a club for students who want to engage in creative writing, share, and workshop their own and each other's writing.

Parent Volunteer

• Pia Disanto, every Tuesday AM

Student Volunteers

• Claudia Harper
• Hannah Brostorm
• Jillian Guy

In the above graph, the bottom axis represents days in October. The right axis is numbers of students signed in. Our average was 446 students a day. The September average was 362 students a day.

• Total circulations: 235

September:

485 MLA projects created (September= 221)

22 APA projects created (September= 23)

144 Chicago projects created (Sept = 123)

West Libguides recieved 1618 hits during the month of October (1738 in September).

The mission of the library program in the Downingtown Area School District is to provide a dynamic learning environment that instills essential 21st century literacy skills through direct and collaborative instruction and the use of a wide variety of print and digital resources. Our goal is to ensure that students have the opportunity to become inquiring and engaged global citizens who are empowered to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.

Find this library report and more on our blog: http://adventuresinlibrary.blogspot.com/

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