D-West Library Report

English 10 Genocide Project- This year, we re-vamped the History and Nature of Prejudice project to include more direct instruction on research, providing a stronger bridge between research instruction in 9th grade and 11th grade.

English 11 Research Paper

Statistics- Peer Reviewed Research Studies

English 12 Impact Paper- This year we also revamped the English 12 paper through a PLC amongst the librarian and the English 12 teachers. This resulted in the "Impact Paper," a process that looks at a contemporary societal issue and how the artistic community has reacted to and impacted our nation's response to the problem.

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

History 9- Eastern Civilizations Artifact Project

Librarian, Michelle Nass, will serve as co-advisory with Dr. Simmons and Mrs. Shipe for this new club. The focus of Aevidum is student support and school climate. Loosely translated, "Aevidum" means "We've got your back." And we do. Check out their website for more information: http://aevidum.com/cms/

• Collaboration with Miss Stright, BW, World Read Aloud Day
• Collaboration with Mrs. Wetzel, librarian at Radnor High School Library, on programming and upcoming conference presentation
• Collaboration with Mrs. Hess, librarian at Downingtown Public Library on joint programming
• Collaboration with 11th grade English teacher on adaptation of 11Research Project
• Collaboration with CCIU on development of plans for librarians' PLN

• SAS Team meetings: Monday and Wednesdays, period 6
  
• PAC Team meetings
• Innovation Lab Leadership Team
• West Diversity Committee
• Starting of Aevidum club at West and attendance at "The Talk" an Aevidum program at WCU

The STAC is staffed by students for various periods in the day and is staffed by an adult technology staff member on Tuesdays and Fridays for 1:1 support.

• The Maker Table in January was focused on the Kindness Challenge and Day Without Hate: "Thank You" cards were made and distributed and apology letters written and distributed as well.
• We also continued our Community Looms project.

• Day Without Hate: Library Club staffed a table in the cafeteria during each lunch to facilitate the writing of thank you cards and apology notes.
• Book Club met to discuss I Will Always Write Back, which is a collaborative book club effort with DMS.

Parent Volunteer

• Pia Disanto, every Tuesday AM

Student Volunteers

• Jillian Guy

In the above graph, the bottom axis represents days in January. The right axis is numbers of students signed in. Our average was 372 students a day. (November was 446 a day.) Note that this average is lower than normal due to the amount of periods and days we were closed for both midterm and Keystone testing.

• Total circulations: 185 (November = 235)

January:

555 MLA projects created (December= 96)

28 APA projects created (September= 23)

144 Chicago projects created (Sept = 123)

West Libguides recieved 4622 hits during the month of January.

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.

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