Lisa Hernandez PSJA College, Career, & Technology Academy Ellen Thibodeaux Eastside Memorial High Donna Kearley Denton Independent School District Texas High School Librarians Create College Ready Students
Lisa Hernandez PSJA College, Career, & Technology Academy Ellen Thibodeaux Eastside Memorial High Donna Kearley Denton Independent School District
Texas High School Librarians Create College Ready Students
E-Research Plan Portfolio
Lisa Hernandez 2015 Librarian of the Year Award, TLA
PSJA College, Career & Technology Academy
CTE Early College High School
Special Purpose High School Librarian
School Acronyms
PSJA CCTA
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo College, Career & Technology
Academy CTE Early College High School
STC
South Texas College
PSJA CCTA Library in Partnership with STC Library
High School Librarian College Librarian
Mari Sanchez, MLS & MIS Lisa Hernandez, MLS & MEd
As of August 2014, Sanchez and I have jointly provided library services to patrons.
Library patrons are students from Comprehensive and Special Purpose High Schools, Pathways Toward Independence Transition Program, PSJA CCTA, and STC.
2013 University of Texas Libraries Information Literacy Summit
On June 14, 2013, University of Texas Libraries at Austin held a one-day Information Literacy Summit with ten high school librarians from across the state to discuss the importance of preparing high school students for college-level research.
Information Literacy Contributions
E-Research Plan Portfolio
The purpose of the portfolio is to provide Texas high school students a
research tool that allows them the educational opportunity to practice and
master information literacy skills, and at the same time, make the transition
to college-level research.
Vertical Alignment of the
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Research Strand
English I – English IV
The purpose of the vertical alignment is to provide Texas college librarians a
resource to become familiar with the TEKS Research Strand for Texas high
school students and educators.
Additional Links
Looking to the Future, While Reflecting on the Past A blog post featured on UT Libraries Tex Libris. E-Research Plan Portfolio PDF CCTA Library Webpage
Writing Our Way Out of
Test Culture College Writing in the High School Context
Teaching Context Eastside Memorial High School in Austin, TX
Small, thriving urban high school
Nickname: The Little School That Could
Aspiring toward: first generation high school
graduation, college attendance, personal and
familial financial stability
Resistant to: accountability scrutiny, curricular
contraction, school closure threats, dominant
narratives of deficit
Intertwined goals: increasing access and
improving school/image
College writing delivery: AP courses, Dual
Credit enrollment, Research and Technical
Writing elective
http://www.klru.org/eastside/
Introductions We are writing teachers from Eastside Memorial High School speaking
from our stance as teachers who research and build theory through our
reflective practice.
Ellen Thibodeaux: Librarian and Research & Technical Writing @ Eastside
Memorial High School
Kristen Jones: AP English III and IV, English II @ Eastside Memorial High
School
Aimee Hendrix Soto: Dual Credit English/ Comp 1 & 2 @ EMHS and Austin
Community College; Language and Literacy Studies @ The University of Texas
at Austin
Research and Technical Writing History and purpose of elective
Common thread is research skills: databases, searching, evaluating
sources
First year-- a focus on disciplinary literacies-- what might
college/research writing look like in math, science, history, English
courses in college
Over time-- more student input to increase engagement and ability to
meet student needs. Too crucial to have “flat” units.
Their choices: analysis of variety of literature, but every year some
canonical literature. This year-- Dante’s Inferno.
Course as a platform for personal career exploration-- music careers,
women of color as CEOs, civil rights attorneys
Implications Increased urgency and an expanded role beyond teaching writing:
moving toward educational justice by closing the opportunity gap(s),
agentive spaces in urban high schools
Builds/builds on both community cultural wealth and traditional capital
Flexibility--meeting students where they are at, multimodal supports,
responding to lives
Seeing through asset
Reducing hierarchy/ blurring binaries
Revisit/resist restriction of access (policies, placement tests, etc)
Contact Info Ellen Thibodeaux -- [email protected]
DI4LLDenton Inquiry 4 Lifelong Learning
Background
Denton Reads
Denton Inquiry 4 Lifelong Learning
• Find Common ground• Decide upon a focus• Begin building background knowledge• Write Grants• TSLAC• IMLS
Compared different Inquiry Models
•Guided Inquiry
•Big 6
•AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century (no model listed)
•Stripling Model (NYC Department of Education)
•5E
Decide upon your Topic
• Build Background knowledge
• Book Study
• Workshops
Thank You & Questions Lisa Hernandez PSJA College, Career, & [email protected] Technology Academy Ellen Thibodeaux Eastside Memorial High [email protected] Donna Kearley Denton Independent [email protected] School District