<div dir="ltr">Christy,<div>Do you have any separate space for RtI? Our RtI area is separate from the library but we DO have a testing center in the library. It is walled off so noise from the library doesn't interfere with testing. Although I resisted the idea at first because it forced me to reset my entire library, it has been very helpful to the teachers. Our RtI, however, works differently from what you described. Students are referred by teachers based on grades or assignments and go to RtI during their STEP which is the second half of their lunch break. There is also a walk-in lab for students who want to self-refer. If referred to RtI, they go on a computer program to help them master the skill they are having trouble with. There is very little tutoring going on, just supervision of computer work. Tutors like Bruce described would be so much more helpful but we don't have the staffing to cover it. I would not want that area to combine with the library although I can already see the writing on the wall. I will retire next year and once I'm not here to advocate for the library, I think RtI will take over the space in the library. </div><div>My opinion is that the library has a value all its own if it is allowed to function at the highest level. </div><div><br></div><div>Lorna Code<br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Library Information Specialist</div><div>Kaneland High School</div><div>Junior and Senior Class Advisor</div><div>(630) 365-5100 X71221</div><div><a href="mailto:lorna.code@kaneland.org" target="_blank">lorna.code@kaneland.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><span><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:14px">"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - </span><font size="1">Martin Luther King, Jr.</font></font></p></span><div style="display:block"><p style="font-style:italic"><font color="#a64d79"><i style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></i><br></font></p><p style="font-style:italic"><br></p><p style="font-style:italic"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:15 PM Email list for the Association of Illinois School Library Educators <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi Christy,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We have exactly the setup you described here at West Aurora High School. We house a tutoring/intervention program that we call the Academic Assistance Center
(AAC) in the library. We also have a Testing Center within our space.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I will try to describe our set-up. We have about 3,800 students in our school, so I know the size makes things different for us.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We have two entrances to the library, one for the AAC/Testing Center and one for the Library. We have an Office Professional at each entrance. When students arrive,
their IDs are scanned into a website called Hero (<a href="http://herok12.com" target="_blank">herok12.com</a>), which tracks which space they are checking into.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The AAC is staffed by content area teachers throughout the day. It is considered a “supervision.” For example, a teacher could choose to do AAC instead of Study
Hall for his/her “supervision.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The Testing Center used to be an open space with connected study carrels, but noise became an issue, so the decision was made to wall it in. The Testing Center
also offers test reading services, during certain periods, using our special education paraprofessionals when they are available.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The library portion of our space is separated from the Testing Center/AAC by book shelves. Differing levels of noise is still an issue, but not just one way.
Sometimes the library is loud and the AAC wants quiet and vice versa. Sometimes both are loud and sometimes both are quiet, it just depends on the period. The lunch hours are the busiest times with up to 100 students in both spaces combined.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The setup has worked pretty well and it does serve a need for our school. However, I think my librarian colleague (we are lucky enough to have 2)and I would agree
that we would rather not have the AAC and Testing Center in the library. We would like to use the testing room as an office. We currently have no office, our desks are out on the floor of the library, which is good for some things, but sometimes we would like
a place to concentrate on something or make a phone call.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We would use the AAC space to create some sort of high school equivalent of a makerspace, with things like a 3D printer and other things to create stuff. A student
called this high school makerspace “the room of modern conveniences.” We liked that</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Please let me know if you have any further questions. We would love to have you visit, but I know we are far away from you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Bruce Fraser<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">West Aurora High School<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">(630) 301-5505<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My high school principal would like to create a place in the school where students can get assistance with homework, there is a staff member to proctor tests, and interventions can be delivered. (Which left me saying-- "Ummm, isn't this
what the library staff does everyday- though on an informal basis?) <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm trying to convince him that the library is the best place for this to occur. He's new to the district, and sadly not super supportive of the library program. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have a tutoring/intervention program housed in your library, can you email me off list with a brief description of how it is run, what the benefits/drawbacks are, and how those students are monitored/tracked? He likes data, so I
need to go in armed with lots of information.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Christy Semande<u></u><u></u></p>
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