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 -- ellen.thibodeaux@austinisd.org

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, & lisa.hernandez@psjaisd.us Technology Academy Ellen Thibodeaux Eastside Memorial High ellen.thibodeaux@austinisd.org Donna Kearley Denton Independent dkearley@dentonisd.org School District