2005 Collaborative-Grant-in-Aid Awarded

For K-12 Projects Enhancing Collaboration Between School Library Media Specialists and Teachers

The Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE) is pleased to announce the awarding of $1,000 grants to eighteen projects designed to implement model approaches and techniques for enhancing collaboration between school library media specialists and teachers.

The funded projects represent efforts by classroom teachers, subject specialists, and school library media specialists to work toward incorporating information literacy strategies in the curriculum. Award winners represent 16 school districts across the state of Ohio. Eligible applicants attended one of ILILE’s three content workshops in July 2004, and the grant proposals reflected an extension of the collaborative information literacy projects the teams planned as part of their workshop experiences.

Grant award winners include:

Akron Public Schools
Hyre Middle School
Titles: “Staff Development CD Program” and “Continental Fair”
Final Grant Report

Ashland City Schools
Edison Elementary School
Titles: “Staff Development Program: Research Indicators” and “Information Literacy Instructional Program: Print and Electronic Resources”
Final Grant Report

Berlin-Milan Local Schools
Berlin-Milan Middle School
Title: “Newbery and Caldecott Research”
Final Grant Report

Bowling Green City Schools
Bowling Green Junior High
Titles: “Staff Development Program: Guide to Media Literacy” and “Information Literacy Instructional Program: Science in the Media Center”
Final Grant Report

Campbell City Schools
Memorial High School
Titles: “Special Needs/Special Resources: Locating and Adapting Library Resources for Special Needs Students” and “Special Needs/Special Resources: Information Literacy Using the Super 3 and Flip-It Models”
Final Grant Report

Columbus Diocese
St. Catharine School
Titles: “Teacher In-service: Library Resources and Designing Instruction and Assignments” and “Library Resources and Information Questions”
Final Grant Report

Delaware City Schools
Rutherford B. Hayes High School
Titles: “Accessing Science and Math Interactively” and “First Things First”
Final Grant Report

Fairview Park Schools
Parkview Intermediate School
Titles: “INFOhio databases, Internet Resources, and Library Materials” and “Database Research”
Final Grant Report

Lisbon Exempted Village Schools
McKinley Elementary
Titles: “Digital Cameras in the Classroom” and “Broad and Narrow Searching Strategies”
Final Grant Report

Southern Local School District
Miller High School
Titles: “Incorporating Library Information, Technology and/or Media Indicators into Lessons” and “Information, Technology and/or Media Literacy Integrated with Classroom Subject Lesson”
Final Grant Report

Springfield Local
Springfield High School
Title: “Lights! Digital Cameras! Action!”
Final Grant Report

Struthers School District
Struthers Middle School
Titles: “Self-instructional Programs Designed to Show Correlation Between a Differentiated Lesson Plan and Multi-media in the Classroom” and “The Importance of Multi-media in the Classroom”
Final Grant Report

Triway Local Schools
Triway High School
Title: “Library Resources for Research: Science”
Final Grant Report

Twinsburg Schools
Bissell Elementary
Title: “Aligning School Reading with Life Reading”
Final Grant Report

Upper Arlington City Schools
Barrington Elementary
Title: “Use and Implications for Classrooms of the Search-It-Science and INFOhio Databases”
Final Grant Report

Upper Arlington City Schools
Tremont Elementary
Titles: “Navigating Paths to Literacy: Staff Development Plan for Information Literacy” and “Navigating Paths to Literacy: Information Literacy Instructional Program”
Final Grant Report

Upper Arlington City Schools
Wickliffe Alternative
Titles: “Staff Development: Promoting Information Literacy Through Collaboration” and “Information Literacy Instructional Program: Life Science – Plants and Animals”
Final Grant Report

Wolf Creek Local Schools
Waterford High School
Titles: “Using INFOhio Resources to Enhance and Support Research Projects in the Social Studies, Science and Language Arts Classrooms” and “Evaluating Web Sites”
Final Grant Report

Past recipients of collaborative grants-in-aid include:

Ross Locals Schools
Ross High School
Title: “Information Literacy Staff Development Project (ILSDP)”

Fairview Park Schools
Parkview Intermediate Schools
Title: “Database Research” and “Passport to Picture Books”

North Royalton Schools
North Royalton High School
Title: “Collaborative Teaching with Standards a.k.a. No Teacher Left Behind”

ILILE is a demonstration project funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and was established to provide local, regional, and national leadership in fostering successful collaboration among K-12 teachers and library and media specialists who are concerned with advancing library and information literacy in the PK-12 school curriculum.

Grant partners at Kent State University include the School of Library and Information Science, the College and Graduate School of Education, and Libraries and Media Services. Co-directors of ILILE are Dr. Carolyn S. Brodie and Mary H. Tipton. ILILE Executive Board members include Dr. Greg Byerly, Dr. Cindy Kovalik, Mary Lee Jensen, and Dr. Barbara Schloman. The Project Coordinator is Michelle Baldini.

Funding for this project is provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the U.S. Department of Education.