A.++Mission+and+Goals

The mission of the Parkway School District is to ensure all students are capable, curious and confident learners who understand and respond to the challenges of an ever-changing world.
 * 2010 - 2011 Southwest Middle Library Report **
 * A. Mission and Goal Statements**
 * //Parkway//** **//School District Mission Statement and District Library Program Mission Statement//**

The mission of Parkway Southwest Middle School is to ensure students are capable, curious, and confident learners who are well equipped to understand and respond to the challenges of an ever-changing world.
 * //School Mission Statement//**

The mission of the Southwest Middle Library is to aid students in becoming capable, curious and confident learners and become effective and independent users of information.
 * //School Library Mission Statement//**

1. Increase academic achievement and engagement for all students 2. Increase student success through providing a safe environment, promoting healthy behaviors and fostering positive relationships. 3. Provide learning environments necessary for success in a competitive, global society.
 * //Parkway//** **//School District//** **//Goals, 2008-2011//**

1. Increased ownership and implementation of the Parkway Mission and Vision by school librarians. 2. Increased understanding and use of the UbD model. 3. Increased use of assessments. Increased student learning should be evident in the analysis of assessment results.
 * // District Library Goals, 2010-2011 //**

Goal - Student Performance: Develop and enhance quality educational/instruction and enable students to meet their personal, academic, and career goals.
 * // School Goals 2010-2011 //**

Objective: 75.5% of Communication Arts students and 72.5% of Math students in each subgroup will reach proficiency on the 2011 MAP test.

Strategies:
 * Analyze assessment data to inform instruction and future assessment.
 * Ensure implementation of best practice instructional strategies to guarantee Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the district curriculum.
 * Increase achievement of our black students.


 * // School Library Goals //**// Evaluate your library program using the Library Goals Rubric. Select no more than three Elements as focus areas for goals. Describe how these school library goals support the school goal and district goals. //

**1. Collaboration:** Student learning is ensured through the collaborative efforts of the library media specialist and other educators in the school and district.

In order for me to help increase academic achievement and engagement for all students (Dist. Goal 1) and help students develop and enhance quality educational/instruction and enable students to meet their personal, academic, and career goal (School goal) I need access to students. I obtain access through collaboration with teachers in my building.

**2. Assessment for Learning:** Students learning is assessed in the library in collaboration with classroom teachers, utilizing data analysis and standards.

Assessing student work, ideas and research habits in the library gives me feedback on what I need to do to increase academic achievement and engagement for all students (Dist. Goal 1) and student performance (School goal). Assessing for learning in the library shows me if students are learning the objective/goal of the lesson and what they should know by the time they leave Southwest Middle School.