Evaluation of Library Initiative Training

A summary of events and evaluation will be posted after the completion of each training.

View a state map of all the school districts (new window) where librarians participated in the K-12 training. Red dots indicate the August 2003 training and the green dots are for the May 22, 2004 training and blue dots indicate the August 2004 training.

One of the K-12 project goals is to train 1500 librarians over three summers. We trained 11% of our goal on August 5-6, 2004 at 12 regional sites.
171 people registered
164 people attended

74 of 278 districts were represented or 27% of the school districts in the state of Washington. The largest representation came from two districts: Central Valley SD with 11 people and Federal Way with 10 people.

Participants were asked to fill out two different evaluations.

The first one was a customized form for librarians taking Clock Hours. 92 evaluations were returned. The Report Summary divides the participants into six categories and three levels.

The second one was a general evaluation of the training asking nine questions. 160 evaluations were returned or 97%. 123 people made additional comments or 77%.

There appeared to be common themes throughout most of the evaluations.

1. Lots and lots of Kudos! ("They really like us!")
2. Trainers were appreciated especially for their enthusiasm and hard work. They were well prepared and kept the group interested.
3. Majority of those requesting clock hours felt the workshop was useful.
4. Would highly recomend to other librarians in their districts.
5. Many would like a follow-up in the spring or next summer. (April 30, 2005)
6. More time wanted for peer discussion and sharing of ideas.
7. Participants felt: inspired, empowered, energized, and enlightened.
8. Workshop was: user friendly, provided excellent balance of instruction and discussion feedback, organized, provided great content and resources, well worth their time.
9. Official Web Site was useful. Keep it updated. Glad passwords were taken off.
10. Burn a new CD with everything on it and distribute with toolkit. (toolkit information will be accessible on the web site.)
11. Some thought that principals should attend the workshop.