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Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportvia email and on the school’s website when appropriate. Information is alsoshared via the LAUSD email system. All VHHS information that needs to bedisseminated school wide goes through the technology coordinator. Forexample, our technology coordinator sent out the information about theDonorschoose.org program and several VHHS teachers were able to raiseenough money to fund eight projects.The teacher librarian at VHHS holds a permanent credential in English/Language Arts and a preliminary credential in library and media studies. Sheis a member of the American Library Association and the California LibraryAssociation. Guided by District/state guidelines and professional reviews, thelibrarian consults with teachers to purchase materials that supportcurriculum in all subjects and, by extension, local, state, and nationalstandards. She has created websites for students and teachers to supportreading and writing across the curriculum. These weblogs act as onlinetutorials that may be taught by the librarian directly to classes, used byteachers to support their writing curriculum, or used by students as selfdirectedguides. They offer support for students to acquire informationliteracy and to meet common core writing standards in all subjects. Thelibrarian also has created a page for teachers to access resources forimplementing the common core, ELL, and SEL strategies. The librarianregularly collaborates with teachers to instruct students in how to use thelibrary resources, including how to find and check out books in the library,how to access and evaluate online resources using databases and searchengines, and how to format papers using MLA guidelines. She also helpslocate books for classes that use the Reading Counts program and to assiststudents in finding books within their Lexile range. The library and mediacenter also has twenty-one Internet ready computers for students to typeessays, conduct research online, make PowerPoint presentations, andcorrespond with teachers to verify homework or assignments (students haveaccess to free LAUSD email). In addition to the regular collection of booksand online resources, the library has textbooks for in-library reference.Most teachers of AP courses at VHHS, as well as teachers who teach coursesfeeding into the AP program, attend a variety of professional developmentopportunities on their own time. These include AP workshops on theweekends and week-long AP Summer Institutes presented by the CollegeBoard. In addition, teachers of the AP Science and Computer ProgrammingVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 66