Archive for the ‘Empowering Learners (AASL Guidelines)’ Category

MAME Summer Institute: L4L-apalooza

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Sometimes, when you’re really lucky, you get to spend a day with some of your favorite face-to-face librarians and some of your favorite national librarians at the same time. For today’s MAME Summer Institute, Kathleen McBroom and I held down the fort in Michigan while Susan Ballard and Melissa Johnston used Elluminate to provide great information via Webinar.

You can click on the links below to access any of the resources (thanks, co-presenters!).

What was each presentation about, you ask?

    Kathleen gave us an amazing overview of the Common Core Standards.

    Sue talked about how the need for change and how her Londonderry district had used the AASL Planning Guide to deepen their program development.

    Melissa talked about the AASL Building-Level Toolkit, with a strong emphasis on librarian-as-leader.

    I looked at five elements of Common Core and talked about how we could use those standards to impact our practice.

Meanwhile, our intrepid Michigan colleagues shared their ideas for flipping the essay, working with primary sources, how they could use the free webinar hosting provided by LearnCentral.org back at home, and more. You can access the webinar archive of any of our presentations (just know that Kathleen and I were often wandering around far from the microphone, so our sound quality ain’t too ideal).

Remember the old TV commercials that used to say, “I’m a lucky dog”? That’s me.

Are You Running a School Library Program of the Year?

Friday, September 24th, 2010

AASL has just announced the call for applications for the School Library Program of the Year (formerly the School Library MEDIA Program of the Year, affectionately known as SLMPY or SLiMPY).

If you’re proud of your program’s successes and its quality based on Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, I hope you’ll consider applying. The past winners create an outstanding cadre that you’d be proud to be a part of!

Free Webinars/Archive: Online Planning Guide for Empowering Learners

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Learning4Life (L4L), the moniker for the trio of documents consisting of the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action, and Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, has a new online subscription planning guide.

If you’re interested in using the new online planning guide for Empowering Learners, check out the site below. The next live event is Wednesday, September 15.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/planningguide/planningguideresources.cfm

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