Under the leadership of AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force chair Susan Ballard, Melissa Johnston and I are pleased to announce that AASL launched our co-authored building-level implementation toolkit today.

Melissa, who helped author the original standards and the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action book, and I been combing books, articles, blog posts, wikis, and more to seek out what we hope are the best resources to help you get a handle on what L4L and the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner mean and how you can share that information with stakeholders.

The toolkit includes PowerPoint presentations you can adapt for use with your staff, stakeholders, and parents; articles you can read; a primer on inquiry; recommended books; links to the writings and implementation ideas of other librarians; a sample job description and evaluation documents; blog posts from folks in the field, and more. The goal was to compile many great resources from many great thinkers in a single place.

And it’s free!

Read the press release
View the toolkit
Check out the subscription-based Planning Guide
Check out even more resources!

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Lately online, there’s been a resurgence of these London Blitz-era posters. Rather comforting, I think, on our tough days.

So why not make your own atKeepCalm-O-Matic?

I can’t say it’s going to save your job or improve student learning, but it’s awfully fun on a rainy summer night!

Thanks to Sue for the link. Used with a Creative Commons license.  Check out the CafePress store, too!