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• It’s a wrap…or is it?

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 05/17/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Susan D. Ballard, AASL Standards editorial board member, and Sara Kelly Johns, AASL Standards implementation task force member As the traditional academic year wraps up, we’d like to suggest a new riff on an old proverb: “People may think… Read More ›

• An Invitation to Collaborate – Part 2

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 04/30/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Ellen McNair, AASL Standards Implementation Task Force member This is the second of a two-part post addressing strategies for implementing the Shared Foundation of Collaborate through four different connections. Part 1, posted on April 24, looked at strategies for… Read More ›

• An Invitation to Collaborate – Part 1

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 04/24/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Ellen McNair, AASL Standards Implementation Task Force member This is a two-part post addressing strategies for implementing the Shared Foundation of Collaborate. Part 1, below, looks at making connections with Learners and Educators. Part 2 will publish on April… Read More ›

• LIS Students Meet the Standards

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 03/22/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Joyce Kasman Valenza and Sara Kelly Johns, AASL Standards implementation task force members Of course, the National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries feel new to the many of us who met them in November,… Read More ›

• Let’s Get Real

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 03/13/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jeanie Phillips, AASL Standards implementation task force member Young people astonish and amaze me. They are capable of so much. Kids like Marley Dias, ALA Midwinter 2018 keynote speaker, who organized the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. She sent over 9,000 books… Read More ›

• Connecting with Policymakers: Conversations about the National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 01/22/2018 • ( 1 )

  

  By Mary Keeling, Chair, Standards Implementation Task Force, and Kathryn Roots Lewis, Standards Editorial Board How will you discuss the National School Library Standards with policymakers? Join Mary Keeling, Kathryn Roots Lewis, and Kathy Mansfield in a webinar designed to… Read More ›

• #AASLstandards Twitter Chats Continue the Dialogue!

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 01/22/2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Kate Lechtenberg, Standards Implementation Task Force member Can you believe it’s only been two months since the National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries were introduced at AASL 2017 in Phoenix? I’m amazed at all… Read More ›

• Take Time for a Thoughtful Implementation of the New Standards

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 12/20/2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jeanie Phillips, standards implementation task force member If you are at all like me, you may be feeling like you should already be implementing the new AASL Standards. “After all, they were released a full month ago,” says my… Read More ›

• National School Library Standards in the Middle School Library

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 12/05/2017 • ( 2 )

  

  By Judy Deichman, member of the standards implementation task force Middle school is just like being the proverbial middle child, but I look at it as an opportunity! I take that time in our students’ lives as a way to… Read More ›

• Leading with Your Leader: Prepare Your Administrators for the New AASL Standards

  By AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force on 10/31/2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By Kathryn Roots Lewis, member of the AASL Standards and Guidelines Editorial Board, and Sara Kelly Johns, member of the AASL Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force Developed by AASL in collaboration with ALA’s Libraries Transform and sponsored by Bound… Read More ›