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• An Amazing Array of AASL Opportunities

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 01/10/2017 • ( 0 )

  All you can eat pancakes at IHOP! 75% off holiday decorations! Act now to upgrade your data plan or to buy that new car at 0% financing! As the new year begins, opportunities abound, and, while we don’t have pancakes,… Read More ›

• Challenges and Celebrations: Time to Reflect and Share

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 12/06/2016 • ( 0 )

  Summer sun to fall leaves to cold winter mornings, July to December–having served five months as president of AASL, it is time to think back on challenges and celebrations and to reflect and share. Challenges: As I reflect, I am… Read More ›

• AASL on the Road for You!

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 10/17/2016 • ( 0 )

  

  As the ink was drying on President Obama’s signature on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last December, AASL was moving into action! President Leslie Preddy appointed working groups to develop the AASL Vision for Implementing ESSA and to write… Read More ›

• Filtering: The Critical Difference between “All” and “Most”

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 09/28/2016 • ( 2 )

  

  One of the nine common beliefs set forth in the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner is as follows: “Equitable access is a key component to education. All children deserve equitable access to books and reading, to information, and to… Read More ›

• Won’t You Join Me in Rochester for GAME?

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 09/12/2016 • ( 0 )

  As an educator, don’t you just love it when a child turns to you after completion of a carefully planned learning activity and says, “Wow, that was fun!”  Learning should be fun. And if it is fun, it’s more likely… Read More ›

• Ten Things Your Administrator Needs to Know as the School Year Begins

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 08/10/2016 • ( 0 )

  10. That you are a teacher who teaches not content but process. You teach children to be information literate, digitally literate, media literate, and visually literate. The skills that you teach, the dispositions that you help children to develop, the responsibilities… Read More ›

• For the Record | AASL President-Elect’s Report – ALA Annual 2016

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 07/26/2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Your 2016-2017 AASL Board of Directors began its work year at the Board III meeting on Monday, June 27, at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. Members new to the board include Laura Hicks, Region 2 Director; Ann Schuster,… Read More ›

• Working Together as AASL

  By Audrey Church, Leadership Development Committee Chair and 2017-2018 AASL Past President on 07/11/2016 • ( 0 )

  

  What an honor and privilege it is to have been elected to serve as your president for 2016-2017.  Thank you for your confidence in me as we work together to further the mission of AASL, “to empower leaders to transform… Read More ›