Energized by AASL’s ESSA advocacy efforts and the AASL ESSA workshop presented last fall by Katie Williams, our Region 7 Director, the California School Library Association (CSLA) established an ESSA Task Force. Advocacy for school library funding is especially challenging… Read More ›
The key to solving a puzzle is to find the pieces that fit together! The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) consists of several pieces — one being placing emphasis on personalized learning for students supported by the use of openly… Read More ›
School libraries have always had the dual purpose of supporting the curriculum of the school and providing for the individual reading and learning needs of students. This makes the school librarian uniquely qualified to play a leading role in the… Read More ›
Have you ever been in a situation where you are talking to someone, but you know that your message is not being understood by the other person’s body language? Sometimes the problem is the terms that you are using. To… Read More ›
Maine was well represented at its ESSA training on November 5, 2016. Over 50 school librarians attended the highly publicized and hugely successful event at Falmouth Middle School in Falmouth, ME. This was the largest AASL ESSA training in New… Read More ›
The Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) was ecstatic for AASL to offer a free ESSA workshop to our members, and we were even more ecstatic to host the workshop as part of our 25th annual conference. Tennessee’s ESSA implementation… Read More ›
Three additional states have added their voice to the call for school librarian participation in the development of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state implementation plans. More than 175 school librarians and educational stakeholders in Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas attended… Read More ›
On Nov 1., school librarians and educational stakeholders in Oklahoma and Idaho attended workshops dedicated to unpacking the provisions for school libraries in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The workshops focused on highlighting opportunities within ESSA language for school… Read More ›
Over the past month, I’ve been fortunate enough to have the exciting opportunity to present at three AASL state affiliates as part of the organization’s efforts to support school librarians in getting libraries incorporated into their state’s ESSA implementation plans…. Read More ›
When presentations wrapped in Nebraska and Alaska on Nov. 11, AASL completed a monumental task of facilitating 30 state-level Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) workshops in only 60 days. The workshops, presented in collaboration with the ALA Office for Library… Read More ›