AASL revealed its 2015 Best Apps for Teaching & Learning and Best Websites for Teaching & Learning during the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. The lists provide technology resources for school librarians and their teacher collaborators and are considered… Read More ›
AASL has announced the new slate of bloggers for the Knowledge Quest website. The slate of bloggers, which consists of school library professionals from elementary school to academia, includes: Joann Absi, media coordinator, Eugene Ashley High School, Wilmington, N.C. Helen… Read More ›
AASL has announced the recipients of its 2015 awards. AASL awards and grants recognize excellence and showcase best practices in the school library field in categories that include collaboration, leadership and innovation. Recipients of this prestigious program are celebrated for… Read More ›
Blue Valley High School, located in Stilwell, Kansas, is the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) 2015 National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY) Award recipient. Sponsored by Follett, the NSLPY annually recognizes a school library program that meets… Read More ›
Audrey Church, associate professor and graduate program coordinator at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, has been elected as the 2016-2017 AASL president. Church will serve as president-elect during 2015-2016 under AASL President Leslie Preddy. Upon learning of her election, Church… Read More ›
As work on new literacy standards is taken up in schools across the country, it’s important that educators, parents, policymakers, and other key decision makers get a clear picture of what this means for teaching and learning in every discipline…. Read More ›
AASL is seeking school librarians to serve on an implementation task force for a new iteration of the association’s learning standards and program guidelines slated to launch in the fall of 2017. The task force will be responsible for developing… Read More ›
Registration is now open for the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 17th National Conference & Exhibition. The conference, themed “Experience Education Evolution,” will be held Nov. 5-8, 2015, in Columbus, Ohio, and is the only national conference dedicated solely… Read More ›
The Senate HELP Committee will begin voting on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14 at 10:00 a.m. School libraries are NOT included in that bill! An amendment is needed to include them. Senator Whitehouse (D-RI)… Read More ›
This Thursday, the American Library Association is joining a social media push in support of dedicated funding for school libraries through Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries Act (SKILLS) Act, which would… Read More ›