AASL has announced the recipients of its 2021 awards and grants. 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… Read More ›
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AASL Announces 2020 Award Recipients
AASL has announced the recipients of its 2020 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 ›
Sparking Innovation and Creativity in SCASL through an Emerging Leaders Program
The South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL) launched an emerging leaders program in January 2019 with the help of the ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant. School librarians with 5 years of experience or less applied to the program with a principal… Read More ›
2019 AASL Affiliate of the Year Shares How Curiosity and Confidence Impact Its Work
In my second week as president of the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) and in the midst of our strategic planning summit, the teaching and learning committee co-chair jokingly said to me, “Allison, you don’t have to do everything in… Read More ›
Playing with a Better Future
I am deeply honored to receive the 2019 AASL Distinguished Service Award. Thank you, Rosen Publishing, for supporting this award. Examining the list of past award recipients is a humbling experience. It reminds us all that we stand on the… Read More ›
Cultivating and Maintaining Middle School Readers with the Inspire Collection Development Grant
In fall of 2018, the Andrew Lewis Middle School library (Salem, Virginia) looked very different than it had the previous academic year. Its transformation began during the previous spring and continued through the summer, thanks to the combined efforts of… Read More ›
Engaging with Educators and Students with Alternate Formats and New Texts
Have you ever had the privilege of building a collection from scratch? It can be daunting—where to start, what to include, what to pass by. In most cases, though, it is what librarians dream of, especially when faced with outdated… Read More ›
How the AASL Inspire Grant Impacted My Students
I was recently honored to accept the AASL Inspire Grant, which was awarded to the Buffalo Academy of Science Charter Elementary School library. This grant will do tremendous things for the reading achievement of our students by purchasing brand-new books… Read More ›
Learner-Ready School Librarians for the Win!
In 2007, Norman Public Schools won AASL’s National School Library Media Program of the Year Award in the district category. While the name and description of the award have changed to reflect important new directions in school library practice and… Read More ›
And the Winner Is….
At prestigious awards programs such as the Oscars, Tony’s, and the Emmys, attendees and viewers await the announcement of the winners. The anticipation of the winners builds from the time the nominees are announced. Rarely during these discussions do people… Read More ›