The topic of this blog post is SO overdue! Before I get to it, though, I must say Happy School Library Month! AASL’s School Library Month Committee has taken an already outstanding celebration to the next level this year. I… Read More ›
ESSA
Open Educational Resources and School Librarians – The Right Fit!
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 ›
Personalized Learning: ESSA Definition and the Role of School Libraries and Librarians
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 ›
Blended Learning: ESSA Definition and How It Impacts School Libraries and Librarians
Blended learning has been happening in libraries since we introduced an Online Public Access Catalog, added online databases, began teaching students to evaluate websites and using technology to create as part of makerspaces. However, blended learning is a bit trickier… Read More ›
Using the Right Terms Creates the WOW Moment!
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 ›
Equity, Access, and Individualization: 16 Ideas
Please see the professional development opportunities for January 2017 below Figure 1. While I was thinking about what to write this week, I came across the Scholastic (2016) Teacher and Principal School Report: Equity in Education, which synthesized survey responses… Read More ›
Challenges and Celebrations: Time to Reflect and Share
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 ›
Maine Association of School Librarians Draws Over 50 School Librarians to Annual School Libraries Symposium and ESSA Training
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 ›
Lessons Learned from the Tennessee ESSA AASL Workshop
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 ›
Poetry Slam Success
I put the professional development list at the bottom of the page. I meant to share this with you a couple of months ago. In April, I wrote an article for School Library Connection. In the article, I reflected on some… Read More ›