Sara Kelly Johns just shared this now official document on the AASL Forum List: Resolution that School Libraries and Librarians are Critical to Educational Success. Sara writes, It is not posted online yet, but will be soon. School libraries and librarians need help ASAP. If you can use it for advocacy, that’s great. Thanks go [...]
Resolved:That School Libraries and Librarians are Critical to Educational Success
June 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
New from AASL: Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
June 24, 2012 By 3 Comments
I am in San Diego for ISTE and I missed the live excitement, but for the fourth year, AASL just announced its Top 25 Websites for Teacher and Learning. These sites were selected because they foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and [...]
Barbara for president
March 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
The polls are open. If you are an ALA member you can vote for our ALA President. Likely you were notified by email and provided with your passcode and you will have until Friday, April 27 to vote. When you vote, I urge you to support my friend and mentor, Barbara Stripling for ALA President. [...]
OneBookOneConference: Join the discussion on The Shallows
August 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Every other year, when AASL comes around, I get excited about the idea being able to think and grow with our people. Though Minneapolis is a couple of months away, no need to wait. Start Conference early by joining the AASL Conference Ning and by joining the discussion on the provocative OneBookOneConference selection, Pulitzer Prize [...]
School Libraries: What’s Next (an ebook project)
July 22, 2011 By
Share your vision for our future. Please consider contributing to this exciting crowdsourced collaborative visioning project coordinated by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. To coincide with the 2011 Treasure Mountain and AASL National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we are engaging in an ebook publishing experiment, and we want you to be a part of it! [...]
AASL Launches Lesson Plan Database
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AASL just announced the launch of its Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database, designed to be: a public, online database providing school librarians a fast and user-friendly way to create and share quality lesson plans with their peers. Building on the template provided in Standards for the 21st-Century Learner In Action, the Lesson [...]
AASL Vision Tour: A look back at our morning with Nancy Everhart!
January 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
I am delayed a bit in reporting back on our visit from AASL President Dr. Nancy Everhart on the Pennsylvania leg of her Vision Tour. Springfield Vision Tour from Joyce Valenza on Vimeo. It was a very special honor. I was personally touched by the kind comments from those who spoke and sang and danced [...]
AASL: Is it time for a one-word edit?
January 16, 2011 By 14 Comments
The Edublog Awards meets the Geek Tribe!
December 5, 2010 By 4 Comments
Yesterday, the Edublogs folks announced the short list for the seventh annual Edublogs Awards. As I examined the list, I began to realize how far we’ve come as a tribe. It probably started just over a year ago when we first got together as a group to prepare for AASL Charlotte. This morning Gwyneth and [...]
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