AASL @ ALA Annual Conference

Half-Day Preconference Workshops

Beyond Words: How to Recover from a Disaster in Your Library

Friday, June 28
12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Presenter(s): Christie Kaaland

Join AASL for a complimentary session, funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, to help you evaluate your school library program’s disaster preparedness and build a plan to cover any identified gaps. Attendees will leave this session better prepared for any disaster with a plan in hand for implementing immediately, from high-profile natural disasters to the unexpected. Following this hands on session hear from the two catastrophic grant recipients and learn how simple and quick the Beyond Words grant application can be. Since 2006, the AASL Beyond Words grant program has funded recovery grants for 137 schools in twenty states with more than 1.3 million in grant monies.

COMMON sCOREs: Instructional Partnerships that Deliver Success *

Friday, June 28
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Presenter(s): Sabrina Carnesi, Stacy Cameron, Judi Moreillon, and Judi Paradis

What is the core of 21st-century school librarianship? How does OUR core relate to the Common Core State Standards and other state standards? What are the skills, dispositions, responsibilities, and self-assessments we can apply to co-achieve uncommon success? This preconference will provide strategies for demonstrating the school librarian’s central role in the academic program through practicing instructional partnerships to ensure success for K-12 students, teachers, administrators, librarians, and for the school librarian profession, too.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify connections between the common core of the library program (S4L) and CCSS or other state-level standards and cite research that confirms positive correlations between the collaborative work of school librarians and student achievement, particularly in reading and language arts (SLRR).

  • Apply a rating scale to self-assess development as L4L school librarians and identify specific areas for improvement based on five roles’ descriptions (EL) and Specify skills, dispositions, and responsibilities of instructional partners.

  • Deconstruct/assess (with a rubric) a unit plan published as a Knowledge Quest 40.4 article and gain strategies for advocating with site- or district-level administrators for instructional partner role (AASL Strategic Plan: Advocacy).

Topic Areas: Teaching and Learning; Professional Development and Leadership; School Relationships

Level of Difficulty: Beginner; Intermediate; Advanced

Real World, Real Tools *

Friday, June 28
12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Presenter(s): Laura Pearle, Wendy Stephens, and Debra Logan

Real World, Real Tools will help participants design ways to move their programs, facilities and pedagogy forward, making the best of, and expanding on, their real world situations by focusing on maximizing the impact of any school's most valuable resource, a trained librarian working in close collaboration with the overall instructional program.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will become familiar with strategies to leverage existing technologies, personnel, and print resources.

  • Participants will leave the workshop prepared to re-evaluate and re-approach their biggest local concerns through a positive, instead of negative, mindset.

  • Through the presenters' repertoire of potential solution and small group sharing of personal stories and practical tips, participants will develop a framework to start moving forward in strategic planning and faculty-wide collaboration efforts in their own libraries.

Topic Areas: Professional Leadership & Development; Library Workflow; Physical and Virtual Space

Level of Difficulty: Beginner; Intermediate; Advanced

* Additional registration is required for these preconference workshops and advance registration is recommended. Onsite registration will be allowed pending availability.

Fees:
AASL Member: $109     |     ALA Member: $159     |     Non-member: $224