[LM_NET] The new AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner are launched and available for download!

[Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM>]

The AASL Conference is filled with energy and excitem
Hello from Reno,

The AASL Conference is filled with energy and excitement; we can really feel it. 
The sessions are great, Dan Pink was an incredible keynote speaker and now the new 
standards are launched. Here's the press release:
<http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2007/october2007/standards07.htm>

And, they are available for download from the AASL home page. They really define 
how your library media program makes a difference for students. An incredibly huge 
kudo and much gratitude goes to the task force which included co-chairs Cassandra 
Barnett and Gail Dickinson, Gene Hainer, Melissa Johnston, Marcia Mardis and 
Barbara Stripling for their vision and responsiveness to the field. During the 
process, input came from a draft on the AASL homepage, an open forum at LA 
Midwinter and from a wiki. Every comment was examined and considered. Thank you to 
everyone who sent in that input.  I remember so very clearly the AASL  Board 
meeting in New Orleans when we realized that we had just voted to revise the 
guidelines AND standards, not just the guidelines as was the item on the agenda. 
Whew!

There's more to come. The program guidelines are being revised, the Learning 
Standards and Assessment Task Force is developing a document that will aid us in 
applying the standards, the Guidelines and Standards Implementation Task Force is 
looking for the best ways to get the word out about the standards to school library 
media specialists, teachers, administrators, parents and all involved in education. 
The Chair of that task force, Susan Ballard, told the people in the Celebrtae 
Conference that they (and all of us) are members of that task force. 

AASL is working hard for us all. 

All the best from Reno, Sara
 
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Sara Kelly Johns
AASL 2007-08 President
Associate Editor for AASL Community, Knowledge Quest
Lake Placid Middle/High School LMC
34 School Street
Lake Placid, NY 12946
518-523-2474, ext. 4132
FAX: 518-523-4861
johns@northnet.org
SaraKJohns@aol.com
<http://fromtheinsideout.blogspace.com> 
"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson




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