Re: [LM_NET] Reflection on AASL's new standards

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

Hi Jacquie, Doug and others--I really appreciate all the good thinking and 
reflecting  about the standards. I hadn't logged onto LM_NET yet this morning when 
I received the original post from Kathy Lowe who is the executive director of the 
Massachusetts School Library Association and the chair of the AASL Learning 
Assessment and Indicators Task Force. Her task force will read these comments 
carefully as they do their work which is the "next step" for the standards. 
 
 Jacquie is right that there needs to be more--and there will be, the Learning 
Assessment and Indicators piece, the Implementation project (that task force is 
chaired by Susan Ballard) and, coordinated with the standards, Program Guidelines 
(that task force is chaired by Bonnie Grimble). 
 
 Some people have asked why the standards came out on their own without the other 
pieces but in my mind, it does give the profession an opportunity to study and 
reflect and develop ideas for teaching and curriculum. Your comments will be  
carefully considered as were the comments from the field as the standards were 
developed.
 
 So, stay tuned to your AASL station for opportunities for input and the rest of 
the story...it will be much more complete by this time next year. 
 
 Happy, New Year to you all, Sara Kelly Johns

Doug Johnson <doug0077@GMAIL.COM> wrote: Hi folks,

Just a reminder to critics of these new standards that people were invited
to comment on them from at least January 2007 on...

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2007/1/27/learning-stand
ards.html

Enjoying the discussion here. Just too bad it didn't happen prior to new
standards' release. Seems like the horse is already out of the barn here.

All the very best,

Doug


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