As the World Shifts Leadership through the AASL Standards and Guidelines for the 21st Century
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As the World Shifts Leadership through the AASL Standards and Guidelines for the
21st Century
Sara Kelly Johns
AASL Past President, Candidate for ALA President
February 20, 2010
Did You Know 4.0?(YouTube)
Did you know 4.0
We’re in a swamp!
• Too much information
• Students need guidance with use of information
• We need to be their guides out of the quicksand
Flickr, Wes Thomas
The current scene:
• Digital Divide widens
• Reading is changing
• Participatory culture
• Students unplug in school
Our tools:• AASL Standards for the 21st Century
Learner• Standards in Action• NEW program Guidelines, Empowering
Learners• A NEW mission statement!
• Next: new program evaluation rubric
Happy “Planning for School Library Month” Month!
http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmm
Roles of the library media specialistNOW• Teacher 1 • Information Specialist 2 • Instructional Partner 3 • Program Administrator 4 FUTURE• Instructional Partner 1 • Information Specialist 2 • Teacher 3 • Program Administrator 4 • Vision Summit identified “leader” as a role that
is essential to the future of the profession
• What gives you the authority to be considered a leader in your school?
-Pair: 5 min.
-Share 10 min.
Leadership“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy , November 23, 1963, Dallas
As a leader, you are in the motivation business, selling your vision, your values, and yourself.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm constantly. • Articulate a consistent vision. • Sell the benefit. • Tell more stories. • Invite participation. • Reinforce an optimistic outlook. • Encourage potential. --Carmine Gallo, Business Week columnist, Library Leadership Network
“We need to own ed tech now!” Joyce Valenza
Networked Students
AASL & ALA Leadership Tools• AASL Forum & AASL Blog• Facebook and Twitter• @ your School Library Campaign• Electronic Discussion Lists• Learning Standards• ALA Connect!!• Toolkits
Health and Wellness kitCrisis KitParent Outreach Toolkit
• Hotlinks • ALA’s Add It UP• ALA’s Learning Round Table
Blog
We need to unblock creativity!• Web 2.0 tools
– YouTube– Wikis– Blogs– Facebook and MySpace– Delicious– Wikipedia--teach how to use it– NoodleTools (OK, that one isn’t blocked,
but it’s 2.0)
*** Polleverywhere.com**
TRY ONE A WEEK!
Your Challenges:• Develop an “elevator speech”• Do one promotional and marketing
activity per week• Download the NSLMPY Award
application from the AASL website and set yourself a time limit to apply that is less than 5 years
Thank you!http://caslresources.wikispace
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Sara Kelly Johns
www.skj4ala.com
[email protected](Or catch up to me on Twitter and Facebook)