Where does the time go? I had this ready to post at the end of March and then the response to the White House petition arrived, it turned to April, and I’m just now getting back to it. Anyway, the update below covers until the end of April. One last update will be out at […]
AASL President Update #3
May 7th, 2012 Comments Off on AASL President Update #3
Tags: AASL · AASL President 2011-2012 · American Association of School Librarians · Carl Harvey · Reflection · school librarians · school libraries · school library programs · White House petition
White House Petition in Support of School Libraries - Its Posted!
January 5th, 2012 65 Comments
Before the holidays, I shared with you that I thought it was worth taking another stab at trying to get the 25,000 signatures on a White House Petition about school libraries. I am excited to say that I posted the petition today! Thank you to the many librarians and friends who offered support and offered […]
Tags: AASL President 2011-2012 · school librarians · school libraries · school library programs · White House petition
School Library White House Petition – Some Thoughts and Next Steps
November 28th, 2011 15 Comments
Over the last 30 days, there have been lots of blogs posts, tweets, LM_net postings, etc. over the petition on the White House website started by California librarian Seanean Shanahan. There was a considerable amount of effort put forth by many in our field to get to the need 25,000 signatures. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. […]
Tags: school library programs · White House petition
Data Week
January 24th, 2011 Comments Off on Data Week
It’s Data Week at my school this week. One of three or four times a year that we rearrange our daily schedule to provide teacher with a block of time to look at the data we’ve collected on each student. Each day a different grade level has a 2 hour block of time to look […]
Tags: advocacy · data analysis · school library programs