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 * ENVIRONMENT - WHAT IS DRIVING OUR LIBRARY AGENDA? **

Mission of the library:

"The mission of the school library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The school library media specialist empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information. . . "

(American Association of School Librarians, Empowering Learners, p. 8) = STANDARDS =
 * InTASC Standards--the standards that drive the preparation of teachers: http://programs.ccsso.org/projects/Membership_Meetings/Summer_Institute/
 * New standard--COLLABORATION: http://programs.ccsso.org/projects/Membership_Meetings/Summer_Institute/documents/2010/InTASCRelease.pdf
 * National Education Technology Plan 2010(NETP): http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010
 * Common Core Standards: http://www.corestandards.org/ and http://dese.mo.gov/commoncorestandards.htm
 * DESE Grade and Course-Level Expectations and Resources http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/
 * Information and Communication Technology Literacy
 * http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/documents/il_gle_20_k8_April2010.doc
 * http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/documents/il_cle_April2010.doc
 * Social Studies: Tools of Social Science Inquiry
 * Communication Arts: Information Literacy
 * MoSTEP for preparation of school librarians to be revised this year

= FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE = >> > > >
 * Thomas Friedman, [|The World is Flat]--We learned in a static world; our students are entering a very different world that will require continuous learning, creativity, working with people who are different from us, developing new understanding in a highly complex world.
 * Read Doug Johnson's response to Friedman's book as a scenario of what could happen to school libraries
 * Johnson, Doug. "Letter from the Flat World Library Corporation." //The Blue Skunk Blog.// 7 Oct. 2007. Web. 13 Aug. 2010. .
 * Daniel Pink, [|A Whole New Mind]--Argues that we need to teach our students to design, tell stories, function in a group like a symphony, empathize, play to create, and build new meaning. This is not the factory model, because that can be outsourced to China and India
 * Linda Darling-Hammond, [|Voices in Urban Education]--How can we ensure that all kids succeed? How can we erase the achievement gaps between rich and poor, privileged and deprived, native and immigrant populations? Finland has accomplished this.
 * Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley, [|The Fourth Way]--More about the kind of change needed, more about Finland.
 * School Learning Commons Idea
 * Jean Sausele Knodt, [|Nine Thousand Straws]--An idea resource for turning a learning space--like a library--into an inquiry laboratory.
 * Cicchetti, R. Concord, "Carlisle Transitions to a Learning Commons." Teacher Librarian v. 37 no. 3 (February 2010) p. 52-8. How one librarian made an oppressively unfriendly library into a learning commons.
 * School Learning Commons wiki--http://schoollearningcommons.pbworks.com/
 * Diggs, Valerie. "From Library to Learning Commons: Chelmsford High School, Chelmsford Massachussetts." //Slideshare.// [21 Oct. 2009?] Web. 13 Aug. 2010. .

= POWERPOINT: An Introduction to the AASL Standards =