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September 2011 - " Making an Impact with Impact Studies" by Adam Marcus and Melissa Leman
Published in School Library Monthly, the article by two SL&IT students report on the impact in their own school of the findings from a spring 2011 SL&IT class project (see item below).
February 2011 - " School Library Impact Studies Project" by Students of LSC 5530, School Library Advocacy
The documents linked from this page, prepared as a class project for Debra Kachel's School Library Advocacy class (LSC 5530), summarize findings from the major statewide studies correlating student achievement and high-quality school libraries and librarians.
September/October 2010 - " Welcoming America's Newest Immigrants: Providing Access to Resources and Services for English Language Learners" by Helen Adams
America has always been a nation of immigrants, and many school libraries serve students whose first language is not English. In AASL's 2009 School Libraries Count! Survey, 14% of the 5,824 respondents reported a student population with 25% or more English language learners. Yet 91% reported that less than 5% of their collections are in a language other than English. Unfortunately 36% reported they used no special strategies to serve their ESL student populations (American Association of School Librarians 2009).
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Summer 2010 - " Legislatively Speaking Becoming Politically Active" by Debra Kachel
While school librarians traditionally have not felt a need to be politically active, in today's environment we are poised to become excellent champions for school library services and leaders in political activism because we possess a unique skill set. School librarians know how to find and use credible data Old information. We have developed excellent collaborative and communication skills in order to "lead from the middle." We are also very committed to the school library profession and helping students learn and teachers teach. All that is needed is the spark to ignite, a "call to action," if you will, to force us to step out of the school librarian "invisibility" and become proactive. Unfortunately, this impetus has come to pass with the tragic reductions in the Access PA and POWER Library database projects incurred with the 2009-2010 state budget.
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February 2009 - " State Funding Available to Improve School Library Services" by Debra Kachel
This article relates changes in Pennsylvania's educational assistance laws that now include school library services and summarizes research findings correlating higher reading test scores and improved student learning to quality school library programs. Addressed to school principals and administrators, the author also presents state guidelines for library services and several sources of grant funds to bolster school library budgets.
May 2008 - " News from the Intellectual Freedom Front" by Helen Adams
School library media specialists have powerful documents from the American Library Association on which to base their practice – the Library Bill of Rights and its 18 interpretations and the Code of Ethics for the American Library Association. While it may seem that relatively little changes with these core intellectual freedom policy statements, much has been and continues to happen “behind the scenes.”
March/April 2007 - Two Column Issues from Helen Adams
Two articles available online from Helen Adams column, IF Matters Intellectual Freedom@your library" (School Library Media Activities Monthly): The Age of the Patron and Privacy (March 2007) and The Age of the Patron: Privacy for Middle and High School Students (April 2007).
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February 2008 - " Ethics, Dispositions, and the SLMS" by Veanna Baxter
I recently returned from attending a two-day workshop in which we discussed the ethical situation in our present society. As many of us when we return from an especially thought-provoking session, I felt compelled to share some of the discussions and to relate them to us as school librarians and perspective librarians.
December 2007 - " AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner" by Jean Tuzinski
“AASL Standards for the 21st -Century Learner” were released at the end of the Opening General Session of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, October 27th, 2007. These learning standards replace the in-formation literacy standards which have been the basis of our work since their publication in the 1998 Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning.
September 2011 - " Making an Impact with Impact Studies" by Adam Marcus and Melissa Leman
February 2011 - " School Library Impact Studies Project" by Students of LSC 5530, School Library Advocacy (Debra Kachel)
September/October 2010 - " Welcoming America's Newest Immigrants: Providing Access to Resources and Services for English Language Learners" by Helen Adams
Summer 2010 - " Legislatively Speaking Becoming Politically Active" by Debra Kachel.
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