L4L Sessions Offered at AASL National Conference in Charlotte, NC

Reading 4 Life @ Your Library®:
The Library Media Specialist's Role in Reading

Rev up for leadership in reading! Guided by AASL's Library Media Specialist's Role in Reading Position Statement and the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, participants will acquire support for taking a leadership role in reading in their schools. This interactive session offers concepts, resources, and research to use to develop your library's reading program, strategies for working with other literacy educators, real-world examples and testimonials from the field, and ideas to implement on Monday morning. Join Reading 4 Life @ Your Library® to rev up your impact on reading! Judi Moreillon, Lead

Teaching the New Standards and Guidelines to Preservice and Inservice LMS

What new and renewing librarians need to know about the guidelines and standards. Gail Dickinson, Lead

Nudging Toward Inquiry:
Evolving Instructional Design One Step at a Time

How do you move closer toward achieving the inquiry goals of the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner if the school culture doesn't already embrace inquiry? Seeking evolution -- with one small change at a time -- can be a way to slowly move toward inquiry with reluctant or inexperienced teachers. We'll examine an inquiry model for learning then look at how to tweak a lesson in several ways to move the students closer to an inquiry-oriented experience. Kristin Fontichiaro

Designing Your Library Curriculum with I-SAIL

Learn to use the document Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries (I-SAIL) as a guide for your K-12 curriculum development. Becky Robinson, Lead

School Library Space for the 21st Century Learner

Virtual libraries are a high school experiment not a foregone conclusion. Space planning for school libraries is changing, but it is not time to panic. It is a time to understand concepts and models, to participate in the discussion, and to create new, inviting, library spaces that support 21st century learners. In this session, we will look at floor plans and furnishing that provide flexibility, collaboration, and integration. Peg Sullivan

Retrofitting School Library Spaces for the 21st Century Learner

If the library room doesn’t work, retro-fit it! You do not have to have a new building to establish spaces that complement new learning models; you just have to be creative. In this session, we will look at how moving a wall or changing floor plans and furnishings can provide flexibility, collaboration and integration. We will talk about how you can bring your existing school library into the 21st century. Peg Sullivan

Empowering Learners: Unpacking the Guidelines

The new learning standards address the information-to-knowledge connection. What does this mean for the way school library media specialists teach? This presentation will discuss the recently published Guidelines to examine the role that the SLMS can play in helping students become information literate as they learn curriculum content. Carol Gordon

Model the Model: Four-step Lesson Design from Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action

How can school librarians help teachers enhance learning and increase student achievement? Learn how to develop students' 21st century skills, strategies, and attitudes, as well as their commitment to learning, using the four-step lesson design and template presented in Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action. During this hands-on session, participants will develop lessons that incorporate the Standards into elementary, middle and high school classroom curricula. Kathy Lowe

Where the Money Is: IMLS Support of School Library Media

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Numerous school districts and university graduate programs around the country have been able to provide full scholarships for school library media certification and/or the master’s in library science to those wishing to work in school libraries thanks to the 21st Century Librarian Grant Program. This federal grant program funds scholarships for school library media certification, master’s and PhD degrees, research by tenure-track professors of school library media, and programs that introduce high school and college undergraduates to careers in librarianship. Following a brief overview of the program (the application and review process), a panel of past recipients will describe their projects. Kevin Cherry, IMLS

L4L - A Give and Take Opportunity

Join the members of AASL's Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force for an update on Learning 4 Life activities and an opportunity to share what you, your school or organization, region or state are doing to help roll out the new standards and guidelines. The Task Force also wants to hear from you about what additional tools and resources you may need to assist in implementation as well as any additional input you have about Learning 4 Life efforts. To get the discussion started, colleagues involved in the standards process and the development in the state of Colorado, Nance Nassar and Nancy White, will provide an overview of their work-to-date and what that has involved.