2017 Concern- Presence of "Reading" in Future Ready Framework

2017 Concern- Presence of "Reading" in Future Ready Framework

Concern: The current AASL President and Past President serve on the Future Ready Librarian Leadership team and will continue to advocate the importance of reading across literacies. The Standards Implementation Task Force has kept the Future Ready framework in mind while planning the upcoming professional development opportunities related to the standards, allowing another avenue for reading advocacy. 

Action Requested: As a sponsoring organization for Future Ready Schools, AASL should recommend the inclusion of reading across all literacies.

Status: Members have been appointed to a Task Force charged with developed a crosswalk between the AASL National School Library Standards, ISTE Standards, and the Future Ready Librarian.

2016 Concern- Quality Library & Information Science Instruction

2016 Concern- Quality Library & Information Science Instruction

Concern: Instruction is a pivotal component of most librarian evaluation models. While some school librarians have served as regular classroom teachers previously, a great number have not. Those same librarians may also be isolated in their districts with only a small network of librarians and little time or opportunity to shadow other teaching librarians. A video database of high-quality lessons in action, specific to library and information science instruction in a K-12 setting, would be beneficial to improving instruction based on the Standards for the 21st Century Learner in school libraries.

Action Requested: The Tennessee Association of School Librarians requests that the AASL Board of Directors take further action to foster/support quality library and information science instruction based on the Standards for the 21st Century Learner in the K-12 setting.

Status: The Affiliate Assembly body approved this concern. It was sent to the AASL Board where it was approved and then shared with Standards and Guidelines Implementation Task Force for consideration as new standards and guidelines implementation tools are developed.