CASL 2009 Goals & Objectives

 

Please add what you are doing, or suggestions for what CASL can do feasibly in this year under each of our 3 adopted goals.

 

 

 

 

1.      Focus on linking 21^st century skills and teacher librarians.

 

Promote success to principals--open house, video, YouTube existing? or CASL contest to create

 

 

Professional development to teachers on 21C skills

     In July Colorado will have their representative trained in the AASL 21st-Century Learners Skills In Action. Trainings will need to be conducted throughout the state during the 2009-2010 school year.  How about using these trainings to "market" ourselves to the state. The new 21st Century School Librarian - at these trainings have librarians bring their principal and a teacher. By offering these professional development these trainings would have to encompass lesson plans. We could piggyback upon the Power Library model. We could have a two day training and tag on AASL Advocacy Toolkits training. In order for this to happen we would need an LSTA Grant or any grant.  Last year be brainstormed this so maybe we could make it happen. (yes Susan I am volunteering to help write the grant. :-) JO)

 

CAL Preconference in November focusing on the training from July at ALA--Jo is planning on attending and I just sent in my "extra" registration (not in the official capacity). Would need to pull together a panel of "specialists" who could assist with the transfer of knowledge...another option would be to propose a series of workshops throughout the conference that would address the skills in action. (Jen)--I'm on the conference planning committee as the Program Selection Chair and WE NEED SCHOOL LIBRARIANS to propose workshops--the conference is only as excellent as the people who present.

 

 

Connect libraries to CSAP success + how standards correlate

     I see this as apart of my 21C skills idea above (JO)

Texas held a 'Strong Students, Strong Scores' conference which I'm sure they paid Keith Curry Lance for, but something similar could be designed here for administrators (HB)

 

 

Position TL as experts in future technologies

 

 

Parnterships: TIE/PTA

 

Advocacy: I see the need for trainings throughout the state with AASL's Advocacy Toolkits. A tookit for parents will be presented at ALA Chicago this summer.

 

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2.       Strengthen and define CASL’s relationship with CAL.

 

Task Force on CAL Reorg

 

Awards restructuring

 

More school members on CAL committees

 

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3.       Actively pursue membership for CASL

 

 

Rep on CAL membership committee

 

 

Fall mailing to all school buildings

 

 

LMC Connection subscription possibility

 

Create buttons for members to wear at TIE such as "ASK ME about CASL"

 

Get more people to sign up for CASL ListServ (Yahoo group) and CASL blog  RSS feed

Another suggestion is to have a fun weekend at the Broadmoor (some are still pining for the CEMA Broadmoor experience)--maybe work in a cut to CAL, or an 'open space' unprogrammed conference to share ideas; maybe there would be a way to tie in the complaining nonmembers from the past to the new CAL

 

Check out this ALA link about hosting an unconference or a library camp. http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Unconferences_and_library_camps   This could be our fun weekend at the Broadmoor that many members still clamor for, even after all of these years.  Susan

 

Notes from Nancy:  I feel that to increase membership in CASL, we need to give more people opportunities to be actively involved.  While The CASL board is small and limited according to our bylaws, I think that we can give people an active role in the organization even if they aren't a voting member of the board. This would solve 2 problems - one that I've been feeling for awhile - that those of us on the board are spread too thin. And, it would help those who aren't on the board to feel that they are contributing and that membership is worthwhile.  I have had several librarians ask me recently when CASL meets and is that only for board members? So - dreaming big, I think these are some committees we could form. We can invite committee chairmen to attend the board meetings to make regular reports.

• HS Librarians/Academic Librarians communication group regarding information literacy standards & practices
• Public relations/advocacy committee
• Workshop planning committee
• Regionally staffed welcoming committee (reps in each of the areas takes on task of welcoming new school librarians and telling them about CAL/CASL)
• Writing committee (Blog, CAL Newsletter, etc.)
• Other ideas?????

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