CASL 2009 Goals and Ideas

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Links for Jan 16 meeting

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CASL 2010 Goals & Objectives

At the January 16 CASL Board meeting, we decided to keep these goals, with slight changes to the wording. Revised goals now showing below, along with planned activities. Please continue to brainstorm projects that you believe CASL should take on in 2010.

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.    Provide support to school librarians for increasing student achievement and 21^st century literacy (by providing people, development partnerships and providing guidelines to design excellent school library programs that provide an) through inviting, accessible and stimulating environments for all learners. (6/2010 revision)

(Rationale:  We should now refer to ourselves as "school librarians" - re: Ann Martin, past president, AASL. We need to be aligned with the new content standards in our 21st century skills instruction. )

ACTION ITEMS/COMMITMENT TO UNDERTAKE:

• We will hold an "unconference" - round table discussions giving school librarians in Colorado an opportunity to reflect and share best practices, including how they are addressing the 21st century skills in the new content standards. Timeframe - April or early May.
• A professional development subcommittee made up of interested CASL members and board members will meet in February to start planning. Nancy will explore possible dates and locations.
• Some links about setting up successful unconferences (not necessarily education or library)
•  How to plan a successful unconference in 10 steps
• What is an unconference 
• Unconference Blog 
• Wikis from successful unconferences
• Learning 2.0:  A Colorado Conversation 
• EduCon 2.1 
• Some ideas (just brainstorming)
• The sharing part:  
• Livestream sessions - record sessions, perhaps involve students and/or parents to help with this
• set up a Flickr site for the unconference, take photos
• designate Twitter hastags for sessions and the unconference
• Perhaps set up live blogging with something like CoverItLive
• Facility considerations
• Need mobile (wireless) microphones
• Video cameras for livestreaming
• Wireless access for those bringing laptops 

PROCLAMATION example: http://bit.ly/93Hqxp

• Apply to present at conferences other than for librarians - demonstrate library-content area collaboration to audience of content teachers
• CAST (Colorado Association of Science Teachers) Conference November 18th, 19th in Denver -  Presenter Information and Application Form (not sure of due date)
• NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) - Next opportunity for presenting would be regional conference in Albequerque November 2-4 of 2011 - Call for Speaker Proposal Deadline Nov 1, 2010
• CCIRA (Colorado Council International Reading Association) Conference February 2-5, 2011 - Presentation Proposal Form DUE by June 11, 2010
• CCSS (Colorado Council for the Social Studies) Annual Conference is in April 2011, but no info up about submitting presentation proposal.
• CLAS (Colorado Language Arts Association) Fall Conference Oct 29th and 30th, 2010 - Program Proposal Form due August 1, 2010
• CSMTA (Colorado State Music Teachers Association) - Annual Conference is in June 2011, but no info up about submitting presentation proposal.
• PPIRA
• Teen Lit Conference, April
  

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

(Rationale: We are an association of CAL - a part of the organization - so we are "within" CAL)

2011 Advocacy focus on schools:  http://bhagcolorado.blogspot.com/ 

ACTION ITEMS/COMMITMENT TO UNDERTAKE:

• Working with the expertise of CASL board members, we will draft a letter of recommendations for CAL (our parent organization) to help strengthen and build it to be able to better serve all members.
• Bringing forward a series of motions and discussion items to the CAL Board in May:

Resolutions for CAL May 14 meeting

• Financial
• Motion: Financial policy will state that the CAL Budget will be approved and in place by January 1 of each year.
• Motion: Financial policy will state that preliminary CAL budget should be available for review and discussion when the agenda is posted for the last CAL Board meeting in the calendar year, and all recommended changes made by the budget committee shall be communicated with the appropriate association president, special interest group or committee chairman prior to the start of the last CAL Board meeting of the calendar year.
• Question: What is the reimbursement policy or procedure for how to get funds to pay for expenses?  FIRST ASK NICOLE: What are the financial policies?  “Rochelle (or CAL president) should not have to be responsible for everything.  Share the information.

Professional Development

• MOTION: Spring workshops will be run on cost-neutral basis. Associations can set their fees accordingly.
• MOTION:  The non-member registration rate should be the cost plus the lowest price for CAL membership.

• Rationale & Discussion:  Operating expenses for CAL should come through membership and the conference.  It is a disincentive for anyone who wants to hold a workshop to HAVE to make money.   Professional development should be a benefit of membership – not a fundraiser for the organization. (Shift in philosophy)
• Setting  the non-member rate in this way should provide some incentive for non-members to join the organization.
• Meeting Times:
• MOTION:   In order to strengthen the partnership of all the associations, and demonstrate the cooperative nature of this organization, it should be put into policy that CAL is made up of different types of librarians with different commitments, therefore CAL committees should hold meetings at least 30% of the times when all types of library members are able to attend.
• Rationale: .  CAL made a commitment when we merged. (via Su and Dave)  This policy will be reflective of all of the members of this organization.  School librarians can’t get subs due to budget issues in schools. School librarians feel when they have to choose to leave their jobs in order to participate in the work of the organization they are cheating the children they serve. People have to take personal leave and use their vacation days if they want to be involved in CAL committees. As a result, very few school librarians are involved, and don’t have an equal voice in this organization.

• MOTION: A CAL strategic planning committee should be convened with representatives from each association and meeting dates when all are able to attend.  Committee charge should be to conduct a needs assessment of all types of librarians, evaluate the entire structure of organization – everything from terms of office to membership responsibility and determine if it is effective or in need of change. After considering all of the data collected, the task force should draft recommendations to include in CAL’s strategic plan. These recommendations should be brought to the CAL board for discussion and revision, and then the CAL membership for adoption.

Discussion:

• Needs assessment of all members should be conducted to inform the task force. Do your association members feel like this organization is representing them?

Agenda Item: Discuss ways to link membership responsibilities to the board. Part of this should be a real orientation for the board that covers responsibilities and policies (especially financial).

Agenda Item: CAL Communications – Need to be better at sharing events specifically with association presidents – don’t just post on Libnet. EXAMPLE: Colleague Connection.

100 people attended – The only school librarians present were DU students. (they sponsored the event)

Any time CAL enters a partnership or pursues an effort, they need to communicate that out to sub-groups. Libnet is not the voice of CAL – should not be.  There needs to be a better way to keep all stakeholders informed.

3.       Actively pursue and support school librarians for membership in CAL/CASL.

(Rationale:  In support of Goal 2, we recognize that membership is first in CAL, and our efforts will target school librarians.)

ACTION ITEMS/COMMITMENT TO UNDERTAKE:

We will take on the task of calling all recently expired/soon to expire CASL members and encourage them to renew their membership in CAL and CASL.