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> Volume 15, Issue 4
> July 2016
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> Association News
> Member Spotlight
> Education News
> Resources for School Librarians
> Partnership and Collaborator News
> Grants & Awards
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> Association News
> AASL at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference Wrap-up
> At the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, AASL hosted two sessions related to ESSA. The first, "Unpacking ESSA for the Library Ecosystem," offered a general overview of the new law and outlined ways to form coalitions within the library ecosystem. The second session, titled "Unpacking ESSA for the School Librarian," provided participants with a "call to action" connecting ESSA language to their role in the school. The materials from each session are available on the AASL website. During the AASL President's Program, AASL President Leslie Preddy awarded James Patterson with the 2016 Crystal Apple; Sabrina Benun from Hachette Book Group accepted the award on his behalf. The President's Program also featured award-winning author Avi, who spoke of his work and his connection to readers and librarians. In addition, AASL announced its 2016 list of Best Apps for Teaching & Learning and its 2016 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning.
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> AASL Holds ESSA Listening Session with U.S. Department of Education
> On Friday, June 3, AASL leaders met virtually with Dr. Monique Chism, deputy assistant secretary from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. This one-hour “listening session” was devoted to the relationship between school librarians and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The U.S. Department of Education will take this information into account as it provides guidance on Title IV, Part A - Student Support and Academic Enrichments Grants.
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> ALA Seeks Nation’s Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award
> The American Library Association (ALA) invites the public to nominate their favorite librarians for its prestigious 2016 I Love My Librarian Award. The award recognizes the public service of exceptional public, school, college, community college or university librarians who have transformed lives and communities through educational opportunities and lifelong learning. The ALA is accepting nominations through Sept. 19.
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> New Research Articles Examine Audiobooks, Effective Learners, and Digital Learning
> Three new articles are now available in AASL's peer-reviewed online journal, School Library Research (SLR). In “Audiobooks: Legitimate 'Reading' Material for Adolescents?” Jennifer Moore and Maria Cahill review literature on adolescents and audiobooks to determine if listening to an audiobook can serve as a legitimate form of reading. In “The Dispositions of Elementary School Children of Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures Who Are Intrinsically Motivated to Seek Information,” Sherry Crow and Lisa Kastello ask the question “How do the experiences of students from a collectivist culture (Uganda) who are intrinsically motivated to seek information compare and contrast with the experiences of similarly aged students from an individualistic culture (Colorado)?” In “Applying the Quadratic Usage Framework to Research on K–12 STEM Digital Learning Resources” Jennifer Luetkemeyer and Marcia Mardis detail the results of their qualitative synthesis of K–12 STEM digital learning resources, research and policy literature.
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> Member Spotlight
> Kristin Green Wins Year of Free AASL Membership
> By sharing the wealth of AASL membership with a colleague, Kristi Green has won a free year of AASL membership. Green's name was drawn as a monthly winner of AASL’s Share the Wealth Campaign. Green referred Megan Greene to AASL. When asked why she recommended AASL membership, Green replied: “My coworker, Megan, is transferring from the classroom to the library while pursuing her degree in library science. We work at Korea International School near Seoul, South Korea, and our chances for meaningful collaboration and professional development can be limited due to language barriers, geography and time zones. I knew she would need to find a one-stop destination for the best ideas, perspectives, trends and practices the library world has to offer. Being a member of AASL is imperative for any expat school librarian. My membership makes me feel connected to my Western roots while I'm living abroad in Southeast Asia.”
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> Jenny Lussier Receives ISTE’s Librarians Network Primary Award
> Jenny Lussier, library media specialist at Brewster Elementary School in Durham, Connecticut, was awarded ISTE’s Librarians Network Primary Award. Lussier was judged on use of technology to help students develop higher order 21st-century skills; strong, clear explanation of a successful collaborative technology project; reflection and recommendations for similar future projects, as well as ability to replicate the project; evidence that the librarian is a technology leader in their school setting; and ample support from the school administration and staff for the school's library program.
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> Helen Adams Receives Freedom to Read Foundation’s 2016 Roll of Honor Award
> Helen Adams, an adjunct online instructor at Antioch University-Seattle, received the Freedom to Read Foundation’s 2016 Roll of Honor Award. The Freedom to Read Foundation’s Roll of Honor was established in 1987 to recognize and honor those individuals who have contributed substantially to the FTRF through adherence to its principles and/or substantial monetary support. Adams has taught intellectual freedom and ethics to graduate library science students for over a decade, is a past trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and has served on ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and its Privacy Subcommittee. She was also a past president of AASL.
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> Carolyn Foote Featured in Tech & Learning Article
> Carolyn Foote’s school library space is featured in an article in Tech & Learning. The article highlights how she has updated her school library space to meet student and teacher needs. Foote is a proponent of the learning commons movement, so she made sure to provide offices for the instructional partners who work with teachers. “With all of the different people who work with students and teachers in the same place, it’s easier to collaborate. It’s the anti-silo,” she says.
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> Suzanna Panter Featured in Publishers Weekly Article
> Suzanna Panter, educational specialist for library services in Henrico County Public Schools, is featured in a Publishers Weekly article. She details her district’s innovative work and some trends she’s seeing in the field. Two of the trends Panter is excited about are makerspaces and genius hours. "Librarians play an important role in all of this when they make the library a place where kids’ minds can wander and they are not prescribed what to read," she notes.
> Sherry Gick Wins Year of Free AASL Membership
> By sharing the wealth of AASL membership with a colleague, Sherry Gick has won a free year of AASL membership. Gick's name was drawn as a monthly winner of the AASL's Share the Wealth Campaign. Gick referred Erin Preder to AASL. When asked why she recommended AASL membership, Gick replied: “I recommended AASL membership to Erin - and to all school librarians - because it is the only association completely dedicated to the profession. Our unique positions in schools and districts make it imperative that we work together and support each other. The advocacy and resources provided by AASL are pivotal to me.”
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> Education News
> Common Core State Standards May Not Prepare Students for College and Career
> The Common Core State Standards may not be meeting the goal of preparing students for college and career, according to a survey from ACT. The findings are based on feedback from K-12 and college instructors along with workplace supervisors and employees.
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> Survey Reveals Trends in Tech Use
> Nearly a quarter of teachers taking part in a recent survey said they are willing to try new technologies in the classroom. The Education Week Research Center survey included feedback from about 700 teachers and instructional specialists.
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> Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules
> Last month a federal appeals court upheld a White House–supported effort to make Internet service providers treat all web traffic equally, delivering a major defeat to cable and telephone companies. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sustained the FCC’s latest net neutrality rules, which consumer groups and President Barack Obama had backed as essential to preventing broadband providers from blocking or degrading Internet traffic.
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> Workforce Trends for Class of 2015
> The number of college graduates from the class of 2015 who were employed or pursued more education six months after graduating is slightly higher than numbers for the class of 2014, according to a report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Data show 64% were working and 18% went back to school.
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> Adaptive Learning No Panacea for Improving Education
> Adaptive-learning software is not a panacea for improving education, according to a study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The report analyzes the use of the software by colleges and universities in 2013.
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> White House Seeks to Remove Barrier to Higher Education
> The White House has launched a new initiative, the Fair Chance Education Pledge, which encourages colleges and universities not to use students' criminal records when making admissions decisions. Several institutions already have signed on, including Boston University, Columbia University and Cornell University.
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> Managers Say Recent College Grads Lack Certain Critical Skills
> An analysis of whether recent college graduates are prepared for the workforce shows some specific areas where hiring managers report their being underprepared. Nearly half of hiring managers report that new grads lack writing proficiency and public speaking ability; even more say their new hires are not strong critical thinkers or that they lack attention to detail.
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> Should Students Go Phone-Free at Summer Camps?
> Sixth-grade students who did not use their phones for five days at an overnight summer camp program were better able to learn interpersonal, social skills, among other things, a recent study found. However, giving up phones can be as hard for parents as it is for students.
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> Students of Color Make up Nearly Half of Student Population
> Students of color make up nearly 50% of students in US schools, according to the recent Civil Rights Data Collection Survey. Data show 24.7% of those students are Latino and 15.5% are black or African-American.
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> High-School GPA May Be Best Indicator of College-Readiness
> A study at the University of Alaska has found that the SAT, ACT and placement tests were not good predictors of how students will perform in college-level math and English classes. Instead, Michelle Hodara, lead author of the study, said a student's high-school grade-point average "is a really powerful measure of college readiness, even for students who want to earn a four-year degree."
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> Resources for School Librarians
> British Library Posts Literary Treasures
> The British Library has made more than 300 literary treasures relating to 20th-century writers available online for the first time. Items include literary drafts, rare first editions, notebooks, letters, diaries, newspapers, and photographs from Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, and Hanif Kureishi, among others. The items relate to some of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and can be viewed for free on the Discovering Literature website.
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> Microsoft to Offer Minecraft for Free to Schools
> Microsoft announced last month that schools will be able to download a free education version of its popular Minecraft software. Microsoft is seeking a greater share of the education market.
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> RCT-YES Software to Expand Program Evaluation in Education
> The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has launched a new tool that can make it easier and more cost-effective for states and school districts to evaluate the impact of their programs. RCT-YES is free, user-friendly software that supports sophisticated analysis and reporting of results from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other types of evaluation designs.
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> Departments of Education and Health and Human Services Release Joint Guidance on Foster Youth
> The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services released guidance to states, school districts, and child welfare agencies on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for supporting children in foster care. The guidance aims to assist state and local partners in understanding and implementing the new law, and to inform state and local collaboration between educational and child welfare agencies across the nation for the well-being of children in foster care.
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> How to Use HyperDocs to Create Interactive Lessons
> HyperDocs allows teachers to create digital lessons with interactive elements, writes Lisa Highfill, an instructional technology coach. In this blog post, she offers ways teachers can use HyperDocs, including for group work and blended-learning environments.
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> Crowd-Funding and Grants Help Teacher Expand Ed-Tech
> First-grade teacher Melissa Hunt in this blog post shares her education-technology funding journey, which began with an annual $75 allotment. She has used crowdfunding and grants to supplement the stipend and create a tech-rich learning environment.
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> How Read-alouds Can Support Science and Literacy Learning
> Teachers can help students learn more about science with read-alouds, educator Michelle Salgado writes in this blog post. Besides a video, Salgado offers tips, such as enlarging pages that include visuals and allowing for student interaction.
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> How to Use Voice Typing in Google Docs
> The voice-typing feature of Google Docs is useful for students who want to capture their ideas, Sean Williams writes. In this blog post, he offers several tips that can help students use the technology tool.
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> Tips to Choose and Implement Ed-Tech Tools
> Three strategies can help educators choose education-technology tools and avoid feelings of being overwhelmed by all the available choices, technology integration facilitator Denise Jaffe writes in this commentary. Strategies include choosing programs that work on various devices.
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> How to Assess Teachers' Technology Integration
> In this blog post, educator Katie Chirhart shares three ways to encourage teachers to apply the SAMR -- substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition -- model in the classroom to assess how well technology is being integrated into instruction. Among other things, she writes, it's important to acknowledge that the process "is a marathon, not a sprint."
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> Partnership and Collaborator News
> Children’s Book Council Partners with The unPrison Project
> For the second consecutive year, the Children’s Book Council has partnered with The unPrison Project — a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and mentoring women in prison — to create brand-new libraries of books for incarcerated mothers to read with their babies at prison nurseries. Fourteen of the CBC’s member publishers answered the call by donating copies of over 35 hand-picked titles for children ages 0-18 months for each library. The books will be hand-delivered and organized in the nurseries by Deborah Jiang-Stein, founder of The unPrison Project and author of Prison Baby. Jiang-Stein was born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother, and has made it her mission to empower and mentor women and girls in prison.
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> Future Ready Schools Announces New Project to Recognize School Librarians as Leaders in School Transformation
> Future Ready Schools (FRS)—led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education—announced Future Ready Librarians, an expansion of the FRS initiative aimed at positioning librarians as leaders in the digital transformation of learning. The FRS initiative helps district leaders recognize the potential of digital tools and align necessary technologies with instructional goals to support teaching and learning. A network of nationally recognized librarians, including Mark Ray, chief digital officer for Vancouver Public Schools in Washington, will provide input on the development of strategies, tools, and resources aligned with the FRS framework.
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> Grants & Awards
> Investing in Innovation Fund Scale-up and Validation Competitions
> The Investing in Innovation Fund provides funding to support local educational agencies and nonprofit organizations in partnership with one or more LEA or a consortium of schools. These grants will allow eligible entities to expand and develop innovative practices that can serve as models of best practices, allow eligible entities to work in partnership with the private sector and the philanthropic community, and identify and document best practices that can be shared and taken to scale based on demonstrated success. Applications must be received by July 15.
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> Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE Cart/Campbell Grant for Librarians 
> The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (ALAN) is offering the Cart/Campbell Grant. The grant offers $500 funding plus complimentary registration toward attendance at the annual two-day ALAN Workshop. Eligible applicants are practicing librarians working with teens in high school, junior high school, middle school, or public libraries. Membership in ALAN is required for consideration. One Campbell/Cart Grant will be awarded annually, and each recipient may only receive the grant once. The deadline for application submissions is September 1 of the year of the ALAN Workshop to be attended, and the recipient will receive notification by October 1.
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> IEEE Maker Project Competition
> IEEE announced the annual IEEE Maker Project Competition, welcoming innovators and tech enthusiasts to battle it out for great prizes and the chance to work with an IEEE member. Entrants must be 18 years or older to enter and submissions must be an engineering project that was built or created using hardware or software. Submissions must also include an image or video of the tech project, as well as a description. Visitors to the site will be able to share, link, comment and even vote for their favorite submissions. The contest is accepting submissions through September 17, 2016.
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> Captain Planet Foundation Grants
> The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to give the next generation of environmental stewards an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live. Projects must be project-based, performed by youth, have environmental outcomes, and be based in the U.S. Grants from the Captain Planet Foundation are intended to provide hands-on environmental stewardship opportunities for youth; serve as a catalyst to getting environment-based education in schools; and inspire youth and communities to participate in community service through environmental stewardship activities. Applications for spring and summer projects are due September 30.
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> IMLS Seeks Nation's Top Museums and Libraries for 2017 National Medal 
> Each year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services presents select museums and libraries with the nation's highest honor, the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The award recognizes libraries and museums that make significant and exceptional contributions in service to their communities. IMLS is now accepting nominations for the 2017 awards. Anyone--an employee, a board member, a member of the public, or an elected official--can nominate an institution. To be considered, the institution must complete and return a nomination form by October 3, 2016.
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> Innovate to Educate Awards
> Share your story about the innovative technology initiative your school or district has undertaken and how it has advanced education for your students. Complete the entry form and submit either a short video or picture that illustrates your technology initiative. We’ll post your entry on the Innovate to Educate website, and share the link on our Facebook page to put your school in the spotlight. Submissions will be accepted through October 14, 2016, and will be judged by three industry experts.
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> PeopleAdmin's Inspired2Educate National Recognition Program
> Inspired2Educate is a national recognition program that encourages current K-20 educators to honor the teachers or administrators who inspired them to embrace education as their life’s work. Tell us your story in a video or in writing! Each month, PeopleAdmin will award one person with $1,000 for professional development and $1,000 for their educational institution.
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> Wish You Well Foundation Funding
> The Wish You Well Foundation’s mission is supporting family literacy in the United States by fostering and promoting the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs. Donations are made that relate to programs and projects that aid in this stated mission. The Wish You Well Foundation reviews donation requests with a wide array of funding needs. Most requests range from $200 to $10,000. Organizations are reminded to base their requested amount on the program's unique needs for funding. Deadline: rolling.
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> Microsoft DigiGirlz High Tech Camp
> Microsoft DigiGirlz High Tech Camp for girls works to dispel stereotypes of the high-tech industry. During the camp session, the girls listen to executive speakers, participate in technology tours and demonstrations, network, and learn through hands-on experience in workshops. This year camps will take place at various dates throughout the summer in Lehi, Utah; Charlotte, NC; Fargo, ND; Reno, NV, Redmond, WA; Las Colinas, TX; and St. Louis, MO. Maximum award: free attendance to camp. Eligibility: girls grades 9-11 and at least age 13 at time of application, with some location exceptions. Deadline: varies by location.
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> Fund for Teachers Grants
> The Fund for Teachers provides funds for direct grants to teachers to support summer learning opportunities of their own design. Maximum award: $5,000. Eligibility: teachers who work with students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12, with a minimum of three years teaching experience, full-time, spending at least 50 percent of the time in the classroom at the time grants are approved and made. Deadline: varies by state.
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> Grants to Increase Access to Healthy Foods from the No Kid Hungry Foundation
> Providing students access to healthy and nutritious meals is the focus of No Kid Hungry Foundation grants. Currently, the foundation supports projects that increase access to summer meal programs, school breakfast and after-school snacks and meals, as well as advocacy efforts, including anti-hunger issues and needs and educating families about SNAP and the Women, Infants, and Children programs. Interested schools can submit letters of inquiry year-round. Prize: Average grants range from $5,000 to $10,000. Deadline: Rolling.
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> The Awesome Foundation Grants for Projects
> The Awesome Foundation funds projects that challenge and expand our understanding of our individual and communal potentials, bringing communities together, casting aside social inhibitions and boundaries for a moment. Maximum award: $1,000. Eligibility: all people and organizations; there are no prerequisites. Deadline: rolling.
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