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> Volume 15, Issue 3
> June 2016
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> In This Issue:
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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
> Veterans Memorial Elementary School Named National School Library Program of the Year
> Veterans Memorial Elementary School, located in Naples, Florida, is AASL's 2016 National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY) Award recipient. Sponsored by Follett, the NSLPY Award annually recognizes a school library program that meets the needs of the changing school and library environment and is fully integrated into the school’s curriculum. The recipient receives an obelisk – the symbol of school library excellence – and $10,000 toward its school library program.
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> AASL Announces 2016 Award Recipients
> AASL announced the recipients of its 2016 awards. AASL awards and grants recognize excellence and showcase best practices in the school library field in categories that include collaboration, leadership, and innovation. The AASL award winners will be honored at the AASL Awards Ceremony during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. The ceremony will be held from 9–11 a.m. on Saturday, June 25. All are welcome to celebrate the accomplishments of their peers during this recognition event taking place prior to the AASL President’s Program.
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> Archive of AASL's Virtual Membership Meeting Available Online
> The recording of AASL's Virtual Membership Meeting is available on the AASL website. This annual meeting provides members with a “state of the association” update via reports from AASL leadership. Reports include AASL initiatives, programs, recognitions, and financial standing. The meeting was held Sunday, June 5.
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> Submit an Article for Upcoming Nov/Dec KQ
> Interested in writing for Knowledge Quest? The deadline for submitting a manuscript for the Nov/Dec issue of KQ is June 17. KQ is seeking original, unpublished manuscripts that address the integration of theory and practice in school librarianship and new developments in education, learning theory, and relevant disciplines. KQ is devoted to offering substantive information to assist building-level school librarians, supervisors, library educators, and other decision makers concerned with the development of school library programs and services. 
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> New Library Privacy Guidelines for K-12 Students
> Last month, the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee approved a new document, “Library Privacy Guidelines for Students in K–12 Schools.” The document, which surveys the state of student privacy in K–12 schools, provides guidance for school libraries and educational institutions seeking to protect the privacy of students while online, reading, or engaging in research. The document was developed by the IFC Privacy Subcommittee, with input from additional ALA committees, interest groups, and round tables.
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> ALA and Harry Potter Alliance Launch Spark Advocacy Videos
> The American Library Association joined the Harry Potter Alliance in launching “Spark,” an eight-part video series developed to support and guide first-time advocates who are interested in advocating at the federal level for issues that matter to them. The series, targeted to viewers aged 13–22, will be hosted on the YouTube page of the Harry Potter Alliance, while librarians and educators are encouraged to use the videos to engage young people or first-time advocates. The video series was launched during the 42nd Annual National Library Legislative Day in Washington, DC.
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> ALA-CBC Joint Committee Launching Pilot Bibliography
> The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee is launching a new pilot bibliography to provide guidance to caregivers interested in finding titles for children who read at an advanced level. The committee is looking to library professionals, publishers, and anyone with a passion for child literacy to provide suggestions for this list. The list will have three sections:
> Titles for Kindergartners/1st graders reading at a 3rd grade level
> Titles for 2nd/3rd graders reading at a 5th grade level
> Titles for 4th/5th graders reading at a 7th grade level
> The submission period will be open until September 5, 2016.
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> NJ Department of Education Adopts AASL Wording into NJ Student Learning Standards
> Last month the New Jersey Department of Education adopted changes to the New Jersey Common Core standards in language arts, which included incorporating language from AASL into Grade 3-12 ELA standards. The updated standards, now called the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, should be fully utilized in place of the NJ Common Core Standards. 
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> Member Spotlight
> Ann Yawornitsky Featured in Local News Article for AASL Award
> Ann Yawornitsky, librarian at Wilson Southern Middle School in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, is featured in a local newspaper for her recent AASL Roald Dahl Miss Honey Social Justice Award. The Roald Dahl award recognizes collaboration between school librarians and teachers in the instruction of social justice using school library resources. Yawornitsky and two reading teachers won for their "Children of the Holocaust/Holocaust Hall of Memories" program, which involved an exhaustive study of the Holocaust with sixth-graders.
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> Denise Mancuso’s Updated Learning Commons Featured in Online Article
> Denise Mancuso’s learning commons at Big Spring High School in Newville, Pennsylvania, is featured in a local ABC News piece. The space was updated to allow students to grab something to eat and drink and get to work with updated technology. “This has opened it up, made people feel more comfortable,” Mancuso said. “They feel comfortable working in groups, so it’s really changed the atmosphere.”
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> Viktoria Henderson’s Renovations to School Library Spotlight of Local News Article
> Viktoria Henerson’s renovations to the library at South Knoxville Elementary School are highlighted in a local news article. The principal of the school told Henderson she could renovate the school's library however she wanted. The result is a flexible learning space that can be changed up at any time for any event. "I wanted the library to be inviting, not intimidating," Henderson said. "I wanted the kids to feel like this was their space. On rainy days, I am hoping we can use the library for indoor recess."
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> Education News
> Department of Education Releases Draft of ESSA Rules
> States now have access to proposed rules for implementing the Every Students Succeeds Act. The US Department of Education published the rules last month. The 60-day comment period began on May 31.
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> More Teachers Are Using Online Videos and Gaming in Lessons
> About 68% of teachers are using online video in instruction and 48% are engaging students in gaming, according to a report from Project Tomorrow. More than half of the administrators surveyed—54%—said that encouraging teachers to include digital learning in their classroom practice is a top priority.
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> Study Finds Just 43% of Students Proficient in Tech and Engineering
> Forty-three percent of students scored proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress's technology and engineering literacy test. Data show girls outperformed boys on the exam by three percentage points.
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> Obama Seeks Student Input on STEM
> The White House launched a website to gather feedback from students about science, technology, engineering, and math. The website was created after a student asked President Obama if he has a "child science adviser." "We should have a kid's advisory group that starts explaining to us what's interesting to them and what's working, and could help us shape advances in STEM education," Obama said.
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> Mindfulness Shows Promise in Schools
> Mindfulness exercises are showing promise as academic interventions in a study of 2,000 kindergarten through second-grade students in Chicago. The US Department of Education is helping fund the research project.
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> Racial Achievement Gaps Persist Nationwide
> Nearly every school district in the country has racial achievement gaps—despite having resources in place to address inequities—according to an analysis of the Stanford Education Data Archive. “Richer places have bigger achievement gaps than poorer places, all else being equal—which is quite striking and disturbing, since you'd hope that those places that have the most resources would be most effective at reducing the gaps, but in fact they seem to have the largest gaps,” said Sean Reardon, a professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.
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> Nation’s Report Card Shows Drop in Reading and Math Scores
> About one-third of high-school students are ready for entry-level college courses, according to the Nation's Report Card. Data also show a one-point decrease in average math scores in 2015, compared with 2013, and a five-point decline in average reading scores, compared with data from 1992.
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> Teachers Support Tech, But Note Areas for Improvement
> A majority of teachers—91%— taking part in a survey of 400 middle- and high-school teachers said technology improves student learning, but about half—48%—said classroom technology is outdated. Sixty-one percent of respondents said they need more time to research, plan and collaborate.
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> Study Examines How Laptops Affect Students in Class
> Laptop use in the classroom may be a distraction for some students, according to a study from economists at West Point. Data show students with the highest ACT scores and grade point averages who used laptops in class scored lower than peers who did not have access to the technology.
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> Study Supports Exposing Students to Some Online Risks
> Students should encounter smaller online risks to help prepare them to handle bigger risks, according to a study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University. "Our stance is that teens will inevitably be exposed to some level of online risk; thus, they need to learn how to deal with it before the risk becomes too great," the researchers wrote.
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> Private Firms Collect Student Data
> Students may be under "constant digital surveillance and marketing at school," according to a report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The report shows that some firms provide free services to schools and, in turn, collect data about students' online activities.
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> Financial Incentives May Improve Student Performance
> Financial incentives may help improve student performance, according to a study by researchers at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass. Previous research also reveals a correlation, but some experts caution against the practice as a long-term solution.
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> Resources for School Librarians
> U.S. Departments of Education and Justice Release Joint Guidance to Help Schools Ensure the Civil Rights of Transgender Students
> The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released joint guidance to help provide educators the information they need to ensure that all students, including transgender students, can attend school in an environment free from discrimination based on sex. Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, schools receiving federal money may not discriminate based on a student's sex, including a student's transgender status. The guidance makes clear that both federal agencies treat a student's gender identity as the student's sex for purposes of enforcing Title IX.
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> Departments of Education and Health and Human Services Release STEM Tips Sheets
> The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services have partnered with Too Small to Fail to create a set of early STEM resources for families and educators. The “Let’s Talk, Read and Sing About STEM!” tip sheets build on the successful “Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day!” tip sheets and aim to transform small moments into big opportunities for our littlest innovators. These new tip sheets are filled with ideas for STEM conversations that can take place during everyday routines.
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> Promising Practices for Personalized Learning under ESSA
> Personalized learning is not just about technology, according to a report from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. The report seeks to serve as a guide to states interested in implementing personalized learning under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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> How Schools Can Collect and Use Student Data Responsibly
> Data can help schools make informed decisions about teaching and learning, Brenda Leong, senior counsel and director of operations for the Future of Privacy Forum, writes in this commentary. "The question before us moving forward isn't 'whether' to collect data -- but how to define what data is needed, what to do with the collections, and how to secure the benefits of research in ways that do not put student privacy at excess risk," she writes.
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> Tool Helps Delve into Educational Research for Answers
> A new online tool from Digital Promise aims to give ed-tech developers and school officials a simple way to explore educational research. Visitors to the interactive platform can search and filter academic research on areas of interest to schools, from the impact of different classroom strategies to studies focused on specific academic subjects. The map allows users to search through a database of research drawn from 183 different academic journals, with roughly 6,000 articles.
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> Strategies to Build Student Interest in STEM
> Science teacher Brandie Freeman in this commentary shares several strategies to hook students on science, technology, engineering and math. Tips include making STEM lessons relevant and accessible.
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> Tips to Liven up Lessons with YouTube
> YouTube offers more than animal videos, education-technology and curriculum consultant Monica Burns writes in this blog post. She highlights four strategies for using YouTube in the classroom, including tips about "finding the 'right' videos."
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> How Politics Can Help Teach Argumentative Writing
> Political issues provide ample, engaging material to teach students to analyze real-world text and develop argumentative writing skills, writes Ellen Shelton, director of the University of Mississippi Writing Project. In this blog post, she shares online resources and information on publishing students' writing through the National Writing Project's Letters to the Next President 2.0 initiative.
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> 4 Ways to Be a Co-Teaching Change Agent
> Co-teachers can act as change agents in education, asserts veteran educator Elizabeth Stein. In this blog post, she offers four ways to adopt that role, including by building relationships with their co-teachers, peers and students.
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> Why Students Should Write Collaboratively
> Having students write essays as a collaborative project enhances students' writing and helps them develop the collaborative skills needed in the workforce, language-arts teacher Amber Rain Chandler writes in this article. She shares how her students used Google Docs to create essays based on a class novel assignment and how she assigned group and individual grades for the work.
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> Using Zines to Teach Communication Skills
> Having students publish zines, or mini-magazines, gives them a creative project to develop visual and written communication skills, middle-grades writing teacher John DePasquale writes in this blog post. He shares several ideas and templates for zine projects.
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> Partnership and Collaborator News
> ASCD Announces Grants to Support Teacher Leadership Projects
> Last month ASCD announced its Teacher Impact Grants program, which will provide direct grants to teacher leaders to fund initiatives that drive transformation and improve student outcomes. The program is part of ASCD's commitment to Teach to Lead, an initiative jointly convened by the US Department of Education, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and ASCD. News of the grants was introduced at a White House celebration honoring the National and State Teachers of the Year.
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> CoSN Releases Survey Results on IT Trends
> Almost 90% of K-12 IT leaders participating in a survey said they expect at least 50% of instructional materials to be digital in the next three years, according to the Consortium for School Networking. Eleven percent of respondents said their districts still ban digital devices.
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> CBC and Every Child a Reader Announce Winners of 9th Annual Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards
> The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader recently announced the winners of the 9th Annual Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. The Children’s Choice Book Awards is the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by kids and teens. Readers across the country voted on a diverse selection of titles for children and young adults that ranged from a picture book about a shark that’s afraid of the dark to issue-driven stories including a novel about a young transgender girl.
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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> Veterans Memorial Elementary School named National School Library Program of the Year
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> Why Teaching Young People about Research Design Matters: A Middle School Student’s Perspective
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