As the World Shifts Leadership through the AASL Standards and Guidelines for the

21st Century

Sara Kelly Johns

AASL Past President, Candidate for ALA President

February 20, 2010

Did You Know 4.0?(YouTube)

Did you know 4.0

We’re in a swamp!

• Too much information

• Students need guidance with use of information

• We need to be their guides out of the quicksand

Flickr, Wes Thomas

The current scene:

• Digital Divide widens

• Reading is changing

• Participatory culture

• Students unplug in school

Our tools:• AASL Standards for the 21st Century

Learner• Standards in Action• NEW program Guidelines, Empowering

Learners• A NEW mission statement!

• Next: new program evaluation rubric

Happy “Planning for School Library Month” Month!

http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmm

Roles of the library media specialistNOW• Teacher 1 • Information Specialist 2 • Instructional Partner 3 • Program Administrator 4 FUTURE• Instructional Partner 1 • Information Specialist 2 • Teacher 3 • Program Administrator 4 • Vision Summit identified “leader” as a role that

is essential to the future of the profession

• What gives you the authority to be considered a leader in your school?

-Pair: 5 min.

-Share 10 min.

Leadership“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

John F. Kennedy , November 23, 1963, Dallas

As a leader, you are in the motivation business, selling your vision, your values, and yourself.

• Demonstrate enthusiasm constantly. • Articulate a consistent vision. • Sell the benefit. • Tell more stories. • Invite participation. • Reinforce an optimistic outlook. • Encourage potential. --Carmine Gallo, Business Week columnist, Library Leadership Network

“We need to own ed tech now!” Joyce Valenza

Networked Students

AASL & ALA Leadership Tools• AASL Forum & AASL Blog• Facebook and Twitter• @ your School Library Campaign• Electronic Discussion Lists• Learning Standards• ALA Connect!!• Toolkits

Health and Wellness kitCrisis KitParent Outreach Toolkit

• Hotlinks • ALA’s Add It UP• ALA’s Learning Round Table

Blog

We need to unblock creativity!• Web 2.0 tools

– YouTube– Wikis– Blogs– Facebook and MySpace– Delicious– Wikipedia--teach how to use it– NoodleTools (OK, that one isn’t blocked,

but it’s 2.0)

*** Polleverywhere.com**

TRY ONE A WEEK!

Your Challenges:• Develop an “elevator speech”• Do one promotional and marketing

activity per week• Download the NSLMPY Award

application from the AASL website and set yourself a time limit to apply that is less than 5 years

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Sara Kelly Johns

www.skj4ala.com

skjohns@gmail.com(Or catch up to me on Twitter and Facebook)