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CSLA Executive Board Meeting

MINUTES

July 30 and 31st

Huntington Library, Art Galleries, and Botanical Gardens

Danner Room, Botanical Building

In Attendance:

Lisa Bishop

Terri Brown

Sue Heraper

Nina Jackson

Terry Lai

Nancy Lucero

Clare McGarvin

Beth Olshewsky

Erin Southam

Glen Warren (Sunday only)

Yvonne Weinstein

Absent:

Rosan Cable

Erica Leggette

Sharlene Paxton

Kathleen Sheppard

Kimberlee Thorson

Guests:

Rosemarie Bernier, Website Committee Co-Chair (Sat. only)

Lesley Farmer, IASL Liaison (Sunday only)

Jeff Frost, Legislative Advocate (Sat. only)

Janice Gilmore-See, Conference Coordinator

Tom Kaun, CSLF Liaison

Jane Lofton, Website Committee Co-Chair (Sat. only)

Kathie Maier, Administrative Assistant

Renee Ousley-Swank, CDE Liaison

Called to order by Sue Heraper, at 9:10 AM

MOTION:

I move to approve the agenda with flexibility.

Moved: Beth Olshewsky Second: Terry Lai

Vote: Passed; Unanimous

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MOTION:

I move to approve the June 4, 2015 meeting minutes.

Moved: Erin Southam Second: Yvonne Weinstein

Vote: Passed; Unanimous

REPORT: Janice Gilmore-See, Conference Coordinator

Conference 2017:

The site visit went well. Janice gave the board an overview of the lessons learned from

the 2016 Conference evaluations and how those lessons are affecting the planning for the 2017

Conference, with an overview of the entire conference schedule.

REPORT: Renee Ousley-Swank, CDE Liaison

California Science Framework:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/sc/cf/scifw2nd60daypubreview.asp

The second field review will end on Aug. 29; so far there have been 40 comments from

key stakeholders in the field of science. There will be a presentation to the State Board of

Education at its Sept. 8-9 meeting. The SBE is scheduled to take action on the framework at its

Nov. 2-3 meeting. Framework implementation activities are being planned and will launch

following approval of the framework.

For the past three years the California Next Generation Science Standards Collaborative

has hosted rollouts to help teachers and administrators see the standards in action and how they

would look in their classroom. The Collaborative is currently planning for the next phase of this

framework, scheduled to begin in Spring 2017.

History-Social Science Framework: The framework was approved on July 14th. The CDE is looking for reviewers of the 2017

California History-Social Science Instructional Materials Adoption (K-8). Information is

available on the CDE HSS Instructional Materials webpage (http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/im).

The deadline for applications is Oct. 19th.

Health Education Framework:

The CDE, Instructional Quality Commission, and SBE are beginning the revision process

for the Health Education Framework. Information and updates concerning the revision of the

Health Education Framework will be posted at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/ Applications for

appointment to a focus group to provide input as to what guidance and information should be

included in the revised framework are due Sept. 15th. All meetings are scheduled from 3:30 to

5:30 p.m. and are open to the public.

• November 1, 2016 Tulare County Office of Education

• November 7, 2016 Sacramento County Office of Education (via videoconference at the

following county offices of education: Butte and Siskiyou)

• November 15, 2016 Alameda County Office of Education

• November 29, 2016 Long Beach Unified School District

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Computer Science Framework: The CDE reviewed and commented on the third review period that ended in June. The

projected release date is this Sept. For more information, go to https://k12cs.org/

The first meeting regarding developing computer science standards is scheduled for Aug.

8th. Renee is currently on the development team, though that could change depending on funding.

AB 2329 (Bonilla) is still moving through the legislative process. The bill would require

the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a computer science strategic

implementation advisory panel no later than Sept. 1st.

CDE Online School Library Survey:

The original plan was to launch an updated school library survey in August, however the

date had to be pushed back. Updated questions are still being developed and vetted, with the new

hopeful launch date being early fall.

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA):

The CDE ESSA team disseminated the first draft of the ESSA State Plan on July 25th for

a two-week internal review. The draft of the implementation proposal will be made public on

Aug. 29th and will go before the SBE at its Sept. meeting. The public comment period will begin

after that. For more information go to http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/es/ If you would like to be

notified when new information is available, please join the California Department of Education

(CDE) ESSA listserv by sending a blank e-mail message to join-essa@mlist.cde.ca.gov

California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS):

Renee was informed that the number of teacher librarians counted in CALPADS in 2015-

16 dropped by 75%. She met with people at CALPADS to discuss the possible reasons for such

an alarming drop. The discussion included how to accurately account for TLs who work multiple

sites and how to account for district librarians. Renee believes this discussion helped the data

office see the difficulty in accurately counting certificated library staff, given the various staffing

scenarios across California.

One possibility for the discrepancy in data is the Local Education Agency (LEA) staff

completing the staff assignment reports did not understand how to account for TLs. To help

alleviate that issue in the future the Senior Information System Analyst of the Educational Data

Management Division is partnering with Glen Warren to develop an informational video to help

educate LEA staff on the correct method to account for TLs. This will include explaining and

defining the difference between a TL and a library assistant and/or a volunteer.

This division is also conducting a thorough analysis comparing last year’s TL staffing

data to this year’s data. In the meantime, Renee is still working with the CALPADS office to

restore the ability to easily extract the TL staffing data by state total, county total, district total,

and by individual site.

Literature Lists:

There is a group of TLs working to update the Literature Lists with award winners. The

CDE is looking at having a standing group to continue updating in the future.

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REPORT: Jeff Frost, Legislative Advocate

State Budget Signed by the Governor:

On June 15 Governor Brown signed the 2016-17 State Budget into law. The compromise

agreement contained the following major elements impacting K-12 schools:

A) Revenues and Proposition 98 Spending:

The Governor’s May Revision General Fund and local property tax revenue estimates

will be used. This means that overall revenues will be $1.938 billion lower over the three-year

forecast period (2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17) than what was projected in January. The

Governor’s May Revision revised local property tax estimates upward by a combined $408

million from January, but was $352 million below the LAO’s estimates. Total K-14 (Proposition

98) spending in 2016-17 will be at $71.874 billion, nearly identical to the Governor’s May

Revision proposal.

B) Major K-12 Expenditures:

1) Local Control Funding Formula:

The Governor’s May Revision increased LCFF funding by $154 million from January to

$2.979 billion for school districts and charters. The final agreement will be $2.942 billion.

2) Mandate Reimbursement Payments:

The Governor’s May Revision had increased one-time discretionary Proposition 98

mandate repayments for school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to

$1.416 billion ($237 per ADA). The final agreement will be $1.28 billion ($214 per ADA

approx.)

3) Early Education Block Grant (EEBG) and Preschool:

The final agreement will not include the Governor’s EEBG reform proposal. Instead, the

budget provides enhancements to the Prop. 98 funded preschool program ($51.5 million) in the

form of increased rate reimbursements to providers and slots to children is included in the

agreement.

C) Program Compromises

The Governor and Legislative Leaders reportedly are in agreement on the following

funding priorities of the Legislature (not originally included in the May Revision):

1) K-12 College Readiness Grants: $200 million in one-time P. 98 grants over three years

to high school and unified districts. As a result of the inclusion of $200 million for college

readiness the $30 million in the Governor’s Budget for MTSS was reduced by $10 million to a

total of $20 million.

2) LCAP Rubric Training by the CCEE: $24 million in one-time P. 98 funding.

3) School Breakfast Program: $2 million in one-time P. 98 funding.

4) ELD Best Practices: $1.2 million in one-time federal funds to develop best practices

videos to provide guidance to LEAs on effective English Language Learner (ELD) instruction

and to revise the CDE’s guidance.

5) Classified School Employee Teacher Credential Program: $20 million in one-time P.

98 funding.

6) Center for Teacher Careers - $5 million for the creation of the California Center on

Teaching Careers to strengthen statewide recruitment.

It would seem that the winners in this budget negotiation would be the Governor (who

was able to close out a budget with minimal alterations to his May Revision) and Senator De

Leon (who was able to negotiate $200 million in one-time funding to fund his SB 1050 to fund

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his K-12 College readiness Block Grant program for LEAs to better prepare high school students

for college admission).

An important note in this budget negotiation is the underlying belief that the economy is

slowing to the point where there is not likely to be any new growth in the Prop 98 Account in

2017-18 or the next couple of years. In fact, there is concern that if there is a statutory COLA

next year that there may not be enough Prop 98 revenue to fund it. This bottoming out of the

Prop 98 revenues will also impact the ability of districts to implement LCAP strategies moving

forward.

Joint Legislative Audit Committee Approves Audit on School Library practices and

staffing:

In April the Joint Legislative Audit committee voted unanimously to approve funding for

an audit of school library practices and staffing. The guess at this point is that the Audit Report

will be made public sometime in November. The hope is that the audit will show that staffed

school libraries are needed to support students. Based on the request made by Senator Mendoza

and Assembly member Kim, the audit is expected to cover the following key areas of emphasis:

1) Establish a sample of school districts and county offices of education for audit that will

help determine whether LEAs are following the requirements of the Education Code and Title V

regulations regarding whether school library services are being appropriately offered and

whether credential requirements are being met.

2) Review and evaluate the laws and regulations significant to the audit’s objectives.

3) Within the county offices of education being audited, determine whether the county

office of education employs a credentialed teacher librarian and whether that teacher librarian

was the sole individual providing school library services to one or more school districts in the

county.

4) If the school district being audited contracted with a city or county public library to

provide school library services did that contract require a credentialed teacher librarian.

5) Evaluate the policies and procedures of the California Department of Education and

the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine their effectiveness in

responding to questions from districts and county offices regarding compliance with the laws and

regulations being audited.

6) Evaluate whether it is advisable for the state to establish and make available best

practices in school library service that can be used by other districts and county offices to

establish local policy and programs.

Meeting with Social Justice Organizations: On November 9th, Connie Williams, Glen Warren, and Jeff Frost met with several of the

social justice organizations to discuss the importance of school libraries. The organizations

invited were the ACLU, Education Trust West, the State PTA, Ed Voice, Children Now, Public

Advocates, and Apple. The meeting focused on CSLA representatives outlining the importance

school libraries and credentialed teacher librarians have with ensuring academic success for all

students and why the lack of school libraries is a huge equity issue that these organizations

should focus on. The meeting resulted in some very specific talking points that we hope will be

useful to these organizations as they advocate for changes to the LCFF and in ensuring that

services for students provided include school libraries. Jeff has continued to meet again with

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members of these organizations periodically to try to keep an open dialog going that can lead to

CSLA working directly with these groups on pro-active legislation related to school libraries.

The hope is that the audit, the new committee chair, and work with Social Justice groups

will build to legislature that will add libraries to legislation language.

Common Sense Media:

Jeff met with Common Sense Media on the role of libraries in teaching about social

media, bullying, cyber-bullying, digital safety, etc.

State Implementation of ESSA:

With the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), there is a

requirement that each state develop an implementation plan for the requirements of the Act.

California is working on this plan now. CDE is finalizing its draft of an implementation proposal

that will be made public on August 29 and will go before the SBE at its September meeting. That

information-only presentation will start the public comment period. Tom Adams from CDE

strongly recommends that CSLA provide comments when the plan is made public. He suggested

that we focus on Title I of the new law, where there are references to the need to ensure

“continuous improvement” of student academic performance. We should be commenting on the

importance of school libraries in this effort to show improvement and outline why the school

library is and must be integral to this effort.

The timeline is that the CDE will take the plan back to the SBE in November 2016 and

presumes that it will be approved in January of 2017. So CSLA should be providing comment

this fall to impact changes to the ESSA plan. Jeff suggested that Glen and Connie start looking at

the law in a manner that would allow us to make very specific comments and suggestions for

changes to the CDE plan based on research. We should also reach out to the national association

and other state-level school library and equity group stakeholders to urge that they also comment

on the plan.

California Committee for Educational Excellence: Before the State Board became busy with LCFF, there was a major amount of time at the

beginning of each meeting for discussion. At that time, Jeff sent in a comment that there should

be a discussion time on school libraries. Interest was expressed but before it could happen the

board became busy with LCFF and that discussion time disappeared.

Jeff brought this up again recently. He was told that the State Board was too busy but

suggested going to the California Committee for Educational Excellence. This is an element of

the LCFF statute that is highly charged politically and involved with Program Improvement.

Currently Carl Cohen is in charge; there are several staff members but no responsibilities. The

idea is to set up a presentation for CCEE which would be a test run before going to the State

Board after the audit.

Comments and concerns from the board:

There was a concern about the LCFF where inequities arise in the same district because

parent groups are paying for TLs in some schools but cannot/will not in other schools.

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Sue brought up a point from her report regarding AASL. In coordination with the ALA

Office for Library Advocacy, AASL will be launching free face-to-fact ESSA training at the

state level. They are currently developing the presentation and support materials for ½-day

workshops that will take place in the fall. The states will be asked to provide a location and A/V,

and AASL will provide the presentation and materials. These workshops will give the most

current information on ESSA at the Federal level and impact at the state level, and will include

hands-on planning. These workshops will help members to better understand federal law and

how they can act on it out in the field. One suggestion made was to possibly build the SR Fall

Workshop around the AASL workshop. This would also provide a built-in time to collect the

comments, as suggested by Tom Adams.

EveryLibrary (the first nationwide Political Action Committee for libraries) and Rosen

Publishing have begun a joint project to provide pro-bono strategic consulting services to state-

level school library stakeholders for ESSA Implementation Planning in their states. EveryLibrary

is working with a dozen school library associations to design state specific, effective strategies to

lobby and advocate for school libraries on their ESSA plans. Renee Ousley-Swank, Connie

Williams, and Sue Heraper held a conference call with John Chrastka, executive director of

EveryLibrary on July 22nd. His recommendation was to convene a task force that draws from a

broad range of stakeholders who could help get out the message. He also recommended a policy

letter and a letter to the SBE. John offered to work with the task force starting in Aug. One

suggestion was to ask to use the offered money for a media campaign on what to ask school

districts for.

Sense of the Board: Jeff and Glen should hold a follow-up conference call with John to help

him understand the difference in how California education policy works (the size of the state and

that decisions are now locally driven). It isn’t just a matter of convincing the districts of the need

for school libraries, but every administrator. Jeff was asked to report back to the board after he

and Glen meet with John.

Families need to know more about the importance of school libraries and TLs on student

achievement, and the state of school libraries in California. They are important stakeholders. Jeff

was asked to call the CTA Executive Director about creating an information page or some other

way to get the word out.

A resolution by the state senate was filed with the Secretary of State on May 24th

proclaiming the month of April 2016 as “School Librarians Month.” The resolution was authored

by Senator Connie Leyva (D—Chino). It acknowledges the excellent work being done in

California school libraries. Jeff Frost worked with the senator’s office on the wording, most of

which came from CSLA and provides useful background, data, and a sense of the importance of

school libraries and TLs in the digital age. Nationally, April is “School Library Month.” The goal

was to have this resolution in place as an advocacy tool by the beginning of April, but the

process took longer than expected. We can still use this as a tool and it sets a good tone which

we can add to the website. Jeff was asked about trying again, earlier, for 2017; his answer was

that he would go to the legislature in January and ask for them to repeat the resolution. There is

no point in him making the request earlier because it wouldn’t be looked at.

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Jeff is continuing communications with ACSA. A point brought up was that an advocacy

message should be that if schools hired TLs for Makerspaces instead of TOSAs they would have

a two-for-one trained person. The problem is TOSAs are easier to remove when money becomes

an issue.

REPORT: Rosemarie Bernier and Jane Lofton, Website Committee Co-Chairs:

The board was reminded that if they have suggested changes for the website not to use

the form in the folder (because that one is editable), but to use this link:

http://bit.ly/cslawebsitechanges Also, anything that is to be member only needs to be posted

through Neon, which goes through Kathie Maier.

Rosemarie and Jane would like to make this the year that they build web pages out from

the CSLA website for the Regions. They will create the initial page, but then the region boards

will need to populate their page. Rosemarie and Jane would like to have an on-line training

session with one board member from each Region, as well as anyone else who would like to be

able to make changes to the website. The initial suggestion was to have the board member be the

President Elect, because they will be on the board for three years and can train others to follow

them. The concern was raised that the President Elect may not be comfortable with and/or enjoy

working with websites and that should be a criteria.

One concern that has been raised is that it is hard to know who is on the different

committees. A web page will be set up for the committees. After discussion, the decision was to

have the description of the function of the committee, with the name of the overseeing VP, the

name and contact information of each committee member, and the picture of the committee

Chair. The point was raised that people can put their picture into the directory. The suggestion

was made to have an article in the newsletter reminding members that they can update the

directory and that it is available to look up members they need to contact.

CUE Summit Update:

For the fourth year, CSLA will be partnering with CUE to present an information literacy

summit within the CUE 2017 conference. Jane Lofton and Rosan Cable are coordinating this. In

the past, we have had our summits on the Saturday of the conference. For 2017, CUE is having

all summits on Friday, March 17. There will be four sessions, during the four concurrent session

time slots. The first will be the “keynote,” delivered by a speaker we and CUE agree upon. CUE

invites this person to be one of their several spotlight speakers (for whom they cover expenses

and an honorarium), who deliver three sessions during the conference, and one of them will be

the first session and keynote for our summit. Based on Glen Warren’s suggestion, CUE is

contacting Cable Green from Creative Commons for this role. After that, we have three time

slots in which we can schedule three of our own CSLA member speakers who will speak on

logical topics related to information literacy. Jane and Rosan have solicited input from our CSI

Committee, led by Lesley Farmer and they will also collaborate with Glen, our own Government

Relations VP who also serves Chair of the CUE Library Media Educator Network on speakers

and topics. Please contact Jane and Rosan if you have input about topics or speakers.

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REPORT: Tom Kaun, CSLF

The primary purpose of the foundation is fundraising to help members with professional

development and learning. The main fundraising stream is the auction. The foundation continues

to remain in good shape financially, but the question is, is this sustainable? The foundation board

has been brainstorming new ways of promoting CSLF and looking for new sources of income.

One area to look at is to reboot the store. Jackie Siminitus is more than ready to pass on

the responsibility, and suggested starting over from scratch. One suggestion was to take the store

off of Café Press because it is more expensive; the designs are ours so there would be no

problem with transferring them. Currently there are more sales outside of California, all around

the world. One possibility might be to remain on Café Press for those sales but also set up on

another site for less expensive sales.

If one goal is to support members with PD, what other things could the foundation be

doing and/or supporting? One idea the foundation had was to form partnerships with vendors to

have members create PD videos specific to a particular product and how to use it in a practical,

down-to-earth way. There would be a need to be careful because CSLA has a relationship with

vendors already; this would need to be a different relationship to avoid stepping on any toes.

Another angle the foundation is looking at is reaching out to other stakeholders, beyond

our own members, for money, but they would need stories about why those stakeholders should

give to us. We need to be out there promoting ourselves, not just as school librarians, but as

school librarians who need money to do good things.

One issue raised was to be aware of and to avoid having CSLA and CSLF cross purposes;

the purpose of a foundation is to fund the work, not provide the PD, to support the work, not

direct the work.

REPORT: Sue Heraper, President

Most of her report was covered during the discussion on Jeff’s report.

ESSA Implementation--Continuing the Conversation:

We need a coalition beyond TLs, so we need to look at who all of the stakeholders are

and work the language to appeal to the audience of coalition members. There will need to be an

action plan and a timeline. Sue will collect the relevant documents in a folder from an ESSA

committee. Sept. 1st starts the public comments for ESSA.

REPORT: Terry Lai, President Elect

Terry attended the ALA Conference in Orlando, FL, June 23rd-28th, along with Sue. She

learned a great deal about how AASL governance works, and attended many useful sessions and

heard many interesting authors.

Terry met with Kay Hones in June to read through the conference proposals and decide

which ones could be workshops. Based on the responses from the presenters, she plotted out the

workshops and sessions. The next step is to email the presenters the contract.

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REPORT: Beth Olshewsky, Past President

Election:

We have a slate for the next election. Beth tried very hard to create a ballot but was only

able to find one person for each position.

PRESIDENT-ELECT (President Elect 2017-18, President 2018-19, Past-President 2019-

20)--

Renée Ousley-Swank, School Library Technology Consultant (CDE)

TREASURER (2017-2019)--Yvonne Weinstein, Teacher Librarian (Frank Augustus

Miller Middle School), incumbent

VICE-PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS (2017-2019) --Rosan Cable, Teacher

Librarian (Pacifica High School), incumbent

VICE-PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP (2017-2019) --Clare McGarvin, Teacher Librarian

(Kings Canyon Middle School), incumbent

PARAPROFESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE (2017-2019)--Erica Leggette, Library

Specialist (Oak Park Elementary School), incumbent

Awards: All awards information and applications are updated on the website. Reminders for

submissions for scholarships and awards were included in the Spring communications. All

awards have a closing date of October 7, 2016.

REPORT: Yvonne Weinstein, Treasurer

Checking: $266,921.67

Savings: $ 1,001.32

Total: $267,922.98

REPORT: Clare McGarvin, VP Membership

The board reviewed the flyer for the University Student Incentive. The decision was

made to add programs for paraprofessionals/library techs, with a student being anyone working

towards a library credential or the para certification.

REPORT: Northern Region The main issue the NR Board is having is getting certain reps to do the work they agreed

to when they joined the board. The threat of removal is no good because there is no one to

replace them with. One suggestion was to build time into the agenda to create relationships.

REPORT: Southern Region

Erin Southam gave information on President Obama’s ebooks grant for Title I schools

through First Books.

Since the Region hasn’t been receiving applications for the Para scholarship, the board

decided to use the money for one para to attend the state conference, with the winner drawn at

the Fall Workshop. A different idea raised was to keep it as an educational scholarship but add

that the money could be used for the educational opportunity the conference provides. Erin will

take this idea back to the SR board for a decision.

The Fall Workshop planning is going well. There is a box on the workshop registration

for a donation.

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Discussion Items:

Banners: Graphically what we have now it not good enough to be blown up to a big banner so

there would be work that would need to be done. One person that we could work with is the artist

who created the newest conference logo.

Position papers: We have not taken a stand with a position paper on issues since 2001. The decision was

made to return to this topic on Sunday with Glen was available. It is important to take a

leadership role; acting, not reacting.

Guidelines for Social Media:

It is important that the board make a decision on the issues of who, why, and tone, but the

decision needs to be tabled until Rosan Cable, as VP Communications, is available. When

writing articles for the Newsletter, be sure to include “the hook,” which could be the first

paragraph, or could be separate from the entire article.

Standardized year:

Financially we must go from July-June (the fiscal year) but for everything else, we are

currently all over the place. The decision was made that for archival purposes we will use the

calendar year.

Job Descriptions for TLs and Paras:

Returning to the idea of position papers, the standards give job descriptions but it would

be nice to have a more concise description of “This is what the job of a TL should be” and “This

is what the job of a para should be.” The description could be taken from the MSLS as a starting

point. There is also a description in the old CSLA book, before the MSLS. It is important to

emphasize the school library program as a complete staff, as a team, and then what each job

should look like. We should also not stop at the site, but include district, county, and state

positions.

Sense of Board: This should be our first position paper.

REPORT: Glen Warren, VP Government Relations

AASL:

From Glen’s vantage point the AASL board is finally understanding/acknowledging the

severity of the situation in California. It is very difficult for people from outside of our state to

wrap their head around the severity of our situation, that we are Katrina, as opposed to just

another flood. ALA is working with LAUSD and hope to place an op-Ed in one of the LA papers

later this summer. The op-Ed has been composed in a way to address the issue of librarians

beyond a single district. Glen has been very clear with ALA that their advocacy approach has

been woefully inadequate for California unless they surface the brutal condition of librarianship

in California. In the words of Dr. Steven Krashen it would take “a Marshal Plan” to get us out of

the state California is in. The voice of ALA and AASL needs to rally specifically around the

gross inequity and damage that the neglect of librarianship in California is causing our children

and underserved families.

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ESSA:

The ESSA work did not come in a vacuum. Senator Reed introduced language into the

bill that was explicit about librarianship and language. ESSA is really a bunch of suggestions for

the local level. It is an opportunity for influence, but not a way to force anything to happen.

Intellectual Freedom Effort: We are creating a rough draft website addressing intellectual freedom for California and

join the national effort found at http://www.vla.org/intellectual-freedom-committee and

CSLA’s Committee work is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/14mZGw2wszz7-

xlzOPjCG_SB02vDtzLm8Jg_yz0bhfk/edit

Future Ready Schools:

California has not signed up but is very strongly involved through CUE and other

organizations. It provides an opportunity for activism in a big way. Districts voluntarily engage

in filling out a very involved, multifaceted assessment that rates each area of future readiness.

But all is in vain unless they change the rubric to include fully operational library services.

Future Ready Schools has launched a Future Ready Librarians Initiative:

http://futureready.org/about-the-effort/librarians/ CSLA played a very important role in this

process when we asked Gov. Bob Wise (who leads the Future Ready initiative) to speak at our

state conference three years ago. Glen was part of the group that wrote the future ready librarians

work. He made it known to the group leaders that this document would be insufficient to help

bring change unless librarianship was explicated included in the rubric, and to that date

librarianship was completely absent! As last reported by Future Ready, Librarianship is or will

be included soon.

Audit:

One of the stalling points is the lack of accurate data about school libraries. Accurate

information (data) is needed for the audit to effectively move forward. CDE is working with

CSLA to create a training webinar for human resources credentialing and reporting personnel to

bring them up to speed on the correct way to report teacher librarians, and touch upon some of

the reasons these things matter.

iKeepSafe: iKeepSafe is launching a Copyright curriculum for K-12 students that has been vetted by

the extreme sides of the copyright/fair use discussion (e.g. MPAA and EFF). CSLA was

involved in the writing of this curriculum. iKeepSafe is appealing to CSLA to help advance this

free curriculum, not as the only curriculum, but as part of the offering for our students in

California. This fits into the AEIOU approach to information literacy education under the O

(originate) and U (use).

Common Sense Media:

Common Sense Media is a powerful political organization. The librarianship across the

country does not have their attention; they only think of teachers, with TLs grouped in with

classroom teachers. There is brand new certification for teachers. It would be powerful if all TLs

took on the certification and pushed the idea that this is the purview of TLs. iKeepSafe sees TLs

as important but they are not as powerful.

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MAJOR CONCERN:

Glen gave an advisement to the board of CSLA that it is his belief that we must be fully

aware that due to the severe status of school librarianship in California, and the good will of

Public Librarianship, that an unintentional replacement for school librarianship with public

librarianship can become an unintended easy out for districts and the end of school librarianship

as we know it, one we may never be able to recover from. We have had already this situation

take place in Imperial County. The only thing that kept it from happening was a direct appeal to

the county superintendent (Todd Finnel) and our understanding of the current Ed Code, which is

not a slam dunk of interpretation.

Information Literacy Summit at CUE:

This was a joint advocacy and curriculum mission started by Glen Warren and Mike

Lawrence (executive director of CUE). Glen encouraged the board to include Curriculum,

Advocacy, and the CSI chair in the planning as well as the official CUE Chair for their Library

Media Educator Network. Jane and Glen are working on a collaborative approach that includes

the key stakeholders.

Jeff Frost: Jeff has done great work this year in opening doors. He is working this year to capitalize

on that attention. He is working directly with Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris, and is getting a

letter from Senator Feinstein supporting school libraries. The situation in California is so messed

up that we need to work nationally to improve the situation.

Discussion:

There has been a steep increase in classroom teachers inquiring about getting the TL

credential to help them in the classroom (not to become TLs).

iKeepSafe has district certification on student privacy, with a piece for principals on how

to deal with sexting, cyberbullying, etc.

Statement on CA Senator for Election:

Should we take a position on the election?

Sense of the board: If we are going to take a position, we need to hear from both candidates by

asking for a statement paper from both. Glen should take the lead and present findings in Sept.

Glen will need a letter from the presidents asking for the statement paper, making clear it is

informational.

Certification Programs: Starting in 2019, we have the ability to offer our own certification programs for paras, not

only through colleges. This should be a partnership, not removing the college because we need

their influence. We need to tap into classroom teachers; we should grow to have a majority of

people at our conference be classroom teachers, and be aggressive in supercharging them. One

goal should be to have certification for classroom teachers at the conference.

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MOTION:

I move that CSLA form a task force to work on developing certification and/or support existing

programs that address the integration of school library services.

Moved: Glen Warren Second: Beth Olshewsky

Vote: Tabled; Second withdrawn

MOTION:

I move that CSLA form a task force to develop certifications that advance the integration of

school library services, reporting to the VP Professional Development and with representation

from CSI and other stakeholder groups.

Moved: Beth Olshewsky Second: Nina Jackson

Vote: Passed; Unanimous

Membership Meeting Video Assignment 2017: In 2016 the content was all over the page and a little dry because it was all text. For 2017,

the idea is to have a very short (30 seconds at most) video clip on each board member. This

would be for supplemental purposes, not necessarily shown at the conference.

Sense of Board: All board members, liaisons, and committee chairs will film 15-30 seconds to

introduce themselves and their role on the board, focusing on the theme of “Harvesting the

Possibilities.” It is important that no one gets too fancy with their clip, since they will be edited

into one video.

Handbook:

There was a discussion of the most recent proposed changes to the Handbook.

REPORT: Lesley Farmer, IASL Liaison

The IASL (International Association of School Librarianship) conference only comes to

the US about every seven years, so this is an incredible opportunity. The help that is needed from

CSLA is:

Welcome statement

Session(s)

Feet on the ground

PR

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REPORT: Janice Gilmore-See, Conference Coordinator

2018 conference:

Being in Yosemite, this is a destination conference. The site is difficult to fly to but an

easy drive from everywhere. People can fly into Fresno and take a shuttle to Tenaya Lodge,

which is gorgeous. Tenaya is an hour from valley floor so we will need to craft

tours/opportunities.

2019 conference:

Originally we were looking at places next to airports but room and parking costs were

extreme. The site decided on is Pacific Palms, in the City of Industry. The Pacific Palms was

built to be a convention center; every room in the hotel has a beautiful view. The parking is free.

The contract provides a grant to be used to provide a shuttle van from one of the airports. The

entire contract meets or beats everything in the contract with the Bahia and provides many

opportunities.

MOTION:

I move that we approve the “CSLA & Pacific Palms Resort Contract 2019” as presented, to be

signed.

Moved: Yvonne Weinstein Second: Terry Lai

Vote: Passed; Unanimous

MOTION:

I move to adjourn.

Moved: Clare McGarvin Second: Terri Brown

Vote: Passed; Unanimous

Next Meeting: Sept. 3, Blackboard (Virtual)