Session+4

**Session 4** Saturday, May 1st, 9:30 - 10:30 am

**AASL Learning for Life: President Cassandra Bartnett ** (double session)


 * Session 1 - National Standards for the 21st Century Learner: Advocacy in Action**

AASL’s //National Standards for the 21st-Century Learner// provide a framework for school librarians to use in preparing students for productive lives in the 21st century. But how can school librarians implement these standards when we see one class after another without the benefit of planning with the teacher? How can we convince classroom teachers that research is more than bringing their classes to the library for one day to use our resources? How can we demonstrate that integration of these standards into the curriculum positively affects student success? How do we persuade our administrators to support us in moving toward a more collaborative approach? The goal of this session is to help participants identify strategies that use the //National Standards for the 21st-Century Learner// to demonstrate how the school librarian/classroom teacher collaboration can improve student learning.

How will you position your school library media program to meet the challenges of the 21st century? This session will focus on the AASL Program Guidelines designed to help keep school library media programs vital in this time of school reform, increasing emphasis on testing, increasing demand for technology, and decreasing budgets. Participants will examine the program guidelines and identify implementation opportunities to position their school library media programs to become the center of learning.
 * Session 2 – //Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs:// Advocacy in Action **

How cool would it be to connect students in real time with their peers in different parts of the country or even different parts of the world? Skype, a free, downloadable tool which allows users to make calls over the Internet, is an excellent resource for broadening students’ minds, teaching them about life in other places, and connecting them with professionals, authors, and experts. For students who come from very rural areas, this type of interaction is especially valuable. This workshop is aimed at librarians who are new to Skype and who are looking for ways to use Skype to engage students and motivate learning. Attendees will hear firsthand accounts of how the presenters have used Skype in both an elementary and a secondary school setting. The workshop will also cover how to plan, organize, and carry out a Skype interaction, in terms of both the technology and the pedagogy. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have ideas for using Skype in at least one way in their library or classroom, have resources for further reading, and have participated in a live Skype call. Anne Paulson, LMS Lake Placid ES and Rebecca Buerkett, LMS Saranac ES, Saranac: rbuerkett(at)roadrunner.com 
 * It’s a Small World After All: Using Skype to Connect Students**

You’ve heard about podcasting (or maybe you haven’t). In addition to using podcasts to receive information, school librarians and students can use really cool tools to create and share information with others. Join us in this hands-on workshop as we discover how to easily create digital audio and video recordings. We will explore the different curriculum application areas and discuss how you could use this podcasting technology in your school library. With some sound techniques and a little creativity, you too can have pod people roaming in your library. Andrew J. Dutcher, Middle School/High School Teacher Librarian Dryden CS, Dryden. Mary Kay Welgoss Junior-Senior High School Library Media Specialist
 * Watch Out! There’s Pod People in There!**

Check out the Conference Materials page for the workshop handout and our "Ask the School Librarian" podcast.

Beginning in September 2009 school districts across New York State are expected to teach Internet Safety to all K-12 students. An act to amend the education law, in relation to courses of student in Internet safety (A1525) is waiting for approval by the NY State Legislature. It states: "This Act shall take effect immediately" and mandates courses of study in Internet safety in all public and private schools through a uniform, age-appropriate Internet safety curriculum. Even though this Bill has not passed, funding from the State and Federal levels requires districts to have such a curriculum in place. Learn about how one district approached the development of a K-12 curriculum, how it was introduced to the school district and what you can learn from this experience. Cathie Marriott, Director of Technology and Information Services, Orchard Park CS and Jim Clark, LMS Windom Elementary School PowerPoint Email: cmarriott@opschools.org
 * K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum**

This workshop will take a creative look at the difference between the GenX’ers and the Gen Y’s and build a platform for instructional change. People seem to have heard the characteristics, but have we taken the time to embrace what that means for instructional delivery? Come and learn about the hyper-connected generation and the good news for library instruction. Leave with a few ideas for reaching the hyper-connected student. ~presented by Paige Jaeger, School Library System Coordinator, Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES [[file:SLMSGeneration Y Students = Generation Y Classrooms [Compat.pdf]]
 * Gen Y Students, Gen Y Classroom: The Good News for Library Instruction!**

We have all been in the position of having to offer readers’ advisory services to students seemingly incapable of verbalizing precisely what they liked about the last book they read and enjoyed. Plot summaries do little to clarify reading preferences and readers’ advisory governed by subject/topic is necessarily limited and can be misleading. (//Twilight//, after all, is a far cry from Bram Stoker’s //Dracula//, though both books are about vampires.) In this workshop, learn about the appeal terms work of Joyce Saricks and Neal Wyatt and leave with specific strategies, tools and lessons you can use to teach students how to clearly verbalize their reading likes and dislikes, opening up a whole new world of reading possibilities for them. Olga M. Nesi, LMS I.S. 281-Joseph B. Cavallaro, Brooklyn.
 * Getting Beyond “Interesting”: Giving Students a Vocabulary to Discuss Their Reading**

Every school has at least a handful of students who grasp the basic material quickly and, thus, need something to keep them engaged while teachers work to bring the rest of the class up to speed. This session will introduce you to activities and resources you as a librarian can offer your teachers and high-achieving students who are even the least little bit interested in local and New York State history. Vicki Weiss, a librarian at the New York State Library, will walk you through an exercise using primary documents and online and offline secondary sources that answer the questions detectives use to solve mysteries. This session is open to all but would be especially useful for those working with 6th- through 12-grade students. Vicki Weiss, Librarian NY State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Albany.
 * Librarians! You Can Turn That High Achiever into a History Detective!**

**Kicking it Up a Notch: Design and Inquiry Experience NOW** (double session) Bring a fresh idea, a slice of compelling curricular content, or a promising essential question and actively work through **10 steps** that will guide and inspire the **transformation** of 20th century, fact-based plans. Mix new inquiry planning skills, instructional strategies, a dash of process coaching, a 21st Century focus, questioning, engagement, formative assessment, and student centered process. Voila! Using the Capital Region Inquiry – Based Curriculum, create an inquiry learning experiences to take back to school on Monday, a plan that will serve as a practice model complete with key inquiry elements. Empower learners with outcomes like genuine understanding, original conclusions, critical engagement, thinking, deep investigation, reflection, and sharing of knowledge products. Linda Fox, Director-Capital Region BOCES School Library System and Mary Ratzer.