[ISLMA-Share] Every Student Succeeds Act - ISLMA needs your help!

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Since I was RIFFED and no longer work I would LOVE to attend every meeting
to sing the praises of school librarians and their importance but I signed
up for only one.

I am showing my age here so for some of the younger librarians I remember
when schools did not have Special Ed.  I have to applaud their work and
organizational skills to achieve their goals,
but they did not have only one supporter they had hundreds. So I encourage
every school librarian to attend these meetings. Numbers speaks volume when
it comes to changing ISBE minds.
If school librarians would petition and lobby half as much as the Special
Ed warriors did, we too could attain great things. Special Ed inspires me
because of all they have accomplished in
the past 20 years.

Keep reading!!
Karen

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> In December 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act
> (ESSA) into law. ESSA replaces No Child Left Behind and includes language
> regarding “effective school library programs.”
>
> ISLMA has been working very hard over the summer to ensure that the ISBE
> includes school librarians as they implement ESSA here in Illinois. A task
> force is working with John Chrastka from the nonprofit group
> Everylibrary.org <http://www.everylibrary.org/>. We have written letters
> to Chairman Meeks and Superintendent Smith of ISBE and spoken at an ISBE
> meeting about the importance of school librarians and effective school
> library programs. The task force is also working on getting the support of
> various coalition partners, including IFT, IEA, ILA, ICE, Heartland and
> RAILS library systems and others.
>
> *ISLMA now needs YOUR help in this process.* Beginning Tuesday, September
> 6, ISBE is hosting a second round of listening tours to collect feedback on
> ESSA. It is imperative that school librarians, as major stakeholders, are
> actively involved in these listening tours. ISLMA needs members to attend
> and speak at these events. We need to have at least one, if not more,
> school librarians at EACH location. ISLMA will provide you with talking
> points. (These will be available on the islma.org website soon.) We then
> ask you to report your feedback to ISLMA. After all the listening tours,
> your feedback will be shared with ISBE.
>
> The dates and locations for the listening tour are listed at
> http://www.isbe.net/essa/pdf/ESSA-tour2-schedule-0916.pdf; you can also
> see a map of locations at http://tinyurl.com/ESSA-listening-tour
>
> *Please go to this link (https://goo.gl/E7VpM8 <https://goo.gl/E7VpM8> )
> to let us know that you are attending one of the listening tour meetings.* We
> will make sure that you receive the talking points directly. *After
> attending, we ask that you give us feedback from your experience on this
> form:* http://tinyurl.com/hxduk9z
>
> This is an exciting and important time for school libraries. We look
> forward to sharing more on this in the coming weeks and months. We are
> working on scheduling a free AASL ESSA Advocacy Workshop this fall. We will
> also be sharing more information in a session at the ISLMA Conference in
> Tinley Park in November.
>
> See the following websites for more information on ESSA.
> AASL - http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/legislation/essa
> ISBE - http://www.isbe.net/essa/
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
> Patti Fleser
> President, Illinois School Library Media Association
> President at islma.org
>
> Patti Fleser
> Library Media Specialist
> Deer Path Middle School
> Lake Forest, IL
> 847-604-7433
> @DPM_Library
>
> President, Illinois School Library Media Association
>
> "...a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place
> to learn, explore, and grow!” *Escape from Mr. Lemoncello**’s Library*
>
>
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