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

Thu Aug 25 09:40:12 CDT 2016

Thank you for signing up Andrea! There are 2 others currently signed up for Mundelein as well, but we can use more people in all locations. There is power (and support) in numbers!

We currently have 4 meeting location that do not have anyone attending:
Sept. 7 — Moline
Sept. 8 — Spring Valley
Sept. 19 — Carbondale
Sept. 21 — Quincy

If you live in these areas or know of someone who does, please sign up or contact that person to sign up. The link to sign up is https://goo.gl/E7VpM8

We are working on talking points for these meetings and will email them to anyone who has signed up to attend.
Thank you for everyone’s support in this all important effort.

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

From: <islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info>> on behalf of Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>>
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Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:14 AM
To: Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>>
Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] Every Student Succeeds Act - ISLMA needs your help!

I am signed up to attend the meeting on September 15th at Mundelein High School.  Anyone want to join me?  We need as many people as we can to show support for school libraries!!

Andrea Perrin
LRC Director
Woodland Middle School
Gurnee, Il.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto: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<http://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 ) 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<mailto:President at islma.org>

Patti Fleser
Library Media Specialist
Deer Path Middle School
Lake Forest, IL
847-604-7433<tel: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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