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

Thu Aug 25 10:36:49 CDT 2016

I will be attending the September 7th one in Moline.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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
> <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> on behalf of Email list
> for the Illinois School Library Media Association <
> islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> Reply-To: "islma at list.railslibraries.info" <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>
> 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> 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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Carolyn Mesick
Library Media Specialist,
Moline Sr. High School
District Coordinator of Library Services,
Moline District 40
309.743.8902

*"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over
the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child
in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last
throughout life."    -Rachel Carson*
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