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

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I would like to thank Patti and the other members who are working toward
organizing school librarians.  If you haven't signed up PLEASE think about
doing so.
There will be numbers of teachers in their core subjects and the ISBE will
notice.  If we want school librarians in our schools we need to show up
NOW!!!
Even if you believe in having a library in all schools SHOW UP NOW.  My
administrator wanted to close the library for 4 years and last year he
succeeded
on RIFing me which is the first step in closing the library.

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
> >
> 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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