[ISLMA-Share] ISBE Listening Tour...what to expect

Wed Sep 7 16:46:25 CDT 2016

It is so encouraging to see our group mobilize to advocate for school
libraries and especially the underfunded students of Illinois.

I am sorry I am not able to attend tonight's listening session in Moline
due to a family issue, but Carolyn Mesick, our department chair, shared
comments with the rest of our Library Media Specialists after school today.
She will do a great job for us in the Quad Cities. Thanks Carolyn and all!

*Angela Florence*
Library Media Specialist
Moline-Coal Valley Community Unit District 40
aflorenc at molineschools.org

Franklin (M,T) x 8272
Butterworth  (W, Th, Friday AM) x 8216
Willard  (Friday PM) x 1620

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Thank you for attending in Moline tonight! Please use Lauren’s comments to
> guide you. But please also bring the talking points I sent directly to
> those attending this week as well to help guide you. If you’d like me to
> send those again, please email me directly at president at islma.org
> Thank you,
>
> 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: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 9:29 AM
> To: "islma at list.railslibraries.info" <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] ISBE Listening Tour...what to expect
>
> I'm going to the one in Moline tonight. Would it be inappropriate to copy
> and paste Lauren's statement into my testimony? I also am not good on the
> fly and was planning to write something.
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Lauren,
>> Thank you so much for your quick feedback. We weren’t sure of the format,
>> so this gives us a better idea of how to help prepare everyone who attends
>> these meetings.
>> Please copy me on what you send to isbe – you can send it to
>> president at islma.org
>>
>> And to everyone else – you can see HOW important this truly is. Please
>> sign up to attend a meeting. We still have 2 meetings that no one has
>> signed up for:
>> Sept 19 – Carbondale
>> Sept 21 – Quincy
>> If you’re in one of these areas and can attend, please sign up. (
>> http://tinyurl.com/jjqnf8t)
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> 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.inf
>> o>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 7:56 AM
>> To: "islma at list.railslibraries.info" <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
>> Subject: [ISLMA-Share] ISBE Listening Tour...what to expect
>>
>> Hi everyone--
>>
>> I attended the ISBE "ESSA" Listening Tour in Freeport last night...and
>> want to share with everyone how the format works.
>>
>> There is a sign-in sheet with a spot for you to indicate that you wish to
>> speak.
>>
>> The first part of the evening was a slideshow presentation by ISBE of the
>> work they have done so far in crafting a draft plan for the State of
>> Illinois.  The plan is clearly in development...and there is a LOT of room
>> to weigh in and provide feedback.  The slideshow is posted on the ISBE
>> website...but honestly it would be difficult to make sense of it without
>> listening to the narrative provided by ISBE.
>>
>> After the slideshow, those people who wished to speak, "provide
>> testimony," were given 3-5 minutes each.  ISBE would like written
>> "testimony" to be submitted by everyone who chooses to speak at one of the
>> stops on the listening tour...so your remarks become a part of the
>> permanent record of the development of the state plan.  There are two
>> people on laptops taking notes during the entire session, but if you don't
>> have a written statement (I didn't), you can submit the written statement
>> to this email:  essa at isbe.net
>>
>> After the formal "testimonies," there was an open discussion forum and an
>> opportunity to ask questions and raise issues.  In attendance were a state
>> representative, regional superintendent, administrative and teacher
>> representatives from various districts.  There were approximately 30 people
>> in attendance.  The press was there right at the beginning, but did not
>> stay for the actual presentation.
>>
>> There were four people who provided actual "testimony" at the session
>> last night and HALF of them were librarians (Jane Lenser and myself).
>>
>> I am going to write up my testimony and submit it to ISBE...but here's
>> the short version of what I had to say.  I was prepared to talk to the
>> "talking points" that Patti sent out, but while listening to the slideshow
>> presentation, it became obvious that there was an opportunity to make a
>> very large point about school libraries that didn't fit into any of the
>> provided talking points.
>>
>> One of the things that the new state plan will provide is for a variety
>> of indicators to be used statewide that will help to evaluate how
>> individual schools are performing.  The working group has identified about
>> 40 indicators that could be used (attendance, suspension rates, readiness
>> for high school, etc.).  Nothing has been decided, and every "example" on
>> the slideshow is just a hypothetical.  Many of the examples were difficult
>> to quantify.  So here is what I said:
>>
>> It is absolutely irrefutable that certified school librarians have a
>> positive impact on student achievement.  We know this from over 30 studies
>> that use hard, quantifiable data.  If ISBE made having a certified school
>> librarian in an effective school library program one of those indicators,
>> we know it would improve student achievement and at the same time it would
>> provide schools with the incentive to hire properly trained school
>> librarians in every single building in the state.  It would be easy to
>> measure.  It would be effective.  It would transform the educational
>> experience of an entire generation of students.
>>
>> When I spoke about this, the people from ISBE were VERY interested...it
>> seemed to me that this idea--using school libraries and certified school
>> librarians as an indicator for individual school performance--had not been
>> discussed, and they were intrigued.  The audience response was positive as
>> well.
>>
>> I will write this up and send it along to ISBE...
>>
>> Patti:  do you want a copy of what I send to ISBE?  If so, please let me
>> know what email to send it to...
>>
>> Lauren
>>
>>
>> Lauren Collen, MLIS
>>
>> Librarian
>>
>> Machesney Elementary
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:*islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [
>> islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info] on behalf of Email list for the
>> Illinois School Library Media Association [islma at list.railslibraries.info
>> ]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:22 PM
>> *To:* islma at list.railslibraries.info
>> *Subject:* Re: [ISLMA-Share] NEW stop on the ESSA listening tour - Oct 5
>> in Sycamore
>>
>> Thanks, I just signed up to go listen in DeKalb. I tried to find your
>> earlier posts to remind me what I should be listening for or if I need to
>> speak up.  Could you resend that information to me? cstracne at syc427.org
>>
>> *Peace,*
>>
>> *Coni Stracner Teacher Librarian @SMS  *
>> *  *
>> *  I am reading:  All the Light We Cannot See  by Anthony Doerr  *
>> *I just finished reading: *
>> * Clan of the Cave Bear   by Jean M. Auel  *
>> *I am listening to:   Love in the Time of Cholera  by  Gabriel Garcia
>> Marquez *
>> *Ask me about these books!*
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> I’ve just learned that the ISBE has added another stop on the listening
>>> tour. For those of you in the DeKalb/Sycamore area, you can now sign up to
>>> attend the October 5 meeting. http://tinyurl.com/jjqnf8t
>>>
>>> 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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