Statewide Classes
• Developing Your School Library Curriculum for the 21st Century -- 2 credit hours
Start
Date: August 25, 2009
End Date: December 15, 2009
Instructors:
Cheryl Carruthers, Karen Lampe, Dorothy DeGroot, Karen Appleton with guest speakers Denise Rehmke, Jean Donham, and Peter
Holly
Format: ICN and Moodle
• Resource Alignment for School Libraries --
1 credit hour
Start Date: October 27, 2009
End
Date: April 27, 2010
Time: 4:00-6:00 (or 6:30) p.m.
Instructors:
Cheryl Carruthers and Karen Lampe with guest speaker Karen Lowe
Format: ICN
Statewide ICN Sessions
• Assessing for Learning: What's In It for the Teacher-Librarian and the School Library Program?
Presenter:
Karen Appleton, IASL Liaison to AASL; Prairie Lakes AEA
Date and Time: Thursday, September 10,
2009 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Registration Deadline: September
4, 2009
• Inquiry Learning through the Library
Presenter:
Karla Krueger, Assistant Professor, UNI's School of Library Media Studies
Date and Time: Thursday,
October 20, 2009 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Description: "Inquiry
learning is essential for implementing the Iowa Core Curriculum with rigor and relevance. It is also a core component of the
AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner. This session will overview the characteristics of inquiry learning through the
library as they connect with the wider school curriculum. Specifics of the inquiry learning process as detailed in Carol Kuhlthau's
Teaching the Research Process (2002) will be shared, along with inquiry examples matched to the Iowa Core Curriculum and grounded
in the use of rich library sources, both print and electronic."
Registration Deadline:
October 2, 2009
Handouts will be available from this site closer to the presentation date.
• Data Collection Tool for Teacher Librarians
Presenters:
Cindy Blinkinsop, Julie Alfaro, Jeff Hoskins - Mississippi Bend AEA
Date and Time: Tuesday, November
17 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Registration Deadline: November 10, 2009
Description: The three presenters have developed an Excel database to assist teacher-librarians
in collecting and sharing their library data. Three primary sources were used in the development of the tool:
• The State Library Annual Survey
• The new Iowa Teacher-Librarian Standards
• AASL Standards for the 21st Century
The data collected with this free tool can be used for End-of-the-Year Reports
to your Administrator, School Board, PTA, School Stakeholders and Community Members. The charts and graphs generated by the
data you insert into the spreadsheet can easily be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation, Word document or printed out for
a Data Board.
Prior to the ICN, please download the free tool to a laptop computer that
you can bring to the ICN session and download the directions (available through a link on the registration page).
To register
Additional ICN sessions are being planned. Check back for additional information.
• Developing Authentic Literacy Tasks
• Using Data for Collection Development
Conferences
ILA Annual Conference
October
21-23, 2009
Polk County Convention Center
Des Moines, IA
IASL is sponsoring a preconference with Jamie McKenzie, three concurrent sessions on Thursday, and co-sponsoring two concurrent sessions on Friday.
Conference Program
Keep current with some of the "buzz" created by Scott McLeod's session at ILA.
Scott
McLeod -- Dangerously Irrelevant blog - 10 Questions about Books, Libraries, Librarians, and Schools
IASL Spring Conference
Sunday afternoon April 11-Monday, April 12, 2010
Holiday Inn Airport in Des Moines, Iowa
Keynote
Speaker: Gail Bush
More details will be forthcoming.
Prairie Lakes Technology Conference
June
21-23, 2010
Buena Vista University, Storm Lake
Focus: Elementary teams
Keynote Speakers: Scott McLeod and
Annette Lamb
More information forthcoming.
