"What's Happening @ YOUR Library?"
November 5-6, 2006
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Sunday, November 5
Conference Program
Monday, November 6
7:30-8:45 a.m.
Administrator's Breakfast
"Data Rich, Information Poor: Creating a Practical Working Model of Data-Driven Curriculum Development"
Presented by Dr. Steven Arnoff, Ed. D.
Effective data-driven decision-making requires both a theoretical framework and a practical working model. For a model to be truly practical, it must improve the ability of administrators, teachers, and library media specialists to work together collaboratively to analyze data and to effectively apply the results to improve student achievement.
The interdependence of curriculum, instruction, and assessment in conjunction with student demographic characteristics creates a new paradigm based on collecting and analyzing data to create information that cannot be ignored. Library media specialists, working collaboratively with core curriculum content area specialists, are an important part of the action research team and, as such, can have a significant impact on improving student achievement.
Steve is the Director of Education Services for Unicom, Inc., an IT solutions company based in Woonsocket, RI. He has held administrative positions in Lexington, Simsbury, and Lowell Public Schools.
Steve has an Ed.D. from Boston University in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Instructional Media and Technology, an M.A. in Education Administration and a B.S. from Rhode Island College in Music and Education. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published book of the same title as this presentation. In addition he has published several technology book chapters.
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Keynote Speaker
Sara Kelly Johns
President Elect of the American Association of School Librarians“AASL is You and You are AASL”
AASL President Cyndi Phillip’s 2006-07 theme resonates in this pivotal moment for the library media specialists’ role in education. AASL's Strategic Plan calls for all educational stakeholders to understand and value the essential role school library programs have in boosting student achievement.
As professionals, our expertise in teaching reading, writing, and information literacy skills is critical to students’ literacy and global citizenship, yet our programs are frequently threatened and often undervalued. All library media specialists need to be leaders in their schools to make a difference for their students, but their professional organizations (AASL and CEMA) provide the state and national voices to make their efforts major pieces in the “puzzle” that is the effort to increase student literacy.
Sara Kelly Johns, school library media specialist at Lake Placid (N.Y.) Middle/High School and adjunct professor at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, will assume the AASL presidency at the end of the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.Johns will be leading the nation's only association for school library media professionals. Established in 1951, AASL has over 10,000 members. Its mission is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field.
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