SLJ Summit Top 10
All comments and ideas will be considered, valued, and dealt with. However, to draw things to a conclusion the participants have put dots on 12 ideas to vote upon those they found vital to our profession. The top 10 vote recipients are:
#10 Building Trust and Respect Recruiting Young
#9 How are we going to level the learning playing field? Target the have-nots
#8 Include info lit in teacher preparation curricula
#7 Librarians should be partners in the ongoing assessment of student learning
#6 The Technology
#5 Taking a leadership role in educational applications for emerging technology
#4 Provide stakeholders with instructional materials, information and model school libraries to demonstrate excellence
#3 Develop and embrace new models for interacting with learners using 21st century technology
#2 Demonstrate via use of data & evidence (to our communities) that school librarians and library programs pay learning dividends and improve student achievement
and the #1 idea is
#1 Mesh library added value into educator learning environments.
Julie Walker has challenged every state to put together a wiki and a program to put out to all 1200 colleges and universities. Each state choose one organization to go present to every year. Either take it off the list or tackle it.
Someone else just suggested we take what is already happening and get it out there for others to see how it is succeeding and how to implement it further.
Someone just posted about the idea that some organizations hire legislative advocates. I want to stand up and individually challenge every person at this summit to put their thoughts into action and actually join the ALA - Washington Office’s new Advocacy Network. Too many people sit here and think that “someone else” must do it. The same goes with ideas that are directed to “the associations.” We are the associations. We are the feet that do the traveling. We are the face of our organization.
