2. Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners:

Three regional one-day conferences facilitated by the Washington Moms are scheduled:

• Coeur d'Alene: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration Deadline: January 21
• Pocatello: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration Deadline: February 5
• Boise: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration Deadline: April 10

Attend one of these workshops to learn how to leverage school library partnerships in order to meet the needs of an evolving schoolhouse community. You’ll come away with a blueprint for developing partnerships along with data about the impact of Idaho school library programs on student success.

For this workshop, we ask librarians to serve as a team leader and bring along an administrator and one or more parents to help formulate your blueprint for your 21st century library program. Teachers, technical support staff, and others can also be invited as team members to help you envision and design your blueprint. Administrator should plan to attend the morning sessions and they are welcome, but not required, to stay for the entire day.

Those who attend with a team—an administrator and one or more parents—will be eligible to win a Gale Virtual Library collection (yes, a collection!) from Gale Cengage Learning.

Registration

(Note: If you are registering a team, you'll be asked to included their name, email, and any special need requirements.)

• Saturday, April 24, 2010 (deadline April 10): Boise Registration

Workshop Presentations

• Lisa Layera Brunkan & Susan McBurney: Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners
• Coeur d'Alene Charette - wikispaces
• Pocatello Charette - wikispaces
• Melba School District, school policy, & Web 2.0 learning tools. Glynda Pflieger tells us how.
  • Melba School District (Idaho) and Social Networking Policy Change
  • Melba School District teacher-librarian introduces social media to teachers & students
• Notes from CDA discussion on Idaho School Impact Study

Workshop Information

• Workshop Agenda
• Librarian Letter
• Principal Letter

Background Material

Articles

• TechLEARNING.com: 14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza
• School Library Journal Mobile: Things That Keep Us Up at Night by Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson -- School Library Journal, 10/1/2009
• New York Times: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update by MOTOKO RICH
  Published: February 15, 2009

Websites
American Association for School Librarians (AASL: Best Websites for Online Teaching and Learning

This project is funded through the Library Services & Technology Act, administrated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009.