Spring PD-Palooza!
Professional Development for School Librarians from AISLE
Saturday Series on Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, Book Challenges and Collection Development
The Current Landscape of Censorship/Intellectual Freedom
Saturday, March 5, 2022 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. 1 PDH
Holly Eberle is the Teen Librarian at the Algonquin Area Public Library District. She also writes for the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog and served on the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee from 2019-2021. In the past year, she has interviewed school & public library workers from Louisiana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Missouri, and of course Illinois about censorship and the disturbing trend of Boards who do not support their organizations. Learn more about the national trends and intellectual freedom resources in this session.
Book Challenges: Policy, Rationales, and Communicating with Stakeholders
Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. 2 PDH
Presented by Amy Magnafichi Strong, in this presentation, we will look at the recent rise in book/curriculum challenges and the most prevalent reasons for these challenges. Through small group and whole group work, we will discuss how to create a sound book challenge policy, long and short form book rationales, and how to effectively communicate with the stakeholders in schools about book/curriculum concerns. We will also access the robust resources currently available at the National Coalition Against Censorship. All participants will receive handouts and access to the presentation for later use.
The Unbiased Collection: Tips for Book Curation for School Libraries and Classroom
Saturday, April 2, 2022 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. 1 PDH
Need to curate a collection for students that includes diverse, equitable, and interesting reads? Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of your collection that is based on facts, and not on others’ opinions of the book? Do you want to grow your scaffolding skills to build the collection across grade levels and content areas? Great! Come learn about a curation method made to help eliminate biases and focus on filling gaps and maintaining high quality literature. This session, presented by Amy Stefanski, will focus on an easy to use method for curation and application of method on purchasing books.
REGISTER FOR 1 OR ALL 3 at https://www.aisled.org/workshops.htm
Advocate, Advance & Aim High
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. 1 PDH
Join us for a discussion on how to advocate for your library program as we introduce our BIG 5 end-of-the-year strategies including: Stats that WOW, Board Love, Voices of kids and faculty, Building relationships with teachers, and Shout Outs! This session will provide ready to use templates where you can fill in your own library information and suggestions to share widely to celebrate the successes of this year. Advocacy is a continuous action to promote and celebrate the good work happening in your programs. Presented By: Becky Robinson, Joanna Marek, Janine Asmus, Andrea Perrin, Robyn Whitlock, Amy Walsh, and Marina Kemp
#wordsmatterCPS: the CPS Critical Cataloging Project
Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. 1 PDH
CPS is working to adjust the subject headings and keywords that are used to locate resources in our catalog. The Critical Cataloging Project adjusts subject vocabulary to be representative of the lived experiences of our students. By changing problematic search terms such as “illegal alien”, “slaves” and other inflammatory language, metadata and search terminology should be representative of the students and communities in which we serve. Chicago Public Schools Libraries Team, in partnership with librarians, the Office of Equity, and city partners, is interested in impacting change across catalogs by advocating to and with organizations that control metadata, in order to develop marc records that are representative and inclusive. Join us in the conversation on how we can make metadata culturally responsive. Presented by: Anna Kim and Sarah Steiger
Let's Talk About the Standards: How we use library standards and what they should look like
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 1PDH
Are you struggling to connect standards to your daily practice or having a hard time knowing which standards (of the MANY) to use in your library lessons? This session will present what your fellow AISLE members have been working on with our ISAIL Standards Task Force. Come to listen and voice your own thoughts about standards that will work for you! Presented by: Sia Paganis with members of the ISAIL Task Force
Creating Community Partnerships
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. 1 PDH
How many times have you been asked if we really NEED libraries since the students have their computers and their phones? Would you like to live and work in a place where it would be unimaginable for the library to be overlooked? This presentation provides ideas for building the foundation for community and school partnerships so that school library programs are seen as integral and vital to a student's learning experience. Presented by Deborah Will