Posted on January 24th, 2009 by fpentlin
We spent a lot of time reflecting on whether the “big hairy audacious goal” of the initial AASL strategic planning from 2005 was still viable. The BHAG for AASL is “to achieve universal recognition of school library media specialists as indispensable educational leaders.” By the time I had to leave the meeting, there were a [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009 by fpentlin
Started out the day with an executive committee meeting. It is such a privilege to work with these five members: Ann Martin, president; Cassandra Barnett, president-elect, Sara Kelly Johns, Past President, and Sylvia Norton, AASL representative to ALA Council.
We spent the morning covering a variety of organization-related issues. One of the most interesting documents we [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by fpentlin
This video is one of the most popular of this last year. Because PowerPoint is generally so poorly used, I love these videos that remind us of the inherent danger of “PowerPoint poisoning” for my next presentation. This video features Don McMillen and is from TeacherTube.
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