[CALIBK12] CSLA at CATE Conference

[Thomas Kaun]

Great news, Jackie.

CSLA was also represented at the ALA booth at the American Association of
School Administrators in San Francisco last week. Although the emphasis was
on AASL materials the local folks in the booth were CSLA-ers.

Speaking of advocacy, the new AASL Advocacy Toolkit <
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/toolkits/aasladvocacy.cfm>
is a great place to start looking for @ your library(R) materials for school
libraries.

Tom

Thomas T. Kaun
Teacher Librarian
Bessie Chin Library @ Redwood High School
395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur, CA 94939
tomkaun at gmail.com | Library Web site: http://rhslibrary.org | Professional
development blog: http://tomlmt2.blogspot.com/ | Library news blog:
http://libraryleaves.blogspot.com

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day,
something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else
would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of
unanimity.
 - Christopher Morley


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jackie Siminitus <csla2team at yahoo.com>wrote:

> CSLA advocated for strong school libraries at the CATE Conference on Friday
> and Saturday.  See the CSLA EdTech Blog if you can't see the photo (below)
> of the booth, CSLA VP-Communications Pete Doering, CSLA banner and lunchbag
> at http://cslaedtecheresources.blogspot.com/
>
> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W1WDLV9e818/SaDkBZQkZNI/AAAAAAAAAtE/x9a-1P9kmXI/s1600-h/CATE+2009+Pete+at+booth.JPG>CSLA
> had a booth at the *California Association of Teachers of English (CATE)*<http://www.cateweb.org/>Conference in Santa Clara on February 20-21, 2009. Attendance was down to
> about 650, thanks to the economy. Of those, about 30 teachers stopped by the
> booth each of the two days, yielding 60 conversations.  Not bad!  Several
> teacher librarians were at CATE, including a presenter or two.  Our booth
> was next to CRA, the California Reading Association.
>
> We promoted 3 topics, accompanied by handouts:
>
>    1. California School Libraries Make a Difference (Dissertation research
>    by CSLA member Dr. Doug Achterman - 1-page handout)
>    2. *Classroom Learning 2.0* <http://classroomlearning2.blogspot.com/>(CSLA 2.0 Team professional development tutorial.)
>    3. CSLA Good Ideas and CSLA Journal
>
> Topic #1 was *a call for library advocacy*. Some teachers bragged about
> their teacher librarians and librarian staff, while others expressed sorrow
> about not having a librarian or about to lose their librarian. One teacher
> asked for an extra copy of the handout for putting on the staff bulletin
> board (great idea!)
>
> Topic #2 was "good news" about a fun, free way to learn the web 2.0 tools.
> *CSLA's Classroom Learning 2.0 <http://classroomlearning2.blogspot.com/>*is a timely gift to teachers. We got a dozen enthusiasic thank-yous for the
> inviation to participate in our online tutorial. Some also said they planned
> to share it with their colleagues and take it together.
>
> Topic #3 CSLA's Good Ideas and Journal were of interest especially when the
> discussions got into collaboration with school librarians and how we
> promoted/shared good ideas.
>
> OTHER:
>
>    - All but one CATE exhibitor offered print-based products. The one
>    technology-based product was for studying Shakespeare individually or as a
>    2-person team. Apparently, many English teachers told the vendor that
>    because they didn't have any or many Internet workstations in the classroom,
>    it might be better to contact the school librarians because they had
>    computer labs and broadband access. [The vendor now has the dates of the
>    November 2009 CSLA conference in Ontario.]
>    - Huckebee's was the only booksale vendor there and they asked for the
>    CSLA Conference date and location.
>    - CATE has a tradition of serving exibitors a 5pm reception at the end
>    of day #1.  Wine, fancy food, and doorprizes from the CATE Board.
>
> Exhibits were in a huge tent or "Big Top" in the parking lot of the
> Marriott Hotel.  It worked well.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> - Jackie Siminitus
> CSLA2team at yahoo.com
> http://SchoolLibraryLearning2.blogspot.com<http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/>
> http://ClassroomLearning2.blogspot.com<http://classroomlearning2.blogspot.com/>
> http://DiscoveringAT.blogspot.com <http://discoveringat.blogspot.com/>
>
>
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