School Librarians of the Southern Tier - East

November 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Joyce Valenza Rocks!

Check out Joyce Valenza's reply - a la Taylor Mali - to Dr, Marc Bernstein, who attacked school libraries in his Newsday article last week. In Steps to Take Now for our Schools; What Cuomo Can Do to make NYS Education More Efficient and Effective,Dr. Bernstein suggested Governor Cuomo help the budget by:

eliminating the… Continue

Added by SLST-East on November 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

An Open Invitation....

This is an invitation for you to put forward librarians from your region to go to Saratoga in 2011. The NYLA Conference will be Nov. 2-5 next year. Marcia Eggleston is the new NYLA president and her theme for

next year's conference is New York Libraries ROCK! It's a theme that offers a lot of possibilities for fun and exciting tie-ins, I think. Maybe the following topics will spur some ideas for a program:…

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Added by SLST-East on November 14, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Call for public feedback on additions to the ELA Common Core State Standards

On July 19th, 2010, New York State adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects and CCSS for Mathematics. The Board of Regents would like your feedback on recommended student expectations to add to the Common Core State Standards. To support the state’s adoption plan, a group of P-12 and higher education English Language Arts and Mathematics practitioners met in Albany in July 2010 to analyze… Continue

Added by SLST-East on November 9, 2010 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Great resources from NYLA!

Lonna and I are back from the NYLA conference with lots of great resources for librarians, some news, and heads full of great ideas! I thought I would share some of the links now, since they are so very useful.

From Sara Kelly Johns comes this set of tools that help librarians implement the AASL Learning Standards and the SLMPE rubric:

"I am excited about the recently debuted… Continue

Added by SLST-East on November 7, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments