Administrative+Breakfast+2011+(Courtesy+of+Sara+Kelly+Johns)

=** Your Library IS the Common Core! **=

=//New York State Common Core resources://=

New York State P12 Common Core Learning Standards
@http://engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-p-12-common-core-learning-standards/

Common Core Shifts
[|common-core-shifts.pdf]

Instructional Shifts
[|common-core-shifts.pdf] ===NYS Common Core Crosswalk: WSWHE BOCES SLS pages at @http://www.wswheboces.org/SSS.cfm?subpage=531===

are well organized and highly accurate.
===**Carolyn Starkey's LiveBinder:** **School Librarians and the Common Core Standards: Resources**=== @http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=84777

**Put the Common Core on your Blog or Website!**
@http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/put-common-core-standards-on-your-blog.html

===AASL Position Statement on the Common Core College- and Career-Readiness Standards=== ====[]====

**AASL Common Core CrossWalk:**
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Exemplary Lesson Plans
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Okapi - find the reading level and Complexity of Text
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Lexile Framework for Learning
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===From the August 1, 2011 //School Library Journa//l article: "Librarian Creates Guide to the Common Core Standards."=== @http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissue/currentissue/891299-427/librarian_creates_guide_to_the.html.csp

=== Video: Common Core State Standards: A New Foundation for Student Success by the Hunt Foundation === http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9IGD9oLofks#!

[|SLMPE_rubric.doc] [|SLMPE rubric Action planner.doc] =New York State School Library Program Rubric (SLMPE)=

==The School Learning Commons Knowledge Building Center==



>> • Includes usable surveys, sample newsletters and library reports, research paper formatting guides, and a highly useful website >> • 38 figures and photographs of actual resources, user-centered design, students utilizing resources, and web design >> • Index facilitates quick reference to specific examples on demand >> **Highlights** >> • This text provides a roadmap any librarian can follow to adapt their facility to the emerging and increasingly popular learning commons library paradigm >> • Provides documented, valid information and practical suggestions presented with a dash of humor, unlike most texts on librarianship
 * Pamela Colburn Harland. //The Learning Commons: Seven Steps to Transform Your Library//. Libraries Unlimited, 2011.
 * This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons
 * David V. Loertscher, Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan; //**The New Learning Commons Where Learners Win! Reinventing School Libraries and Computer Labs**// ISBN: 978-1-933170-40-4; Hi Willow Research and Publishing; 2008; $25.00 (available at: http://lmcsource.com)

Carol Koechlin, Esther Rosenfeld, and David V. Loertscher; Hi Willow Research and Publishing; ISBN: 978-1-933170-59-6; 2010; $30.00 (available at: [|http://lmcsource.com] ) A planning guide for administrators and those interested in establishing a Learning Commons that reinvents the role of the school library and computer labs in the school.
 * ** Building a Learning Commons **

Nancy Keane, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, NH
Changes due to student responses: [|Keanelibrary changes.docx]

Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booktalker/sets/72157625698205550/

Rundlett Middle School LibGuides @http://rundlett.concord.nh.libguides.com/index.php

Library Helpers Club: more student input and student created multimedia. @http://rundlett.concord.nh.libguides.com/libraryhelpers

=Your "To-Do" List!= =From //The Learning Commons: Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library// by Pamela Colburn Harland. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.=

[|Your To Do List.docx]

= School Librarians = = Leaders, Instructional Partners, Information Specialists, Teachers, and Program Administrators =

Joyce Valenza
== Revised **Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians**== @http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/12/03/a-revised-manifesto/

Revisting Ranganathan
http://schoollibrarywebsites.wikispaces.com/RevisingRanganathan



http://yourteacherlibrarian.wikispaces.com/Are+You+Ready%3F



[|lms+evaluation+ideas.pdf]



@http://sdst.libguides.com/content.php?pid=184760&search_terms=aasl+standards = = =__Assessment:__ = Harada, Violet H. and Joan M. Yoshina. //Assessing for Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners, @nd ed.// Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. =__Evidence:__ =  [|NJASL_Phase_1.pdf] > @http://www.libraryjournal.com/slj/printissue/currentissue/891938-427/what_does_excellence_look_like.html.csp
 * Library Research Services: Research and statistics about school libraries including the state studies on school libraries.
 * ==**NEW NJASL Study by CISSL** ==
 * ==== Article from School Library Journal "What does Excellence Look Like?" referring to the new CISSL study. ====
 * Article from //School Library Journal// on Data Driven Library Programs: []
 * Tools for Real - Time  A ssessment of Library Skills "TRAILS" Test: [|http://www.trails-9.org]