Advocacy Toolkit
DCSD TLs: Helping Teachers Teach, Helping Students Learn
Whether you consider yourself a teacher-librarian, school librarian, or library media specialist, you matter. What you do every day in your school and library promotes student achievement and supports teaching and learning.
ALA, AASL & GLMA
ALA's Declaration for the Right to School Libraries
Click here to view the American Library Association's Declaration for the Right to School Libraries.
AASL's Advocacy Toolkit
Click here to view the American Association of School Librarian's Advocacy Toolkit.
GLMA's Advocacy Toolkit
Click here to view the Georgia Library Media Association's Advocacy Toolkit.
Videos
Principals Know: School Librarians are the Heart of the School
School Libraries Matter: The Changing Role of the School Librarian
Does Your School Have a Teacher Librarian? A CSLA Film
Articles
- Good School Libraries Affect Test Scores - http://www.wltx.com/story/news/education/2015/05/12/study-finds-the-quality-of-school-libraries-have-a-positive-impact-on-achievement-test-scores/27202395/ - A news feature and link to the recent South Carolina study on the positive impact of school libraries on achievement test scores.
- American Libraries: School Libraries Digital Supplement - http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/issue/2014-school-library-digital-supplement (Barbara Stripling's "Reimagining Advocacy for School Libraries" is a must read!)
- Why School Libraries are Essential from ilovelibraries.org -
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/why-are-school-libraries-essential - School Libraries and Student Success from ilovelibraries.org - http://www.ilovelibraries.org/schoollibrariesmakethedifference/school-libraries-and-student-success
- Add It Up from ALA - "Research and statistics to help advocates make the case for libraries at every stage of youth development and education" - http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/advocacyuniversity/additup
Presentations
- Google slides from ISTE Advocacy session by Elissa Malespina, Michelle Cooper, Nikki D Robertson and Tiffany Whitehead: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iMKTCuLT__sCgU0KSIBN5J7r0Vgpgs-M37AgZNqlb8Q/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
- Sherry Glick's Connections presentation from CYPD 2014 (scroll down to view) - http://www.thelibraryfanatic.com/2014/10/cypd-2014.html
- Joyce Valenza's link TL Virtual Cafe's Back to School Special (embedded presentation) - http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/09/09/september-networking/
Blogs
- "10 things classroom teachers need to know about modern librarians" from Trust me, I'm a librarian blog - http://libraryallegra.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/10-things-classroom-teachers-need-to-know-about-modern-school-librarians/
- Renovated Learning blog - http://renovatedlearning.com/tag/tlchat/
- "New Year Time to Embrace Change Librarians" from Elissa Malespina's blog - http://www.elissamalespina.com/thoughts-on-technology---blog/new-year-time-to-embrace-change-librarians
Infographics
- AASL's School Librarians Transform Learning - http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/AASL_Infographic_FINAL.pdf
- 100 Things Kids Will Miss if They Don't Have a School Librarians in Their School - http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/100_Things_Poster.pdf
- What do TLs teach? from Joyce Valenza & Gwyneth Jones - http://www.abc-clio.com/uploadedFiles/Content/promo/Linworth_and_LMC_Files/LMC_MayJune12_WhatDoTLsTeach_Corrected_Poster.pdf