WE NEED YOU! Get Involved Today!

Courtney Pentland

2023-02-15 09:00 AM

This is your friendly nudge to fill out the AASL Get Involved form! One of the best professional decisions I have made is to get involved at both state and national level in professional associations. After a decade working as... Read More ›

NJ Information Literacy Standard: The Journey From Bill to Law

Beth Thomas & Tricina Strong-Beebe

2023-02-13 09:20 AM

New Jersey is the first state in the nation to require K-12 instruction in information literacy. NJASL lobbied for the bill to specifically reference school librarians and the final version contains the following statement: "The school library media specialist shall... Read More ›

Two Novels About Librarians Fighting Censorship

Margaret Sullivan

2023-02-09 09:00 AM

Like most librarians, I'm a reader, especially when I need an escape from reality. One of my consistent responses to stress is to lose myself in a good book because the world of fiction is often more pleasant than the... Read More ›

Books Matter

Kathy Lester, AASL President 2022-2023

2023-02-07 09:00 AM

On February 1, I attended the webinar hosted by AASL Partner organization, ADL Education, titled "Books Matter: Using Children's Literature to Invite Conversations about Identity, Bias and Social Justice." Attending this webinar, emphasized to me that during this time, when... Read More ›

Picture Books and Primary Sources: A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington by Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, and Byron McCray

Tom Bober

2023-01-31 09:00 AM

After writing dozens of these posts and working on dozens of other picture book and primary source pairings, there are few that truly shift my thinking about how I should be teaching a topic in my school library. But that... Read More ›