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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">Please pardon the cross-posting. The excellent ideas and information about participating in the upcoming ESSA community forums sponsored by ODE are from Anne Urban, District Librarian
for Three Rivers School District,. The next forum is in Hillsboro on 12/6 at 6 pm, and then they pick up again after the holidays with one in Jordan Valley on 1/3 at 4:30 pm. After that, there will be five more meetings in January. The schedule is part of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">Jennifer Maurer, MLS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">Library Support and Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> oasl-all@ola.memberclicks.net
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 01, 2016 2:45 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [oasl-all] Important Opportunity to Speak up for School Libraries!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Hello to all my amazing school library friends and colleagues!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">Mark your calendars</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> for an opportunity to speak up for high quality school library programs for Oregon students, schools, and communities. Click </span><a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/superintendent/priorities/essa-community-forums-flier-11-2016.pdf"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">here</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> to
see the dates and locations of all the opportunities statewide to find the meeting nearest to you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">What's the big picture?</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> The Every Student Succeeds Act, known as ESSA, is the largest source of federal funding for education - and it specifically includes
school library programs! Take a look at this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0mt2_Yps5zNG6Wl4n61heV-1cExi7Ksdcs9Np50hgQ/edit?usp=sharing">
preview</a> of the article in the OASL Winter 2017 <i>Interchange</i> with more background and information about ESSA and School Libraries and what OASL has been doing to get the word out about how high-quality school libraries make an impact on student achievement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> Here in Oregon, Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is holding a series of meetings over the next 2 months to get input on how to best serve students and schools across the state as a part of the new federal funding guidelines
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">What do I say?</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> With support from
<i>Every Library</i>, OASL and OLA sent a letter to ODE outlining all the ways that high quality school library programs support schools and student academic achievement and how we fit into any comprehensive plan to improve educational outcomes. It provides
great talking points for when you speak up! Take it with you to the meeting to help compose your thoughts. You'll find it
<a href="http://www.olaweb.org/communications">here</a> at the top of the page on the OLA website.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">Bring a team... </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">if you can coordinate with others in your district or region to bring a team, that helps amplify your message. And if you can bring students,
parents, or community members to speak up for school libraries, or anything else that shows support from your community, that can make your impact even more powerful.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">When you go... </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">When our little group of 5 teacher-librarians attended the first meeting of the series earlier this week, we sat together and introduced
ourselves as teacher librarians during the quick introductions at the beginning of the session. We sat together deliberately, as after 15 minutes of "table talk" each table reported out. By sitting together, we were able to coordinate our written responses
and when we gave our table report, it was entirely focused on school libraries. We picked one person from our little group to report out and share our discussion, focused on what school libraries can do for students and the potential impact on academic achievement.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">There was also a "discussion note-taking sheet" which will be collected and compiled with these three questions, to which we all wrote school library talking points (<b>Hint</b>: the OASL policy memo has some
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Most of the presentation is a history of ESSA and the timeline to bring everyone up to date. ODE is happy about the possibility of having more flexibility, ODE also talked about a "well-rounded education"
and "evidence based" strategies - a perfect entry point for talking about the power of school libraries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:red">Spread the word!</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> Here's a tweet from ODE from the southern Oregon meeting - they're really listening! I retweeted it and added two more hashtags - #ESSAlibraries
which helps the American Library Association track ESSA activities and #ESSAOASL which helps OASL track our ESSA activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Jennifer McKenzie, the amazing teacher librarian at South Medford High School, brought pom-poms to the meeting to remind us all that we need to be cheerleaders for school libraries - which inspired this tweet
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">So be a cheerleader for school libraries - with or without pom-poms - and share what you know: that high-quality
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