Sign Up for AASL's One-Day Empowering 21st Century Learners Institute
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By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 05/17/2010
Do you have the tools to ensure that your students become 21st century learners? If you’re in need of some more help, sign up for a one-day professional development course entitled, “Empowering 21st Century Learners: P21 Framework and AASL Learning Standards,” a licensed institute that’s available starting this summer.
Sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Capstone Publishers, the institute is designed to help school librarians understand how AASL’s "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" and the framework of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) are aligned and how they’re different, as well as how they can be easily integrated into a school or district's current and future practices.
“Empowering 21st Century Learners" will also address how the learning standards can empower students and what skills students will need to succeed in the future. Attendees will leave the institute with a customized plan of action to implement 21st century skills into their school or district’s curriculum.
“Capstone recognizes the valuable role librarians play in our schools,” says the company’s CEO Tom Ahern. Capstone will cover half the cost of the institute for 14 groups chosen by AASL. “We are honored to partner with AASL to support this innovative program which gives librarians the tools they need to prepare students for a successful future.”
AASL is a P21 member organization and a P21 professional development affiliate. The institute’s presenters received training on the P21 framework and have extensive knowledge of AASL's learning standards.
The institute will be offered July 12 to September 3; October 4 to December 10; and February 7 to April 29. Applications must be received by June 11 for the first seies of institutes, and special consideration will be given to applicants from an AASL affiliate organization or P21 leadership states. AASL affiliate organizations, school districts, and intermediate service units are encouraged to apply.
Learning4Life™ (L4L) is AASL’s national implementation plan created to support states, school systems, and individual schools preparing to implement the "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" and "Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs."
