Advocacy matters. Please take advantage of the tools below (and so many others out there) and personalize your campaign with your partners and stakeholders (parents, teachers, community, administrators, and students). Add your own testimonials, reports, media, and data to make these documents align with your audience(s):
- reach out to legislators to request support AND thank them for what they do and have done at ONLINE ADVOCACY CENTER
- great article in this month’s SLJ Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical difference in boosting student achievement
- collection of infographics to use for your partners, presentations, and reports
- recent article from SU iSchool “Save the School Libraries“
- AASL Crisis Tool kit
- NYLA ADVOCACY TOOLS
- Letter being sent from NYLA/SSL to your Board of Education this week
- Brochure being sent with the letter to your Board of Education this from NYLA/SSL this week
- book written by our own NYLA-SSL members Make a Big Impact at Your School Board Meeting
- Join our FACEBOOK page to share/receive news/updates
- Instructional Leadership Tools from our webpage (rubrics, IFC, etc)
- follow @nyla_ssl on Twitter (and others outside of libraries to increase connections)
We know these are difficult times. Please reach out to Sue Kowalski at kowalski423@yahoo.com or via NYLA at director@nyla.org or cgermain@albany.edu for additional support.