Hello BAISL,
I am really excited to give you a run down of next Friday's meeting at
the Urban School of San Francisco! If you haven't RSVP'd yet, please do
so here [1]. Light breakfast will be available by 8:45am and we will
start at 9am.
In the morning we will be joined by Clara Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief of
Mother Jones [2], for a roundtable on the search for truth in journalism
and how we as educators and librarians can make sure we are developing
skills in our students that will help them discern truth from fiction. I
will have some questions prepared to get us started, but come with your
questions and be ready to share your experiences. Thank you, Elsa
Townsend of Children's Day School, for getting Clara to come talk to us.
This is a great honor and opportunity! Mother Jones recently won two
National Magazine Awards--one for Magazine of the Year and the other for
reporting in this series on private prisons [3].
After the roundtable we will move into small groups to talk about how
the recent election has come into our work as librarians, what that
looks like for different grade levels, and what an ideal scope and
sequence for media and political literacy might look like.
In the afternoon we will be joined via videoconferencing by Kevin Coon,
our OverDrive rep. We will have the chance to see what a shared
OverDrive collection looks like and he will try to answer any questions
we have. Thank you, Eric Mahollitz of Salesian College Prep, for
bringing us this great offer!
We will also take some time for our usual business meeting.
Details about directions and parking are forthcoming from our host,
Sarah Levin.
See you on March 10th!
Best,
Nicole Hunter
Librarian, San Francisco University High School
President-elect, Bay Area Independent School Librarians
Links:
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[1] https://baisl.wildapricot.org/event-2442747
[2] http://www.motherjones.com/about
[3]
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer
