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=Thank you for inviting me to visit Texas and get acquainted with the incredible members of TSLA! Below are the resources I mentioned at the Saturday morning breakfast--and more. My hope is that you are ready to be activist librarians! ESEA reauthorization needs our support now to add school librarians to the former NCLB. Those resources are on a separate page.= = = =Please add resources that will help Texas librarians be active more easily--Sara Kelly Johns= = = =// **NEW! Position paper from Ross Todd and Carol Gordon from CISSL.** //=

==It cites five decades of research proving that school libraries help boost student achievement: //School Libraries, Now More than Ever//. Download it from: @http://cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/index.html ==

**//from AASL://**

 * **Advocacy Toolkit ready-to-use tools to conduct an advocacy campaign--large or small--for school library media programs. **


 * **Health and Wellness Toolkit** // provides resources to help you build stakeholder support and true advocacy, before any crisis. //


 * //** Crisis Toolkit ** to assist you as you build meaningful and effective support for saving your program in a crisis situation.. //


 * //** Parent Outreach Toolkit ** to help school library media specialists gain parent support in their programs. //


 * //** Instructional Classification Toolkit ** to support the classification of SLMSs as educators. //

//**from ALA:**//

 * **LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER- direct link to contact your Senator: []**


 * **3.0 Where School Is Cool! Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit** includes definitions, strategies, worksheets and checklists, and recommendations for specific activities..


 * **Add It Up** Research and statistics to help advocates make the case for libraries at every stage of youth development and education.


 * **Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit** includes talking points, outreach activities, checklists, and resources.


 * **School Library Funding Press Kit** includes links to Google Map of library cuts, current news/articles, tweets, etc., plus talking points to use.


 * **State of America's Libraries Report 2010:** School Libraries.


 * ** Value of Libraries. Includes links to articles, resources, and calculation tables. **


 * **YALSA's Legislative Advocacy Guide** This PDF explains why advocacy is important and how to take action.