Greetings!

I hope the start of you school year has been as smooth and successful as possible. Always, please reach out if you have any questions or need help with anything. james.allen@education.ky.gov or Let's book a time to chat.

Please check out the updates below!

Professional Learning 

Next week! It feels impossible that the AASL conference is already here. I hope I will see many of you next week in St. Louis. A couple of things...

First. Collaborative notes are my favorite (mostly because I take terrible notes, but also because we can share with our friends not in St. Louis.) Here is a link to a Google Doc for us to share our favorite takeaways. Shortened version: readwhatyouwant.com/AASL25. 

Second... If you ARE GOING to St. Louis, this doc is for you to share your phone number, email, or other method to contact you. I'll use this to help us coordinate a photo at some point, but it's also handy to have some contacts if you need a dining partner or need help at some point. 

Please help me identify key metrics you'd like to see in statewide data for Kentucky public school libraries. My goal is to recreate the system we use for collecting "digital readiness." Your CIO completes this annually and provides data on staffing, instructional devices, and other relevant information. 

We utilize a data dashboard to facilitate the discovery of context and connections between data points. A connected goal is to have a Library Readiness Dashboard that you can access to see averaged (anonymous) information about our Kentucky school libraries. It's going to be AWESOME! Here is the form again. (It will ask you to be logged in to the Google.)