Brainstorming+(Ideas+and+Proposals)

AASL Grant:
http://tinyurl.com/AASL-CSLF-Grant

Donor level premiums:
Base: welcome letter (hadwritten on CafePress card?), donor card level 2: AND flashdrive with student posters and ?? level 3: AND illustrator''s poster level 4: AND illustrator's poster that is signed Membership committee's ideas:

CTAP/County Office of Education Points:
TL expertise: Common Core (especially literacies, research, technology), instruction (basic teaching credential), resource-based learning, collaborative learning, inquiry-based and constructivist learning, cross-curricular/interdisciplinary curriculum and instructional design Special Class Authorization State and federal mandates for digital literacy/safety/citizenship County could have a TL coordinate info/digital literacy curriculum/lessons/resources AND PD -- and work with CTAP

George Pilling's stories as podcasts author and illustrator webinars TL-led workshops for parents in bookstores in trade for book coupons
 * Benefits for members and TLs at large:**

12/29/2012 - Proposal to collaborate with and potentially sponsor School Library MouseSquads. Proposed by Jackie Siminitus
Some of our members participate in MouseSquad. I recommend that in 2013 the Foundation consider sponsoring ($500/school) MouseSquads where members lead a squad or would like to lead a squad.

FYI: Today, I started with my middle school's first Mouse Squad after school club in the library. Students first were asked to get into groups of three and view the introductory video on __ [] __. I encourage each of you to take time to view it and to also look at the certifications (online modules) that lead to badges. You will see how, over time, students will acquire a nice resume to go along with the skills they learn.

Although the new middle school group will meet once a week in the afternoon, students will be welcome to work through the lessons in the library before school, when I am there. Our school decided that ESL students be offered the after school program. Right now, there are 12 boys and one girl. I've alerted the principal that we need more than one girl, so hopefully that will happen.

Two of the top interests of the students are animation and video production, projects that they will get only after learning the basics and becoming a real team. I mention this to you because MouseSquad after school programs, especially those lead by a teacher librarian, can be a win-win for students and the CSL Foundation's mission of advocating for strong school libraries, especially access to them and digital literacy skills.

Guess I now have another volunteer gig in my retirement! Hope you will carefully consider how the Foundation and members could leverage a collaboration with MouseSquad.