Description:Kids and teams

[Charles White <CHASWHITE@DELPHI.COM>]

On Dec 27 Marjorie Pappas expressed a hope that the AASL Vision Committee
for the guidelines Revision "Information Power" were monitoring this
discussion on the librarian job description..
 "I hear some of you raising the issue of technology teams . . . teams of
people . . . computer teacher, technicians, clerks, technology coordinators,
and information specialists (librarians).  I do not think we can do it all
any more and yet I see too many situations where there are power struggles
going on among those folks mentioned above.  I think we stand to lose unless
we can build partnerships."
  I have been raising the fire on partnerships, collaboration, expanding the
team approach for several conferences (ALA and AECT) in the hope that the
AASL AND AECT leadership would look out to those other Team Associations.
By focusing on only the curriculum reform groups, or the software curriculum
associations and ignoring the bridges we have professionally constructed
over the decades, we are doomed to failure in Information Power revision.
   Mike Eisenberg has a vision in his message which we all need to send to
our non LM_NET readers. Use the Listservs, fax or snail mail and write to
the state representatives of our national affiliates before their upcoming
annual conferences. There are Affiliate Assembly "grass roots" members who
prepare resolutions at these conferences. The resolutions are sent to the
national association boards for their action. Over the recent years, the
issues were White House Conference and Legislation for KIDS. Now that ESEA