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TL11.4FALL2004_singles ONTARIO SCHOOL LIBRARY port a nearby ceremony and managed to speak with Minister Kennedy for about 10 minutes about our con- cerns. He not only agreed to meet with us, but he said he would sup- port National School Library Day. Subsequent to this, both Dave Levac and I wrote follow-up letters requesting the formal meeting. I received a letter from the Minister's office, indicating that our request has been received and will be reviewed shortly, and more recently, a phone call from his scheduler who said that he will schedule an appearance to sup- port National School Library Day. Unfortunately, this did not happen. We will continue our efforts to meet with Minister Kennedy through the Ontario Coaltion for School Libraries, and turn our focus to building advocacy with evidence in our libraries. School Library Program and Student Achievement Session with Ross Todd The Education Institute offered a two-day workshop for school library leaders on November 18 and 19. The focus was on how to develop an action plan for collect- ing evidence of the value of school library program currently being offered in Ontario schools. Although teacher-librarians make a huge difference in student learning outcomes, we continue to struggle with how to show this to the pub- lic. Our advocacy needs to include evidence. From now until February, provincial school lead- ers who attended the workshop will work on a train-the-trainer- style program to develop evidence- based practice in school libraries across the province. OSLA will be working on developing instruction and samples of this procedure. The second part of this workshop will be held in February, with Dr. David Loertscher, as part of Super Conference. National School Library Day National School Library Day was first announced by Roch Carrier, National Librarian of Canada, at the National School Library Summit in Ottawa in June, 2003. This year it was held on October 25, with the theme being Linking Libraries, Literacy and Learning. Members across the province joined colleagues across Canada and organized a wide range of activities designed to celebrate and heighten awareness of the school library program. Many held author visits, created displays, ur library® held a board-wide reading day, or organized other events that were showcased by their local media. Super Conference This year's conference is shaping up to be spectacular. Your plan- ning team, Carol Koechlin, Diana Knight and Michael Rosettis, have helped put together another dynamic set of speakers and ses- sions. The theme is Amazing Stories and the catchphrase is "Meet Me at the Oasis". Register now. Don't miss what continues to be probably the very best profes- sional development and network- ing opportunity of the year. Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 7-12 As you know, Think Literacy was written in 2003 by a writing team commissioned by the Expert Panel on Students at Risk to support teachers with approaches to teach- ing reading, writing and communi- cations. Last summer, subject experts wrote additional subject- specific examples to assist teach- ers. OSLA submitted two propos- als, one of which was accepted and has now been developed by Carol Koechlin, with Diana Knight, and Rose Dodgson, and reviewed by Esther Rosenfeld. Contents The Teaching Librarian volume 12, no. 1 41