Welcome to the All Staff Session

Please sit with someone you don’t yet know

Focus for the Day

• Get to know each other better, fun while learning

• Turning Outward – idea and tool• Innovation Space – using the tool to learn

from and improve our work

Getting to know new people (3 rounds)

Someone you don’t know - 10 minutes per round

What is your role at ALA? What animal or plant do you think is a good

metaphor for the work you do? Why?

Turning Outward

Literally the direction you are facing as you make decisions!

Turning Outward

Turn Quiz

Turning Outward

Turn Quiz individually (5) and at tables (30)–What do I make of my results? –Where did we have differences in our

answers and what is that telling us?–What are the implications for our

work?

Innovation Space and Turning Outward

Innovation Space and Turning Outward

Making ALA More Welcoming

Getting Started Communities Defined Turning Outward One ALA Turning Outward: More Integrated

Making ALA More Welcoming: Employee Onboarding Survey

How Did We Get Here?

Survey Purpose Target Audience Learnings Next Steps

Strengthen relationship between AASL National and State Affiliates

Timeline Event

June 2014 New Strategic Plan- Goal: Grow and strengthen AASL’s community- specifically the relationship with state affiliates

MW 2015 Facilitated Harwood Exercise: Asking the state affiliates what their aspirations were for the affiliate assembly

Annual 2015 Leadership Conference- content developed from MW Harwood material

MW 2016 New Affiliate Assembly structure developed- to include an aspiration exercise

Annual 2016 Continued “mini” Leadership Conference and follow-up Harwood exercise based on MW15 outcomes

Strengthen relationship between AASL National and State Affiliates

Outcomes:1) AASL and Affiliate become stronger2) Leaders will rise faster3) Concerns will be addressed earlier and have greater impact.

MOST IMPORTANT: As Affiliates are given additional tools and resources (they ask for through their ‘aspirations’) the services they offer to school librarians within their state expands and AASL’s mission to empower leaders to transform teaching and learning is met.

Innovation Space and Turning Outward

• Post lunch – sit in tables by team • Confirm the topic for your innovation space• Use the questions to guide you

Innovation Space and Turning Outward

• Post lunch – sit in tables by team • Confirm the topic for your innovation space• Use the questions to guide you

It’s time for your Innovation Space

Sit in units / teams

World Café - Innovation Space

Sit in mixed groups

What did we learn through doing our Innovation Space?

(May be content that surprised you or something about the experience itself.)

World Café - Innovation Space

What do we want to harvest as a large group from this Innovation Space experience?

(Capture 2 ideas from this round on the recording sheet.)

The 3 A’s Accountability and Personal Reflection time