The Gardens of the Desert
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8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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For more than 70 years, the Desert Botanical Garden has providing research, exhibits and more designed to help visitors understand, protect and preserve the desert’s natural beauty. During this half-day excursion, guests will discover the unique characteristics of desert plants from around the world. The tour focuses on desert plant biology, exploring the great diversity of form, texture and color found in this wondrous array of cacti and succulents. Attendees will also learn how desert plants are uniquely adapted to survive and thrive in a harsh desert environment and the amazing ways people use desert plants for food, tools, and shelter. The loop trail, part of the garden’s 140 acres, features outstanding displays and exhibits including the Sybil B. Harrington Cactus and Succulent Galleries and the Berlin Agave Yucca Forest. |
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Cultural Tour
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Joint Library and an Architectural Gem
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8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Betty Fairfax High School, located in Laveen, can only be described as an architectural gem. Truly a “WOW” space, this library is central to a school that has won an architectural award. This is a library that shouldn’t be missed.
Hamilton Public High School’s library is operated by the Chandler Public Library. Although programming serves the community of Chandler, this busy joint use library space caters to Hamilton High School students with lots of programming, including a Learning Lab, gaming events, and an Open Mic night. |
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School Tour
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Independent School of Distinction
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8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Setting foot on the Phoenix Country Day School campus for the first time, one cannot help but notice the beauty of the well-manicured grounds against the breathtaking backdrop of the Praying Monk and Camelback Mountain ranges.
Founded in 1960 by Mae Sue Talley and with other determined and forward-thinking citizens, Phoenix Country Day School has evolved into a distinct model of educational excellence, reflecting the unique culture of the region. PCDS students, under the guidance of an expert faculty and staff, compare to the best and brightest from any independent school in the country. |
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School Tour
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Investigate Your National School Library Standards for Learners
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Room: North 131 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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How do the new National School Library Standards transform student learning? While learner, school librarian, and school library standards are intentionally interdependent, we will concentrate on the learner standards by collaboratively engaging with the new structure, unpacking the shared foundations, and relating your learning to current practice and new opportunities. You will leave this session with a clear understanding of how to navigate the standards and how to begin connecting the elements of the AASL Standards Integrated Frameworks to powerful student learning. |
Speakers: Elizabeth Burns, Kate Lechtenberg, Jeanie Phillips, Jeanie Phillips, Kathleen Roberts
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Preconference Workshop
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Investigate Your National School Library Standards for School Libraries
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join us as we engage in design thinking to create a vision and develop strategies for innovative school library implementation of the AASL Standards Integrated Frameworks. What do standards-based school libraries look like? How do they align with the whole-school curriculum and mission? What do we create? How do we evaluate the impact of our efforts? How do we evolve it? How do we encourage buy-in as we revolutionize the foundation for learners and school librarians? How do we share it? |
Speakers: Susan Ballard, Deborah Rinio, Joyce Valenza, Sara Kelly Johns
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Preconference Workshop
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ESLS Research Symposium
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Room: North 224 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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The Educators of School Librarians Section (ESLS) of AASL presents its fifth research symposium at AASL national conference. As educators, scholars, and researchers, ESLS members create new knowledge about the school library field, impart that knowledge to the profession's newest members, and share that knowledge with practitioners in the field. This year’s symposium will focus on the new AASL National School Library Standards. |
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Preconference Workshop
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Phoenix Trolley Tour
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10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sit back and enjoy this two-hour journey through Downtown Phoenix's past and present culture and community. See entertainment and arts venues, professional sports stadiums, historic buildings and homes, fantastic public art, award-winning restaurants, the state capitol and monuments, and much more! Covering more than 20 miles, this fully narrated tour includes two full stops at local highlights. |
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Cultural Tour
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First Timer's Orientation
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Room: North 129 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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This event is especially designed for new AASL members and first-time attendees who want to learn how to get the most out of the AASL National Conference. This brown-bag event will have tables set for informal conversations between conference veterans and those new to AASL National Conference. AASL member leaders and other experienced conference-goers share helpful tips and strategies for navigating the event, making it a memorable and worthwhile experience. |
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Networking
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Developing New Standards for School Librarian Preparation Programs
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12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: North 224 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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With the release of the new National School Library Standards, AASL is also in the process of developing new standards for school librarian preparation programs that will shape the next generation of school librarians. In this session, you will get a preview of the broad preparation program standards being developed. The AASL/CAEP Coordinating Committee invites all school librarians and school library educators to join them in a discussion about what the new preparation program standards should include. |
Speakers: April Dawkins, Gail Dickinson, Barbara Ray, Kim Gangwish, Rebecca Pasco, Stephanie Jones
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Concurrent
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Authors in the Afternoon
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12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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AU400
Room: North Ballroom, Renaissance Phoenix Downtown
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Author Event
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"Back to the Future!" Reimagining School Libraries through the Alliance for Excellent Education’s "Future Ready Librarians” Framework
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Discover how Broward County Teacher Librarians are "Going Back to the Future" to transform their instructional practice and school library spaces. Jump on the "Fast Track" to "Future Ready" by sharing ideas and best practices through an interactive presentation designed to highlight school library success stories and empower teacher librarians to innovate, create, and support student centered, personalized learning. (*Flux Capacitor and Delorean time travel not required!) |
Lynne Oakvik
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Format:
IdeaLab
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A Fresh Set of Eyes: Student-Informed Design and Student Usability Studies
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1346
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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We conducted a usability study of our library’s online resource portal and were stunned by the results. Features and designs that were believed to be student-friendly were actually distracting or overlooked. By observing how students interacted with our resources and soliciting feedback, we improved the user experience and lessened and cognitive burdens on novice researchers. Find out how to conduct a usability study utilizing screencasts to record and analyze student interactions with your library’s resources. |
Speakers: Kristen Jacobson, John Casey
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Beyond Makerspaces and Robotics: School Librarians Teaching, Mentoring and Inspiring Young Innovators in Their Schools
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1350
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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The Young Innovators Project teams school librarians with university researchers, mentoring experts, technology specialists and organizations supporting the work of young innovators, to create guidelines, training and resources for teaching/learning, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation of young innovators in their schools. The team will share the many facets of the project's website, "The Innovation Destination," launched during the conference, and engage the audience in generating and sharing ideas for its use across the curriculum. |
Speakers: Ruth Small, Marilyn Arnone
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Beyond Reports + Annotations: Providing Alternate and Creative Access Points to Literature
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1339
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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To fully engage students in reading, we must provide alternate access points for making connections with literature and language besides simply having students write about it afterwards via reports, annotations, or written assessments. Come learn how three different projects were used after different novels and class texts to assess understanding of the reading, promote learner agency, and provide space for digital creativity. No boring assignments allowed! |
Julie Stivers
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Bienvenido a la biblioteca de la escuela
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1343
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Students who are English as a New Language learners make up approximately 5 million students across the United States. Nearly one in ten public school students are ENLs. Spanish is the largest language spoken but others include Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic. School librarians can play an important role in making a difference in the lives of ENLs. |
Diana Wendell
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Community Collaboration for Authentic Learning
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1155
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Authentic experiences provide great opportunities for learning. Beyond working for a grade, students are working to truly see the results of their work. This work can be real life examples in the classroom, but what if their work had visible results outside the classroom? Doing a collaborative project with community companies and organizations provides not only this opportunity, but the opportunity to experience what it’s like to do different jobs. |
Sue Prince
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Connecting the Dots in a 1:1 School
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1359
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Has your school gone 1:1? Are you struggling to get classes to visit the library like they used to? Come learn how a middle school librarian transformed her role by putting efforts into managing her online space using free tools. |
Heather Lister
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Design and Computational Thinking fits in the Library
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1351
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Inspiring students as independent agents, libraries are no longer spaces for consumable learning. Students, teachers, and administrators are using computational thinking to create solutions to problems. In three middle schools, teacher-librarians are bringing concepts into the learning space commonly found in STEAM, including Computer Science and Fab Labs. This allows all students to practice critical computational thinking through access and activity. Skills are honed through tinkering, creating, debugging and persevering to design. |
Speakers: Cynthia Johnson, Lorena Swetnam
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Ending Global Hunger through Service, Media Literacy and Global Education
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1361
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn how faculty in elementary, middle and high school lead students in an interdisciplinary study of the global issues of hunger and poverty and how to take action as part of the solution. Using research, reflective writing and technology, students examine geography and current events, as part of their globally-focused service project. New resources from Heifer International assist students in their research and response to the complex and intriguing issues of global development. |
Speakers: Jen Girten, Laurie Wodin
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IdeaLab
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Green Screening - Who, What, Why, & How?
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Who? Your students AND you What? An easy technology to merge a subject on camera with a different background to create a video or still image Why? Create engaging digital storytelling, transporting the storyteller anywhere in the real world or even to historical or fantasy worlds for project-based learning How? Use simple equipment and software on iOS, Chrome or Mac. You’ll see how easy it is, and create your own during our session! |
Speakers: Jane Lofton, Michelle Luhtala, Deborah Schiano
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Leading PLTW Launch
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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The Columbia Public Schools' systematic implementation of an elementary STEM curriculum is supported by our elementary library media programs. CPS elementary school librarians are trained Project Lead the Way Launch facilitators who co-teach PLTW and Engineering is Elementary units in conjunction with classroom teachers. PLTW Launch gives our students foundational engineering knowledge that can then be transferred into our library makerspaces. Join us to learn more about our successes and challenges along the way! |
Speakers: Kerry Townsend, Kristen Burkemper
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Let STEM Sprout!
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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See how hands-on STEM activities in the classroom or library can SPROUT: S (Stir up) P (participation with) R (real) O (objects for) U (unforgettable fun and) T (tinkering)! Learn how a public library brought a STEM program to 3rd-5th grade classrooms that uses examples, demonstrations, and student participation to show the fun side of science, technology, engineering, and math. |
Margaret Poska
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Makerspaces Unplugged! Low-Tech, No-Tech Makerspaces
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1358
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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While 3D printers and Raspberry Pi’s can be great additions to a library makerspace, they are far from necessary. This session will present ways to immerse your students in the maker movement with little to no technology. Even better - little cost! Come learn some specific examples of “unplugged” maker projects for primary and secondary students. |
Heather Lister
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Format:
IdeaLab
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One Number Equals Access - Charlotte-Mecklenburg School and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library Partnership
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1347
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn more about the partnership between Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library which allows all 150,000 students in pre-K to 12th grade across 170 schools to use their Student ID number to access and check out Library resources; granting access to a world of books and information! Hear how the partnership has grown, technical logistics, successes and challenges, and tips for building a strong partnership between public libraries and schools. |
Martha Yesowitch
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Planning and Participating in Maker Meetups: Opportunities for Advocacy and Professional Learning
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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What happens when you invite librarians, educators, administrators, parents, students, and community members to a maker meetup? Magic! Virtual PLN's are rewarding, but in-person meetups are priceless. Learn how to plan, advertise, and facilitate a maker meetup for opportunities to foster relationships among diverse educational stakeholders. Join us as you participate in a mini maker meetup. Walk away with new friends and a "make and take" activity to share at your next meetup. |
Speakers: Kristina Holzweiss, Barbara Johnson
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Process over Product: Guiding Student Research with OneNote
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1357
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you tired of research that has been “googled” and plagiarized? Do you wish students would use their research time more productively? Learn how to use OneNote’s many tools and add-ins to improve students’ research skills and provide continuing guidance throughout the research process. By shifting the emphasis to the process of research, teachers can guide students every step of the way and intervene early and often to steer their students towards conducting quality research. |
Polly Callahan
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Reinventing the Urban High School Library
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1332
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Urban high school libraries are rarely seen as welcoming environments that encourage technology. The librarians at Paschal High School, a Title I school in Fort Worth have been attempting to break library stereotypes. Successes and failures, programming, and tips and tricks to reinventing the library in an urban environment will be discussed. |
Speakers: Nicole Graham, Jennifer Stafford
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Send Student Projects Beyond the Horizon with a STEAM-Powered Showcase
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1338
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Take a ride with seasoned librarians and dynamic duo “Thelma and Louise” to plan a multipurpose school-wide STEAM Showcase, designed to enable students to demonstrate their projects, facilitate participation in hands-on activities, and include content area teachers in providing a display for their class projects. We will help participants understand the engineering connection to all three components, as well as how to create your own STEAM Showcase as a measure of program promotion and advocacy. |
Speakers: Michelle Wilson, Jennifer Anders
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Spark Imagination in the Library With STEM
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Would you like to start a Makerspace but your funds are limited or you aren't sure exactly where to start? This session will show how Indian Mills Memorial Middle School in Shamong, NJ implemented a new monthly STEM/STEAM Challenge in their Library. Participants will be given clear examples of challenges that can work for multiple grade levels and learning styles. |
Anastasia Hanneken
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Format:
IdeaLab
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The Librarian's 1:1 Survival Guide
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1344
Room: North 120 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join two librarians who lived to tell the tale of their first of 1:1 implementation as they share their successes and failures. Get tips on how to get teachers and students excited about integrating technology into their everyday school lives, and hear how you can use the 1:1 program to make your library even better than it already is. |
Speakers: Jennifer Stafford, Nicole Graham
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Format:
IdeaLab
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Opening General Session
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3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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Room: North 120 B-D, Phoenix Convention Center
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Jaime Casap evangelizes the power and potential of technology and the web as enabling and supporting tools in pursuit of promoting inquiry-driven project-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation and iteration into our education policies and practices. He speaks on education, technology, innovation, and generation z, at events around the world.
In addition to his role at Google, Jaime serves on a number of boards for organizations focused on education, innovation, and equity. He is on the Board of Inquiry Schools, Seed Spot NEXT, and Mi Familia Vota. He is part of the Phoenix Union School District Team, who created the Phoenix Coding Academy, an inquiry-based high school designed with computer science as the core language for all students. Jaime is also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University, where he teaches classes on policy, innovation, and leadership. Sponsored by Follett. |
Jaime Casap
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Format:
General Session
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Mackin Maker Movement Booth 715
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Heather Lister, Professional Learning Consultant and Makerspace Expert, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You’ll learn about different types of makerspaces and how each one fosters experimentation, invention, creation, and exploration. |
Speakers: Heather Lister, Heather Lister
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Exhibits Opening
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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Phoenix Convention Center
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Don't miss this opportunity to talk to exhibitors one-on-one about the latest products and services for school libraries (immediately following the opening general session with Jaime Casap). |
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MackinVIA User Demo Booth 715
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Sarah Searles, Library/Media Services for Knox County Schools. Attendees will learn about why Sarah’s district uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. |
Sarah Searles
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Nancy Jo Lambert, Librarian at Reedy High School in Frisco, TX. Attendees will learn about why Nancy Jo’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. |
Nancy Jo Lambert
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit booth 715 and join Mesa Heise, Mackin’s Director of Digital Services, to explore MackinVIA, the industry’s leading digital resource management system. Mesa will demonstrate how to use resources within MackinVIA and the variety of features available to enhance student learning. MackinVIA can be customized to meet educational needs in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital content. |
Mesa Heise
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit booth 715 and join Mesa Heise, Mackin’s Director of Digital Services, to explore MackinVIA, the industry’s leading digital resource management system. Mesa will demonstrate how to use resources within MackinVIA and the variety of features available to enhance student learning. MackinVIA can be customized to meet educational needs in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital content. |
Mesa Heise
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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OverDrive Demo Booth 209: How to maximize usage & effectively budget for your digital library
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Librarian Kate Street of Sunnyside Unified School District in Arizona will share best practices her district has embraced to eclipse 100,000 checkouts from its digital library and how they’re leveraging OverDrive’s expert staff to grow their collection. She’ll also discuss the effective budgeting processes the district has implemented to make the most of its eBook and audiobook funding.
Booth #209 on Thursday at 6:30pm! |
Kate Street
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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From Stories to Action: Inspiring Heroes for Our Own World (The Harry Potter Alliance)
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Room: Salon 3-4, Renaissance Phoenix Downtown
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Come to this interactive workshop to learn how to transfigure the pop culture passions of young people into real-world civic engagement. This special event is presented by The Harry Potter Alliance, a global non-profit that turns fans into heroes by drawing connections between popular media and real-world social issues. |
Format:
Networking
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Batman & Bill
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7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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Room: North 129 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join Marc Tyler Nobleman, author and self-described “pop culture archaeologist,” for a special screening of “Batman & Bill” a Hulu Original Documentary. Based on Nobleman’s non-fiction picture book, Bill the Boy Wonder, the film tells the story of Bill Finger who lived and died without any recognition for his creation of one of the most well-known superheroes of all time – Batman. Nobleman will introduce the film and lead a short discussion following the screening. |
Speakers: Marc Tyler Nobleman, Marc Tyler Nobleman
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Format:
Networking
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ISS Reception
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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ISS100
Room: Goldwater Room, Renaissance Phoenix Downtown
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Format:
Networking
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Unconference
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9:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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Room: South Ballroom, Renaissance Phoenix Downtown
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Meet and greet our new National School Library Standards, and each other, in this high-energy, participatory event. First, we’ll explore the new standards in a structured World Cafe format. We’ll ask big questions, develop ideas for implementation, and share collective discoveries. Following our initial explorations, participants will select topics of personal interest and collaboratively explore strategies relating to implementing standards in localized contexts. |
Format:
Networking
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How to Engage 21st Century Students with Digital Content (Vendor Program)
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7:00 AM - 7:50 AM
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Room: North 224 AB, Phoenix Convention Center
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A crash course in eBooks and audiobooks. Gain a deeper understanding of digital content in the present and future education landscape. Learn what you can and should expect from a digital content solution, including tailoring content to your unique needs, cost effectiveness, ease of use and support from selection to implementation and beyond. Learn best practices from Southwest Educational Development Center to successfully engage students as well as a Q&A session to conclude the presentation. RSVP at company.overdrive.com/AASL17. |
Speakers: Herb Miller, Chris Haught
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Vendor Program
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Standards General Session
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: North 120 B-D, Phoenix Convention Center
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AASL Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries: Be at the forefront of the journey as AASL sets new standards for students and the profession! Members of the AASL standards editorial board and implementation task force will present AASL’s remodeled standards in context with the library landscape and national educational movements. The committees will discuss how the new comprehensive standards for learners, school librarians, and school libraries were developed; walk through the main components of the document; provide an overview of the implementation plan; and highlight opportunities related to the AASL standards launch while you are in Phoenix. |
Format:
General Session
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MackinVIA User Demo Booth 715
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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to for a MackinVIA demonstration by Susan Gauthier, Director of Library Services for East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools. Attendees will learn about how Susan’s district uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. Susan will be presenting on Friday at 9:30am. |
Susan Gauthier
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Mackin Maker Movement Booth 715
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Ethan Heise, Director of MackinMaker Services, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You will learn about the Maker Movement in general, how MackinMaker can help you start or expand your makerspace, and gain practical applications and tips for establishing a successful makerspace program in your library. |
Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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TLC Booth 629: TLC's Premier MDM & Classroom Collaboration Tools Demo
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Please join Business Development Manager Mike Willis for a short demonstration of TLC’s premier MDM & classroom collaboration tools at Booth #629. All attendees will be entered to win a year’s subscription to ITS MARC or RDA Express! Drawing to be held Saturday, November 11 at noon. |
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Collaborate and Curate with the New National School Library Standards
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Connect with the C’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the traditional roles of collaboration and curation are evolving for library, librarian, and student through the Shared Foundations. Unpack the Collaborate and Curate standards with fellow attendees, consider current effective practice, and work together to construct creative solutions for our local learning communities. Participants will walk away with a crowdsourced and curated HyperDoc. |
Speakers: Sara Kelly Johns, Joyce Valenza, Kathy Mansfield, Deborah Rinio
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Format:
Concurrent
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Inquire and Include with the New National School Library Standards
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Investigate the I’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the Shared Foundations of Inquire and Include come alive for your learners. Join us for an interactive session to discover strategies and resources to implement the Inquire and Include standards, discuss school library practice, and commit to action steps. |
Speakers: Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kate Lechtenberg, Judy Deichman, Kathleen Roberts
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Format:
Concurrent
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Studying School Librarian OER Curation Practices
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn about an exciting new research effort being conducted by education non-profit, ISKME (iskme.org), and Florida State University School of Information, supported by a grant from IMLS. The project will be conducting case studies with school librarian leaders in five states to document OER (open educational resources) and digital curation practices and workflows, to identify how librarians can lead in all aspects of OER and digital resource use to align with district goals and fulfill student needs, and to further advance open digital resource collections. |
Marcia Mardis
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Format:
Concurrent
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Added Value: School Librarian as Data Leader
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1164
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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School librarians looking to increase their impact and relevance in school leadership will learn how to use data to aid learning teams in setting site goals, finding trends, and providing evidence for interventions and curriculum supports to greater impact student learning. |
Teresa Lansford
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Format:
Concurrent
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Build Your Own and Your Students’ Global Personal Learning Networks with Twitter
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1202
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn to use Twitter effectively as a key component of your personal learning network, to contribute and glean expertise in our field, as well as how it can engage students in personal learning, positive social media networking, building information/media literacy skills. Newcomers will get going on Twitter, and those already on will get tips to take best advantage of it for learning, networking, and teaching. Participate in a scavenger hunt and earn a digital badge! |
Speakers: Jane Lofton, Katie McNamara
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Format:
Concurrent
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Creating a Personalized Learning Environment with Badges and Problem Solving.
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1006
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Put children in the driver's seat of their own educational journey, by creating badges as sites to stop and explore along the way. Create a learning environment to nurture Future Ready students with Google Classroom and Digital Badging. Provide 24-7-365 access to learning, global perspectives and problem solving, innovation and exploration and most importantly differentiation and student choice in your classroom, all through a central dashboard! |
Barbara Johnson
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Format:
Concurrent
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Cultivating a Community of Readers: Literary Programming Ideas to Cajole, Challenge, and Engage Students
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1139
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Despite explosions in the electronic reading world, and emphasis on students developing 21st century skills, huge gaps in reading achievement exist among students. School Librarians are positioned to be the literacy leaders in our schools, bringing students to the skill that will sustain all of their education. This lively session will demonstrate how to create a community of readers by engaging and challenging students so that they develop into passionate, independent readers and learners. |
Annie Ruefle
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Format:
Concurrent
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Digiwise: Citizenship for the 21st Century
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1051
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are your 21st century students Digiwise? Move beyond the horizon to help them become future ready! Join this presentation for a look at digital citizenship resources and how you can use them to advocate for digital citizenship within your learning community! You’ll learn how to use a questioning process to analyze your media program while also exploring digital citizenship resources through a GooseChase scavenger hunt. Come prepared to participate in the fun! |
Speakers: Jennifer Siderius, April Wathen, Laura Hicks
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Format:
Concurrent
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From De-Silencing to Empowering Discussions about Race and Culture with Diverse Books
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1229
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Handing young people diverse books is a fine beginning, but what makes it empowering is meaningful, culturally relevant conversations about their literacy experience. How do facilitators deepen insights into these cultural journeys while feeling confident taking on difficult questions and considering their own roles and biases? Participants will learn to bring culture and race to the forefront of literary conversations, and acquire strategies to successfully facilitate authentic, contextualized discussions about race, culture, and diverse books. |
Speakers: Nick Glass, Heather Jankowski
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Format:
Concurrent
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Gear Up: Future Ready Collaboration
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1157
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you a Future Ready librarian? After reviewing the Future Ready Schools federal initiative, this session will provide practical tips and strategies for initiating collaboration in your building. This session is ideal for middle and high school librarians working on a flexible schedule. Presenters and participants will share what works in their libraries. Come to inspire and be inspired. |
Speakers: Amanda Hurley, Felica White
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Format:
Concurrent
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Innovation, Risk, Rebellion: Young Adult Fiction
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1370
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Change is inevitable and not always easy. For young adults; innovation, risk, and rebellion temper that change with a twist. In this panel; authors Alexandra Bracken, Daniel José Older, and Mindy McGinnis share how they create books with a voice so readers can relate to characters who overcome adversity in their own way. |
Moderator : Beth Frerking
Speakers: Alexandra Bracken, Daniel José Older, Mindy McGinnis
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Format:
Concurrent
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Leadership: Many Roles for School Librarians
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1105
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Hear from and interact with a panel of librarian advocates on the importance of leadership in the school library profession. Learn about how this leadership is being demonstrated in areas such as learning, literacy, advocacy, professional development, technology integration and intellectual freedom. Engage in a lively conversation with the presenters about your own leadership practices and future areas where you might lead alongside your colleagues. |
Speakers: Sharon Coatney, Violet Harada, Debbie Abilock, Helen Adams, Kristin Fontichiaro, Judi Moreillon, Deborah Levitov
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Format:
Concurrent
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Perfect Pairings: Teaching Visual Literacy Using Primary Source Pairings with the Caldecott, Newbery, & Coretta Scott King Book Award Titles
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1151
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore purposeful pairings of primary sources with the winners and honor titles of the Caldecott, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King ALA Book Awards from the past five years. Experience the power of primary source analysis and how it can enhance lessons, read-alouds, book groups, and displays for learners of all ages. Through the cultivation of visual literacy skills, students develop the ability to critically think about and engage with information in our image-based world. |
Joanna Marek
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Format:
Concurrent
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Picture This! Using Speed Drawing and Short Stories to Help Teens Think About Information Literacy
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1148
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you looking to help teens think differently and deeply about the meaning of information literacy? If so, check out this hands-on session and learn how to use drawing and short stories to do that. This presentation will help you challenge teens to read critically and think visually. We will work in small groups on a short story assignment and collaborative drawing assignment. |
Speakers: David Brier, Vickery Lebbin
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Format:
Concurrent
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Thinking Beyond the Library Walls: Building Community Partnerships and Flexible Space
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1064
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Looking for ways to take your library beyond the walls of tradition? Need some helpful tips to get you started? In this session we will discuss how to create a Future Ready library by building partnerships within the school and community you serve and redesigning your library to meet your needs. Attendees will hear examples of how to build these partnerships and have an opportunity to develop a visual plan of action to implement changes. |
Speakers: Viktoria Henderson, Erika Long
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Weeding for greater engagement - The one who retires with the most books does NOT win
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1062
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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The one who retires with the most books does NOT win! The one with the most engaging collection WINS! Part presentation and part collaboration this session will harness the collective experience in the room to brainstorm weeding and collection development strategies for school and public librarians. Why we need to weed. How to make it happen. Come join the discussion. |
Ann Morgester
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Format:
Concurrent
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Welcome to the Future: Building a FutureReady Program with Essential Questions
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10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
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1004
Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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What is the purpose of your library program? Why should administrators support that purpose? What does a FutureReady library program look like? By examining some essential questions about why our programs exist, how we impact student success, and what we are doing to deliver the outcome of a fully integrated library, a framework of quality will emerge to help us reach outside our silos and tell our stories. |
Speakers: Susan Grigsby, Lucy Santos Green
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Format:
Concurrent
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MackinVIA User Demo Booth 715
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Dhaivyd Hilgendorf, Media Specialist at Park Center High School in Brooklyn Park, MN. Attendees will learn about how Dhaivyd’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. Dhaivyd will be presenting on Friday at 10:30am. |
Dhaivyd Hilgendorf
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Lou Greco, Librarian at Gamble Rogers Middle School in St. Johns County, FL. Attendees will learn about how Lou’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. |
Louis Greco
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Explore and Engage with the New National School Library Standards
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore and Engage two of the Shared Foundations in the AASL National School Library Standards! Join us as we collectively examine the integrated frameworks of Explore and Engage, discuss how they connect to your current practice, and develop a plan for implementation of the new standards in your library program. |
Speakers: Ellen McNair, Elizabeth Burns, Susan Ballard, Jeanie Phillips
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Format:
Concurrent
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Inquire and Include with the New National School Library Standards
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Investigate the I’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the Shared Foundations of Inquire and Include come alive for your learners. Join us for an interactive session to discover strategies and resources to implement the Inquire and Include standards, discuss school library practice, and commit to action steps. |
Speakers: Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kate Lechtenberg, Judy Deichman, Kathleen Roberts
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Format:
Concurrent
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#futurereadylibs: Which Wedge Gives You the Edge?
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1234
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Wanna live on the edge? The Future Ready Librarians Framework helps librarians explore #connectiondevelopment by aligning their practices with strategic building and district work. Learn how each research-based ‘wedge’ of the FRL Framework can connect the priorities of district leaders with AASL standards or program guidelines. Find a wedge that will give you an edge as you work with administrators and teachers--curating digital resources, building instructional partnerships, or empowering students as creators. |
Speakers: Mark Ray, Shannon McClintock Miller
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Format:
Concurrent
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App-Smashing Green Screen BookTalks, Read-Alouds & Book Reviews
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1246
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn how to promote and encourage reading by teaching students to create video booktalks, book reviews, and read-alouds using iPads, green screens, a combination of apps, such as Green Screen DoInk, Tellagami, and a QR code app. Get ideas to add a maker twist to projects with hands-on creations! You can try it yourself if you bring your iPad loaded with the Greenscreen DoInk app to the session! |
Jenny Mischner
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Format:
Concurrent
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Biology and Book Trailers - Increasing Literacy, Learning, and Real World Connections in Science Classes
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1056
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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A school librarian and Science teacher share a collaborative lesson that has proved to be successful for high school students. The lesson incorporates excerpts of Science related books into weekly lessons and discussion that expand the Science curriculum with real world connections, primary sources, critical thinking skills, content literacy and student collaboration. Technology is utilized in the culminating collaborative student project creating book trailers to post and share as appropriate. |
Speakers: Dana Kepler, Jennifer Damti
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Format:
Concurrent
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Broadening Your Library's Horizons: Exploring the Physical and Virtual Spaces
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1281
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn the key aspects necessary to makeover, organize and manage your library to maximize its potential. Glean tips directly from a “Heart of America” grant recipient on the best aesthetic and ergonomic arrangement of the physical space. Overhaul your library’s online presence to utilize technology that is meaningful to support learning outcomes. Tips on how to manage both spaces will be provided, along with information on maximizing collaboration with faculty, administrators and community members. |
Speakers: Margaux DelGuidice-Calemmo, Rose Luna
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Format:
Concurrent
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Combating plagiarism: building digital citizenship
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1243
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Plagiarism has become an increasingly serious issue with the availability of information on the Internet. Rather than focus on detecting plagiarism, learn how to combat it using instructional strategies that worked in K-12 school libraries and college classrooms. Learn more about the reasons for why students plagiarize, how to address underlying problems, and advance digital citizenship by improving dispositions and behaviors. Attendees are invited to brainstorm ideas to implement similar strategies in their school settings. |
Speakers: Michael-Brian Ogawa, Patricia Louis, Carolyn Kirio, Jenny Yamamoto
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Format:
Concurrent
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Diversity in Collection Development-Surely we don't need this training. Don't call me Shirley!
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1011
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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Diversity in collection development is a project that is never finished. You will learn how to diversify your present collection in a way that better reflects today's global world.Find out how to use these diverse library materials to support your students, staff and the curriculum and standards. |
Nichole Bratsouleas-Urias
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Format:
Concurrent
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Don't get faked by the news!
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1072
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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News impacts us daily, but news might not be as true as it appears. Studies found that youth have difficulty distinguishing which online resources are credible. Researchers stated a strong need for curriculum focused on developing students’ civic online reasoning. This session addresses this need for student news media literacy, and provides news media curriculum and tools to incorporate to help their students improve their news media literacy. |
Lesley Farmer
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Format:
Concurrent
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Exploration into the AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1012
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Take time to experience some the sites awarded over the past nine years from The AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Committee. Make sure to attend this hands-on technology event to learn more and explore these winning websites in the fields of librarianship, education, and instruction! |
Speakers: Heather Moorefield-Lang, Jane Lofton
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Format:
Concurrent
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Ferry Master or Bridge Builder? Student-Empowered Teaching
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1131
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you a ferry or a bridge? Both take people across water. The ferry operator is in charge, releasing travelers from responsibility; a bridge puts travelers in complete control. Do you and your teachers carry students through learning, telling them when/how to do tasks? Do you deliver lectures or create structures to engage and empower students? Learn about K-12 strategies including problem-based, felt-need tasks; self-assessment; non-negotiable lessons; and optional small-group mini-lessons. Become a bridge builder! |
Tara Phethean
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Format:
Concurrent
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Gimme a C (for Collaboration!): A Toolkit for School and Public Library Collaboration
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1253
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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A Member of the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation will discuss the benefits of collaborating, the steps of a successful collaboration, with a sneak peek and feedback on the Collaboration Toolkit. Committee members will also share their favorite examples of successful school and public library partnerships, and session attendees will have the opportunity to do so as well. All will walk away with new ideas for successful collaborations in their library community! |
Allison Barney
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Format:
Concurrent
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Illustrations Make the Story
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1369
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Molly Idle, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Christian Robinson, Dan Santat, and David Shannon compose this outstanding author/illustrator panel. They will discuss the powerful impact that illustrations add to the words when telling a story. |
Moderator : Karen Perry
Speakers: Molly Idle, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Dan Santat, David Shannon, Christian Robinson
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Format:
Concurrent
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Teacher-Librarians: Oiling the Gears of the MakerSpace Movement
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1138
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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School libraries are at the forefront of the making movement. It's a wonderful and natural transition and teacher-librarians around the world are building it into their programs and spaces. Discover how the Ontario School Library Association and pivotal documents such as Together for Learning, the Canadian Library Association Standards, and the TALCO/OSLA Inquiry poster help provide making opportunities in schools of all shapes and sizes. |
Speakers: Alanna King, Diana Maliszewski
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Format:
Concurrent
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Technology + Reading Comprehension Strategies = Literacy Instruction Excellence!
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1084
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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This session will provide an overview of best practices in reading comprehension instruction. Interspersed throughout the discussion will be an introduction to current educational technology tools, all of which are freely available online. Presenters will demonstrate how to use this technology to teach specific comprehension-based lessons, and attendees will have the opportunity to use their personal technology devices to follow along with the demonstrated activities during the session. |
Speakers: Karen Reed, J. Megan Carlton
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Format:
Concurrent
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Three for One: Improving Literacy Skills, Developing Spatial Skills, Impacting STEM Achievement
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1149
Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Spatial skills not only impact STEM achievement, they impact reading achievement. Find out what the latest research suggests and what you can do to help your students...in particular, two underserved groups, low SES students and girls, stand to benefit the most. Simple, inexpensive interventions can reap huge rewards for your students over time. Join us in making a difference. |
Speakers: Linda Swarlis, Annie Ruefle
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Format:
Concurrent
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Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Using Narrative Non-Fiction in Your Library
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1167
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Take advantage of the new upswing in non-fiction. You will learn how to increase student and teacher engagement and knowledge by: -Discovering recent titles and how to market them, both in person and through technology -Using narrative non-fiction to teach information skills -Pairing non-fiction with fiction and primary sources to build reading skills and encourage students to continue thinking critically Because sometimes the truth is stranger (and more engaging) than fiction. |
Speakers: Elizabeth Bryden-Miller, Patricia Becker-Sabik
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Format:
Concurrent
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You’re Worth It, But How Do You Show It? Demonstrating Your Unique Value to Your School Administrators
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11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
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1102
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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You contribute value to your school, but, as a “doer” you might not articulate your value in helping administrators carry out their mission. Highlighting your worth isn’t bragging, but rather makes the case that you play an important role in helping teachers teach and students learn. Learn how to support the mission and culture of your school, determine your unique value, draft and deliver talking points, and take away a model and examples to use. |
Speakers: Mary Kay Biagini, Debra Kachel
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Format:
Concurrent
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit booth 715 and join Mesa Heise, Mackin’s Director of Digital Services, to explore MackinVIA, the industry’s leading digital resource management system. Mesa will demonstrate how to use resources within MackinVIA and the variety of features available to enhance student learning. MackinVIA can be customized to meet educational needs in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital content. |
Mesa Heise
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Exclusive Exhibit Time 1
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12:20 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Exclusive exhibit time is designed to give attendees the opportunity to roam the exhibit hall without missing other programming outside of the hall! Stop by all of the interesting vendor booths, visit the AASL MakerSpace or Escape Room, and hear from popular children's and YA authors at Authorpalooza! |
Format:
Exhibits
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Mackin Maker Movement Booth 715
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1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Heather Lister, Professional Learning Consultant and Makerspace Expert, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You’ll learn about different types of makerspaces and how each one fosters experimentation, invention, creation, and exploration. Heather will be presenting on Friday at 1:00pm. |
Speakers: Heather Lister, Heather Lister
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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OpenAthens Demo Booth 109
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1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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View a demo of OpenAthens, the easy to use, single sign-on system for librarians to manage student authentication. Integrates with G Suite for Education and virtual learning environments. See how OpenAthens seamlessly logs your students in to personal folders for downloading e-books or saving favourite resources. |
Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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OverDrive Demo Booth 209: Engaging K-8 in digital reading & leveraging title assignments
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1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Library Media Assistant Kathy Gray and Library Media Assistant Monica Sapp of Cucamonga School District (CA) will team up to explore their proven methods for keeping their K-8 students engaged with the digital library. They’ll also explain how they’re using the title assignment tool to provide access to titles that align with ELA units and how students and teachers are responding. |
Monica Sapp
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Rogue Bear Press Booth 243: Create Library Adventures
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1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Create Library Adventures - Captivate even reluctant young learners with activities that Engage, Instruct, and Inspire! Award-winning author/'edutainer' Jason Edwards will show you how - and even provide FREE materials to help you produce your own grand educational adventures! |
Jason Edwards
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Katie McNamara, Teacher Librarian at North High School in Bakersfield, CA. Attendees will learn about how Katie’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. Katie will be presenting on Friday at 1:30pm. |
Katie McNamara
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA User Demo Booth 715
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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Nancy Jo Lambert, Librarian at Reedy High School in Frisco, TX. Attendees will learn about why Nancy Jo’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. Nancy Jo will be presenting on Friday at 2:00pm. |
Nancy Jo Lambert
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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OverDrive Demo Booth 209: Getting the word out about your eBooks & audiobooks
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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Library Media Specialist Cindy Moyle of Utah’s Granite School District will highlight the creative ways she’s promoted the digital library to successfully increase circulation. If you’re looking for fresh ideas to excite your school community around reading, this is the session for you! |
Cindy Moyle
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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TLC Booth 629: TLC's Premier MDM & Classroom Collaboration Tools Demo
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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Please join Business Development Manager Mike Willis for a short demonstration of TLC’s premier MDM & classroom collaboration tools at Booth #629. Demonstrations to be held Friday, November 10th at 10 am & 2 pm and Saturday, November 11th at 10 am. All attendees will be entered to win a year’s subscription to ITS MARC or RDA Express! Drawing to be held Saturday, November 11 at noon. |
Speakers: Mike Willis, Mike Willis
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair for New Canaan Public Schools. Attendees will learn about how Michelle uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. |
Michelle Luhtala
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Collaborate and Curate with the New National School Library Standards
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Connect with the C’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the traditional roles of collaboration and curation are evolving for library, librarian, and student through the Shared Foundations. Unpack the Collaborate and Curate standards with fellow attendees, consider current effective practice, and work together to construct creative solutions for our local learning communities. Participants will walk away with a crowdsourced and curated HyperDoc. |
Speakers: Sara Kelly Johns, Joyce Valenza, Kathy Mansfield, Deborah Rinio
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Format:
Concurrent
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Explore and Engage with the New National School Library Standards
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore and Engage two of the Shared Foundations in the AASL National School Library Standards! Join us as we collectively examine the integrated frameworks of Explore and Engage, discuss how they connect to your current practice, and develop a plan for implementation of the new standards in your library program. |
Speakers: Ellen McNair, Elizabeth Burns, Susan Ballard, Jeanie Phillips
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Format:
Concurrent
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Advocacy Begins with Each of Us: Resources and Strategies to Foster Administrator and School Librarian Partnerships
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1123
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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The AASL Presidential Initiative Taskforce has curated high impact resources in an infographic that demonstrate to principals and other leaders the critical instructional role of school librarians in today’s schools. Participants will leave this interactive session with access to resources, advocacy strategies, and a plan of action to communicate the value of school librarians in ways that resonate with administrators. |
Speakers: Deborah Levitov, Priscille Dando, Michelle Folk, Audrey Church
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Format:
Concurrent
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Beyond Makerspaces: Become Mentor-Librarians to Aspiring Young Innovators in Your School
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1326
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Innovation requires effective questioning, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills, combined with imagination, passion, and perseverance. Young innovators, from both poor and affluent communities, need adult mentors to motivate and guide them. School librarians are perfectly positioned to fill this role. Through the use of a unique web resource, "The Innovation Destination," a team from the Young Innovators Project at Syracuse University will demonstrate key strategies that will help attendees become effective mentor-librarians in their schools. |
Speakers: Ruth Small, Marilyn Arnone, Lois Zachary
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Format:
Concurrent
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Beyond the Conference: Keeping the Momentum between Professional Development Experiences
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1153
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Back to life, back to reality! You spend the conference collaborating, networking, and learning. As it comes to a close, you are energized and excited to return home and implement the ideas. Then, life gets in the way. Learn how school librarians in one district came together to create a dynamic professional learning community. Attendees will leave with over a dozen strategies to keep inspired and spread the energy to other librarians in their district. |
Speakers: Dedra Van Gelder, Jacob Gerding, Polly Callahan, Bethany Thornton, Carmen Belanger, Sarah Gobe
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Format:
Concurrent
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Building a Reading Community: Speed Dating with Ideas You Can Use Tomorrow (a new idea every minute!)
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1268
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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We are all looking for ways to encourage reading, motivate readers, and promote libraries. Join this fast-paced session full of library sponsored reading motivation contests, games, events. While learning about the research and trends in reading, find out about ways to engage the library in successful, proven program you can to go home and implement immediately. Time will be provided for attendees to share their successful ideas with the group. |
Leslie Preddy
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Format:
Concurrent
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Collaborate for Powerful Teaching and Learning in History and Language Arts
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1087
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Librarian/teacher/author collaborations use primary sources and proven strategies to personalize and deepen understanding of content while strengthening information literacy skills. Through civil rights history and an overcoming adversity theme, learn techniques to help students formulate questions, focus inquiry, analyze photos, read for information, and direct their own learning to become effective users of information. Compare similarly themed F/NF to stimulate analytic and critical thinking skills. Handouts: Classroom ready lesson plans, discussion questions, and hands-on activities. |
Speakers: Nancy Noyes Silcox, Linda Mitchell
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Concurrent
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Fake News Frenzy: Recognizing Digtial Deception
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1042
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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How do we prepare students to navigate the world of online news? The answer is simple. Teach students to understand the difference between fact, fiction and to recognize when a source is not reliable, accurate, or authoritative. In the age of “post-truth,” “truthiness,” and downright false news sites, it more important than ever to give students the tools necessary to separate fact and fiction. Participants will leave the session with lesson plans for all levels. |
Speakers: Jennifer Sturge, Donna Mignardi
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Format:
Concurrent
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Grant Writing 101
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1054
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Discover ways to successfully obtain grant money to fund your innovative library ideas and projects. Learn how to research, find, and choose appropriate local, foundation, and government-related grants that improve chances for successful funding. Learn to match identified student and faculty needs to the funder’s priorities. Tips for best grant writing style will be shared as well as how to collect evidence and show how student learning has been impacted. |
Speakers: Debra Kachel, Christie Kaaland
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Format:
Concurrent
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Hidden Treasures in University Press Books
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1177
Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Current, curriculum aligned and accessible content for school library collections can hide in university press publications. These often overlooked gems might be right for inclusion in your collection. Once we select books together in this session it is off to marketing our new acquisitions. Leave this session with tools to choose your new university press books, marketing ideas and marketing templates and possibly a few new books. |
Annemarie Roscello
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Format:
Concurrent
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Moving Along the Stream- Adding Research to STEAM in the Library
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1135
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore how to connect research to STEAM in your library. Using the topics of electricity and coding as the starting point we completed a research project and got to 'play' with Squishy Circuits and Ozobots. This was an amazing learning experience for all. |
Loreli Stochaj
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Format:
Concurrent
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Our Story: Reaching new horizons, going beyond culture
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1119
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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English Language Learning teacher, school librarian, and storyteller will present an interactive workshop where attendees will learn: strategies for digital and oral storytelling, integration of digital tools for learning and self-reflection, storyboarding, and ways to collaborate to form cross-generational partnerships. We will provide work samples and discuss ways to help students feel comfortable sharing stories and cultures both orally and written; imperative skills in today’s interconnected world. This unit is adaptable to other content areas. |
Speakers: LaDawna Harrington, Rachael Harrington, Dana Tinajero
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Format:
Concurrent
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Picture Books: The Power of Story
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1373
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Picture books frequently have minimal text but that text is often a powerful story. Drew Daywalt, Adam Rex, and Judy Schachner talk about creating stories for picture books. |
Moderator : Susannah Richards
Speakers: Judy Schachner, Drew Daywalt, Adam Rex
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Format:
Concurrent
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The Power of Nonfiction Graphic Novels
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1196
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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As demonstrated by the John Lewis's March series, nonfiction graphic novels can tell powerful stories. In this session we will explore graphic novel conventions, examine how nonfiction graphic novels can support literacy strategies, and discuss visual literacy. Finally we will explore how students can use comic strip maker apps to explore and understand primary sources. |
Speakers: Ellen Pozzi, Yvonne Roux
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Format:
Concurrent
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Transforming Your Existing Lessons with a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Lens: A Hands-On Workshop
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1060
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) is a research-supported teaching and learning approach that focuses on including students’ cultural references as a way to engage diverse learners. Since CSP is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it can be difficult to know how to start integrating it into practice. In this workshop, presenters will share strategies participants can use to make existing curricula more powerful and effective. Participants will put their new knowledge into practice with guidance from presenters. |
Speakers: Casey Rawson, Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Kimberly Hirsh
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Format:
Concurrent
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Using OER to Lead STEM Literacy & Inquiry
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1088
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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Learn about school librarians working on the forefront of curating and creating OER in their schools. Drawing from established open education principles and learnings from the collaborative project, School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning, this session will engage participants in strategies for open content use and discovery of exemplary OER units created by school librarians and STEM teacher colleagues to build inquiry and literacy through the integration of informational texts into STEM teaching and learning. |
Amee Evans Godwin
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Format:
Concurrent
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Valuing the Team in the Middle School Research Process
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1170
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you looking for ways to enhance interdisciplinary teaching connections? Come learn about the transformation from what was a traditional research project to an 8th-grade capstone research-unit focused on human rights and social justice. We will discuss how collaboration among librarians, classroom faculty, and members of the outside community help to create an authentic research experience. Time to develop your own ideas and gain feedback from others will be included. |
Speakers: Kira Senedak, Callie DiSabato
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Format:
Concurrent
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Wrangle Up Interest in Librarian, Teacher and Administration Collaboration for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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1069
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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At The Willows Community School, a librarian, school administrator, and teachers collaborated to develop an information literacy skills program concentrating on Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The Willows librarian and administrator will discuss the development and successful implementation of the program and offer tips for implementation at other schools. Participants will work on designing a template for their own school's information literacy needs that can be shared with teachers and administrators. |
Speakers: Cathy Leverkus, Terri Baird
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Format:
Concurrent
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit booth 715 and join Mesa Heise, Mackin’s Director of Digital Services, to explore MackinVIA, the industry’s leading digital resource management system. Mesa will demonstrate how to use resources within MackinVIA and the variety of features available to enhance student learning. MackinVIA can be customized to meet educational needs in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital content. Mesa will present on Friday at 3:00pm. |
Mesa Heise
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Mackin Lit@Lunch Demo Booth 715
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to learn about Lit@Lunch, an exciting program using MackinVIA eBooks that was started by Deb Svec, Librarian at Palm Beach Gardens High School. Through Lit@Lunch, Deb’s high school students mentor elementary students to help develop a culture of proficient readers who will read not only for content, but for pleasure. Deb will be presenting on Friday at 3:30pm. |
Deborah Svec
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Exclusive Exhibit Time 2
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3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Exclusive exhibit time is designed to give attendees the opportunity to roam the exhibit hall without missing other programming outside of the hall! Stop by all of the interesting vendor booths, visit the AASL MakerSpace or Escape Room, and hear from popular children's and YA authors at Authorpalooza! |
Format:
Exhibits
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Mackin Maker Movement Booth 715
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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Heather Lister, Professional Learning Consultant and Makerspace Expert, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You’ll learn about different types of makerspaces and how each one fosters experimentation, invention, creation, and exploration. |
Heather Lister
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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OverDrive Demo Booth 209: What's new from OverDrive Education
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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join us to learn all about the unrivaled content and powerful features OverDrive Education offers to meet your students’ and educators’ unique reading and learning needs. We’ll also take a look at how schools are maximizing budget and resource allocation with Shared eBook and Audiobook Collections. And don’t miss out on the chance to hear about our all-new school reading app! |
Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Collaborate and Curate with the New National School Library Standards
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Connect with the C’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the traditional roles of collaboration and curation are evolving for library, librarian, and student through the Shared Foundations. Unpack the Collaborate and Curate standards with fellow attendees, consider current effective practice, and work together to construct creative solutions for our local learning communities. Participants will walk away with a crowdsourced and curated HyperDoc. |
Speakers: Sara Kelly Johns, Joyce Valenza, Kathy Mansfield, Deborah Rinio
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Format:
Concurrent
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Computational Thinking, Information Seeking in School Library Makerspaces, and School Librarians as Co-Teachers of Literacy: Research Papers from the Field of School Librarianship
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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This session, for school librarians, school administrators, and researchers, highlights some of the latest school library studies from around the nation. The three papers selected for 2017 by the Educators of School Librarians Section (ESLS) of AASL, serve as examples of quality research being conducted to improve school library practice and the preparation of school library professionals. These are:
Incorporating Computational Thinking into Library Graduate Course Goals and Objectives, Natalie Green Taylor, University of South Florida, Colette Drouillard, Valdosta State University, Jennifer Moore, Texas Woman's University & Marijke Visser, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy
Middle School Students' Information Seeking at a School Library Makerspace: An Exploratory Study, Xiaofeng Li, Rutgers University
School Librarians as Co-Teachers of Literacy: A Study of Librarian Perceptions and Knowledge in the Context of the Literacy Instruction Role, Karen Reed, Middle Tennessee State University & Eric Oslund, Middle Tennessee State University
Session moderated by ESLS Chair-Elect, Lucy Santos Green, University of South Carolina |
Moderator : Lucy Green
Speakers: Lucy Green, Natalie Green Taylor, Colette Drouillard, Colette Drouillard, Jennifer Moore, Marijke Visser, Marijke Visser, Xiaofeng Li, Xiaofeng Li, Karen Reed, Karen Reed, Eric Oslund
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Format:
Concurrent
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Inquire and Include with the New National School Library Standards
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Investigate the I’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the Shared Foundations of Inquire and Include come alive for your learners. Join us for an interactive session to discover strategies and resources to implement the Inquire and Include standards, discuss school library practice, and commit to action steps. |
Speakers: Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kate Lechtenberg, Judy Deichman, Kathleen Roberts
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Format:
Concurrent
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Don't be an Island: Create Your Library Group and Set Sail for Your New Community
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1190
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Come hear from a successful professional learning community of middle school librarians how we made our time together meaningful for all facets of our libraries including teacher collaboration, mentoring, serving special needs populations, promotion and marketing, physical space and funding, Leave with ideas you'll be excited to implement right away. If you're yearning to get off your "island", book passage with us and let's set sail! |
Speakers: Sara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Ranell Cox
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Format:
Concurrent
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Elementary Graphic Novels: Not just for Non-Readers
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1368
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are graphic novels a staple in your elementary library or just an afterthought? Jennifer L. Holm, Victoria Jamieson, Kevin McCloskey, and Judd Winick will talk about why graphic novels are for everyone and not just for non-readers. |
Moderator : Dan Santat
Speakers: Jennifer L. Holm, Victoria Jamieson, Kevin McCloskey, Judd Winick
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Format:
Concurrent
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Fiction Feud: A Book Bowl for Novel Nerds
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1295
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Tired of traditional book clubs? Try Fiction Feud: a Book Bowl for Novel Nerds. Support and promote literacy initiatives with a fun, new reading club and competition. Learn how five high school librarians conceived of and enacted a new intradistrict reading trivia program at their schools. Come learn and play Fiction Feud with us! |
Speakers: Tiffany Stephens, Sara Poinier, Tricia LaRue, Vicki Briner
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Format:
Concurrent
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Integrating Literacy Strategies using Primary Sources
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1223
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join us for a hands-on experience using resources from the Library of Congress. This session is based on lessons learned at the 2016 Library of Congress Summer Institute. Participants will learn how to incorporate primary sources into library or classroom curriculum focusing on critical thinking skills and literacy. Ready to use ideas and lessons will be shared! Primary sources can be incorporated into all content areas and are great for all levels of achievement. |
Speakers: Heather Balsley, Kendel Lively
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Format:
Concurrent
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Invisible No More: Meeting the Needs of Autism Spectrum Disorder Students in the School Library
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1122
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Autism Spectrum Disorder students are making up an increasing percentage of our school populations. This session will expose you to programming ideas and grant opportunities available to schools to help implement programming that targets students with ASD. Programming ideas include job skills, cooperative learning and the use of inflatable mascots (crazy, I know…but the science is there) to help ASD students interact with the community. Come think outside the box with us! |
Abby Cornelius
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Format:
Concurrent
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Library Crusaders: Converting Nonbelievers by Campaigning for your Library Program
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1107
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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School libraries are in the midst of a revolution. Technology is overtaking our environments and many school leaders are opting to cut library expenditures to fund technology initiatives. This session will arm school librarians with the tools needed to demonstrate the value added to an entire school community by a well funded school library. Presenters will share examples of best practices and provide participants with a guide for speaking the language of decision |
Speakers: Cheri Price, Ellen Lawrence, Kerrin Riley
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Format:
Concurrent
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Lunch in the Library - Creating a Maker Space
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1022
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Lunch in the Library - Creating a Maker Space This presentation will feature maker crafts requested & evaluated by students. Attendees will learn how to develop these programs, resources for funding AND explore hands on maker crafts. Discover strategies for student peer teaching of maker techniques & skills: featuring how to directions developed by students Examine student projects, rubrics & reflections about library maker projects: including recycle bird feeders & LED projects |
KE Hones
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Format:
Concurrent
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MakerSpace Your Literacy Program
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1078
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Some people worry that with the recent focus on school libraries as makerspaces, that the role of reading promotion and the love of literacy will be reduced. Why does it have to be either-or? This hands-on workshop will illustrate how to combine both, with a healthy helping of technology, to foster critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creation, innovation, and ingenuity in your learning commons. Come willing to read, make, and think! |
Speakers: Diana Maliszewski, Melanie Mulcaster
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Format:
Concurrent
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Painless Poetry: Promoting Poetry Reading through Poetry Writing
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1142
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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This program will emphasize hands-on poetry writing for attendees, using structured and formulaic approaches to writing poetry. This will be accompanied by PowerPoint examples and descriptions on how this approach has been used to foster creativity and a love of poetry in children, tweens, teens, and ESL young adults in schools and public libraries. Participants will be encouraged to share a few of the poems. Handouts will detail must-have poetry books and numerous online resources. |
Jill Work
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Format:
Concurrent
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Place Based Learning: Where Engagement Meets Inquiry!
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1079
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Discover how place based learning immerses students in investigations and initiatives that capitalize on their local heritages and cultures. Gain background information about how place based learning and inquiry frames foster curious learners and concerned citizens. Attendees are invited to brainstorm and share ideas about how this type of inquiry driven learning can connect classrooms, libraries, and communities in their own school settings. |
Speakers: Violet Harada, Patricia Louis, Audrey Okemura, Lori Chun
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Format:
Concurrent
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Promoting Civil Discourse and Competent Media Consumers in Grade 8 through the Lens of Race and Identity
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1124
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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After a tumultuous year at Boston Latin School around the issue of race, the librarian and 8th grade history teacher created a unit focusing on identity, race, and civil discourse. We selected a variety of media for students to analyze making connections between identity, stereotypes and individual world views. A variety of media, tools, and strategies from Facing History were integrated to ensure maximum student engagement, promote discussion, and build a foundation for continued discussions. |
Speakers: Deeth Ellis, Cate Arnold
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Format:
Concurrent
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Separating Fact from Fiction: Teaching Media Literacy in a World of Misinformation
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1274
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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In today’s world, everyone can be a publisher – but not all authors are equally credible or truthful. This hands-on session introduces tools for teachers to build their students’ media literacy skills and learn to authenticate, analyze and evaluate content from a variety of sources and platforms. Then, guided by a Wiki expert, participants will get a deep dive into decoding crowd-sourced websites and behind-the-scenes investigative tips for using Wikipedia for classwork and research. BYOD recommended. |
Speakers: Maggie Crawford, Andrew Lih
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Format:
Concurrent
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Small Steps Toward Big Advocacy: Partnerships that Highlight Library Awesomeness
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1331
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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Advocacy is no longer an optional component of a school librarian’s job. But how does one advocate for the library program and students when so many school librarians work in a department of one? Partnerships are critical to your advocacy success, and it’s likely that you’ve already laid the groundwork for them. In this session, hear about different models and learn how to cultivate your own partnerships that will increase support for the library program. |
Megan Cusick
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Format:
Concurrent
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Social Media for the Library
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1251
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Librarians have to be advocates for their libraries. Learn how to use various social media tools to tell the story of the learning taking place in your library. Learn how to use Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook effectively in your library. |
Nancy Jo Lambert
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Format:
Concurrent
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THE JANE ADDAMS BOOK AWARD: PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CHARACTERIZED
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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1053
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Searching for materials addressing the social issue concerns of a specific era, including our own? Need materials which promote social justice, equality, and personal responsibility? Ease the search via Jane Addams Children’s Book winning titles, receiving associated database instruction, collaborative lesson plans and discussion guides. |
Renee' Lyons
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Format:
Concurrent
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Conference Celebration
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Corona Ranch
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Calling all conference attendees! The conference celebration has been moved to Friday evening and it’s going to be fantastic. Grab your lasso and head to Corona Ranch, an authentic Phoenix treasure! Evening highlights include a mariachi band, rodeo entertainment featuring hilarious stunts by some familiar faces, homemade Mexican cuisine, signature cocktails, and dancing. Bus service will be available between the convention center and the Corona Ranch. Look for details on the event at registration! |
Format:
Special Event
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Author General Session & Signing
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8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
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Room: North 120 B-D, Phoenix Convention Center
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Jason Reynolds is crazy. About stories. Whenever he's not writing stories, he's sitting at his window waiting for the ice cream truck to roll by. But not so that he can run out to get a popsicle or a cone of soft-serve. But so that he can dance to the music. And he has a lot of reasons to dance. He's won a bunch of awards like, the Coretta Scott King Honor, the Walter Dean Myers Award, the Kirkus Award, and has been nominated for a National Book Award. See? Dance-worthy, right? But more importantly he dances because he knows you're reading.
So if you ever see him, sing the ice cream truck song and watch him bust out The Robot. Trust us, it's just as good as his books.
A signing will follow the session in the Exhibit Hall. Appearance made possible by Simon & Schuster. |
Jason Reynolds
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Format:
General Session
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 for a MackinVIA demonstration by Anastasia Hanneken, Librarian at Indian Mills Memorial School in Shamong, NJ. Attendees will learn about why Anastasia’s school uses MackinVIA, a FREE, award-winning digital management system that provides access to all your digital content in one place. |
Speakers: Anastasia Hanneken, Anastasia Hanneken
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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CLASS Notes: Causality: School Libraries and Student Success II
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join a panel of researchers from the IMLS-funded Causality: School Libraries and Student Success (CLASS) II project to hear about how findings from causal educational research, that meets the highest ESSA Standards, can be used by school librarians to impact student success. The research teams have been engaged in the initial phases of an ambitious research agenda to uncoer promising practices that can be replicated by school librarians who lead effective school libary programs. The panel will share progress on the research agenda along with key findings from the early phases. |
Speakers: Sue Kimmel, Marcia Mardis, Barbara Schultz-Jones, Lois Wine
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Format:
Concurrent
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Explore and Engage with the New National School Library Standards
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore and Engage two of the Shared Foundations in the AASL National School Library Standards! Join us as we collectively examine the integrated frameworks of Explore and Engage, discuss how they connect to your current practice, and develop a plan for implementation of the new standards in your library program. |
Speakers: Ellen McNair, Elizabeth Burns, Susan Ballard, Jeanie Phillips
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Format:
Concurrent
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Inquire and Include with the New National School Library Standards
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Investigate the I’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the Shared Foundations of Inquire and Include come alive for your learners. Join us for an interactive session to discover strategies and resources to implement the Inquire and Include standards, discuss school library practice, and commit to action steps. |
Speakers: Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Kate Lechtenberg, Judy Deichman, Kathleen Roberts
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Format:
Concurrent
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Cosplay MakerSpaces
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1040
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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You've heard the term "makerspace". Have you heard of "cosplay"? Often seen and admired at comic and anime conventions, cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game. Cosplayers often make their own outfits, so why not combine cosplay and makerspaces at school? This mother-daughter team will tell their tales of creating costumes and share potential ways to incorporate it into your established or emerging makerspace. |
Speakers: Diana Maliszewski, Mary Maliszewski
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Format:
Concurrent
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Creating Something from Nothing
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1201
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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When the L&N STEM Academy opened 6 years ago, the library media center was an empty room. The budget that normally would have been earmarked for an opening day collection and furnishings was reallocated to pay for Smart Boards, computers, and Apple TVs. Innovation and ingenuity led the day in establishing relationships and collaborations to create a library that would be attractive and useful to both the students and faculty. |
Rebekah Ellis
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Format:
Concurrent
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Empowering Intellectual Freedom Leaders
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1286
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Librarians can no longer hope that no one will be offended. As librarians and educators we must take a stand and declare, with passion, our support for the core values of our profession. By reviewing recent censorship cases and reporting tools, this session will embolden participants to stand up for the right to read and never let a book be removed from the hands of their students. |
Kristin Pekoll
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Format:
Concurrent
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How to Garner Support For Your School Library Program: Make the School Principal Your Ally
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1077
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Everyone needs an ally to be successful. For a school librarian, that person is the principal of the school. What he/she thinks about you and your school library shapes the perception for the entire school community. Our interactive session will share tried and true tips and propose strategies for you to try that will get the principal "on your side" and singing the praises of new and veteran school librarians alike. |
Speakers: Chris Swerling, Fran Zilonis
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Format:
Concurrent
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Makerspace Successes and Snags: 4 professors and 20 secondary librarians collaboratively strengthen learning through an extended Makerspace PD project
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1159
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Through a grant-funded project, four professors collaborated with 20 middle and high school librarians to strengthen instructional partnerships with content-area teachers through high- and low-tech makerspaces and integrated multiple literacies. Explore how this project empowered librarians to enhance networking with other librarians and administrators in supporting innovative learning in library makerspaces. Learn top strategies and resources for the librarians and how professional development and implementation could improve in the future. |
Speakers: Julie Stepp, Stephanie Wendt, Jennifer Meadows
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Format:
Concurrent
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Mirror, Mirror: Reaching All Readers
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1372
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Mirror, mirror, who do you see in your books? Hear from authors who put themselves into their work to engage all readers. Go beyond Diversity 101 - learn how to take action and become a partner in the conversation about meeting the needs of all readers. Authors include Bill Konigsberg, Irene Latham, Ellen Oh, Icy Smith, Charles Waters, and Carole Boston Weatherford. |
Moderator : Carole Boston Weatherford
Speakers: Bill Konigsberg, Irene Latham, Ellen Oh, Icy Smith, Charles Waters
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Format:
Concurrent
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Moving Beyond the Selfie: 21st Century Photography Skills to Improve Your Instruction
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1247
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Finding digital images on the Internet for student use can be an intimidating process for students and educators. In this session we will share some of the best sources of digital images out there, AND discuss innovative ways to use digital images in your visual literacy and information literacy instruction. We’ll also highlight simple tricks to vastly improve your students’ and your own photography skills alongside simple tools to showcase digital image projects. |
James Allen
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Concurrent
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New Mexico librarians take the bull by the horns: A statewide initiative to transform libraries
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1065
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Interested in gaining support for your state or region's libraries and tired of preaching to the choir? Come hear members of the planning committee for "Libraries Transform New Mexico: A Statewide Conference on Libraries", discuss lessons learned and final outcomes of the conference, including how to get key non-librarian decision-makers to attend and really listen and the next steps recommended by the focus groups conducted during the conference. |
Speakers: Marian Royal, Jackie Dean, Kim Barany
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Concurrent
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Redefining literacy: Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1057
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Why are our students struggling to work with digital tools if they spoke internet before they could walk? How can we prepare students for a world they're going to enter when we can't even imagine future challenges? The answer is to approach each learning task and learner knowing that they must transfer to the next wave of development. Strategies abound to approach our discomfort with an uncertain future. |
Speakers: Alanna King, Alanna King
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Concurrent
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Research Ready? Prove it! Using Digital Badges to Measure Information Fluency Competency
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1127
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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High school librarians must ensure information competencies of students before they head off to college. Digital badges used as part of a blended "Senior Research Qualifier" course measure and microcredential the information fluency of seniors before they can perform their senior capstone project. Learn how this course is organized, which skills are included, what assessments are used, and how badges work to help measure these critical skills. |
Brenda Boyer
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Format:
Concurrent
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Survey says: School librarians identifying stakeholders' needs
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1154
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Addressing the needs of students, and teachers is priority number one for school librarians, but how do you determine what those needs are? The One Question Survey format is ideal for soliciting quick feedback from any stakeholder group, and it can also be a fun way to engage students. Participants in this interactive session will create serious and playful one-question surveys and brainstorm ways to use and share results. |
Speakers: Maria Cahill, Amanda Hurley
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Concurrent
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What Type of Leader Are You?
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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1030
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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There are great leaders, good leaders, mediocre and bad ones. But even great ones are not the same kind of leader. Leaders fall into different archetypes and knowing which one(s) are yours will help you lead from your strengths. Combine that with being able to identify your administrator’s leadership archetype and you will be able to determine the best way to target your message and better position your library program. |
Hilda Weisburg
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Concurrent
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Mackin Maker Movement Booth 715
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Ethan Heise, Director of MackinMaker Services, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You will learn about the Maker Movement in general, how MackinMaker can help you start or expand your makerspace, and gain practical applications and tips for establishing a successful makerspace program in your library. Ethan will be presenting on Saturday at 10:00am. |
Speakers: Ethan Heise, Ethan Heise
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Mackin Maker Movement Demo Booth 715
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to join Heather Lister, Professional Learning Consultant and Makerspace Expert, for an overview of the maker movement and its potential in the school library. You’ll learn about different types of makerspaces and how each one fosters experimentation, invention, creation, and exploration. |
Heather Lister
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Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Collaborate and Curate with the New National School Library Standards
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Connect with the C’s in your National School Library Standards. Explore how the traditional roles of collaboration and curation are evolving for library, librarian, and student through the Shared Foundations. Unpack the Collaborate and Curate standards with fellow attendees, consider current effective practice, and work together to construct creative solutions for our local learning communities. Participants will walk away with a crowdsourced and curated HyperDoc. |
Speakers: Sara Kelly Johns, Joyce Valenza, Kathy Mansfield, Deborah Rinio
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Format:
Concurrent
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Explore and Engage with the New National School Library Standards
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Explore and Engage two of the Shared Foundations in the AASL National School Library Standards! Join us as we collectively examine the integrated frameworks of Explore and Engage, discuss how they connect to your current practice, and develop a plan for implementation of the new standards in your library program. |
Speakers: Ellen McNair, Elizabeth Burns, Susan Ballard, Jeanie Phillips
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Format:
Concurrent
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All History is Local: Making History Matter through Primary Sources
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1232
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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George Santayana said "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". This session is designed to help students learn from history and recognize the mistakes of the past. Participants will be introduced to a structured discussion technique for helping students analyze and interpret past events by examining multiple primary sources and to draw connections to current issues. Lesson plans, analysis templates, online resources and possible student inquiry projects will be provided. |
Cassandra Barnett
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Format:
Concurrent
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Beyond identifying fake news: providing effective media literacy PD to librarians, teachers, and parents
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1222
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Fake news has real-world consequences, but the fact is, most adults see themselves as much more media literate than they actually are. How can we provide effective coaching for teachers and librarians so that they are more able to assess their own levels of media literacy and can provide more authentic and productive lessons for their students? Engage in a series of collaborative table discussions and develop a PD exercise to take back with you. |
Speakers: Sedley Abercrombie, Susan Grigsby, Suzanna Panter, Erin Downey
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Format:
Concurrent
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Considering Evidence: Using Logical Fallacies and Close Reading to Build Critical Thinking
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1118
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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In this age of information proliferation and the menacing propagation of “fake news,” it more important than ever that students learn to evaluate information quality. We practice close reading for manipulative language that colors an argument and slants interpretation, and we explore the logical fallacy as a framework for teaching high school students how evidence can be used and misused. This interactive session will provide practical approaches to use with your students. |
Speakers: Jole Seroff, Tasha Bergson-Michelson
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Format:
Concurrent
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Data @ Your Fingertips: Formative Assessment for the School Library
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1165
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Data, data, data! Is your school administrator asking you for data? How can busy school librarians prove on a regular basis that they are having a positive impact on student achievement? Join us in this session and explore how to harness the power of formative assessment and technology. Five, free, formative assessment tools will be demonstrated. Attendees should bring a tablet or laptop and be ready to try out each assessment tool. |
Speakers: Rene Burress, Jenna Kammer
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DiscoVR Beyond Expeditions
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1207
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Go beyond expeditions and discoVR a whole new world. A world you can create. A world you can explain. A world for all to explore. Harness the power of 360 creation and make virtual reality interactive. App smash 360 tools for increased engagement and intriguing learning experiences. Enable students to not merely be consumers, but also creators of Virtual Reality. |
Katie McNamara
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Format:
Concurrent
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Innovative Activities for Teaching Nonfiction Reading and Writing
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1007
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Author-educator Melissa Stewart shares fun, practical ideas for helping K-5 students develop information literacy skills as they read award-winning nonfiction books and produce their own informational writing. Attendees will go home with creative ways to support the Common Core Reading Informational Text and Writing Standards as well as the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Lerner. |
Melissa Stewart
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Format:
Concurrent
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Leaders On the Horizon! Contributing and Growing as School Library Professionals
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1244
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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As you pursue your professional horizons, the expectation of leadership surrounds you as a school librarian. But what does this look like? Leadership may be volunteering for a task force, teaching your colleagues, writing an article, or even sending tweets. The school library profession needs an array of voices to grow and thrive—but it’s not always clear how to take part in the conversation. Learn how to shape reflective practice into valued professional contributions. |
Speakers: Carl Harvey, Rebecca Morris, Leslie Preddy
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Format:
Concurrent
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Literacies for Research: Teaching Students How to Research Successfully in a Digital Landscape
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1237
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Teaching students to accept that the easiest path is not always the best path, to read critically, analyze evidence, and challenge assumptions is thorny. Students directed to focus on ethical use, audience, and impact when publishing their learning often ignore those prescriptions. Yet students need digital, media, and global literacy, In this session, presenters will highlight effective and engaging instructional strategies to help learners master them. |
Speakers: Michelle Luhtala, Joyce Valenza, Jacquelyn Whiting, Shannon Miller
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Format:
Concurrent
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Magical Realism Fosters Imagination and Creativity in the Library and Beyond
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1052
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Do you hope to promote, encourage and foster critical thinking and creativity in your library? Visit this session to discover reader response, literature-based, and interdisciplinary activities appropriate to selected works of magical realism (grades 4-7). |
Renee' Lyons
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Format:
Concurrent
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Meeting a need: “Less Stress” resources to share
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1115
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Do you see students and colleagues who are feeling overly stressed? What about yourself? Our library staff worked with departments across the high school to gather and then share resources to help reduce stress. At this session, you will hear about the steps we followed, plus receive access to the many videos, apps and online articles that we have recommended to students, faculty and parents. Join us and take some deep breaths. |
Linda Straube
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Format:
Concurrent
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Reading on My Own! Beginning Reader Series
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1374
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Hear authors Dori Hillestad Butler, Richard Haynes, Fran Manushkin, and Megan McDonald describe their techniques in writing for beginning readers. Discover how authors develop series plotlines and characters. You’ll also learn about upcoming titles in their new and established series. |
Moderator : Mary Ann Scheuer
Speakers: Richard Haynes, Dori Hillestad Butler, Fran Manushkin, Megan McDonald
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Format:
Concurrent
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Research and Discovery: Synthesizing Information Literacy, Rhetoric Instruction and Critical Thinking in the High School Research Process
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1182
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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The research project is typically the English or social studies teacher’s greatest point of contact with the library, yet this period of collaboration is often limited and lacks continuity with the rest of the curriculum. Our yearlong curriculum integrates information literacy skills and rhetoric instruction and helps students use technology to conduct a pre-research process and to find an original argument, which is fundamental to authentic research. |
Speakers: Susan Peterson, Kurt Weiler
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Format:
Concurrent
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Shining a Spotlight: The Brown Bookshelf Salutes Great Books For Kids
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1047
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Looking for multicultural titles for kids? Celebrate a showcase of great books by black authors and illustrators. Join award-winning children’s book creators Don Tate, Gwendolyn Hooks, Kelly Starling Lyons and Tameka Fryer Brown as they share their publishing journeys, explore why diversity and advocacy matter and salute titles that have been featured over the past decade on the The Brown Bookshelf (www.thebrownbookshelf.com) blog. |
Speakers: Kelly Starling Lyons, Crystal Allen, Gwendolyn Hooks, Tameka Fryer Brown
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Format:
Concurrent
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Want Readers? Engage the Community! School and Public Libraries Collaborating to Reach Readers.
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10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
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1098
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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There is no better way to motivate students to learn and grow than to get their families involved! This session will provide examples of the successes of collaborative projects from an elementary school and public library. Together, they used social media, outreach programs, and fun events to engage the community in the reading lives of students. The result? A community that understands, engages in, and supports efforts to help their children become excellent readers. |
Speakers: Rita Platt, Martha Kaempffer
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Format:
Concurrent
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Lifelique Booth 937: Virtual reality in school libraries
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Lifeliqe in the “AASL Best Apps for Teaching & Learning” section (booth #937) to join Mark Andersen, Co-founder, as he discusses how students entering learning experiences in virtual reality. He will give insight into the six benefits realized by typical students, at-risk students and students in Title 1 schools. |
Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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MackinVIA Demo Booth 715
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit booth 715 and join Mesa Heise, Mackin’s Director of Digital Services, to explore MackinVIA, the industry’s leading digital resource management system. Mesa will demonstrate how to use resources within MackinVIA and the variety of features available to enhance student learning. MackinVIA can be customized to meet educational needs in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital content. |
Mesa Heise
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Mackin Lit@Lunch Demo Booth 715
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Visit Mackin at booth 715 to learn about Lit@Lunch, an exciting program using MackinVIA eBooks that was started by Deb Svec, Librarian at Palm Beach Gardens High School. Through Lit@Lunch, Deb’s high school students mentor elementary students to help develop a culture of proficient readers who will read not only for content, but for pleasure. Deb will be presenting on Saturday at 11:30am. |
Speakers: Deborah Svec, Deborah Svec
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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Exclusive Exhibit Time 3
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11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Exclusive exhibit time is designed to give attendees the opportunity to roam the exhibit hall without missing other programming outside of the hall! Stop by all of the interesting vendor booths, visit the AASL MakerSpace or Escape Room, and hear from popular children's and YA authors at Authorpalooza! |
Format:
Exhibits
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OverDrive Demo Booth 209: What's new from OverDrive Education
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Join us to learn all about the unrivaled content and powerful features OverDrive Education offers to meet your students’ and educators’ unique reading and learning needs. We’ll also take a look at how schools are maximizing budget and resource allocation with Shared eBook and Audiobook Collections. And don’t miss out on the chance to hear about our all-new school reading app! |
Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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TLC Booth 629: TLC's Premier MDM & Classroom Collaboration Tools Demo
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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Room: Exhibit Hall North D-E, Phoenix Convention Center
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Please join Business Development Manager Mike Willis for a short demonstration of TLC’s premier MDM & classroom collaboration tools at Booth #629. Demonstrations to be held Friday, November 10th at 10 am & 2 pm and Saturday, November 11th at 10 am. All attendees will be entered to win a year’s subscription to ITS MARC or RDA Express! Drawing to be held Saturday, November 11 at noon. |
Speakers: Mike Willis, Mike Willis
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Format:
Exhibitor Demonstrations
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A Summer Reading “Un-Program” in the School Library
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1280
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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Tired of having to administer someone else’s program to teach reading? Wishing you didn’t have to help students select books based solely on reading level? Then this session is for you! Get ideas on how to run a summer reading “Un-program” that encourages reading through individual choice of subject, format, level, and genre. From administering individual reading surveys to planning read-alouds and activities that engage students, this is not your typical “canned” summer reading program! |
Speakers: Jennifer Nitz, Cathy Smith
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Format:
Concurrent
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Big Picture Planning in Your Pocket: Use Hyper Resources and Tips from District Librarians to Plan Your Entire School Year
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1266
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Are you stuck in a cycle of reacting to never-ending daily demands? Do you secretly wonder if there’s an easier way to do a job-related task, but don’t have enough time to find out how? Imagine how much more productive you could be with a year’s worth of planning already done! Learn from District Librarians how to use “hyper” resources to plan out an entire school-year and embed all your important resources. |
Speakers: Regina Powers, Tamara Davis
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Format:
Concurrent
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Close Reading with Historical Newspapers
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1031
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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There is a wealth of information in historical newspapers, but it can be challenging for students to find and access the information on the page. This session will explore how students can find content in historical newspapers related to topics of study and how close reading and other historical analysis approaches can assist students in coming to an understanding of the text’s meaning in the newspaper and of the historical event being written about. |
Tom Bober
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Format:
Concurrent
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Connecting Fire: Using Pop Fiction and Classics to Connect to Real History and Current Events
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1152
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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What do popular young adult fiction, literary classics, and history have in common? The role of government powers, class structure, social injustices, diversity, and the concept of rights as citizens, of course! Collaboration between a classroom teacher and a media specialist resulted in hands on and digital activities that appealed to all students and demanded higher thinking order skills. |
Sarah Justice
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Format:
Concurrent
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Connecting to STEM: Science Books for Kids
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1367
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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This panel of nonfiction authors will discuss how to incorporate nonfiction books into your STEM curriculum. Melissa Stewart moderates the panel that includes Brooke Bessesen, Katherine Roy, and April Pulley Sayre. |
Moderator : Melissa Stewart
Speakers: Brooke Bessesen, Katherine Roy, April Pulley Sayre
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Format:
Concurrent
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Data Visualization Strategies For The Age of “Fake News”
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1178
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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In the era of “fake news,” how can students be better analysts and creators of infographics and visualizations? Simple strategies like, “Check the y-axis -- it may not start at zero!” have helped high school librarians and students make progress in engaging with visual information around them. We’ll share high-impact rules of thumb that can be inserted into existing information literacy lessons to improve critical thinking and comprehension. |
Speakers: Kristin Fontichiaro, Melissa P. Johnston, Tasha Bergson-Michelson, Jo Angela Oehrli, Tyler Hoff
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Format:
Concurrent
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Design Thinking in the School Library
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1099
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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How might we improve the user experience for students, teachers, parents, and community in our school libraries? Design Thinking is an iterative, people-focused approach to problem solving and innovation. Learn the five step process by engaging in an introductory Design Thinking project and learning the applications to educational design challenges in your school library. |
Brigeen Radoicich Houghton
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Format:
Concurrent
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How Can I Lead Beyond My Library?
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1261
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Vancouver (WA) Public Schools has been nationally recognized for systemically connecting librarians to innovative leadership. How do you translate leadership in the library to improve your school and district? Mark Ray and Traci Chun share stories, best practices, and lessons learned. What are the opportunities? How do you effectively lead and grow collaboration with teachers and administrators? Learn how to better lead, teach and support future ready learners in your district. |
Speakers: Mark Ray, Traci Chun
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Format:
Concurrent
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Is the truth out there? - teaching media literacy
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1204
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Fake news! Media bias! Coopted stories! Our students need to learn skills and concepts to navigate and anchor themselves in the constant pulse and flow of information. This session will present tools for librarians and teachers to incorporate in media literacy lessons to give students benchmarks to recognize bias, and spin, and to evaluate news based on an understanding of journalistic standards. |
Joan Tracy
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Format:
Concurrent
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Nurture a Culture of Creativity: Bring Poetry to Life in your Library
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1100
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Because the library is a unique space, librarians have the opportunity to foster collaboration by bringing students in to read and write poetry. By using poetry in day-to-day activities as well as during targeted programming, librarians can help students and teachers work through the stigma that poetry is inaccessible to modern audiences to find true joy. Ideas range from hosting a poetry cafe and a variety of poetry writing workshops, to celebrating poetic milestones. |
Rebecca Newland
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Format:
Concurrent
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Telling Their Stories through Graphic Novels - Views from Behind the Fence
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1314
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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This session describes a 2016 Will Eisner Innovation Grant Award project conducted at the Birchwood School in the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice. Incarcerated students wrote a graphic novel based on their gang experiences. Then, two graphic illustrators worked with the students to illustrate their story, an anti-gang tool. Participants will learn how to replicate this program on any topic at their schools, and how to apply for an ALA / Eisner grant. |
Speakers: Karen Gavigan, Susan McNair
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Format:
Concurrent
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The Mindful School Library: Creating Necessary Liminal Spaces for Student Learning
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1114
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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We'll share easy and inexpensive ways to streamline the look and feel of your space, prioritize access to the resources students use most, and invite new types of experiential learning opportunities to take place. Learn from the body of research from counseling about creating calming environments as well as the learning theories that call for the necessity of third spaces to promote higher order connections and analysis. |
Wendy Stephens
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Format:
Concurrent
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Untitled Leadership for the Unauthorized Revolution
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1120
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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If you're waiting for administrator permission to initiate lasting culture change in your organization, you're going to be waiting a very long time. Revolutionaries don't wait for permission, they move ahead in a way that invites collaboration instead of confrontation, becoming leaders even without titles or authority. Join the discussion and lean ways to make your vision happen--without a title, without explicit support, and without losing your job. |
Erin Downey
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Format:
Concurrent
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Vivid History: Making historical research meaningful and personal in the school library
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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1208
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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Students as published researchers? Yes, that’s possible! Participants will examine teacher produced lessons and resources from the American Battle Monuments Commission and examine the criteria for student publication of WWII research on silentheroes.org. Using teacher designed World War II cross-curricular lessons as a starting point, teacher librarians will learn how to direct authentic student research over a World War II silent hero, write and edit their research and submit for publication |
Amanda Kordeliski
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Format:
Concurrent
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Reflect, Recharge, Return: Planning for Beyond the Conference: AASL Standards Wrap-Up Session Room #1
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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Room: North 131 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Now that you’ve learned about the National School Library Standards, what’s next? Join members of the AASL Standards editorial board and implementation task force to reflect, ask questions, and plan your first action steps for bringing the standards alive in your home context. Come with your questions, concerns, and ideas, and be ready to engage in conversation with your colleagues as you create a plan for your library and community. |
Speakers: Marcia Mardis, Kate Lechtenberg, Kathleen Roberts, Joyce Valenza, Kathy Mansfield, Jeanie Phillips, Jeanie Phillips, Elizabeth Burns
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Format:
Concurrent
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Reflect, Recharge, Return: Planning for Beyond the Conference: AASL Standards Wrap-Up Session Room #2
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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Room: North 131 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Now that you’ve learned about the National School Library Standards, what’s next? Join members of the AASL Standards editorial board and implementation task force to reflect, ask questions, and plan your first action steps for bringing the standards alive in your home context. Come with your questions, concerns, and ideas, and be ready to engage in conversation with your colleagues as you create a plan for your library and community. |
Speakers: Mary Keeling, Mary Keeling, Kathryn Roots Lewis, Judy Deichman, Sara Kelly Johns, Deborah Rinio, Ellen McNair, Susan Ballard
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Format:
Concurrent
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The Write Stuff 2017 - Do's and Don'ts for Publishing Your Work
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1375
Room: North 128 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Moderator : Lucy Santos Green
Speakers: Melissa P. Johnston, Carl Harvey, Ann Ewbank, RoseMary Honnold, Melissa P. Johnston, Deborah Levitov, Marcia Mardis, Sarah Bayliss
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“You want us to think outside the box, I like it.” Student Engagement and Guided Inquiry Design.
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1276
Room: North 130, Phoenix Convention Center
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Student engagement is key to improving overall student achievement. Guided Inquiry Design (GID) is an effective, research-based model proven to help students become critical thinkers. This session will explore GID and its impact on collaboration, discuss what it looks like in practice, share ideas for shifting traditional research projects to inquiry-based, offer ideas for implementation, and see how alternative education students earned multiple-credits towards graduation through a Guided Inquiry Design unit of instruction. . |
Buffy Edwards
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Format:
Concurrent
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Addressing White Privilege and Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: Becoming an Ally
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1330
Room: North 121 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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Begin to explore how privilege and unconscious bias shape the classroom experience. This session will provide some insight into identifying how our personal identities impact the education experience for students of color. We will introduce ways to explore and challenge our social identities and become allies that contribute to the positive impact of student experiences. |
Speakers: Jody Gray, Gwendolyn Prellwitz
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Format:
Concurrent
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Beyond the Headlines, Behind the Clicks: Organizing a High School Media Awareness Week
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1179
Room: North 129 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Click bait, misleading headlines, false news sites: recently, we’ve been bombarded with dubious news sources that demand we question media trustworthiness. Come and learn how one school started a conversation about media literacy with a student-organized Media Awareness Week that included speakers, activities, and discussions about how to approach media with a critical eye. Attendees will leave with fresh ideas of how to organize a Media Awareness Week in their own schools. |
Sara Franks
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Format:
Concurrent
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Engaging Student Citizens In A Digital Age: Critical Civic Literacy and Ten Questions for Change Makers
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1174
Room: North 126 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Students in the digital age have access to exponentially increasing amounts of political information. Learn how school librarians can help students navigate this information explosion and encourage successful civic-political agency in a digital age. A high school’s critical civic literacy curriculum incorporated with the MacArthur Foundation’s “Ten Questions for Change Makers” is proposed as an example to bridge between theory and practice. Participants will discuss practical steps to infuse the framework into their own programs. |
Speakers: Sarah Levin, Chaebong Nam
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Format:
Concurrent
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From Futuring to Innovation
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1249
Room: North 131 C, Phoenix Convention Center
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In this interactive session, attendees will take some of the trend scanning from the Center for the Future of Libraries – as well as their own community insights and evidence – and consider a positive innovation for the future of libraries. This activity helps demonstrate how we can all use a futures-focused approach, with our commitment to library values, to help build the libraries of the future. |
Miguel Figueroa
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Format:
Concurrent
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How to Reimagine Your Library Space and Transform Student Learning
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1104
Room: North 122 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Many of our school libraries still look like they did fifty years ago. We need to be leaders in technology, pedagogy and space design in our schools and transform our library spaces to meet the needs of today's students. We'll discuss how to redesign and rethink the physical space of our libraries, including practical and budget-friendly changes that can be implemented right away. No matter where you're at, you'll get inspiration from this session. |
Diana Rendina
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Format:
Concurrent
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I See You: Cultivating Relationships to Grow Strong School Library Media Programs
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1055
Room: North 123, Phoenix Convention Center
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Which teachers like science fiction? Which students love graphic novels? Which parent would teach a German enrichment in the library? Answering these types of questions helps you better know your school community, support their needs, and cultivate relationships that build strong school library media programs. In this session, examples of relationship building and interactive activities will be shared, highlighting the ultimate impact on students. Attendees will reflect and record ideas to implement at their workplaces. |
Speakers: Deanna Harris, Kristen Ziller
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Format:
Concurrent
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Investing in Social Capital Counts
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1169
Room: North 132 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Investing in social capital brings leadership within your reach! To build an effective school library program that prepares students for college, career, and community, school librarians must be consummate collaborators. Understanding patterns of interaction and adult learning in your school is a first step. Participants in this hands-on session will think, create, share, and grow leadership strategies and leave the session with a plan for growing a culture of collaboration in their unique school settings. |
Judi Moreillon
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Format:
Concurrent
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Keeping 'Em Reading in Middle School: Books for Those Elusive 11-13-Year-Old Readers
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1371
Room: North 125 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Tweens and their peers feel they are the most knowledgeable about everything. They are changing physically and emotionally, and some days they want to be treated like adults, other days, they like the safety of childhood. Authors John David Anderson, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Jack Gantos, and Stuart Gibbs share the secrets of their success in scribing for this elusive group. |
Moderator : Rebecca Jackman
Speakers: John David Anderson, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Jack Gantos, Stuart Gibbs
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Format:
Concurrent
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Picture Books as Powerful Portals: Exploring Diversity & Building Empathy to Inspire Action
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1226
Room: North 124 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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Empathy is a core competency in the socio-emotional content of public and independent schools’ curricula. Empathy stems from the enduring understanding that each student is an individual with unique attributes and perspectives, some of which are visible and others are invisible. Books are portals--mirrors, windows, or doors--that provide the opportunity to transport children to special places both internally and externally and build empathy. This session explores the intersection of empathy and diverse literature. |
Speakers: Julie Esanu, Meghan Fatouros
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Format:
Concurrent
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Put your library on wheels: How to create and fund a Do-It-Yourself Summer Bookmobile
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1272
Room: North 127 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Want to help prevent the summer slide? Want to build community and increase reading motivation? Bring books to your students in your very own Do-It-Yourself Summer Bookmobile. Tips on how to create, fund, plan, and operate a DIY bookmobile will be shared. |
Leah Plumley
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Format:
Concurrent
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Someone Should Do Something, and I'm Someone: Empowering Leaders to Empower Learners
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1109
Room: North 122 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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"Someone should do something about that!" That's what we often think, when we're frustrated by what is (or isn't) happening in our schools. Here's the truth: YOU are someone, and YOU have the power to take action. Any librarian can be a leader; in fact, it's our professional imperative! This session will help librarians find their personal leadership styles and gain strategies to lead change and empower learning in their schools. |
Speakers: Sarah Searles, Stephanie Ham
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Format:
Concurrent
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TECH Squad: Student-Led Collaboration Technology Integration
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1095
Room: North 121 A-B, Phoenix Convention Center
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TECH Squad's curriculum guide can be used as a class or club to help students and teachers collaboratively support each other in the utilization of the newest technology. Bring together standards, intrinsic motivation, and badging to support building confidence in using technology in education that is beyond the basics. The curriculum guide can be altered and differentiated to meet the diverse needs of students and teachers while building a technology community. |
Kelly Arbuckle
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Format:
Concurrent
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Transform Teaching and Learning with Technology and Competency-Based Standards!
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1197
Room: North 124 B, Phoenix Convention Center
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Become an educational leader! Learn how school librarians can create and model opportunities to provide professional development for colleagues in their schools and districts that align with local, state, and national standards and initiatives. Explore and identify innovative technology that can transform teaching and learning, and enhances opportunities for personalized, student-centered learning. Take home shared documents and resources that will guide professional learning in your local district. |
Speakers: Deborah Ehler-Hansen, Judith Kaplan
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Format:
Concurrent
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Using Student Generated Questions to Shift Inquiry Practices Beyond the Horizon
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3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
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1041
Room: North 129 A, Phoenix Convention Center
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The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) offers a straightforward, step-by-step, rigorous process that blends effortlessly with your current inquiry practices. The QFT will motivate and challenge students to go beyond the horizon by using divergent and convergent thinking skills to formulate questions to guide their learning. Through examples presented in this session, you will see how the QFT can strengthen and enrich even the most ambitious teaching and curricular goals. |
Speakers: Lori Donovan, Lynne Bland
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Format:
Concurrent
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Author Meet & Greet
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4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
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AU300
Room: North 224 AB, Phoenix Convention Center
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The Author Meet & Greets are your chance to “speed date” authors of children and young adult books! This highly anticipated event offers attendees the choice of participating in a session with authors of elementary, junior, or high school books. Sponsored by Junior Library Guild. |
Format:
Author Event
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Scottsdale on Saturday Evening
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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If you are staying over Saturday evening, consider joining fellow school librarians for another dinner with a local librarian in Scottsdale.
Cost is for the shuttle ride to and from the Phoenix Convention Center. Not interested in attending a dinner?
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Format:
Networking
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