Concurrent Sessions

Friday, October 28

8:00AM-9:15AM

Administrator Perceptions versus a Librarian’s Reality: What Administrators Need to Know about a Librarian’s Job

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room M100 J

In a time of major budget crunches, librarians fear that their jobs may be cut. In order to promote awareness regarding the incredible importance of a librarian’s role in the school, we as librarians must do more to promote ourselves and make it known to teachers and administrators the many services we can and do provide for students, faculty and the community.

Tricia Kuon, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Laura Sheneman, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Holly Weimar, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Be Internet Savvy: Creating an Internet Safety Program at your School
8:00AM-9:15AM, Room M100 A (PODCAST)

Internet safety: Too much information and not enough time? This session will provide a K-8 Internet safety curriculum with sample lessons and resources that will enable you to create a tailor-made curriculum for your school or district. Tips for successful Internet safety parent nights and staff presentations will also be shared.

Mary Ann Curran, Media Specialist, Prairie School
Amanda Kuzminski, Media Specialist, Orland Junior High School
Lisa Weinstein, Media Specialist, Century Junior High

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Big6 – Information Literacy and Executive Skills
8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101D (PODCAST)

“I have the ability to solve problems and make decisions”
“I control my learning and attitudes toward learning”
“I have strengths that are valued by myself and others”

Empower your students to make these “I” statements. Through lecture, discussion, and example, this practical program will present strategies and techniques focused on:

1. Why libraries make the best classrooms,
2. What are executive skills and how do library programs support them,
3. How teacher-librarian can make a difference through staff development

Robert Berkowitz, Teacher Librarian, Wayne Central School District

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Book Clubbing Without Boundaries
8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101J

Hook reluctant readers and enhance the reading pleasure of your ravenous readers. Learn how 21st Century Book Clubbing in the library can bring life to your collection. Add in some 2.0 Web tools to spice things up and to add that spark your reluctant readers will enjoy. Learn ways to make even the smallest library budget cover author visits. Get ideas to plan book club events celebrating the completion of each book club selection.

Lisa Branon, Teacher/Librarian, Frostwood Elementary
Jo Ann Conlon, Teacher/Librarian, Terrace Elementary

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Building Influence: Organizing for Political Action

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 200 D/G

This interactive panel session will present political action stories from various states, including the Spokane Moms story from Washington, how a state resolution on school libraries was passed in Pennsylvania, and how a state legislature is funding school librarian positions in Ohio. After hearing these and national grassroots stories, the audience will develop strategies for “what it takes” to motivate school librarians and their state organizations to become politically active.

Sara Kelly Johns, Instructor, Mansfield University (PA)
Debra Kachel, Instructor, Mansfield University (PA)
Christie Kaaland, Professor, Antioch University Seattle
Debra Logan, School Librarian
Alice Yucht, Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers University (NJ) Graduate School of Communication

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Collaboration: The Cornerstone of a Successful Library/Technology/Classroom Partnership
8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101A (PODCAST)

Need a fresh perspective? Looking for some practical tips for encouraging greater collaboration between the library and classroom while meeting the needs of 21st century learners? Learn practical tips for building and enhancing a successful partnership between your librarian, technology specialist and the classroom teachers that will encourage collaboration and excitement. Hear how one school went from limited collaboration to having teachers clamoring to collaborate and incorporate technology and research into their already jam packed schedules.

Lisa McTaggert, Teacher, Clear Creek Independent School District
LaDonna Littlejohn, Library/Media Specialist, Clear Creek Independent School District

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

Creating Page Turners: Reading Promotional Programs in Which Teachers, Reading Teachers, Principals, Parents/Caregiver’s Do Make a Difference!

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room M100 D/E

This session showcases a variety of programs, which involve inexpensive but extremely popular reading activities which stimulate recreational reading at school and home. Advocacy for libraries, leadership initiatives and collaboration between home, school, community volunteers, businesses, and public libraries will be highlighted.

Nancy Baumann

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Do or Die: Assessment and Relevance

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room M100 H/I

The school librarian’s role as an instructional partner positions her to lead and transform the current learning landscape into a dynamic, differentiated one. Curriculum alignment and measurable benchmarks are critical tools in remaining relevant. Strategic planning, engaging instruction, authentic assessment and tiered intervention ensure 21st century skills and literacies: information, “digital, visual, textual, and technological ” (AASL) To demonstrate this, conference participants will examine My Personal Wellness, a collaborative and comprehensive 21st century approach to learning

Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School
Christina Russo, Librarian, New Canaan High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

EBooks: Answers from the Field

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101C

Floyd Pentlin and Christopher Harris, members of the ALA Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content (EQUACC) and the ALA Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) EBook Task Force will provide updates from these two groups as well as examples from the field. Learn about the impact of the Harper Collins eBook limit decision, the new licensing models being explored, hardware reading devices, and more. Find out what your colleagues are doing with eBooks around the country and learn how you can begin a similar eBook program in your library. The session will also include many opportunities for questions.

Christopher Harris, Coordinator/School Library Systems, Genesee Valley BOCES
Floyd Pentlin, Instructor, Library Science & Information Services, University of Central Missouri

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

New York State Education Department School Library Media Program Evaluation Rubric – the Statewide School Library Evaluation Instrument Experience

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 200A

What’s required of a statewide school library evaluation instrument? How is it implemented? What’s the impact? Hear New York’s experience revitalizing its statewide School Library Media Program Evaluation (SLMPE) Rubric. Examine trials, tribulations, stumbling-blocks and sticking-points, implementation and successes of New York’s experience revising the NYSED SLMPE rubric, aligning it with AASL’s “Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs”. Discover 25 Essential Elements for strong school library programs, investigate elements of the NYSED SLMPE rubric for your own programs.

John Brock, Associate in School Library Services, New York State Department of Education
Paige Jaeger, Director, Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex School Library System, Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES School Library System

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Not in My Library! Self-Censorship Alive and Well

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room M100 F/G

Who hasn’t struggled with what resources we should provide and what we dare not select? School librarians are champions of intellectual freedom. Easy to say, not so easy to do. We strive to select a balanced collection that reflects the needs and values of our communities. What about our own strongly-held beliefs versus the Code of Ethics? Where does informed selection end and censorship begin? Share an honest discussion about the sensitive topic of self-censorship.

Target Audience: School Librarians, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Project ENABLE: A Program to Train School Librarians to Provide Effective Library Services for Students with Disabilities

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 200B (PODCAST)

Project ENABLE is a professional development program for increasing librarians  understanding of the information needs of students with disabilities and their ability to provide effective services, adequate facilities, and appropriate resources and technologies to meet those needs. The presentation will include a report on the impact of the training program on educators across New York State and on the development of a freely-available Web-based training site for librarians nationwide.

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Reading, Research, and Reaching Students: Pairing of Nonfiction Books and Fiction Books as Motivation for Improving Personal and Aesthetic Growth

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101H

Activities involving nonfiction reading, active research, and writing infused with fiction reading will be presented. Lessons conducted by librarians interacting collaboratively with teachers, was facilitated in both libraries and classrooms. Results are definitive, yet adaptive, to librarians, teachers, and schools.  All librarians will be able to fine-tune the information to meet the needs of individual students. Finished work connecting and integrating the reading of non-fiction informational materials and fiction books to technology-driven projects will also be discussed.

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Social Networking and the School Librarian

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101I (PODCAST)

This session will provide an overview of how to integrate social networking tool into both the library’s teaching and learning program and the library’s communication program. The session will provide real world examples of how to successfully use social media and Web 2.0 tools to communicate and network with a wide variety of stakeholders and how to utilize these technologies for professional development as well.

Steve Baule

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Students, Teachers, Librarians: Collaboration to Deepen Understanding

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101F

This presentation offers authentic examples of student inquiry and critical thinking. Using student presentations and research documents, a high school English teacher and a librarian will share a successful collaborative project that challenges students to work cooperatively to deepen their understanding of a classroom concept. In groups, students engage in focused interaction with several websites, and synthesize their ideas in a final presentation. Participants will discuss student research and the meaning of classroom/library inquiry.

Sherri Koeppen, School Librarian, Glenbrook North High School
Anna Upson, English Teacher, Glenbrook North High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Transforming Learning for Today’s Students: Libraries as Sponsors of Transliteracy

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 200 C/H (VIRTUAL)

Explore how school libraries can support students  transliterate practices in an inquiry driven, participatory learning environment that scaffolds students’ abilities to navigate traditional and emerging information landscapes as networked learners who engage in collaboration, content creation, and conversations for learning through multiple mediums. We’ll explore how transliteracy  is an umbrella for how people are using multiple literacies–traditional (text, information) and emerging (digital, new media, privacy,)-to access, share information, and create new meaning.

Buffy Hamilton, School Librarian, Creekview High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: High

 

Unlocking the Past: Innovation Makes History Come Alive

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101G

Brought together by WETA’s premier resource on literacy, AdLit.org, presenters use primary documents, veterans’ lived experiences and innovative teaching strategies to capture the human drama of historical fiction. Audiences will see how authors, librarians, educators and students can connect through 21st Century technology to make history come alive.

Laura Elliott, Author, Hyperion (publisher)
Susannah Harris, Senior Manager, WETA’s AdLit.org
Denise Ousley-Exum, teacher educator, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jamie Sawatzky, Teacher, Rocky Run Middle School
Ann Voss, Head Librarian/Adj prof Catholic University of Am, Fairfax High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

NEW! Using the Bookstore Model of Classification in an Elementary School Library

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101E

This session will explore the collaboration between the St. Vrain Valley School District and Mackin Educational Resources to pilot the bookstore model in place of the Dewey Decimal System in its newest elementary school library. This presentation will include the background, the process from the school library and vendor point of view, data collected to date, and the struggles and successes experienced along the way. Time will be allocated for questions on this controversial topic.

Holli Buchter, District Librarian, St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont, CO
Deann Hoff, Mackin Educational Resources, Opening Day Collections Director
Ryan Thomas, Mackin Educational Resources, National Sales Director

Target Audience (please delete the audiences that don’t apply): School Librarians, Library Supervisors

Grade Levels (please delete the grade levels that don’t apply): K-3, 4-6

 

You’re Invited: A Feast of New Literature for Teens

8:00AM-9:15AM, Room 101B

Whet your appetite with a feast of new books for teens and the readers who love them. Divided thematically, this menu presents new fiction and nonfiction. Each participant will take away an annotated bibliography, an understanding or recent trends in publishing and an inspiration to read!

Jerene Battisti, Education and Teen Services Coordinator, King County Library System
Angelina Benedetti, Library Cluster Manager, King County Library System

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Friday, October 28

10:15AM-11:30AM

 

Bringing Books to Life for Little Ones: Pre-K & Kindergarten

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room M100 B/C

Aileen Kirkham, school librarian and author, shares exceptional fiction and nonfiction books;  demonstrates original songs and rhymes; dramatizes storytelling techniques; and shows how-tos of basic puppetry (including making puppets and teaching puppetry etiquette) as essential to creating quality curriculum-based lessons for a strong literacy program in libraries and/or the classrooms of pre-kindergarten and kindergartners. This multi-format style of lesson development is exceptionally successful with young children including those with autism and other special needs.

Aileen Kirkham, School Librarian & Author, Decker Prairie Elem School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3

 

Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: A Guided Conversation about Leadership Programs

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 200 D/G

Rapid changes in roles of the school librarian and the graying of the profession have demonstrated a need for the aggressive identification and development of leaders in the field. The American Library Association, Gale Cengage and School Library Journal have taken up the challenge by establishing programs to identify and cultivate leaders. Come and find out about these leadership programs, meet new leaders and actively participate in developing strategies to create your own leadership development program.

Margaux DelGuidice, School Librarian, Garden City High School
Sara Kelly Johns, School Librarian and Instructor, Mansfield University School Library and Information Technologies
Gwyneth Jones, Teacher-Librarian, Murray Hill Middle School
Shannon Miller, Teacher Librarian, Van Meter Community School
Wendy Stephens, School Librarian, Buckhorn High School
Laura Warren-Gross, School Librarian, Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Google Docs and Other Apps for School Library Programs: Create and Collaborate!

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room M100 F/G

Google Docs can help you reduce time spent managing library administrivia, provide convenient and accessible forms and tools for teacher communication, track data associated with library programs and use, and provide collaborative spaces for you, students and teachers to share what they are planning, teaching, reading and researching. Leave with access to several free templates and myriad ideas for immediate adaptation and use of Google Docs and other cool Google apps in your school library program.

Nancy Miller

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors, Students

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Graphic Inquiry: Dynamic Differentiation and Digital Age Learning

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101I (PODCAST)

Learn to differentiate with technology-enhanced graphic tools and resources. Build authentic learning environments through object- and place-based inquiries. Illuminate projects and nurture digital citizens. In this session we’ll explore ways to combine content from various subject areas such as language arts, science, social studies, and math with information and technology skills and strategies to meet diverse learning needs and address “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.”

Annette Lamb

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Information Literacy: Turning the Page From High School to College

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 200B (PODCAST)

Information literacy is a 21st century skill. Librarians at all levels work diligently to ensure that all students have the skills necessary to identify an information need, find appropriate resources, and extract and use the information. In this session, the speakers will report on a study done with a group of Catholic high schools in the upper Midwest, which explores whether a gap exists between the information literacy skills expected in high school and college.

Marianne Hageman, Research and Instruction Librarian, University of St. Thomas
Talia Nadir, Research and Instruction Librarian, University of St. Thomas
Donna Nix, Research and Instruction Librarian, University of St. Thomas

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Students

Grade Level: High

 

Lesson Study: School Librarians Improving Their Instructional Practice

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101C

Lesson Study is a professional development practice that emphasizes collaborative work to improve teacher/librarian skills in designing, delivering and assessing instruction. Are you looking for a structured yet engaging way to collaborate with others? Are you hungry for substantive discussion with your colleagues about the learning that happens in your library? Share the experiences of several groups of school librarians in their first year of Lesson Study. Is Lesson Study your next step?

Carol Kohnen

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

No Budget Cuts for This Library Media Center! Elevate Your Program with IIM, a Powerful Research Model for the 21st Century.

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101F

How can you assure that you and your library program will be viewed as a collaborative, supportive, and vital part of your school? Looking for a way to infuse 21st Century literacy skills into classrooms? Empower students to do research independently! Offer teachers and students access to the user-friendly research model IIM: Independent Investigation Method, and you will be valued as an effective teaching partner. Leave this session with proven strategies you can implement immediately.

Virginia Morse, Active Learning Systems, LLC
Cindy Nottage, Educational Consultant, Active Learning Systmes
Barbara Ungar, Library Media Specialist, Central Elementary School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Nooks and eBooks: How They Look in a High School Library

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101D (PODCAST)

How do Nooks and eBooks fit into high school library collections? Downers Grove South High School Library has successfully implemented the Nook and eBooks into its circulating collection. The librarians will share their journey of how acquiring Nooks meant exploring their impact on collection development practices. Descriptions of everything from first wondering about how it can work to discovering the impact on student reading will be presented.

Mindy Null, Downers Grove South High School
Kimberly Pakowski, Downers Grove South High School
Colette Schmidt, Downers Grove South High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Putting it All Together for Librarians

10:15AM –11:30AM , Room M100J

This session will provide an update on the current work of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) focusing on fusing the three “R”s with the four “C”s especially as it relates to information literacy. With a majority of states adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS ) for English Language Arts and Math, come see how P21 is putting it all together with the “P21 Common Core Toolkit,” a new resource to help you align CCSS and 21st Century Skills.

David Schroeter, Vice President, K-12 Sales, Cengage Learning; P21 Executive Board
Frank Gallagher, Executive Director, Cable in the Classroom (CIC); P21 Executive Board
Lillian Kellogg (Facilitator), VP, Education Networks of America (ENA); P21 Chair
Randy Wilhelm, CEO, netTrekker; P21 Executive Board

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students

Grade Level: K–3, 4–6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Reading As a Window To The World: Why Multicultural Literature is Important and How to Move It Off the Shelf and Into the Hand’s of the Reader.

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101J

Students need to see themselves in what they learn and what they read! All too often, however, multicultural literature remains “on display” instead of being checked out and read by children. Workshop participants will learn strategies for actively promoting titles that provide “windows and mirrors” for children and develop empathy. During the workshop participants will collaborate to develop criteria for effectively evaluating multicultural children’s literature titles.

Chris Swerling, Library Coordinator, Newton (MA) Public Schools
Patricia Karam, Library Teacher, Newton (MA) Public Schools
Rachael Lundquist, Library Teacher, Newton (MA) Public Schools

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Levels: K-3, 4-6

 

Recommending Reading: Letting Technology Lend a Hand

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101E (PODCAST)

Recommending a book is a joy, but there is now a way for anyone to know about every author and genre. So let Web 2.0 lend a hand. There are a number of excellent sites that use web shared information to help suggest books to read. In this session learn about the sites and some strategies for integrating them into the classroom and library.

Terence Cavanaugh, Assistant Professor, University of North Florida

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

“School Doesn’t Have to Be So Boring:” Transforming Reading Instruction Through Gaming

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room M100 A (PODCAST)

Come experience how school librarians and classroom teachers are transforming student engagement for struggling readers through the use of web-based gaming.

Louis Greco, Director for Instructional Technology & Media Services, St. Johns County School District
Deborah Svec, School Librarian, Palm Beach Gardens High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Summer Reading Redux

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room M100 H/I

How many times have you wished you had the power to change your school’s summer reading program? Well, maybe you do! Come hear the story of one librarian who brought her school’s summer reading program into the 21st century. It is now a program that involves faculty and students with books in a whole new way.

Rochelle Garfinkel, Librarian, Frontier Regional School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Take a free vacation with George Washington and learn a little at the same time!

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101G

Would you enjoy a fabulous one week summer vacation, spent with fellow teachers exploring best practices and creating lesson plans that you can use as soon as you get back to your school all for free? This session will introduce media specialists to the professional development available at the George Washington Teachers Institute and will explore interactive websites created to bring the study of George Washington and his times into the 21st Century.

Patricia Franklin, Library Media Specialist, Timber Creek High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Inquiry, Standards and Curriculum

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 200A

Join AASL’s Top 25 Website for Teaching and Learning Committee to explore some of the leading websites chosen from the last three years winners – those of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians’ “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.” Started in 2009, the Top 25 Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration – come to learn how to integrate these websites into your curriculum.

Pam Berger
Vicki Builta
Mary Fran Daley
Melissa Jacobs-Israel
Heather Moorefield-Lang
Laura Warren-Gross

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

The Global Learning Resource Connection

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101H

Learn how to redefine your school library as a fundamental 21st century service provider of resources and tools that enable the creation and support of individualized student learning plans. Explore how content providers are connecting the dots between library systems and learning management systems resulting in large collections of rich resources correlated to state and national standards. Witness how the emerging Web 3.0 moves libraries into the classroom to support new teaching methodologies thus improving student learning outcomes.

Diny Golder, Executive Director, JES & Co.

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

The Principal Connection: Educating Your Administrator to Value Your School Library Program

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room M100 D/E

Does your administrator value your library program? Or, does she/he fail to see how the library is critical to the success of the academic program in your school? Backed up by evidence-based practice, school librarians can educate administrators to evaluate the library program, the work of the school librarian, and advocate for the invaluable job-embedded professional development that results from classroom-library collaboration for instruction. Learn how to help your administrator be a 21st-century instructional leader!

Rebecca McKee, Librarian, North Garland High School
Judi Moreillon, Assistant Professor

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Turning the Page to the Future: Using Web 2.0 Tools and 21st Century Learning Standards to Engage Students and Enhance Learning

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 200 C/H (VIRTUAL)

The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate an easily replicable project using Web 2.0 tools. Step-by-step collaboration between social studies teachers, librarians, eighth- and eleventh-graders in a study of “Forming a Society” will be demonstrated. Students heard “Life as We Knew It,” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Through research, group discussion, and problem-solving, students presented a final project that explained their understanding of forming a society in the face of chaos.

Nancy Baumann
Lysha Thompson, School Librarian, Tuscumbia Public Schools

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

What’s Up in the LMC? Virtually Visit the Robert Clow Elementary School Library Media Center and Find Out What Makes it Work!

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101B

The Clow LMC program, 2009 AASL NSLPY Award Winner and 2010 AASL Vision Tour Nominee from Illinois, represents exemplary use of best practices in school librarianship and the application of 21st century learning standards to produce students who are successful readers, researchers and learners. What happens on a daily basis throughout the school year can happen in your LMC too! Reflect on your school library program, participate in engaging discussions, learn strategies to apply right away and leave energized.

Beverly Frett, Library Media Center Director, Robert Clow Elementary School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

Working with RDA: Cataloging Advances for School Libraries

10:15AM-11:30AM, Room 101A (PODCAST)

Presents the national RDA test results and discusses the implications for RDA implementation in school libraries. Provides the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Strategize implementation options and vendor interaction. The program encourages interaction with the attendees through in-session development of a portfolio of MARC records in RDA format.

Richard Hasenyager, Jr., Director for Library Services, North East Independent School District
Shawne Miksa, Associate Professor, University of North Texas
Barbara Schultz-Jones, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Friday, October 28

1:00PM-2:15PM

 

Beyond the Basics – Sparking a Culture of Literacy Re-igniting Readers Within a Secondary School Setting

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101E (PODCAST)

Learn how to develop a culture of readers in a secondary education setting by infusing literacy initiatives through collaboration with classroom teachers, administrators, and school librarians. Participants will learn how one school district promotes literacy through free reading initiatives, classroom instruction and the school library with the goals of students to begin to see themselves as readers and to recognize reading as a lifelong learning skill.

Mary Moyer, School Library Media Specialist, Delsea Regional HS
Melissa Williams, District Supervisor, Delsea Regional HS

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Deep Learning Through Concept-based Inquiry

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101F

Fact-gathering is that what you see students doing when they are completing assignments? “How many..? What is the..? When did..? Who was..?” Are their inquiries easily satisfied with a search on Google? Are you looking for attainable ways to deepen their learning? Concept-based inquiry increases the cognitive complexity of student work. In this session we model this approach and actively engage attendees in shifting from fact gathering to concept-based inquiry.

Jean Donham, Associate Professor, University of Northern Iowa
June Gross, Retired

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Enhancing School Library Programs with Moodle

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 F/G

Moodle, an open-source course management system, can be effectively used to immerse students in 21st Century library programs. This session will demonstrate specific examples of Moodle modules that engage students in the learning information literacy skills and curriculum content. The Blog, Choice, Chat, Forum, and Questionnaire activities demonstrated may be replicated on your own Moodle site. No Moodle server in your district? Learn about a free service that will host your library’s Moodle.

Connie Champlin, Library Facilitator, Media Tech
Nancy Miller

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors, Students, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

How to Win Readers and Influence Writers

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 D/E

Curiosity fuels reading and writing award-winning authors and illustrators–Carol Gorman, Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Jeni Reeves, and Sharron McElmeel–share how curiosity and research took them to Tibet, across Iowa, and back in time. Myriad suggestions for building curiosity about the world, while inspiring readers and promoting writing across the curriculum. Mentor texts for six traits (plus one) of writing.

Q&A.

Sharron McElmeel, Literacy Consultant, McBookwords

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies: Teaching with Resources from the Smithsonian

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101H

Participants will meet with educators from the National Museum of American History to engage in model classroom activities that integrate reading and American history. Participants will also learn about online resources available through Smithsonian’s History Explorer and OurStory, including family and classroom activity guides, as well as book recommendations around which teachers can build their own classroom activities.

Naomi Coquillon, Education Specialist, Smithsonian Institution- National Museum of American History
Jenny Wei, Education Specialist, Smithsonian Institution- National Museum of American History

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

Is the Brain Ready for the 21st Century?

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101G

Visual processing dominates the brain. Increasingly that processing takes place within new technologies. Approximately 1 in 4 students have a hidden processing problem, unrelated to eyesight, that impacts reading, comprehension, and standardized testing. Experience vision override your other senses. Learn to recognize a problem and pair-off to practice part of a screening. Take part in intervention activities that help develop key skills. Discover the physiological challenges of reading online and how “Vision Hygiene” can help prevent a problem.

Leslie Peters, Author, Adjunct Faculty, College of Extended Learning, CSUSB, Sensory Processing Courses

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

KidsTell It Write

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101J

Expand your use of storytelling in the classroom or library to encourage and motivate student writers in grades K-8. Sue models classroom-tested activities – fun, focused, and fast-paced –that create enthusiastic writers. Roll up your sleeves, practice the techniques, and leave with unique tools you can add to your successful writer’s workshop. Prepare yourself for an incredible transformation in student writing once they learn they’ve got a fabulous story to tell!

Sue Black

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Meet ASE, the Information Detective:  Turning the Page on Information Literacy Instruction

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 J

This presentation will describe an innovative approach to information literacy instruction developed through an IMLS National Leadership Research Grant.  The instruction is driven by data gathered through interviews and focus groups with recent high school graduates with below-proficient information literacy skills. Attendees will be introduced to ASE, the Information Detective. ASE is an acronym for the process itself (Analyze, Search, Evaluate) and the means by which it was developed (Asking Students about their Experiences).

Melissa Gross, Professor, Florida State University
Don Latham, Associate Professor, Florida State University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE): Now Empowering All Learners!

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 200B (PODCAST)

A school librarian and the coordinator of Michigan eLibrary demonstrate an open source system of online services and curriculum materials supporting Common Core State Standards. Session attendees will discover how the MORE project can be replicated outside of Michigan. Attendees will break into groups to brainstorm and report how online resources and comparable tools from other states can further inquiry learning. Ideas will be posted to the MORE edWeb site to encourage follow-up collaboration among attendees.

Margaret Lincoln, Lakeview Schools District Librarian, Lakeview Schools
Deb Biggs Thomas, Michigan eLibrary Coordinator, Library of Michigan

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101C

Outstanding Books for the College Bound is a reading list principally intended for students preparing for college and those serving them. This program will share strategies for creating programs that encourage reading among students, including booktalks of titles, incorporating the lists into summer reading and all-school reading programs, and ways to share the lists with faculty. We will also present additional reading encouragement suggestions, from displays and handouts, to online catalogs and websites.

Angela Carstensen, Head Librarian, Convent of the Sacred Heart
Priscille Dando

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

QR Codes, Prezi, and SchoolTube, Oh My! Not-So-Traditional Reading Promotions for Digital Natives

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101A (PODCAST)

Students of all ages still love to read; practicing librarians know this is true, despite rampant rumors to the contrary. While some believe that modern technologies will be the death of reading and the love of books, there are many ways to harness those technologies to enhance reading programs and services.  This program will describe practical, easy-to-implement ways to use technology to promote reading and traditional library services.

Sarah Searles

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Research Curriculum Gymnastics: Using TRAILS as a Springboard to a FLIP (Freshman Level Interest Project)

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101D (PODCAST)

Learn how a high school library used a standards-based online assessment tool to measure 9th grade students  information literacy skills and then collaborated with English colleagues to create and implement a data-driven, scaffolded, inquiry-based research curriculum.

Jared Friebel, English Teacher, Hinsdale Central High School
Julie Gedeon, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Assessment, University Libraries, Kent State University
Myles Laffey, Teacher-Librarian, Hinsdale Central High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Students

Grade Level: High

 

School Librarians as Digital Resource Providers: Integrating eBooks

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101B

How do you get started? How far do you go? What is relevant to your student population and curriculum? Attendees will learn about experiences of two High School Librarians incorporating eBooks into the curriculum. One perspective covers the initial acquisition. The other perspective covers marketing and incorporating eBooks into lessons. We will also discuss the issue of pushing eBooks out to the teachers web page or keeping access to them through the School Library homepage.

Judith Roggow, Librarian, De La Salle High School
Jane Rolnick, Director, Library Media Center, Hill-Murray School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: High

 

Social Media Professional Development with a British Flair

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 200 D/G

Want to learn about social media and you want it to be in a social setting? How about a summer class in London with a group of peers? This session will describe a highly successful multimedia production program using Web 2.0 tools that takes place for three weeks at the Florida State University London Centre. Participants earn 6 graduate credits and have fun doing it! Program graduates will share their products and how they used them back on the job.

Nancy Everhart, Associate Professor/AASL Past President, Florida State University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Taking Time to Look at the Evidence

1:00PM–2:15PM, Room 200 E

Papers chosen through a blind, peer-review process include Ross Todd, Rutgers University, who shares findings of the New Jersey study; Sue Kimmel, Old Dominion University, who discusses collaboration to serve special needs students in New York State as school reform; and Joette Stefl-Maybry, University of Albany, who presents insights into pre-service school librarians’ competencies and skill development. Audience participation through questions and comments direct the discussion of each paper

Ross Todd, Rutgers University
Sue Kimmel, Old Dominion University
Joette Stefl-Maybry, University of Albany

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students

Grade Level: K–3, 4–6, Middle/Junior, High

 

The School Librarian and Copyright in the 21st Century: Using Digital Media and Obeying the Law

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 200 C/H (VIRTUAL)

Presented by the author of, “Copyright for Teachers” and “Librarians in the 21st Century (2011),” this presentation addresses copyright and new formats and equipment which may be available in school libraries: hand-held devices, such as iPads and playaways; blogs; wikis; Pod-casts; Nings; Second Life; special interest networking (e.g. Shelfari, GoodReads); Moodle, Skype, and similar digital communication tools; social bookmarking; web syndication; video streaming; digital gaming; and open-sourcing. Flow charts are used to demonstrate copyright compliance.

Rebecca Butler, presidential teaching professor, Northern Illinois University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Turn a New Page for Evaluating Multicultural Literature

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 101I (PODCAST)

Ann Nolan Clark’s “Journey to the People” documented her experiences working with other cultures. This workshop will examine multicultural titles utilizing principles from Clark’s work. Participants will discover ways to use these titles to teach aspects of the “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.” Attendees will also examine how multicultural titles could impact collection development as visualized in “Empowering Learners.”

Carol Doll, Old Dominion University
Kasey Garrison, Old Dominin University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

 Turning the Curriculum: A Dispositional Approach to the Common Core Standards

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 B/C

You might not think that you are a surfer but consider this: each new set of student learning standards are waves that keep coming toward you and a dispositional approach is your surfboard. We will ride the Common Core Standards (CCS) and find calm waters where we can match the AASL 21st Century student learning dispositions. Dip your toe into CCS, bring your lessons and your questions. Together we might just find that the water is fine.

Gail Bush, Professor & Director, Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books, National Louis University
Jami Jones, Assistant Professor, East Carolina University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Turning the Page: After Hours in the Library Media Center

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 A (PODCAST)

Three high school librarians collaborated to create a public relations program, for  after-school hours that expose students to real world situations and applications, such as field trips, multi-media productions, community based programs, poetry slams, workshops on social media skills and resource learning stations. This workshop will provide public relations strategies that high school library media specialists can use to attract reluctant learners which are designed to ignite passion for literary exploration and technological options.

Media Daniels, Library Media Specialist, Atlanta Public Schools
Sheila Howard, Library Media Specialist, Atlanta Public Schools
Kathryn Weaver, Library Media Specialist, Atlanta Public Schools

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: High

 

Write, Illustrate, Podcast-Collaborate, Create, Share: Middle School Action Research Using Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and Technology

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room 200A

This is an action research project where a media professor and sixth-grade teacher collaborated to make learning literary elements interesting, relevant, and engaging. Students read and analyzed graphic novels, wrote and illustrated short books collaboratively, and podcasted the learning experience from their classroom. Hear the process, see the products, and get free resources to replicate the project. Learn how to put 21st-century standards into action and shift the role from knowledge consumers to knowledge producers.

MaryAnn Robinson, Associate Professor, University of South Alabama

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior

 

Young Adult Book Clubs in the Secondary Classroom: An Opportunity for Collaboration

1:00PM-2:15PM, Room M100 H/I

This session will focus on a model for school librarians and classroom teachers to collaborate together in planning and implementing book clubs in the classroom. Participants will leave with a toolkit of book lists, strategies, activities, and assessments for implementation.

Cassandra Barnett, School Librarian

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Friday, October 28

3:15PM-4:30PM

 

21st Century Tools for 21st Century Learners: Web 2.0 Demonstrations and Associated Copyright Issues

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room M100 H/I

In traditional school settings, teachers and school library media specialists are presented with the task of keeping digital natives engaged and interested in classroom content. This can be a daunting and challenging commission. This session will present selected free web 2.0 tools that can be immediately and appropriately implemented into lessons. Activities for each tool are included. Also, practical discussions on copyright laws and ethical use governing content used in the applications will be shared.

Katie Mitchell, Library Assistant II, University of West Georgia
Phyllis Snipes, Associate Professor, University of West Georgia

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

21st Century Tools for 21st Century Students: Changing Instructional Delivery with the iPod Touch for Struggling Readers

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 200A

Amazing results were accomplished when a teacher of struggling Intensive Reading course high school students and a school librarian partnered to radically change the instructional delivery with the iPod Touch and a novel “We Beat The Streets” by Sharon Draper and the Three Doctors Foundation doctors.  During 7th period in a class they all hated, it was transformed into a learning community where student strengths were discovered and academic excitement was enjoyed by all.

Louis Greco, Director for Instructional Technology & Library Media, St. Johns County School District

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Apps United: Advocate Your Program Through Google Apps

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 200 D/G

Advocate your program by creating an interactive platform through Google Sites. Incorporate myriad Google Apps such as Groups, Calendar, Docs, and Moderator to disseminate and collaborate on information in your school and community

Danielle Dunn, Library Media Specialist, Howard County Public Schools
Danielle DuPuis, Media Specialist, Hammond High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Authors and Autism

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room M100 D/E

Come hear authors of high-quality children’s fiction which incorporate the experience of individuals affected by ASD, the Autism Spectrum Disorder, including children with ASD, siblings, friends, families, speak about their books. Authors include Nora Baskin, award-winning author of “Anything But Typical” and Tom Angleberger, “The Strange Case of Oragami Yoda.”

Tom Angleberger, Author
Nora Baskin, Author
Alison Ernst, Principal, Alison Ernst Associates

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Breaking the Barrier for ELL Students:  Beginning a Native Language Collection

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101J

The population of our English Language Learners is growing at a rapid rate. Staying true to the Common Beliefs in AASL standards can be difficult. Research shows that success and proficiency in one language contributes to the success in another language.  We need to empower our ELL students by providing them with native language books that are age-appropriate. This workshop offers background justification and practical strategies for beginning a Native Language collection for K-12 students.

Cathi Fuhrman, Library Department Supervisor, Hempfield School District

Target Audience: School Librarians, Library Supervisors

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Deliver a Value-Added Reading Program: Join Us in Rethinking Literacy Activities

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101B

How can we maximize our efforts in nurturing students to develop their potential as readers, thinkers, creators, and citizens in our evolving society? The READS Curriculum, a practical K-12 framework, provides opportunities for expanding literacy experiences with print and digital resources. Explore strategies for supporting the development of reading skills, as well as multiple options for creative responses to literature. Files of lesson links, websites, professional reading, and bibliographies will be available.

Sybil Farwell
Nancy Teger, Program Director, Nova Southeastern University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Do We Need Books in K-12 School Libraries?

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 200 C/H (VIRTUAL)

Cushing Academy Library eliminated its huge book collection over the last year, turning that library into an all digital facility. Other independent schools have chosen different ways to meld cutting edge technology into traditional book collections, including the Learning Commons model. Speakers will discuss how administration was involved in these changes on their campuses, and consider broader questions for the school libraries: how can schools best consider the balance of digital and print resources for the most successful student achievement.

Tom Corbett, Executive Director of the Fisher-Watkins Library, Cushing Academy
Alison Ernst, Principal, Alison Ernst Associates
Dorcas Hand, Director of Libraries, Annunciation Orthodox School
Frances J. Harris, Head Librarian, University Laboratory High School Library

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Guided Tour of the L4L Building-Level Toolkit

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room M100 B/C

In this session, AASL L4L Building Level Toolkit authors Kristin Fontichiaro and Melissa Johnston review the toolkit and how these resources can be used in your school. This resource was created with the intent that all school librarians can share and learn from each other. Participants will be given an opportunity to ask questions and give feedback/ideas that can be utilized to continue to update and refresh the Toolkit. Note: This session may run longer than 4:30PM.

Kristin Fontichiaro, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Melissa P. Johnston, , Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Incorporating the 21st Century Learning Standards for Authentic Student Learning: A Collaborative Social Studies Example

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101I (PODCAST)

Collaboration is only truly worthwhile when it produces a lesson that engages students in 21st Century learning. A middle school teacher-librarian and a social studies teacher share their collaborative experiences that led to an authentic project that incorporates content standards, 21st century learning standards, technology, and community involvement and results in an authentic product for other middle schools and community centers.

Karen Ambrose, Social Studies Teacher, Ralph Chandler Middle School
Marilyn Heath, Media Specialist, Ralph Chandler Middle School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Information Literacy, 21st Century Skills, and Teacher-Librarian Collaboration in Schools

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101D (PODCAST)

MILI, the Metronet Information Literacy Initiative, is a schoolyear-long training program in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area focusing on research, information literacy, web 2.0 tools, and teacher-librarian collaboration. Come hear about the program and learn about the wonderful things a teacher and school librarian have implemented in their classrooms, schools, and at the district level because of what they learned in MILI. You’ll leave with ideas you can try in your own schools.

Jean Doolittle, Technology Integration Strategist/Media Curriculum Consultant, Metronet
Maureen Monroe, School Librarian, Metronet
Guillaume Paek, Teacher, Metronet
LeAnn Suchy, Metronet

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

New Strategies Using Online Multimedia Materials to Strengthen Readers  Connections to Books

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101E (PODCAST)

Join us in transforming readers  connections to books and authors by infusing online, multimedia materials into K-12 library and reading activities. We’ll hear from award-winning authors, and the participatory audience, as we explore video interviews, book readings, ready-to-use novel units, and even something so brief as an author saying his or her name – all of which provide personal connections to literature that bring the reading experience to life for students, teachers, and librarians alike.

Nick Glass, Founder, TeachingBooks.net
Heather Jankowski, Librarian, M. Robinson Elementary School Library

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Technology Coordinators, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Plagiarism and all that comes with it

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room M100 A (PODCAST)

Are your students excited to learn about plagiarism and copyright? Lets face it, the topic can be rather boring. Students know that they can use anything they find in a book or online for an assignment as though it were their own. The internet is free and trying to get students to give proper credit can be challenging. Using online sources a sample course presents a sample lesson on these topics in an interesting manner.

Danielle Dunn, Library Media Specialist, Hammond High School
Sharon Smith, Library Media Specialist, Frederick Douglass High School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers

Grade Level: Middle/Junior, High

 

Preparing School Librarians for the 21st Century: Turning the Page on Standards and Preparation Program Review

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room M100 J

Are school librarians entering the field prepared to teach for learning, promote literacy and reading, administer their programs, advocate for students and the profession, and serve as instructional leaders within their schools? What quality assurance is in place to ensure that newly prepared librarians have the required knowledge and skills? We will explore standards for preparation, NCATE program and recognition reports, and opportunities for program reviewer training. Concerned about the future of the profession? Attend this session!

Audrey Church, Associate Professor
Laura Dare, Assistant Director, American Library Association
Gail Dickinson, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University Darden College of Education
Rebecca Pasco, Professor, University of Nebraska Omaha

Target Audience: School Librarians, Library Supervisors, Higher Education

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

See and Learn: The Power of Visual Learning and Storybooks in Early Childhood Education

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101G

The session will explore how the combination of stories and visual models can be used to engage young children and to show them how what they are learning is relevant to their lives. It will specifically focus on current research in the field of visual cognition and its application as an effective approach to the teaching of social, emotional, health and safety, and cognitive skills to young students.

Stuart J. Murphy

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3

 

Taken Off the Page: Reading Aloud as Professional Development

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101A (PODCAST)

Join this interactive and rowdy session to read out loud, consider a diversity of texts, and experience first-hand the power of sharing texts out loud. We understand the value of reading aloud with students, but the 21st Century Standards cross the lifespan including ourselves and the teachers we collaborate with. Reading aloud is a powerful means for engaging professionals with ideas and texts. Join with us to gain strategies for making it happen in your collaborative settings.

KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson, Associate Professor, English Education, Old Dominion University
Sue Kimmel, Assistant Professor, School Libraries, Old Dominion University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Higher Education, Curriculum Specialists, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Thinking Outside the Book: Practical Strategies that Engage Boys in Reading

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 200B (PODCAST)

Boys seem to be from Mars when reading independently. Can their personal strengths be used to turn boys on to reading something besides sports and war? Strategies will be explained that took reading from “yuck!” to “yeah!” in the presenter’s school library and converted many boys to reading across genres as a free-time activity.

Pat Miller, former librarian, author, presenter, Reaching Every Reader

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

Transform Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0 Tools

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101H

Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0 Tools is an initiative to get kids to think globally, while engaging them with Web 2.0 tools. By selecting fiction books with a global focus, we broaden student choice and develop new understandings of cultural differences. Using Web 2.0 tools we recast our classrooms for 21st Century Learning. Animoto, Moodle, Glogster and Skype  allow students to collaborate about content, research information, create online projects, and converse with authors.

Joan Collins, Teacher/Librarian, John Glenn Middle School

Target Audience: School Librarians, Administrators, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Coordinators

Grade Level: 4-6, Middle/Junior, High

 

Using Library Resources For Character Education

3:15PM-4:30PM, Room 101F

Librarians, do you yearn to play a more dynamic role in children’s success in school and society?  Character education can be taught as easily as walking through the library door. Children’s picture books are a delightful alternative to costly character education programs. Promoting picture books for character education can supply you with opportunities to collaborate with classroom teachers and counselors in teaching standards addressing admirable character traits. Join us and find a new way to generate interest in your library.

Deborah Parrott, Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University

Target Audience: School Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Library Supervisors, Students, Public Librarians Working with Children and Youth

Grade Level: K-3, 4-6

 

Saturday, October 29