Keynotes:
Forget Marian! Professor Harold Hill’s Lessons in Advocacy (Keynote or Session)
How do you go about building support for and interest in your library media program? Learn how to use the research, standards, and every day practices to show decision makers why strong school library programs are necessary. This hands-on presentation is filled with ideas to help you build influence, credibility and excitement for school libraries. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Other topics available.
Sessions:
Students + Evidence = Impact! (Session)
When students speak, everybody listens…including students. Learn practical strategies to make gathering qualitative and quantitative data a daily part of improving instruction and learning. Take home ready-to-implement ideas for using and sharing student voices through data. Make a plan to involve students in using data to inform and improve practice, while raising and improving program awareness and perceptions. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Building the Advocacy Picture (Session)
Just as a puzzle box guides the building of a puzzle, research and evidence-based practice forms a picture to guide building stronger library programs and increased support for school library programs. Look at ways to connect the puzzle pieces when making evidence-based practice work with students, teachers, administrators, parents, community members, state and national decision makers. Real advocacy happens when stakeholders are heard speaking out for our services and programs. What better group to speak for school libraries than students? (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Act Now! Become an Effective Grassroots Advocate (Session)
Who me? Yes, YOU have the power to make a difference! Think you are too busy? It only takes a few minutes to answer an advocacy call to action. Find out how to contact, communicate with and build relationships with state and national decision makers. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
A Strategic Library Plan that Stakeholders Build (Session)
Congratulations! You are in charge of a stakeholder-driven strategic library plan for your building/district. You want to design a planning process that informs and engages stakeholders in a way that will result in their creating a meaningful and sound strategic plan that ties the library to stakeholder goals and priorities. Where to begin? This session will supply ideas and resources for the wwwwwh's (who, what, why, where, when and how's) of facilitating the planning process. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
One and One Are Three:
Collaboration + Synergy = Student Success! (Session)
How can an end product be greater than the sum of its parts? How can collaborating with your library media specialist impact student achievement? Explore an equation for student success that brings together students, classroom teachers, librarians/media specialists, the best instructional practices, multimedia resources, technology, and more. Instructional strategies, research findings, and lesson ideas that you can take home and use. (Intended audience: teachers and administrators.)
A Powerful Mix for Information Literacy (Session)
Integrated instruction, collaborative partnerships, integrated technology, authentic assessment, and hands-on learning are a potent combination that can impact student learning, and test scores. Here are statistics, strategies, and lesson ideas that can help you to unleash the "power" of information literacy for your students and staff, while also providing great opportunities for your library media program to shine. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Flexible Scheduling as a Subversive Activity:
Building a Flexible Schedule and Cooperative Library Instructional Program (Session)
What do you do if they say “NO!” to a flexible schedule or where do you start if they say, “Yes!”? How do you convince teachers and administrators that they need and want a flexible library media schedule? Here are some ideas and strategies for moving towards and starting a flexible and collaborative program. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Got a Reading Extravaganza They Will Want to do Again! (Session)
Looking for ideas and resources for a memorable Right to Read Week, Children’s Book Week, Teen Read Week, Read Across America , or National Library Week? “got books?” is an exciting reading promotion that involves students, faculty, staff, administration, families, alumni, the community, and businesses in fostering literacy. (Intended audience: library media specialists, teachers, and/or administrators.)
Imitation on the Web:
Flattery, Fair Use, or Felony (Session)
What? I thought I could do that! Could your Web site be “ripped off?” Can you prevent Web theft? Could you unintentionally violate copyright? Find out what you should know about copyright when creating Web pages and strategies to protect your own work on the Web. (Intended audience: library media specialists, teachers, and/or administrators.)
Beginning at the End: Under the Standards and Beyond (Session)
Where do school libraries fit into standards-based education? What should teacher librarians know and be able to do with academic content standards? Just wanting to understand the language of standards?
Standards-based lessons can be collaborative, integrated, child-centered, creative AND an advocacy tool. This basic session will help you find out how to make the standards work for your students and program. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Workshops:
Take Note! Scaffolding Notetaking (Half or full day workshop – minimum 90 minutes)
Develop active learning strategies to help students move from copy, cut, and paste to using critical thinking skills when taking notes. Participants will play with a variety of notetaking systems to learn how to create scaffolding materials for effective collaborations. (Intended audience: library media specialists and/or teachers.)
Assembling the Evidence Based Practice Puzzle Pieces (Workshop)
Just as a puzzle box guides the building of a puzzle, research and evidence-based practice form a picture to guide building stronger library programs and increased support for school library programs. Learn to connect the puzzle pieces when making evidence-based practice work with students, teachers, administrators, parents, community members, state and national decision makers. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Cookin’ Up Collaborations that Sizzle with Synergy and Success (Workshop or session)
Get involved in exploring ways to take simple ingredients like integrated instruction, collaborative partnerships, information fluency, integrated technology, authentic assessment, hands-on learning, and extensive research findings to concoct and serve up potent learning opportunities for students. Here are statistics, concepts, strategies, and lesson planning ideas that can help you to unleash the "power" of information fluency for your students and staff, while also providing great opportunities for your library media program to shine. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)
Sharing the News! Proactive PR, Marketing, and Advocacy (Workshop or session)
How do you go about building support and interest in your library media program? Every day affords opportunities to share the good news about school libraries! This hands-on session will be filled with ideas to help you build influence, credibility, and excitement for school libraries. (Intended audience: library media specialists.)