Breakout Session #1: Envisioning the Library Program in Your School
This breakout session focuses on the broader goals of a library program and how library media specialists can use to meaningfully engage students and staff in the design and development of learning. Participants will have an opportunity to study school exemplars.
- Illustrative Example at District Level from Avon Public Schools, CT: Spreadsheet of Essential Skills K-12; K-12 Library Program Goals – framed as Transfer Goals, Understandings and Essential QuestionsSample Curriculum Unit,
- Illustrative Example of a Library: Article with Michelle Luhtala (Teacher Librarian, Oct. 2017)
Keynote: What Personalized Learning is and Why it Matters in a Contemporary Classroom
This keynote clarifies a definition of personalized learning that can be powerfully acted upon in the library space. Participants will see a visual of the sound board as a metaphor for amplifying student voice in the design and development of learning.
- Clarification Tool that describe the range of each of the 7 elements from teacher generated to student generated
- Reflection and Action Tool that poses questions about past and future practice that may help guide where to get started
- Orchestrating the Move to PL Article (Kallick and Zmuda, 2017; Ed Leadership)
- Article with Michelle Luhtala (Teacher Librarian, Oct. 2017)
- Newsletter on News Literacy
- Transformation: Big Walnut Middle School, Sunbury, Ohio
- Blog post by Janine Johnson “Conflict Book Covers”
- Blog post by Beth Campbell “Books R Us” – Student created podcasts
Breakout Session #2: Growing Curiosity and Wonderment in the Library
This breakout session focuses on how we can grow capacity in our students as readers, researchers, and creators of texts. Participants will see examples of how librarians and teachers who work with them help encourage and support student curiosity and exploration.
Resources
- Clarification Tool that describe the range of each of the 7 elements from teacher generated to student generated
- Reflection and Action Tool that poses questions about past and future practice that may help guide where to get started