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10:50 Break Shannon Hale Book Signing Downstairs Session 3 Conference Schedule Time Event 7:00 Registration Continental Breakfast President’s Message 7:45 Keynote Speaker: Laurie Halse Anderson Session 1: 9:10 Description Presenters Pairing Picture Books & Pairing picture books with primary sources Catherine Bates, M.Ed., has been Primary Sources is a motivating way to connect students the teacher librarian at Brighton with historical events and help them to High School for the past 6 years. INQUIRE think critically. This session will provide resources for finding picture books to pair Marianne Bates, M. Ed., worked in 101 Elementary | Secondary Library Teachers | Paras with primary sources, as well as strategies the Albion Middle School library for for using these pairings in assignments. 16 years. Learn to create dynamic promotional items Mary Anne Wiebe-Strong will be DRAW Your Students using Google Drawings. Learn to easily concluding her 23 year of teaching into the Library and quickly create posters, signs, and and her third year as the Library buttons that will draw your students into Media Technology specialist at ENGAGE the library. Churchill Junior High in Salt Lake 103 Elementary | Secondary City. She has a passion for books, Library Teachers | Paras technology, dance, science, graphic arts, and travel. In this session, Will Terry will explain how Will Terry has been a freelance Visual Storytelling: he breaks down the text and instructions illustrator for 23 years. He was Thought Processes given to him for a project and explain his horrible at math, English, and Behind Illustration thought process as he creates. He will give science...luckily he found art. After you techniques you can use for creative finishing his BFA project at BYU he ENGAGE lessons with students to engage with began working for magazines and Elementary | Secondary picture books and creating art. newspapers not far from where he Library Teachers grew up in Washington D.C. He Supervisors has illustrated about 30 children's BallroomA books for Random House, Simon Schuster, Scholastic, Penguin, Klutz, and Albert Whitman. 6 With the push for Blended learning, Michelle Barney has been a Putting Your Best Tech teachers and librarians need more tools to teacher in the Davis School District Forward make technology work in meaningful ways for over 15 years, and much of my in their schools. In this session, we will work has been dedicated to CURATE explore exciting new to use technology to gathering the best technological Elementary | Secondary reach and interact with students in your resources. As a Microsoft Library Teachers schools. Innovative Educator, I have many resources and ideas to share that will help any librarian or teacher BallroomB utilize tech effectively. Keith Smedberg is a Teacher Library APPS What apps do you use to help run your Library? Sora, OverDrive Goodreads, Librarian at Olympus High School Follett Destiny, Titlewave, Discover and in Holladay, Utah. A lifetime EXPLORE Decimator are some. educator - 15 years in classrooms, Elementary | Secondary 2 years in technology, 8 years in Library Teachers Come on by for quick overview of these the Library so far who knows what's next! Most the time the best and share what you use. part of the job is talking to kids BallroomC about books! The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary Naomi Watkins is the Director of Commemorating the of the ratification of the 19th Amendment Education for Better Days 2020, a Women’s Suffrage granting women voting rights and the 150th non-profit dedicated to popularizing Anniversaries through anniversary of Utah women becoming the Utah women’s history, particularly Picture Books first to vote in the modern United States. focused on women’s suffrage and Learn about the untold Utah suffrage story voting rights. A former middle ENGAGE and the many picture books about school LA teacher, Naomi has also 1 Elementary | Secondary women’s suffrage and voting rights. Ideas worked as an instructional coach in Library Teachers | Paras | for using these books with kids, Utah Title 1 schools and as a professor 20 Supervisors history connections, primary sources, and in literacy and children’s literature. additional lesson materials will be Her areas of expertise include provided. literacy and language pedagogy, B culturally diverse children’s literature, educating English language learners, and content- area disciplinary literacy. Follett’s Curiosity Center is full of hands-on Dave Brown has worked with opportunities to engage and learn. Within Follett School Solutions for over 12 the center you will find books focused on years. He works closely with Follett Curiosity Center specific educational niches librarians to design solutions for (social/emotional learning, multicultural, everyday challenges, such as: diversity, Hi/Low, striving readers, collection development and EXPLORE augmented reality, STEAM, and more). analysis, classroom collaboration, Elementary | Secondary Also, try out many Makerspace items to and returning the library to its 204 Library Teachers help pull back the curtain and climate the rightful place as the heart of the mystery and uncertainty on the products, school! the longevity, and educational applications for your library and school. Vendor Room 7 Digital Engagement LightBox, an interactive educational Dave Brown has worked with through LightBox platform, is used in the library as high Follett School Solutions for over 12 Interactive interest nonfiction and in the classroom to years. He works closely with improve comprehension, vocabulary, and librarians to design solutions for EXPLORE engagement. Come listen as your peers everyday challenges, such as: Elementary | Secondary explain how they use it in their own collection development and Library Teachers schools to collaborate with teachers and analysis, classroom collaboration, bring extra value to the library. and returning the library to its 205 rightful place as the heart of the Vendor Session school! Cindy Mitchell has been a school librarian for 21 years. Charter & Private Come meet with other charter and private Emilee McCoy and Mariah Schools Meet & Greet school librarians and para-professionals. Gerlach are UELMA Board We will get to know each other, plan ways Members as well as librarians at COLLABORATE to collaborate and support each other charter schools. They hope to build Elementary | Secondary without the support of a district. a great communication platform of SuiteC Library Teachers | Paras charter school libraries. Engaging Students in UCTE English Quest is a state-wide Kim Irvine and Angela Woiwode language arts competition encompassing are both full-time English teachers Language Arts with acting, filmmaking, and visual arts in who have served on the UCTE UCTE English Quest addition to reading and writing. Session executive board and worked with attendees will learn what Quest is and how UCTE English Quest for several EXPLORE librarians can help teachers and students years. They are currently co-chairs uite D Elementary | Secondary field a team for their school for the 2019- of the event. Library Teachers S 2020 school year. They will also receive resources for hosting their own school- level Quest competition. Laurie Halse Anderson Purchase books from the King’s English Book Signing on Stage Bookstore located downstairs, or bring your own. ENGAGE Elementary | Secondary Library Teachers | Paras Library Supervisors Great Hall 9:50-10:10 Morning Break Will Terry Book Signing Downstairs 8 Session 2: 10:10 Description Presenters rd What is the future of our school libraries? Jim Wilson is in his 23 year in Where do we currently stand? Where education. He worked for 10 years should we be? How do we get there? This in Jordan and Canyons School State of the Library session will focus on the state of our Districts as a School Teacher Discussion school libraries, nationally and within Utah. Librarian. He is now working as the What is the Gold Standard for staffing and District Library Media Specialist in COLLABORATE operating a top notch school library? We Canyons School District. He serves Elementary | Secondary will focus on concepts and ideas that will on the PALS Board (Parents Library Teachers | Paras help our libraries remain relevant in our Advocating for School Libraries) Supervisors schools and in the eyes of our school, and is and active member of ULMS district, and state decision makers. (Utah Library Media Supervisors). In addition, he is a member of 101 UELMA, ALA, AASL, and ULA. Bridget Rees is in her 11th year of teaching. She taught middle and high school language arts for 8 years in the Canyons and Jordan School Districts, and is now enjoying her 3rd year in her dream job as a teacher librarian at Albion Middle School in Canyons School District. This hands-on breakout session will help Aubrey Rogowski is currently librarians learn the basics of STEM-rich pursuing a PhD in Instructional Making activities that can be provided for Technology & Learning Sciences at STEM in the Library teens in the library. Librarians will have the Utah State University. For the past opportunity to participate in coding and two years, Aubrey has been EXPLORE circuitry activities. Free digital resources working on an IMLS grant under Elementary | Secondary will also be presented. the direction of Dr. Victor Lee and 103 Library Teachers | Paras Dr. Mimi Recker to research how Supervisors STEM-rich Maker activities can be implemented in rural, small town libraries. Join us on our journey to transform or Wendy Haws taught English for 14 Creating a Diverse Book school into a more inclusive and years and is currently the Teacher Challenge in Your School empathetic environment. We'll walk Librarian at Central Davis Jr. High. through the steps we have taken to create, th th INCLUDE implement, and promote a Diverse Book Andrea Kemper teaches 7 , 8 , th Secondary Challenge in our school. Learn how a and 9 grade English. Library Teachers | reading challenge can impact your school. Supervisors BallroomA This innovative approach to reading Paul Woodin is the Media Dog Days: Reading with produces impressive data-driven results.
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