School Libraries: The Power of Reading 27 VIRTUAL EVENT COST: $200 FOR MEMBERS NON MEMBERS $300 NOV https://slav.org.au/event-3696740HTTPS:SLAV.ORG.AUEVENT 3696748 Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. - Ruth Bader Ginsberg In partnership with the National Education Summit This virtual conference will be a fitting end to a year in which we have celebrated sixty years of the School Library Association of Victoria. We also celebrate the extraordinary ability of school libraries to be responsive and flexible during a year when school libraries have undoubtedly demonstrated their worth. Featuring special guests, researchers, creators and school library practitioners, this conference will explore big picture ideas and examples of best practice in light of the powerful way school libraries foster a reading culture. A note on the platform for this conference SLAV is very excited to partner with the National Education Summit to deliver our annual November conference virtually! The virtual platform we are using allows us to deliver a live, real-time, collaborative experience as close to face- to-face as you can get! It will be so much more than a webinar, allowing for lots of interaction, sharing, and live discussion. It will be a chance to meet with other teacher-librarians and library professionals, networking and speaking to each other, hearing from other passionate educators willing to share ideas with you. We’ll have a virtual tea break and lunch, vendor demonstrations, spotlight presentations, virtual drinks and the virtual exhibition to visit, where prizes will be on offer (via gamification), just like our real trade displays. To preview the platform, how to get around and the features click here The Virtual Trade Exhibition offers exciting possibilities for our trade colleagues. If interested please contact our National Education Summit partners - Sam Palermo 0402 053 309 or [email protected] Conference Program 8.30am Trade Exhibition 9.30am Welcome Di Ruffles, SLAV President 9.45am Keynote Address: The Power of Reading Ursula Dubosarsky, Australian Children’s Laureate 10.30am Morning Tea, Trade Exhibition 11.00am SLAV Awards 11.30am Concurrent Sessions ● Zombies, falling off cliffs, and much more! Story-based learning as a pedagogical approach Chelsea Quake ● First Nations’ oral histories: The power of listening – Our Land, Our Stories Sally Lawrence ● Agents for change – The Stella Sparks Program Lenny Robinson ● Caroline Chisholm Catholic College reading program – doing things differently to make a big change Hope Do and Gabrielle Douglas 12.00pm Featured Speakers George Ivanoff in Conversation with Adrian Beck 12.30pm Lunch, Trade Exhibition 1.30pm Featured Speakers Imagining the Teen Reader: YA Publishing and Bookselling Professor Katya Johanson and Research Fellow Bronwyn Reddan Discovering a “Good Read”: Cultural Pathways to Reading for Australian Teens Project 2.00pm Concurrent Sessions ● Personal geographies on the page- how lived experience informs the writing process Dr Cath Moore ● Rewarding reading Karin Gilbert, Rosalie Austin and Monica Williams ● Diverse representation in speculative fiction Erin Wamala ● Tim & Tigon – A tale of adventure and friendship on the Trail Of Genghis Khan Tim Cope 2.38pm Concurrent Sessions ● The evolution of a reading program Suzanne Flavin and Pauline White ● Read in order to live Lynda Santolin ● School library digital platforms: Supporting powerful reading Trish Trchala ● The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love – or is it? Davina Bell 3.10pm Featured Speakers Saroo Brierley and Sue Brierley in Conversation with Kristin Gill 3.40pm Conference Close Registration via the SLAV website Professional Learning page or https://slav.org.au/event-3696748 Keynote Address George’s books and stories have been shortlisted for numerous awards and he is thrilled that You Choose: The Power of Reading The Treasure of Dead Man’s Cove won the 2015 YABBA for Fiction for Younger Readers. Ursula Dubosarsky Adrian Beck was born in Hobart, Tasmania but is not related to Princess Mary. (As far as he knows). He is passionate about raising childhood literacy levels across the country and is a fierce supporter of the endangered teacher-librarian species. Adrian writes funny, action- packed adventure stories for kids. He is the author of the best-selling Alien Zoo series and the co-author of the best-selling kids’ series Kick it to Nick, with AFL Hall of Fame inductee Shane Crawford. Adrian has also written Stuff Happens – Dale, which tells the story of a redhead who gets teased once too often and plots revenge and his most recently released series follows the hilarious adventures of Derek Dool who thinks he’s supercool! All of Adrian’s stories are fun to read – even Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Sydney and wanted to for kids who struggle to get interested in books. be a writer from the age of six. She is the author of over 60 books for children and young adults and has won several national prizes, including the NSW, Victorian, South Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. Her work is published internationally and widely translated and she been nominated for both the Hans Christian Anderson and Astrid Lindgren international awards for children’s literature. She is the current Australian Children’s Laureate. Featured Speakers Terry Denton in Conversation with Adrian Beck Imagining the Teen Reader: YA Publishing and Bookselling Professor Katya Johanson and Research Fellow Bronwyn Reddan How does Australia’s book publishing industry understand teenage readers? As part of an ARC- funded project that investigates the different cultural pathways that teenagers take into reading for leisure, we interviewed approx. 30 publishing staff, literary agents and booksellers to better understand what they know or believe about how young people encounter books – and how this knowledge shapes their decisions. This George Ivanoff is a Melbourne author who’s written presentation offers insight into how publishing, marketing more than 100 books for kids and teens, including the and stocking decisions are made, and where the interactive You Choose series, the RFDSadventures and challenges lie for the book industry lie in getting the ‘right the Other Worlds series. book’ into the right teenage hands. As a child, George loved reading interactive books, Katya Johanson is Professor in Audience Research where he got to make decisions about the direction of in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at the story. He has had more fun plotting and writing the Deakin, with a background in publishing and research You Choose books than pretty much anything else. And for the creative industries. She is a Chief Investigator on writing the RFDSadventures has opened his eyes to the the ‘Discovering a “Good Read”: Cultural Pathways to amazing work done by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Reading for Australian Teens’. With Other Worlds George has ventured into the realms of science fiction and fantasy, two of his favourite Bronwyn Reddan is a Research Fellow on the ARC genres, in order to tell stories about ordinary kids facing project ‘Discovering a “Good Read”: Cultural Pathways extraordinary circumstances. to Reading for Australian Teens’. Her research examines father could start a business. As an adult, she married social and cultural histories of emotion and literature, with her husband John and after 16 years of marriage they a particular focus on fairy tales and women’s writing. adopted a child named Saroo from India. In 2012 their world changed completely when Saroo found his birth Saroo Brierley and Sue Brierley in Conversation mother in India, making global headlines. Sue embraced with Kristin Gill this as an opportunity to share her life and family choices with the world after Saroo wrote his best-selling story, A Long Way Home later inspiring the filmLion . Sue’s story, Lioness will be published in November 2020. Kristin Gill is the Publishing Manager - Young Readers, at Penguin Random House, she works with the publishing, sales and marketing teams to maximise opportunities for their books and authors. She has worked in the publishing industry - across Trade and Educational publishing- for more than 30 years. Concurrent Sessions Saroo Brierley was born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. In 1986, when he was aged only five, he lost all Zombies, falling off cliffs, and much more! contact with his family when he became lost and was Story-based learning as a pedagogical approach separated from his older brother at a train station in Chelsea Quake India. He never saw his brother again. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived In this session, you will be introduced to the concept of for weeks on the streets of Calcutta, before being story-based learning as a pedagogical approach and taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in engagement strategy. Real-world examples of ‘storified’ Australia. He grew up with his new parents in Hobart, units of work will be shown (Years 7 – 9), along with the Tasmania for the next 25 years. Saroo’s virtual odyssey digital material that was created to support the units. of his homeland and search for his hometown and his Student feedback will also be shared. mother made headlines across the world in 2012. His full story is recounted in his internationally bestselling The examples discussed will fall into the following autobiography, A Long Way Home, young readers’ learning areas: edition Lion: A Long Way Home and picture book Little Lion: A Long Way Home which is illustrated by Bruce • Year 8 STEAM Whatley. The film Lion, based on his autobiography, • Year 7 Digital Technologies was released in November 2016 and nominated for four Golden Globe and six Academy Awards, and won many • Year 9 Humanities (social engineering and urban other international awards.