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WORKSHOPS
Ambassador Schu’s Review of Books for You and Your Readers, Too!
Mr. Schu (AKA John Schu)
Calling all elementary school teachers, librarians, and administrators! Join a conversation with Mr. Schu as he presents some of the best new picture books, early readers, and chapter books for emergent, transitional, and uent readers. In typical Mr. Schu fashion, he will share book trailers, websites, activities, and interviews you can easily incorporate into lessons and booktalks to get everyone on your campus hurrying to your bookshelves to nd the perfect book.
Best suited for grades K-6.
Culture Matters – Building a Schoolwide Reading Culture
Colby Sharp and Sue Haney
Parma Elementary School is a model school when it comes to making sure all students have access to books and are becoming avid readers. Colby Sharp and Sue Haney will share their e orts in creating a schoolwide culture of reading. They will share speci c strategies and practices to involve parents and students, ensuring access to books.
Best suited for teachers, librarians, and administrators. Grades K-12
Energize, Empower, Advocate!
Lindsey Kimery
Energize your school library with student-centered library programming that ignites students as readers and empowers them as leaders in literacy. Break down barriers, open doors, and establish your library as the heart of the school. Then, with advocacy tools in hand, you’re ready to share your library’s amazing story!
Best suited for middle-school librarians, teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators.
From Striving to Thriving: Strategies to Jumpstart Writers
Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger
Read it! Write it! Speak it! Writers Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger share frameworks designed to build skillful, con dent writers. Each strategy employs reading, writing, speaking and listening. Building on real reasons to write, see how this fun, e ective, and consistent lesson process gives all students a chance at success.
Best for K-8 teachers.
Playing With Equity: Connecting Kids, Text, and Technology
Antero Garcia
Through hands-on activities, participants will identify how to sustain culturally relevant teaching practices that support diverse students through play, storytelling, and technology. Explore multimodal texts from choose-your-own-adventure stories and audiobooks to graphic novels and videogames, like Fortnite. This session will explore how student reading is transformed through play and technology.
Best suited for teachers, coaches, librarians, curriculum specialists, and administrators. Grades 6-8.