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June 8, 2020
Virtual Conference Schedule
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Coffee EDU (8:00 AM-8:30 AM)
Wake up and get ready for the day with coffee and collaboration! Join us for CoffeeEDU at 8:00 am.
Facilitator: Ge-Anne Bolhuis
opening session (9:00 AM-9:45 AM)
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Summer Institute Welcome
Holly Frilot, GLMA President
Opening Remarks
Cicely Lewis, SLJ Librarian of the Year
State LMSOTY Announcement
Wendy Cope
Grants & Awards Coordinator
Jennifer Lewis
LMSOTY Chair
Concurrent session 1 (10:00 AM- 10:30 AM)
Harvesting the Future by Mentoring Today: Supporting the Entire Career Cycle of LMS/ITS
Most new hires get ample support in their first year or two. Then they’re expected to know the ropes and work until retirement. But what happens in the in between years? Can we do a better job supporting the career phases of a SLMS? It’s a conversation long overdue!
Presenter: Ge-Anne Bolhuis
Audience: All
Category: Leadership
Graphic Novel Lunch Club: A Place to Belong
Have you considered sponsoring a lunch club? Now’s the time! You’ll hear the journey of one school’s first library lunch club, along with tips for implementing your own. See how embracing graphic novels gave students a place to belong and leave with all you’ll need to start your own.
Presenter: Tammy McIntyre
Audience: All
Category: Reading/Literacy
Favorite Apps for the Media Center and ways to Use Them
This session is designed around apps that I use in the media center and how I use them to collaborate with teachers to make student learning hands-on. Attendees will walk away with ideas that can be implemented in their media center next
year.
Presenter: Jo Nase
Audience: Elementary
Category: Tech Tools
Makers Gonna Make
This session will cover the ways maker projects can be used in the classroom to increase collaboration with other teachers. It will cover how maker projects can be used in multiple subjects and how to market them to teachers. The session will cover multiple types of maker projects from techy to non-techy.
Presenter: Meggan Ford
Audience: All
Category: Reading/Literature
Concurrent session 2 (10:45 AM- 11:15 AM)
Library Learning Commons Certification
Join this session for a discussion about the impact of the Library Learning Commons Certification in Cobb and how it can provide a focus for transforming your program for the future, too.
Presenter: Holly Frilot & Joanne Bates
Audience: All
Category: Leadership
Read Like a Peach
The Georgia Peach Book Award works to promote reading and literacy skills in teens. Each year, a committee of school and public librarians reads widely to choose a list of twenty nominated titles. Come learn about the recent winners and how to use GA Peach books in your library.
Presenter: Amanda Lee & Lori Hoover
Audience: High School
Category: Reading/Literacy
Blasting Off with Book Creator
Learn how to use Book Creator to help your students design amazing eBooks! Walk away from this session with ideas for projects to use in the media center or to share with your teachers, such as book journals, history timelines, and graphic novel retellings.
Presenter: Traci Costilow
Audience: Elementary
Category: Tech Tools
Sign of Our Times
Do you need fresh ideas on how to put signage in your Media Center? Maybe you've moved something and you're trying to make it more obvious. Displays are great, but helping students find materials easily, on their own, is key. Join a group of Media Specialists as they describe successes & failures & ideas on providing signage in the Media Center.
Presenter: Robbie Barber, Janie Kossak
Rocky Silverberg
Audience: All
Category: Reading/Literature
concurrent session 3 (11:30 AM- 12:00 PM)
Making Space for for Student Mindfulness and Stress Relief - the Next Role of the Learning Commons
Students are under more pressure (personal and academic) than before. What role can the learning commons take in helping students find balance in their busy lives? We'll talk about how IHS is trying to help students find that ‘sweet spot’ by providing space, support and tools to support wellness
Presenter: Kim Simshauser
Audience: Middle/High
Category: Leadership
Growing Readers One Book at a Time: Cultivating a Culture of Reading
We know that reading is fundamental, but it should also be fun! This session provides examples of how media specialists can generate excitement and interest in reading and books. From book clubs to BINGO, and one school, one book programs to FlipGrid, explore how media specialists can be literacy leaders,
Presenter: Rebecca Erwin
Audience: Elementary
Category: Reading/Literacy
Back to the Future: Sharing Tips to Help Your Journey Into Presenting
Do you ever think: “How do I keep up in this job?” or “How do they make those slides, videos, graphics, etc?”. Do you sit in sessions at conferences and think “I think I could do that.”? This session is for you! I’ll break down the essentials & show you how!
Presenter: Ge-Anne Bolhuis
Audience: All
Category: Tech Tools
Vote Woke: How to Empower Your Students to Become Registered Voters Using Books & Community Support
Join Cicely as she shares about how she used Woke Wednesdays to educate her students about voting which led to her winning The MTV Virtual Prom grant of $5,000 , free Virtual Prom, and a private virtual Zoom call with Michelle Obama and Jenna Bush Hager. She will share ways for educators to win $150 for their classroom and how to start a student led Voter Registration team at school
Presenter: Cicely Lewis
Audience: High School
Category: Reading/Literacy
concurrent session 4 (12:15 PM- 12:45 PM)
The Power of Advocacy
Learn how to advocate for your library program at all levels. This will be a discussion and hands on session to explore how advocacy can help your library program reach your goals. Come prepared to think and discuss what advocacy could look like at the school, district, and state level.
Presenter: Amanda Lee & Nan Brown
Audience: All
Category: Leadership
Perfect Strangers: How Public & School Librarians can Work Smarter, Together
Learn how a school librarian is working in conjunction with her public librarian peers to increase resource access, encourage more independent reading through a schoolwide reading program, and push families to participate in summer programs. Hear what works, what doesn’t, and walk away inspired to collaborate with a natural, and often untapped, partner.
Presenter: Sharon Britt & Don Giacomini
Audience: All
Category: Reading/Literacy
School Librarian as a Game Changer: Innovative Strategies to Inspire Teachers and Learners
Explore creative strategies to be your best cheerleader and demonstrate your value while growing your fan base, resulting in additional support and growth of resources for your school library. Actively participate in crafting strategic plays that correlate with core content areas using a variety of innovative equipment suitable for every budget. Learn advocacy strategies for your position, inspire teacher and administrator support, and develop a culture of innovation. Be the ultimate game changer!
Presenter: Stacy Brown
Audience: Elementary/Middle
Category: Leadership
More Support than Victoria's Secret - Support Digital Learning
As school librarians, we know how to support learning, but what have we learned about supporting digital learning? Let's share our stories about what strategies we've gathered during the last weeks and months as our job has been turned on its head. And what can we take from this experience into whatever lies ahead for the fall?
Presenter: Christa Deissler
Audience: All
Category: Instructional Strategies
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Closing Session (1:00 PM- 1:15 PM)
Closing Remarks
& Survey
Christa Deissler
Summer Institute Coordinator
Robbie Barber
Professional Development
Coordinator
Jennifer Helfrich
Summer Institute Chair
Happy Hour & Twitter Chat
#GaLibChat (8:00PM)
Join us for a virtual Happy Hour and Twitter Chat. Spend some time sharing with friends and colleagues what you learned today!
Pre- recorded, Asynchronous Sessions
Capstone Connect
Join Eric Fitzgerald, VP of Sales at Capstone Publishing & Jim Boon, Capstone Sales representative as they give you an exclusive "first look" at Capstone Connect. Capstone Connect is a new product that allows 6000+ pieces of read aloud content (aligned to K-5 standards) to be integrated seamless into your school or district's learning management system.
Supporting K-12 Students &
Educators with Gale Cengage
Director of K-12 Products, Lemma Shomali, shares with media specialists how Gale Cengage can support students and educators in all grades through online content in support of the curriculum and lesson planning. Gale In Context for Educators is the newest way to curate information and collaborate with teachers. See new content in eBooks collections to help build your virtual libraries. Learn how Gale Cengage can help enhance social and emotional learning for your students.
Convergent Evolution in Action
Let's go hands on and break down a complex process into an interactive game, pitting classes of animals against each other in the survival of the fittest.
Presenter: Cat Mills
For the Birds
In the For the Birds series by author, illustrator & animator Avery C.J. Tucker, Hattie and friends learn valuable lessons that are relatable to parents and children alike. Listen as Avery describes lessons using the books as well as author visits for all ages.
Celebrating 100 Years
with Bound to Stay Bound!
Join a multitude of authors and illustrators to help Bound to Stay Bound celebrate their 100th anniversary! Hear from Nick Bruel, Ruta Sepetys, Nicola Yoon and many more. BTSB will talk to media specialists about how they can help media specialists with both remote learning and delivery of materials during these trying times. Take a fun tour of BTSB and see the quality of their books!
Digging into MackinVia
Follow along with Glady Autry as she guides you through the MackinVia platform. From eBooks and audiobooks to videos and databases, learn how MackinVia can put all of your resources together in one place!
