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Friday October 18
Session 1 10:30-11:30Ruta Sepetys - Putting Novels to Work - HS Author
Ruta's novels are published in over 40 countries and she has communicated with teachers, librarians and reading specialists in nearly two dozen nations. In this session, Ruta shares exciting examples and exercises of how teachers across the globe are using novels to enhance reading engagement, literacy, and learning.
Lorraine Bruce & Elizabeth Mills - “VIEW2: Valuable Initiatives in Early Learning that Work Successfully”
The presentation will focus on research that measures early literacy outcomes for children from birth to kindergarten. We are looking at innovative public library and school partnerships to promote literacy.
Lori Curtis - Rev up your Google Search Engine
Google Search fits right into the Common Core State writing Standards. Learn how to explain Google search to your students or teachers, including how Search works, advanced search, searching like you think, and more. Lori is a Google Certified Educator.
Julie Hembree - Go Genre in your Library
Do you love reading a particular genre of books? So do kids! Find out how to convert your library to genre based shelving similar to what is commonly found in bookstores and jump-start your fiction circulations!
Amy Cook & Committee - Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Conference in a Conference - aka - Mini-Me!
Join the WCCies as we share ideas to promote, invigorate and expand our students engagement in 20 wonderful books! have your dancing shoes on - we will be moving you around the room with mini-session - reminscent of elementary school centers - with a twist!
Jennifer Maydole - Choosing & Managing Your K-12 Digital Resources in a Maze of Information
Mackin's session will examine options for purchasing digital resources in an ever-changing environment. We'll look at the newest innovations, learn about a comprehensive management solution and gather practical tips on how to select the best e-resources available. We will also share the newest ideas for saving time and boosting circulation, facilitating teacher collaboration, gathering and understanding usage statistics and how to justify spending decisions, and more in this engaging, timely, hands-on presentation!
Kimberly Rose - Monthly Memos
A monthly memo can be a fairly easy and effective way to advocate for your library program. We’ll discuss various ways of doing a monthly memo, as well as the benefits seen in the Puyallup S.D.
George Dragich - Discovery--The Next Generation for Students/Staff to Find What You Have
Demonstration of the ground-breaking new integrated search service that brings together everything the library owns (ebooks, database subscriptions, OPAC, pretty much any digitized content) into a single, customizable HTML search box that can be located anywhere on a webpage! All content is sorted by relevance, regardless of producer, into a single results page.
Session 2 1:15-2:15
Jodi Kruse - Becoming Digitally Safe Citizens in an Era of Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking
Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking is becoming a more significant problem--especially along the I-5 corridor. Most young people are trafficked before they reach high school age. Media specialists can help by collaborating with Health teachers to discuss Internet safety as well as indicators that a young adult is being trafficked. Attendees will leave with assignments that are aligned with Common Core State Standards and Health Essential Academic Learning Requirements as well as a bibliography of resources.
Dennis Small - EdTech 101: No Teacher-Librarian Left Behind
Would you like to build or refresh your knowledge base about the connections between educational technology and information literacy? Join us for an overview of Washington’s edtech standards, assessments, and digital resources as we highlight their role with you as a teacher-librarian.
Richard Byrne - Discovery, Discussion and Demonstration
The wealth of free apps and websites can feel a bit overwhelming at times. In this presentation Richard Byrne outlines a framework for choosing and using technology that is appropriate for your classroom. This session provides a framework for technology integration in schools. Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking is becoming a more significant problem--especially along the I-5 corridor. Most young people are trafficked before they reach high school age. Media specialists can help by collaborating with Health teachers to discuss Internet safety as well as indicators that a young adult is being trafficked. Attendees will leave with assignments that are aligned with Common Core State Standards and Health Essential Academic Learning Requirements as well as a bibliography of resources.
Dennis Small - EdTech 101: No Teacher-Librarian Left Behind
Would you like to build or refresh your knowledge base about the connections between educational technology and information literacy? Join us for an overview of Washington’s edtech standards, assessments, and digital resources as we highlight their role with you as a teacher-librarian.
Richard Byrne - Discovery, Discussion and Demonstration
Barbara Soots - Guide to OER
Come learn about the explosion of Open Education Resources (OER)! These teaching and learning assets from around the world are free to use, edit, and share. Discover where to search for resources, discuss delivery options, licensing issues, and explore the role of teacher-librarians in supporting OER.
Mark Holtzen & Brian Crawford - Teachers Writing - An elementary and middle school teacher share their experiences writing and publishing their books.
Teachers Mark Holtzen and Brian Crawford both have a passion for language arts. They took it a step further—they published their own books. In this presentation they will share their respective stories, and how their school librarian encouraged them.
Lori Curtis - Getting Started with Twitter
Educators across the nation and world are connecting and sharing via Twitter. Attend this session to learn the Twitter lingo and how to connect with others. You'll leave knowing how to navigate #hashtags you see everywhere from conferences to TV.
Joan Enders - “The Military Life Of Joshua H. Bates: A Camp Lewis Soldier"
Who was Joshua H. Bates? Why does his life matter? Participating in this hands-on, small team activity, using a classroom-tested primary sources lesson, will show you why.
Leslie Bermel - New Release Books Your Students will Love - Middle & High School
Thousands of children's books are released each year; which do you choose? This booktalk highlights some of my new favorites among this season’s outstanding new or soon-to-be released titles (Fall and Winter ‘14). The talk will include discussion of possible classroom uses, target audience, and why these particular books are so appealing. Participants will have access to personally review the titles discussed and will leave the session with a detailed hand out. Door prize giveaway!This book talk will focus on new release books for middle and high school age students.
Joni Sensel - Travel Stories: On Foot, in Books, and Through Life
Writers, readers, and adventurers cross many thresholds together. Author Joni Sensel will discuss how travel has informed her life and her books, including her Farwalker Trilogy; how the hero's journey applies to both writing and reading; and how teachers, librarians, and writers together can help students cross thresholds into new and exciting adventures.Rachael McClinton - Island of Hope A young girl escapes oppression in the old world for a new life in America. But what happens to immigrants who are stranded on Ellis Island? Living Voices combines dynamic solo performances with archival film to turn history into a moving personal journey.
Dawn Prochovnic - My Hands are Full: How to Enrich Your Learning Environment with Sign Language
In this fast-paced workshop, you’ll learn quick and easy tips to enrich your learning environment with American Sign Language (ASL), and you’ll discover many literacy and behavior management benefits of incorporating ASL into interactions with hearing students of all ages.
Eric Ode - Dial 811 - Poetry to the Rescue!
A high-energy, hands-on
workshop filled with short, powerful, easy-to-implement activities designed to
expose children to poetry, poetic forms, and poetic literary devices.
Session 3 3:15-4:15
Dennis Small - Connect with the Common Core
Adopted by 46 states, the Mathematics and English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will go live in 2014-15. We will highlight areas where technology and digital tools are integrated with the CCSS, and discuss these implications for teacher-librarians..
Trish Henry - How to update your library for the 21st century on a limited budget
Interactive presentation is designed to share ideas on how to update and promote your library program. Presenter will share tools for collection analysis, collection development, and marketing strategies that will have everyone buzzing about their "new and improved" library.
Barbara Soots - Evaluating OER Quality and Common Core Alignment “It may be free, but is it good?”
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning assets from around the world that are free to use, edit, and share. The question of quality is one of the overriding issues in the OER field. To address that issue, Washington State has adapted rubrics and developed a process for evaluating OER materials for alignment with the Common Core State Standards. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at the rubrics and OER review process. Participants will discuss the results from the inaugural OER review cycle and we’ll do a deeper dive into some of the evaluated resources.
Margie Palatini - Skype Session - Elementary author
Margie Palatini is the award-winning author of more than three dozen very funny children’s books including Piggie Pie!, Bedhead, Sweet Tooth, Moosetache and Geek Chic (can you say Geek Sheek?). Three of her titles have been on the WCCPBA list, including the 2007 winner, Sweet Tooth. She will be appearing via Skype. Her presentation will highlight her writing process, and she will read excerpts from her books. Audience members will have a chance to come up to the mic and ask questions during the Q&A session. Autographed bookplates will be available.
Kathleen Davis - Fifth Graders and Pocket Camcorders: Promoting WCCPBA Nominees
A fifth grade library unit detailing how students work in teams to plan a short book advertisement to persuade younger students to vote for a specific award nominee title. Students practice summarizing and writing skills along with presentation skills and use technology to produce the videos.
Paula Wittmann - Puget Sound Council Best Books of 2012-2013 Middle and Jr. High School
Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's Books members will share reviews from the last year. The titles are chosen from top reviews of books - both fiction and non-fiction. Come hear about great books!
Heidi Rikard & D’Arcy Rowe - How to Genre-fy Your Library
Do you have students walking into your library asking questions like, "Where are all your scary books?" or "Do you have any other books like The Hunger Games?" Right now, you may answer, "Yes, we do, but they are located throughout the fiction section". What if your answer instead is "Yes. Come check out our SCARY section" or "You liked the Hunger Games? Well, I bet you will love these other dystopian books in this section." Come learn to genre-fy your fiction section and make your library come alive!
Kimberly Rose - Research without Regurgitation
Have you ever wondered how to get students to do research without simply having them “spit back” the facts in their final product? In this session, we will discuss various ways to have students actually DO something with the information they gather in their research. This way, the students will hopefully learn something as they are researching, rather than simply restating facts or copying from books. Feel free to bring questions and your own ideas to add to the conversation.
Rachael McClinton - Northwest Passages An immigrant family's turbulent passage to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s: travel with one young woman as she discovers the diverse, dynamic cultures of her community. A powerful multimedia performance that brings Washington State history to life.
Adopted by 46 states, the Mathematics and English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will go live in 2014-15. We will highlight areas where technology and digital tools are integrated with the CCSS, and discuss these implications for teacher-librarians..
Trish Henry - How to update your library for the 21st century on a limited budget
Interactive presentation is designed to share ideas on how to update and promote your library program. Presenter will share tools for collection analysis, collection development, and marketing strategies that will have everyone buzzing about their "new and improved" library.
Barbara Soots - Evaluating OER Quality and Common Core Alignment “It may be free, but is it good?”
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning assets from around the world that are free to use, edit, and share. The question of quality is one of the overriding issues in the OER field. To address that issue, Washington State has adapted rubrics and developed a process for evaluating OER materials for alignment with the Common Core State Standards. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at the rubrics and OER review process. Participants will discuss the results from the inaugural OER review cycle and we’ll do a deeper dive into some of the evaluated resources.
Margie Palatini - Skype Session - Elementary author
Margie Palatini is the award-winning author of more than three dozen very funny children’s books including Piggie Pie!, Bedhead, Sweet Tooth, Moosetache and Geek Chic (can you say Geek Sheek?). Three of her titles have been on the WCCPBA list, including the 2007 winner, Sweet Tooth. She will be appearing via Skype. Her presentation will highlight her writing process, and she will read excerpts from her books. Audience members will have a chance to come up to the mic and ask questions during the Q&A session. Autographed bookplates will be available.
Kathleen Davis - Fifth Graders and Pocket Camcorders: Promoting WCCPBA Nominees
A fifth grade library unit detailing how students work in teams to plan a short book advertisement to persuade younger students to vote for a specific award nominee title. Students practice summarizing and writing skills along with presentation skills and use technology to produce the videos.
Paula Wittmann - Puget Sound Council Best Books of 2012-2013 Middle and Jr. High School
Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's Books members will share reviews from the last year. The titles are chosen from top reviews of books - both fiction and non-fiction. Come hear about great books!
Heidi Rikard & D’Arcy Rowe - How to Genre-fy Your Library
Do you have students walking into your library asking questions like, "Where are all your scary books?" or "Do you have any other books like The Hunger Games?" Right now, you may answer, "Yes, we do, but they are located throughout the fiction section". What if your answer instead is "Yes. Come check out our SCARY section" or "You liked the Hunger Games? Well, I bet you will love these other dystopian books in this section." Come learn to genre-fy your fiction section and make your library come alive!
Kimberly Rose - Research without Regurgitation
Have you ever wondered how to get students to do research without simply having them “spit back” the facts in their final product? In this session, we will discuss various ways to have students actually DO something with the information they gather in their research. This way, the students will hopefully learn something as they are researching, rather than simply restating facts or copying from books. Feel free to bring questions and your own ideas to add to the conversation.
Rachael McClinton - Northwest Passages An immigrant family's turbulent passage to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s: travel with one young woman as she discovers the diverse, dynamic cultures of her community. A powerful multimedia performance that brings Washington State history to life.
Ilana Cone Kennedy - Change Begins With Me: Teaching about the Holocaust
While traditionally considered a lesson in history, it is through the study of the Holocaust that we can learn about bystanders, the dangers of intolerance, and the difference one person can make. Participants of this session will receive practical tools and resources to help them teach about this often sensitive and overwhelming subject.
Mary Jo Heller & Aarene Storms - Sex in the Library
Do you have sex in your library? Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) authors discuss recently-published book Sex in the Library and explain their unique and popular approach to talking to parents, teachers, administrators and librarians about selection, mission statements, censorship, and the power of school and public librarians working together. AND Get the steamy details about hot titles for teens!
Colleen Conway - What Will You Read Next? A Penguin Young Reader’s Book Buzz
Collection development and reader’s advisory librarians, book club leaders, and anyone interested in being the first to hear about the hottest titles coming from Penguin Young Readers won’t want to miss this presentation. Find out which titles you and your child, teen and (let’s face it) adult patrons will want to read next! ARCs, posters, and discussion guides will be available to attendees, while supplies last.
Collection development and reader’s advisory librarians, book club leaders, and anyone interested in being the first to hear about the hottest titles coming from Penguin Young Readers won’t want to miss this presentation. Find out which titles you and your child, teen and (let’s face it) adult patrons will want to read next! ARCs, posters, and discussion guides will be available to attendees, while supplies last.
Saturday October 19
Session 4 8:30-9:45
Sharon Draper - "Making Books Come Alive for Teen and Tween Readers"
Sharon M. Draper will discuss her Young Adult and Tween novels and their impact on readers. It is possible to engage and excite young readers, even for students who swear they "hate to read," as long as you know which books to offer them and how to capture their imaginations through action. She will discuss the necessity of literary value in children's literature, the importance of humor and immediacy, and the value of strong, positive role models for young readers.
Heidi Rikard & D’Arcy Rowe - How to Genre-fy Your Library (repeat from Friday)
Do you have students walking into your library asking questions like, "Where are all your scary books?" or "Do you have any other books like The Hunger Games?" Right now, you may answer, "Yes, we do, but they are located throughout the fiction section". What if your answer instead is "Yes. Come check out our SCARY section" or "You liked the Hunger Games? Well, I bet you will love these other dystopian books in this section." Come learn to genre-fy your fiction section and make your library come alive!
Justin Mckaughan - Introduction to Creating eBooks
The workshop covers how to put content into iBook’s author and sigil. The class includes uploading text, putting pictures, videos, widgets, and interactive content into an eBook, and how to get students publishing their own eBooks.
Keiko Kasza - Up Close and Personal! Elementary author
While working as a graphic designer, Keiko read Leo Lionni’s masterful work, Frederick, and she became interested in picture books. She began experimenting with picture books in her free time. Keiko compares the process of creating a book to acting on stage under the lights: “I become the character that I’m working on at that moment. I pretend that I’m a bird looking for a mother, or a pig trying to impress his girlfriend. When I’m acting, I’m a child myself.” Come hear more about Keiko’s sources of inspiration, her creative process and other interesting details about her life.
Mary Jo Heller & Aarene Storms - Sex in the Library
Do you have sex in your library? Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) authors discuss recently-published book Sex in the Library and explain their unique and popular approach to talking to parents, teachers, administrators and librarians about selection, mission statements, censorship, and the power of school and public librarians working together. AND Get the steamy details about hot titles for teens!
Carter Kemp - Washington’s New Non-Fiction Award
Come hear about Washington's new award for NF and Informational Text! Committee members will talk about the process of defining the new award and how we came up with the list of nominated titles.
Paula Wittmann - Puget Sound Council Best Books of 2012-2013 Elementary
Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's Books members will share reviews from the last year. The titles are chosen from top reviews of books - both fiction and non-fiction. Come hear about great books!
Lori Curtis - Getting Started with Twitter (repeat from Friday)
Educators across the nation and world are connecting and sharing via Twitter. Attend this session to learn the Twitter lingo and how to connect with others. You'll leave knowing how to navigate #hashtags you see everywhere from conferences to TV.
Jessica Von Wendel & Jamie Daniels - Think Before you Google: Teaching Online Research Skills
Middle School and High School Teacher Librarians share their favorite lessons on website credibility, the latest Google search tips, online organizers and how to utilize your library and teacher websites to aid in research/inquiry projects.
Jodi Kruse - Becoming Digitally Safe Citizens in an Era of Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking (repeat from Friday)
Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking is becoming a more significant problem--especially along the I-5 corridor. Most young people are trafficked before they reach high school age. Media specialists can help by collaborating with Health teachers to discuss Internet safety as well as indicators that a young adult is being trafficked. Attendees will leave with assignments that are aligned with Common Core State Standards and Health Essential Academic Learning Requirements as well as a bibliography of resources.
Martha Shinners et al - TLC3 Teacher Librarian Common Core Cadre Gathering and Check In.
Here’s a chance for folks who participated in August’s TLC3 trainings to meet with others from around the state. Bring ideas, share questions and suggestions for the next round of TLC3 trainings provided by the Washington State Library, IMLS Grant. Curious about the training? These are the folks to talk to.Session 5 10:00-11:15
Nancy Edwards & Kara Herber - Collaboration on the Iditarod trail
Learn how to use the Iditarod, Alaska's Last Great Race, as an engaging teaching tool for research, reading, and writing. How a teacher-librarian, teacher and musher collaborated on a multifaceted unit about the Iditarod.
Justin Mckaughan - How to get books for free or write grants for books and resources
The session covers how to identify community resources that will grant your library books and other resources. Writing grants for books and technology and strategies to find funding solutions for resources for library media programs.
Jay Asher - MS Author - Let's Discuss What's "appropriate" in Teen Novels Jay never thought much about why people want to ban books until he wrote the third most challenged book in the country. Now he has plenty of thoughts!
Jennifer Maydole - Choosing & Managing Your K-12 Digital Resources in a Maze of Information (repeat from Friday)
Craig Seasholes - Collaborators All: WLMA Panel Discussion of School and Public Library Collaborations Students and libraries both gain when school and public library cooperate. Craig Seasholes will moderate a panel to explore several successful public and school library collaborations from Washington including Mary Palmer of Seattle Public Library, TL Sandra Lancaster and Angela Morris of North Central Regional Library-Wenatchee, Michael Martin of Selah Public Library, Jerene Battisti of King County Public Library, Gwendolyn Haley of Spokane County Library System; and welcome online guests including Stephanie Ham describing the Nashville “Limitless Libraries” experience and Amy Mickel of Brooklyn NY describing the MyNYC.org collaboration in NYC.
Laura Simeon & Sarah Applegate - Northern Lights: What We Can Learn from Finnish and Swedish Library Services to Youth
We will share what we have learned from our research in Finland and Sweden about best practices in teaching literacy and information skills, diversity and gender in picture books and the power of children’s literature in a multicultural society, and collaboration between school and public libraries.
Mike Fleming - Evergreen Award
The Evergreen Young Adult Award is sponsored by WASHYARG. This review group began the award in an effort to give teens in the state a voice in deciding the best literature aimed at their age group. As more teachers and librarians use the list as a source of popular reading and to help their students fulfill required outside reading assignments as pleasurably as possible, we hope that more and more teens will discover their opportunity to voice their opinion to librarians and to publishers. Booktalks are presented and handouts available
Lori Curtis - Rev up your Google Search Engine (repeat from Friday)
Google Search fits right into the Common Core State writing Standards. Learn how to explain Google search to your students or teachers, including how Search works, advanced search, searching like you think, and more. Lori is a Google Certified Educator.
Leslie Bermel - New Release Books Your Students will Love - Elementary
Thousands of children's books are released each year; which do you choose? This booktalk highlights some of my new favorites among this season’s outstanding new or soon-to-be released titles (Fall and Winter ‘14). The talk will include discussion of possible classroom uses, target audience, and why these particular books are so appealing. Participants will have access to personally review the titles discussed and will leave the session with a detailed hand out. Door prize giveaway! This book talk will focus on new release books for elementary age students.
David Winklejohn & Sasquatch Committee - 2013 Sasquatch Reading Award List by local readers.
Interactive discussion of the book selection process and ways to use the list in your program.
Session 6 Workshop Blast 1:15-4:00
(yes, these are free, awesome workshops - plan to stay the whole day. pre-registration required)
Workshop Blast #1 - Kathy Dorr - Library of Congress - Preregister here (limit: 30 attendees)
Bring your Own Laptop for this session! Learn creative ways to connect literature with primary sources. Browse primary source sets and activities from the Teacher page. Explore www.loc.gov and search, save, and create your own sets from its vast collections. Share your findings and begin using books as hooks to primary sources with your students.
Workshop Blast #2 - How COOL is your Library? - Meghan Johnson, Laura Day, & Mark Ray - Preregister here (limit: 35 attendees)
Bring your Own Laptop for this session! Based on a successful activity at a WLMA Columbia Gorge Regional Meeting, this hands-on workshop will use future-focused small group discussions to develop a crowd-sourced Google Form survey that can be used for program development and advocacy. The ‘How COOL is Your Library?’ Project aims to help teacher librarians ensure that their programs and spaces are the best they can be supporting student learning, outstanding instruction and educational innovation. Serving both advocacy and program development outcomes, How COOL is Your Library aims to meet the following objectives: 1) Identify how to make your school library more Connected, Open, Outgoing and Learning-centered; 2) Assess perceptions of the school library program by stakeholders; 3) Connect with stakeholders to strengthen the school library program; and 4) Better position the teacher librarian to lead, teach and support student learning. Combining face-to-face and digital collaboration, participants will talk, share, post, review and walk away with a ready-to-use survey for their school.
Workshop Blast #3 - Angie Benedetti & Jerene Battisti - Preregister here
Once again join Battisti and Benedetti as they whet your appetite with this feast of new literature for teens and the readers who love them. This menu presents new fiction and non-fiction titles for middle school, junior high and high school readers. Each participant will take away a fully annotated bibliography of over 80 titles, which includes fantasies, biographies, fun non-fiction, historical and realistic fiction titles. Participants will also be made aware of recent trends in publishing and will have wonderful books to share with students.
Jerene Battisti is the Education and Teen Services Coordinator for the King County Library System and Angelina Benedetti is a Cluster Manager for the King County Library System.
Workshop Blast #4 - Three Hour Split (Britannica, Proquest, Informational Texts) - Preregister here
1:15 - 2:10 - Brady LaMotte - Collaborate, Engage, Empower:The Leadership Role of a Teacher-Librarian
Britannica Digital Learning will be presenting few projects and resources that Teacher-Librarians can use to provide essential leadership in their schools. We will talk about how these roles connected together, since they are almost always doing more than one of these items at the same time. The Teacher-Librarian is a Catalyst in the school. Next to the principal, the librarian is one of the few people who work with students and teachers, modeling new technology and strategies. They need to be seen as a resource and an ideal collaborator for other teachers and Britannica Digital has developed innovative resources designed to help Teacher-Librarians solidify their unique position in the school.
2:20 - 3:15 - Jeff Cutler - Making it Even Better -- New Content and Tools in ProQuest, Jeff Cutler, Sr. Account Developer/Trainer, ProQuest
Join us for a look at some exciting new content and new educational tools in Washington ProQuest resources, coupled with a review of ProQuest's best Common Core supports.
3:25 - 4:20 - Deborah S. Ford - Informational Texts and Where to Find them: Online Resources for Nonfiction and the Common Core State Standards
With the implementation of the CCSS, educators will be faced with an increasing need for nonfiction and other informational texts. By grade 4, 50% of what students read should be informational. By grade 8, the rate goes up to 55%. At grade 12, the rate is 70%. These standards are not just for English Language Arts classrooms, so what’s an educator to do? Where can you find the informational texts that are being required with increased rigor?”
Presented by: Deborah B. Ford, Junior Library Guild’s Director of Library Outreach, is an award-winning library media specialist and international speaker with almost thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher and librarian in K–12 schools. She is the former District Resource Librarian for San Diego Unified School District, which serves over 180 schools. Traveling across North America, she does seminars for the Bureau of Education and NEFLIN, including “Increasing the Effectiveness of Your School Library Program,” “Best Books of the Year,” and “Web Resources for Educators.”
