Equity & Access
Professional Growth Day
Agenda
8:30-8:40 Welcome
8:40-9:25 Deborah Taylor, Award-Winning Librarian
- Memory, Reason, Imagination: an Exploration Through the Lens of Diversity
9:35-10:20 Breakout Session #1
10:25-11:05 Breakout Session #2
11:15-12:00 Pam Munoz Ryan, Award-Winning Author
- Beginnings, Belongings and my Journey to Books
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Breakout #3
1:50-2:35 Breakout #4
2:45-3:00 Closing
Breakout Sessions
DIGITAL CONTENT PORTAL (K-12)
Cindy Dunlevy
SDCOE offers a database bundle subscription to World Book, EBSCO, CA Streaming, and more. Come for a demo of these resources, plus a free 30-day trial. This is a computer lab session.
THE ART OF BOOKTALKING (4-12)
Jennifer Lawson, San Diego County Public Library
Are you tired of seeing your students stuck in a reading rut? Are you you looking to jumpstart the next reading craze at your school? Learn how to hook your students on new books with all the tricks of the trade!
Franklin Escobedo, Coronado Public Library
Lalitha Nataraj, Escondido Public Library
The Printz Award is given annually for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and we're fortunate that two local public librarians served on the committee last year. They will present an overview of the process and their experiences.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (K-12)
Jonathan Hunt, SDCOE
Open Educational Resources (OERs) is a fancy way of saying free stuff for educators. I'll give a brief overview of the OER movement and profile a half dozen of my current favorite OERs. There will be hands on time in the computer lab.
NONFICTION AWARDS (K-12)
Deborah Taylor, Enoch Pratt Free Library
The American Library Association sponsors a couple of nonfiction awards, the Sibert Award for K-8 and the Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award for 6-12. Learn how you can use these books in your school library program!
THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS (K-12)
Deborah Taylor, Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Coretta Scott King Awards were established in 1970 to highlight the work of African American authors and illustrators, and they are still going strong 47 years later! Come learn about the impact that this historic book award has had on equity and access!
ECHO (K-8)
Pam Munoz Ryan, author
Ryan will explore the evolution of her recent Newbery Honor-winning book, ECHO, from its opening note. The author will particularly highlight the research that she conducted in Lemon Grove.
MULTIMEDIA TEXT SETS (6-12)
Jennifer Currie, SDCOE
Text sets are a powerful way to support reading standards, and multimedia lends an added dimension. Since the school library media center is the repository for diverse media and formats, librarians can play a key role here.
NONFICTION FOR BEGINNING READERS (TK-1)
Cynthia Craft, SDCOE
Quick! Name the last nonfiction book you read to your first graders. Nonfiction text is a point of emphasis in the current standards. Learn about books and strategies to use with the youngest of our students.
FROM STRUGGLING TO STRIVING READERS: CREATING EQUITY AND ACCESS WITH MULTICULTURAL AND HI-LO BOOKS (K-8)
Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan, author and SDSU faculty member
Virginia's book, PAPER SON, is nominated for the California Young Reader Medal in the Picture Books for Older Readers category! She will discuss how to use this book as a lens to promote diversity, fostering equity and access. She will also discuss how to use her new 45th Parallel Press Hi-Lo books to help struggling readers became striving readers.
DEEPENING STUDENT LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING THROUGH POWERFUL READALOUDS (K-8)
Cherissa Kreider-Beck, SDCOE
Under No Child Left Behind, reading aloud was often shunted aside for an increased emphasis on skill-building. Model fluency, increase motivation, and deepen student levels of understanding through powerful readalouds. Learn about books and strategies!
REMOVING BARRIERS TO ENHANCE EQUITY & ACCESS (K-12)
Janice Gilmore See, La Mesa-Spring Valley
Learn to examine your library policies and practices that prove to be barriers to students - find alternative ways to reach them and make them feel at home in the library. What can we change, that doesn't cost a lot of money or time?
PASSION-BASED LEARNING (K-12)
Glen Warren, Encinitas Union
We ask kids late in their high school careers what they want to do with their life and for many of them it's the first time since show and tell in primary grades that what matters to them, matters at school. Tap into the power of student curiosity! This is a computer lab session.