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Tuesday, June 17
 

10:35am EDT

Findability: The Art of Access
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Sloane
Findability enhances students' ability to discover engaging texts or new books in their areas of curiosity or passion. Participants will receive examples of organized non-fiction sections, ideas for integrating findability into Dewey, structured action plans, classification suggestions, vertical approaches to findability, and examples of effective signage and labeling.
Presenters
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Nicole Solanki

Library Media Specialist
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Amanda Fox

Library Media Specialist
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Carrie Card

Library Media Specialist
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Sloane
  Reading/Literacy, Student Engagement

10:35am EDT

Soft Censorship: Identifying Its Impact Across School Levels
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Vernon
Soft or self-censorship is when we modify our book choices based not on our selection policy but on our school or community climate. Join us as a panel of elementary, middle, and high school librarians discuss soft-censorship. We will go over how to identify soft-censorship and how each of us handles it.
Presenters
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Robbie Barber

Teacher Librarian, Tucker High School
Dr. Barber is an electrical engineer from Georgia Tech who wandered into a school library. As a teacher-librarian, she works with high school students and teachers to find the best resources, use technology, and locate the perfect book. Dr. Barber teaches classes on using research... Read More →
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Dr. Sarah Sansbury

Library Media Specialist
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Nan Trowell Brown

Library Media Specialist
Nan Trowell Brown is a library media specialist in metropolitan Atlanta with 22 years of school library experience, including 15 years in middle school. Nan has served as an advocacy coordinator for GLMA since 2010, including presentations to state legislative committees and GLMA... Read More →
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Vernon 2 W Bay St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA
  Reading/Literacy, Student Engagement

10:35am EDT

Storytelling Reimagined: iMovie & Clips in Action
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Percival
Participants will learn to enhance student engagement through storytelling and technology. They’ll gain strategies for guiding students in creating a digital interpretation of Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears using Apple Clips or iMovie, integrating textual evidence, visuals, and narration to analyze key ideas and foster creativity.
Presenters
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Dr. Darcel Hogans

Media Specialist
Dr. Hogans is an Apple Learning Coach, media specialist, and instructional technology consultant with over 25 years of experience in K-8 education. She played a key role in helping her school become the first Apple Distinguished School in Metro Atlanta and specializes in storytelling... Read More →
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:35am - 11:20am EDT
Percival
  Reading/Literacy, Digital Resources/Tech Tools

11:25am EDT

BYOBF: Build Your Own Book Festival and Author Centered Events
Tuesday June 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:10pm EDT
Ballroom AB
Presented by the co-founder of NTTBF, Dr. Rose Brock shares a snapshot of the ALA award winning North Texas Teen Book Festival and offers how-to advice for school librarians interested in designing and developing a youth centered festival or author centered events of their own.
Presenters
avatar for Rose Brock

Rose Brock

Professor of Childrens's and YA Literature and School Library Studies, Sam Houston State University
Dr. Rose Brock is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University where she teaches children's and YA literature in the Library Science and Technology Department and the cofounder of NTTBF, the North Texas Teen Book Festival, the largest library run book festival for young... Read More →
Tuesday June 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:10pm EDT
Ballroom AB
  Reading/Literacy, Student Engagement

1:40pm EDT

Multimodal Literacy Experiences in the Media Center
Tuesday June 17, 2025 1:40pm - 2:25pm EDT
Verelst
With a renewed emphasis on multi-modal literacy experiences and applications, it is imperative we bridge literacy and technology in meaningful ways. In this session, participants will leave with innovative ideas of how to implement media experiences, literacy choice boards, reading incentives, and literacy leader sessions in their own school.
Presenters
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Amy Zock

Director of Instructional Technology
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Samantha Palmer

Media Specialist, DECATUR COUNTY SCHOOLS
Samantha Palmer serves as an Instructional Technology leader and Media Specialist coaching teachers and students in the new Media Hub and STEM center at Hutto Elementary in Decatur County, GA. Having earned her Specialist degree in Instructional Technology and Library Media she balances... Read More →
Tuesday June 17, 2025 1:40pm - 2:25pm EDT
Verelst
  Reading/Literacy, Digital Resources/Tech Tools
 
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