MSLA 2019 Conference: Full Schedule

8:30am EDT

President's Welcome

Speakers

Caroline Tucker

MSLA President, East Bridgewater Jr/Sr HS

Sunday March 31, 2019 8:30am - 8:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

8:45am EDT

Opening Keynote: The diversity road: Tales of a devoted traveler

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney shares in insider’s look at the bookmaking process, and imparts her wisdom on how to reach even the most reluctant readers through words and pictures.

Speakers

Andrea Pinkney

Author

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.Her books have been awarded multiple Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Jane Addams... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 8:45am - 9:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session, Featured Speaker

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading

9:45am EDT

Diversity among the stacks: Introducing social justice, equity, and inclusion through our collections and the readers we reach

This interactive session delivers hands-on strategies for engaging diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in your home, school, and community. With practical tools for educators and families, Andrea Davis Pinkney motivates participants to become engaged diversity practitioners in many facets of their lives —classrooms, living rooms, and libraries. The session provides tactics for confidently bringing diversity to others through books, over the long-term, and offers next-day strategies for implementing diversity and inclusion ideals right away.

Andrea will sign books in the foyer outside of the Worcester room after her session. Her books will be available there for purchase.

Speakers

Andrea Pinkney

Author

Sunday March 31, 2019 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Worcester

Featured Speaker, Listen & learn session

Audience Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Equity & Access, Books & Reading

9:45am EDT

Five kinds of nonfiction: Rethinking your book collection

Most children’s literature enthusiasts are naturally drawn to stories and storytelling, including fiction and narrative nonfiction. But up to 42 percent of elementary students prefer expository nonfiction. This session breaks down the five categories of nonfiction children’s books (four of which have an expository writing style), offers tips for updating book collections, and provides strategies for integrating a variety of nonfiction texts into reading and writing lessons.

Melissa's books will be available for purchase at the conference bookstore in Commons 2 and she will be there to sign her books at 3:45 on Sunday.

Speakers

Melissa Stewart

Author, Author

Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 180 nonfiction books for children, including Seashells: More than a Home, Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs, and Can an Aardvark Bark. She is the co-author, with Nancy Chesley, of Perfect Pairs... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Middlesex

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary

9:45am EDT

Getting to Know the (New) AASL National School Library Standards

Our session will combine presentation and interaction among workshop attendees. Participants will actively engage in a “crosswalk” of the AASL standard strands and indicators, and define and detail how the AASL Standards align to their current library instruction. Participants will leave with a template to continue aligning instruction to the standards, a ready to use prepared “persuasive message” to share their administrators, and a AASL standards resource list to continued exploration and personal professional development.

Conferences are always filled with so many wonderful presentations - and so little time to do everything you want to do. Feel free to join at any point that our session is in progress or to "get a taste" and move on to another session. We are flexible and welcome everyone. No matter if you stay for the whole session or a part of it, you will know move about the AASL Standards that are setting the standard for excellence in school libraries across the country.

Speakers

Chris Swerling

Interim K-12 Coordinator of Library and Media Services, Newton Public Schools

Chris Swerling is the Coordinator of School Libraries K-12 for the Newton, Massachusetts Public Schools and a former National Board Certified Library Media Teacher. She has given numerous presentations on school librarianship at state and national conferences and taught library science... Read More →

Mary Frances Zilonis

Retired

Mary Frances Zilonis is the former Director of Library Services for Wellesley Public Schools and former Director of the School Library Teacher Program at Simmons College and former Coordinator of the Graduate Library Media and Instructional Technology Program at Bridgewater State... Read More →

MSLA.NewStandards.19 pdf

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Sunday March 31, 2019 9:45am - 11:35am EDT
Wayland

Workshop Double Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Professional Learning

9:45am EDT

Making in the library

Making in the Library is designed to provide librarians with an exploratory overview of makerspace design and tool implementation. Through Novel Engineering, librarians can use literature as an enriching basis for students to engage in making.

Speakers

Laura Fradin

Education Specialist, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and OUtreach

Laura graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Biology in 2016. She then completed her Master's Degree in Education from the Technology, Innovation, and Education program at The Harvard Graduate School of Education. Laura has been part of the CEEO for over four years, working... Read More →

Elissa Milto

Director of Outreach, Tufts CEEO

Elissa Milto is the CEEO’s Director of Outreach and runs the Novel Engineering program as well as other CEEO outreach efforts. Before coming to the Center, Elissa was a classroom teacher, working with high school students with special needs. She began working with the CEEO in 1999... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 9:45am - 11:35am EDT
Ashland

Workshop Double Session

Audience Elementary, Middle
Area of Focus Learning Spaces

10:45am EDT

Greenlodge News

Greenlodge News offers fifth graders the opportunity to create and share a weekly news report with the school community. They prepare the script, record each other with a green screen, and use the app DoInk to put selected images and video clips together. Come to hear how we do it within the school day, and use our resources and ideas to create something similar at your own schools! Click here for presentation information.

Speakers

Sarah Bickel

Library Media Specialist, Dedham Public Schools

Sarah Bickel is in her third year as the school library media specialist at Greenlodge Elementary School in Dedham. Before that, she worked in a school library in Boston Public Schools. She embarked on her career as a school librarian because of her love of books and passion for education... Read More →

Greenlodge News Presentation pptx

Sunday March 31, 2019 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Carlisle

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Middle
Area of Focus Technology Integration

11:45am EDT

Lunch

Area and affinity groups are invited to sit together and meet during lunch.

Sunday March 31, 2019 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Lunch

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

12:45pm EDT

Adopting a MakerEd mindset: The role of libraries

Connections between doing, thinking, and feeling are vital in education. When teachers leverage tech-rich MakerEd using instructional strategies throughout the curriculum, students develop 4C skills and their learning engagement is evident. Based on an Eduporium pilot program in RI, we’ll discuss how to design classroom learning using MakerEd tools and embracing an innovative mindset.

Speakers

Edith Cricien

Eduporium

Eduporium is a fast-moving Educational Technology start-up on a mission to enhance the meaningful use of STEM technology in education. We work directly with schools, districts, and educational organizations to provide customized educational technology solutions that enhance experiential... Read More →

Irina Tuule

Lead Researcher, Eduporium

Irina Tuule is one of the Founders and Lead Researcher at Eduporium. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education as well as vast experience in pedagogical research and teaching at Russian and American Universities. She is passionate about bringing emerging technology to schools and... Read More →

MakerEd for MSLA March 31 2019 (1) pdf

Sunday March 31, 2019 12:45pm - 1:35pm EDT
Carlisle

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

12:45pm EDT

The Massachusetts School Library Study: Igniting advocacy

This session is for participants interested in learning advocacy strategies for school libraries to use in their schools, districts, and communities. Materials will be shared, and there will be time for participants to use the metrics available in the MA School Library Study to self-evaluate their own programs and develop advocacy action plans.

Speakers

Robin Cicchetti

Head Librarian and Capstone Teacher, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School

Robin Cicchetti is the head librarian at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School. In 2008 she transitioned her library to a learning commons and has been a passionate advocate for the model ever since. Her doctoral work focused on school libraries and specifically on the dynamic of... Read More →

James Lonergan

Director, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

James Lonergan joined the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) as Director in June 2017. Previously he was a Deputy State Librarian at the New Jersey State Library and held positions as a Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Museum and Library Services; as Associate... Read More →

Greg Pronevitz

Communications Specialist, MSLA

Greg Pronevitz is an independent library consultant working with the Massachusetts School Library Association. Until last July he was the founding executive director, appointed in 2010 the head up the newly formed Massachusetts Library System (MLS). In that capacity, he served on... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 12:45pm - 1:35pm EDT
Worcester

Panel Presentation

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Equity & Access, Advocacy & Community

12:45pm EDT

Us vs. STEM: Creating a positive and meaningful STEM program for all students

STEM is all the rage in libraries, where the task of creating, cultivating, and managing a thriving STEM program can usually fall on the librarian. However, with obstacles like limited budgets, wide student bases, and constantly changing technologies, STEM can seem more like an irritating buzzword than anything else. This presentation will share how one elementary librarian and IT specialist operate a 16-week iSTEM club that serves ALL grades (K-5) for ALL students.

Presentation can be accessed at www.tinyurl.com/powersmsla2019

Speakers

Kate Powers

Library Media Specialist, James M. Quinn Elementary School

Kate is the Library Media Specialist at the James M. Quinn Elementary School in Dartmouth, where her students have been named Best in State four times in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. Kate loves reading, writing, endurance running, craft beer, really good coffee, and traveling... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Ashland

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary

12:45pm EDT

Spot the fake: Using fake news to strengthen students’ information literacy skills

Fake news isn’t new: deliberate misinformation--disinformation in the form of propaganda, hoaxes and pranks--has been around for centuries. Today, disinformation is trickier than ever to identify, viral in scope, and often irresistible in its lure. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the telltale signs of "fake" news and the strategies to critique and question internet sources in a global context, try out online evaluation tools and review print materials that can be used with their students in grades 5-12, and access a curated array of resources that can be used for their own media literacy lessons and/or be co-taught with classroom teachers in English Language Arts, Social Studies, or Journalism. Link to our Google Slideshow.

Speakers

Deeth Ellis

Head Librarian, Boston Latin School

Ms. Ellis has been the head librarian at the Harry V. Keefe Library at Boston Latin School since 2013. She received her B.A. in History at Bennington College in Vermont (1987), a M.L.S. at Simmons College (2006), and an administrative license from Boston University through The Education... Read More →

Carolyn Jacobs

Senior Manager, Training and Educator Engagement, WGBH Education

Carolyn Jacobs is Senior Manager, Training and Educator Engagement at WGBH Education. Prior to joining WGBH 12 years ago, Carolyn taught ELL to adults in corporate settings and prior to that she owned and managed Chicago Parent NewsMagazine. Carolyn earned a M.Ed. in Reading from... Read More →

Lisa Rogers

Elementary Library Teacher, Wellesley Public Schools

Lisa Rogers is an elementary librarian and a former daily news reporter and editor. She has a BA in English literature from The College of William and Mary, an MA from Boston College in English Literature and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of... Read More →

Spot the Fake MSLA2019 pdf

Sunday March 31, 2019 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Wayland

Workshop Double Session

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School
Area of Focus Information Literacy & Research

1:45pm EDT

Confessions of a Punk Rock Book Jockey

It took Rebecca McCorkindale over 30 years to figure out what she wanted her career to be, and now that she’s in the library world, she has a lot to say. Even if you’re a reader of her blog Hafuboti, you may be surprised at some of her highs and lows – and some things that she hasn’t said until now.

Speakers

Rebecca McCorkindale (Hafuboti)

Assistant Library Director/Creative Director/Punk Rock Book Jockey, Gretna, NE Public Library

Rebecca McCorkindale is Gretna Public Library's Assistant Library Director/Creative Director/Punk Rock Book Jockey in Gretna, NE. Her blog Hafuboti has been one of the greatest joys in her life. It began as a tool to drive people to her Etsy shop, but then transformed into a fun... Read More →

Confessions of a PRBJ Presentation pdf

Sunday March 31, 2019 1:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Worcester

Featured Speaker, Listen & learn session

Audience Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Advocacy & Community

1:45pm EDT

Bringing the world to you

Curious about how to bring the world into your classroom? In this session, we will explore activities like Dot Day, the Global Read Aloud, Skype a Scientist, virtual field trips, and other opportunities to connect your classroom to the world. We will also see how tools like Padlet, Flipgrid, Seesaw, and Skype/Google Hangouts can support these connections, share where to find connections, and discuss ways in which to successfully structure collaborative activities.

Presentation URL: https://bit.ly/2Trih91

Speakers

Maya Bery

Library Media Specialist, Carlisle Public School

Maya Bery is in her eleventh year as the library media specialist at the Carlisle Public Schools. She is a past recipient of the MSLA President's Award, a PBS LearningMedia Local Digital Innovator, a PBS LearningMedia Educational Ambassador, a Seesaw Certified Educator and a BrainPop... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 1:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Ashland

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Middle
Area of Focus Technology Integration

1:45pm EDT

Fiction and narrative in science class

Research is beginning to show that reading science-related books for pleasure both predicts and boosts student persistence in science. What role can librarians play in encouraging students to try reading about science, and what are some fun, inspiring books that match the Massachusetts standards for grades 4-8? Come prepared to share ideas.

Speakers

Pendred Noyce

Publisher and author, Tumblehome Learning

Penny Noyce, MD was a founding trustee of the Noyce Foundation, which supported efforts in STEM and early literacy for twenty-five years until its spend-down in 2015. Penny trained as an internist and has worked to promote science education for 27 years. She served five years on the... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 1:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Middlesex

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading

2:45pm EDT

Let’s talk tough topics: Using books to start the conversation

Today’s literature for youth often presents and grapples with difficult issues. How do we capitalize on these books to engage students in deep thinking, meaningful conversations, and a greater experience of connection? Middle-grade and YA authors Padma Venkatraman, Elly Swartz, Linda Mullaly Hunt, Ann Braden, and monitor, Jennifer Richard Jacobson will share convictions, classroom experiences, and perhaps most importantly, how they handle sensitive or sticky moments when they arise.

Authors' books will be available for purchase at the conference bookstore in Commons 2. The authors will be there to sign their books beginning at 3:45 on Sunday.

Authors

Ann Braden

Author

Ann Braden writes books about kids trying to stand up for themselves even when life is hard. Her newest middle grade novel Flight of the Puffin prompted a coast-to-coast read aloud with over 30,000 readers in over 700 locations nationwide taking part. Her debut novel The Benefits... Read More →

Elly Swartz

Elly Swartz loves writing for kids, Twizzlers, and anything with her family. Her debut novel, FINDING PERFECT (FSG 2016) is about twelve-year-old Molly, friendship, family, OCD, and a slam poetry competition that will determine everything. In her second book, SMART COOKIE (Scholastic... Read More →

Jennifer Jacobson

Author

Jennifer is the author of many award-winning children’s books including Small as an Elephant (Parents' Choice Gold Award), Paper Things (ILA Social Justice Award) and her newest launch, The Dollar Kids illustrated by Ryan Andrews (Indie Next List and Amazon Book of the Month). This... Read More →

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Author, Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin

Lynda Mullaly Hunt is the author of New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree and Bank Street Best Book One for the Murphys. She’s a former teacher and has held writing retreats for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Connecticut with her husband... Read More →

Padma Venkatraman

Thursday Keynote Speaker

Padma Venkatraman is the WNDB Walter Dean Myers award-winning author The Bridge Home, a 2019 Global Read Aloud, which has been shortlisted for over 20 state book awards, as well as Born Behind Bars, A Time to Dance, Island’s End, and Climbing the Stairs. All her books have been... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2019 2:45pm - 3:35pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Panel Presentation

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading

3:45pm EDT

Exhibits & Bookstore

Exhibits are in the Ballroom South, the Promenade and Commons 1. The conference bookstore, run by Odyssey Bookshop, is in Commons 2.

Sunday March 31, 2019 3:45pm - 5:45pm EDT
Exhibit Area

Exhibits & Bookstore

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

3:45pm EDT

IdeaLab featuring MSLA Award Winners

SUPER LIBRARIANS:

Barbara Gogan, Peter Noyes School, Sudbury
Aaron Noll, Winship Elementary, Boston
Sheila Packard, Ward Elementary, Newton
Claudia Palframan, Dupont Middle School, Chicopee
Jen Mason Stott, King Open School, Cambridge
Sarah Woo, Holten Richmond Middle School, Danvers

PRESIDENT'S AWARD:

Sarah Bickel, Greenlodge School, Dedham
Ariel Dagan, Tri-County Vocational Technical, Franklin
Lynda Moylan, Peabody High School

ELLEN BERNE AWARD:

Margaret Schoen, Jennifer Dimmick and Katherine Steiger, Newton South High School

Sunday March 31, 2019 3:45pm - 5:45pm EDT
Worcester

IdeaLab

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

6:00pm EDT

Dinner, MSLA Awards and Dinner Keynote: Welcome, friends! Create and maintain a place where everyone feels especially welcomed

Welcome, Friends! brings together many important lessons Rebecca learned through both her decade of working in bookstores, and her seven years in a public library. From starting her career as a wannabe Children's Librarian to becoming the manager of the Gretna Children's Library, her insights will help school librarians feel more confident in their vital roles in their libraries and communities.

Speakers

Rebecca McCorkindale (Hafuboti)

Assistant Library Director/Creative Director/Punk Rock Book Jockey, Gretna, NE Public Library

More Welcome, Friends Presentation pdf

Sunday March 31, 2019 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session, Featured Speaker

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Equity & Access

7:30am EDT

Exhibits & Bookstore

Exhibits are in the Ballroom South, the Promenade and Commons 1. The conference bookstore, run by Odyssey Bookshop, is in Commons 2.

Monday April 1, 2019 7:30am - 1:30pm EDT
Exhibit Area

Exhibits & Bookstore

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

8:30am EDT

President's Welcome

Speakers

Caroline Tucker

MSLA President, East Bridgewater Jr/Sr HS

Monday April 1, 2019 8:30am - 8:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

8:45am EDT

Opening Keynote: I’m a good person! Isn’t that enough?

Using historical and media images, Debby examines how she used her white-skewed belief system to interpret the world around her. Socialized on a narrow worldview, Debby explores how she spent decades silently reaffirming harmful, archaic racial patterns instead of questioning the racial disparities and tensions she could see and feel. This presentation and dialog is designed to support white people in making the paradigm shift from ‘fixing’ and ‘helping’ those believed to be inferior, to focusing on internalized white superiority and its role in perpetuating racism at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels.

Speakers

Debby Irving

Racial Justice Educator and Writer

Debby is a white woman, raised in Winchester, Massachusetts during the socially turbulent 1960s and ‘70s. After a blissfully sheltered, upper-middle-class suburban childhood, she found herself simultaneously intrigued and horrified by the racial divide observed in Boston. From 1984... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 8:45am - 9:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session, Featured Speaker

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Equity & Access

9:30am EDT

Exhibit Hall Break

Have a cup of coffee in the exhibit hall while you visit our vendors.

Monday April 1, 2019 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Exhibit Area

Exhibits & Bookstore

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

10:00am EDT

Creating literacy environments: Every child a literacy learner

This session is about relevant literacy environments using low cost strategies that include evidence based literacy instruction and high quality literature to create literacy rich environments. The presentation will include examples from schools and highlight specific titles that will have students wanting to read. It will include both suggestions to alter the physical environment as well as how to create virtual spaces where students highlight and share what they are reading as well as spaces that motivate reading. The goal for the presentation is to explore strategies to create community literacy love that might increase the likelihood that a child or more will read and write more. Examples of strategies include Interest Development Centers (IDCs), Book Graffiti, FoundPoetry, and Pop Up Literacy Love spaces.

Speakers

Susannah Richards

Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University

Susannah Richards is an associate professor of education with a specialty in literacy and literature for youth. She was a member of the 2013 Newbery Medal and 2017 Geisel Committees as well as other award and literacy event committees at the state and national level. She regularly... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Middlesex

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading

10:00am EDT

Virtual Learning Commons (VLC): The digital heart of a school community and district

“Throw away your web pages,” says Dr. David Loertscher. This panel presentation showcases cultivating a VLC model as a school library web presence for reinforcing the role of the library as the “heart of the school community." Examples of K-12, VLC elements include information, literature, virtual “making”and knowledge building literacies will be highlighted. These serve as an integral to digital teaching and learning practices within a school and across a school district including access to high-quality digital learning resources.

Speakers

Morgan Van Clief

Library Media Specialist, P.A. Shaw Elementary School

Morgan is the library teacher at the P.A. Shaw Elementary School, a K-3 school in Dorchester. She has built the school’s library from the ground up and is passionate about providing underserved students with resources that will put them on a level playing field in the future. She... Read More →

Deborah Lang Froggatt

Director of Library Services, Boston Public Schools

Debbie is in her 6th year as Boston Public Schools Director of Library Services. Over the last 25 years, she served as a library teacher in all three levels, was a public library director and worked in academic and health science libraries.

Carolyn Jacobs

Senior Manager, Training and Educator Engagement, WGBH Education

MSLA 4 1 19 VLC Presentation 2 pdf

Monday April 1, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Ashland

Panel Presentation

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Professional Learning, Equity & Access

10:00am EDT

Equity Action Steps

We all want to provide equity in our libraries and schools, yet this is often an overwhelming challenge. Our responsibility as librarians is to provide a safe space for everyone, include diverse narratives in the collection and displays, incorporate diverse examples and topics when conducting research, and sensitivity of different needs when navigating the space or participating in events.

In this interactive roundtable session, we will explore small steps we can take that will have a large impact. Participants of this session will examine what equity looks like in a library space, collection, and program, and why one should perform an equity audit. The session will provide opportunities to brainstorm, collaborate, and leave with concrete ideas to take home and implement. Together, we will work to ensure that libraries truly are for everyone.

Speakers

Paige Rowse

Teacher Librarian, Needham High School

Wendy Garland

Librarian, Avery Elementary School

Wendy Garland is an Elementary School Librarian at the Avery School in Dedham, MA. She is currently participating in the AASL Induction Program. She was awarded the Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education Award in 2016 and the 2017 MSLA Super Librarian Award. She tweets at @dancelibrarian... Read More →

Equity Action Steps Workshop MSLA 2019 gslides

Monday April 1, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Wayland

Roundtable discussion

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Equity & Access

10:00am EDT

Leveling the playing field: Interrupting patterns of privilege

Using a series of pointed questions, Debby works with participants to build a graphic map of the groups people belong to because of social locations and historical roles in U.S. society. Participants will think together about how various groups have and have not had access to rights, resources, representation, and respect, ultimately revealing the social positioning and impacts of white privilege and dispelling illusions of a level playing field. Once the graphic has been created, Debby leads participants in an exploration of social beliefs, attitudes, and dynamics that perpetuate power and privilege patterns, even when best intentions are in play. Participants will leave with two powerful tools to analyze power dynamics and cultivate transformative cultures in their circles of influence.

Speakers

Debby Irving

Racial Justice Educator and Writer

MSLA WP Handout to Post docx

Monday April 1, 2019 10:00am - 11:50am EDT
Worcester

Featured Speaker, Workshop Double Session

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Equity & Access

11:00am EDT

Making Readers: How makerspaces can impact literacy

Want to bring the three little pigs to life? Have students build a house and test to see if the big bad wolf is strong enough to knock it down. Looking at real project examples and resources, attendees will learn how having a makerspace can add an entirely new dimension of literacy to the library. From storytelling to game design, students will be able to make meaningful connections to stories.

https://tinyurl.com/y8m58lfc

Speakers

Morgan Van Clief

Library Media Specialist, P.A. Shaw Elementary School

Deborah Lang Froggatt

Director of Library Services, Boston Public Schools

Paula Pickett

Library Media Teacher, Holmes Innovation School

Library teacher at Holmes Innovations School. Received at Heart of America Makerspace makeover in June2018.

Monday April 1, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Carlisle

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary
Area of Focus Books & Reading

11:00am EDT

Creating school libraries for everyone through community connections: A work in progress

Framingham Public School Librarians, the Assistant Superintendent for Equity, Diversity, and Community Engagement along with community partners from the Framingham Public Library and the Framingham State Whittemore Library will discuss the progress that they have made in connecting community resources to meet the diverse needs of Framingham students and families.

Access the presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fQBfCV9f-Y52mLadyvHUB9KM2QWUR1IY6frXMU8461U/edit?usp=sharing

Speakers

Elizabeth Thompson

Library Media Specialist, Cameron Middle School

Elizabeth Thompson is a reformed high school English teacher turned school librarian with an unhealthy obsession with The Great Gatsby. She has an MEd. from Boston College and an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island.

Monday April 1, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Ashland

Panel Presentation

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Advocacy & Community

11:00am EDT

Electronic resources are for everyone: What's new with statewide electronic resources

IDEAL, OverDrive, databases, oh my! Interested in finding out what these are all about and learning about what's new? Come find out what's new with the statewide electronic resources. Bring questions!

Speakers

Tressa Santillo

Electronic Resources Manager, Massachusetts Library System

Tressa joined the Massachusetts Library System team in 2016 where she manages the statewide databases and statewide eBook program. Previously Tressa was the Access Services Coordinator at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has also worked at the Worcester Art Museum.

Steve Spohn

Resource Sharing Director, Massachusetts Library System

Stephen Spohn has served as MLS Resource Sharing Director since 2013 where he is responsible for efforts related to print and digital resource sharing. Prior to joining MLS, Steve worked in academic libraries served as an independent consultant.

MLS Electronic Resources pdf

Galepages Refreshed pdf

Monday April 1, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Wayland

Roundtable discussion

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Equity & Access

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

Area and affinity groups are invited to sit together and meet during lunch.

Monday April 1, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Lunch

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

1:00pm EDT

Exhibit Hall Break & Jack Gantos Book Signing

Enjoy dessert and coffee in the exhibit hall while you visit our vendors. Jack Gantos will be available to sign his books, available for purchase from the conference bookseller, Odyssey Bookshop.

Speakers

Jack Gantos

Author

Jack Gantos is the author of over fifty books for children from the “Rotten Ralph” picture books, collections of “Jack Henry” short stories, upper elementary and middle school “Joey Pigza” novels, the “Norvelt” novels, and young adult novels: Love Curse of the Rumbaughs... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Commons II

Exhibits & Bookstore

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle

1:30pm EDT

Action research for the school librarian

In response to the recent Massachusetts School Library Study, the Action Research workshop empowers school librarians to conduct research within their own location. The workshop will present building the capacity, proper methodology, making peer connections, and time considerations, for conducting action research within the school library.

Speakers

Georgina Trebbe

Information Specialist/ Licenced School Library Teacher, Minnechaug Regional High School

Georgina Trebbe, Ed.D. is the school librarian at Minnechaug Regional High School in Massachusetts. She is also an adjunct instructor for Simmons University’s School Library Teacher program. Georgina’s area of study was the development of Intertwining as the value of concept woven... Read More →

SHARED Action Research MSLA 2019 Conference pdf

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Carlisle

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Professional Learning
about Georgina Trebbe, Ed.D. is the school librarian at Minnechaug Regional High School in Massachusetts. She is also an adjunct instructor for Simmons University’s School Library Teacher program. Georgina’s area of study was the development of Intertwining as the value of concept woven into information literacy.  Her interests also include school library collaboration and school librarians as researchers.

1:30pm EDT

Best practices for school and public library partnerships from the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP)

Amazing things can happen when schools and public libraries collaborate, from community read and homework help programs to cooperative collection development and staffing. But with limited time and support, how can school librarians create these partnerships and keep them going? MA Library System Consultants, Christi Farrar and April Mazza, will share partnership best practices from the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP), the national consortium of states that supports summer learning in libraries, gleaned from hundreds of member librarians and backed by research.

Speakers

Christi Farrar

Consultant, MA Library System

Christi Showman Farrar started her library career as a youth services librarian and spent a decade serving children, teens, and their families in public libraries. Christi now works as a Consultant for the Massachusetts Library System (MLS), where she gets to be a “librarian’s... Read More →

April Mazza

Consultant, Massachusetts Library System

April Mazza is a Consultant at the Massachusetts Library System, a state supported nonprofit organization. As a Consultant she works to support libraries of all types across the state, with a focus on school and youth services. In her role she teaches workshops, plans professional... Read More →

2019 MSLA presentation pdf

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Concord

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Advocacy & Community

1:30pm EDT

Making the library accessible with technology

Make your library accessible with free technology to help empower special needs students. Learn how to make reading accessible with audiobooks and text to speech technology and how to use Google Suite to help students with executive function challenges.

Speakers

John F. O'Sullivan

Library Media Specialist, Chelmsford High School

John F. O’Sullivan is a Librarian, an Assistive Technology Specialist, and an author of several books on educational and assistive technology. He currently works as the Chelmsford High School Librarian.

Making the Library Accessible with Technology (3) pdf

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Ashland

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Administrator, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading, Equity & Access

1:30pm EDT

PBS LearningMedia™: Hands-on and personalized

PBS LearningMedia, produced by WGBH and PBS is a free site offering thousands of digital resources for K-12 across the curriculum. Come for a guided tour and hands-on time, and leave with resources you can share with your colleagues. One lucky attendee will take home a bag of public media classroom goodies.

Speakers

Carolyn Jacobs

Senior Manager, Training and Educator Engagement, WGBH Education

Deborah Jordan

Librarian, Walpole High School

Deborah is passionate about bringing new resources to teachers and students, from online databases to amazing guest speakers. She has been the high school librarian at Walpole High School for 16 years. Previously, she served as the librarian at two schools in Hawaii. She is the advisor... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Worcester

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading

1:30pm EDT

The librarian as accomplice: Advocating for and supporting Trans/Gender Nonconforming and Nonbinary students

We often speak of being a good ally to our students but what does that mean? In this session we will explore our role in supporting and advocating for our Trans, Gender Nonconforming and Nonbinary students and how to move towards action and change. Session will include a brief overview of vocabulary and definition but please check out this vocab guide in advance.

Please note: the vocab guide was updated 3/27/2019

Speakers

Talya Sokoll

Library Co-Director, Noble and Greenough School

Talya Sokoll is a middle and high school librarian at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham. She holds a B.S. and an M.A. from N.Y.U. in English Education and an M.L.S. from Simmons College in Library Science. Her research is in representations of Queer and Trans teens in Young... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Middlesex

Listen & Learn Session

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Advocacy & Community

1:30pm EDT

Promoting OER resources & services at your school

Join this information-sharing roundtable as we discuss Open Education Resources and how to promote and sustain the 'Open Access Movement" in your schools.

Speakers

Tiffeni Fontno

Head Librarian, Educational Resource Center, Boston College

Tiffeni Fontno is the Head Librarian of the Educational Resource Center at Boston College. A former classroom teacher and school librarian, Tiffeni's areas of education interest are in Curriculum & Instruction, Children & Young Adult Literature, and Educational Technology.

MSLA OER pptx

Monday April 1, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
Wayland

Roundtable discussion

Audience Elementary, Middle, High School, Administrator
Area of Focus Technology Integration

2:30pm EDT

Closing Keynote: From reading to writing

The library was a second home for me as a boy, and as an adult I’ve written most of my books while sitting in a library. All good days begin when the front doors open at the BPL or Athenaeum, and when I say “good morning” to the librarians and staff, and then I sit down and open a book, and then I open my journal and pencase and work some words onto paper, and at the end of the day the library closes … yet my mind, even at rest, is always drifting around like the library cat.
The first portion of my keynote will march through my primary publications thus far—and cast an eye toward future projects.

My career has had it ups and downs. My first twelve books were rejected—mostly for the standard reasons: uninteresting characters, loopy plots, themes with no point, and problems with no solutions. The usual suspects for “rejections.” Most recently, I’ve had a different kind of rejection—an adult picture book—"A Suicide Bomber Sits in a Library”--that was in a prepublication state when it was perceived to be unsuitable for publication due to cultural insensitivity content, and thus the illustrated book was cancelled, yet the story continues to exist in the Amnesty International Anthology on ‘themes of freedom’ where it was originally solicited and published.

The cancelled illustrated version of SBSL will be the second portion of the presentation.

The third portion will be a question and answer session led by Sandy Kelly, MSLA Past President

Speakers

Jack Gantos

Author

Monday April 1, 2019 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

General Session, Featured Speaker

Audience Administrator, Elementary, High School, Middle
Area of Focus Books & Reading