SLJ's Innovator Basecamp Agenda
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SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp: Leading from the Library Build Key Skills to Speed Your Leadership Development, Establish a Network, and Take Your School Library to the Next Level. School Library Journal, in partnership with Simmons School of Library and Information Science, is pleased to present a new, full-day intensive learning experience: The Innovator Basecamp: Leading from the Library. Building on the decade-long success of the annual SLJ Leadership Summit, this program is designed to help foster a new generation of school library leaders. Learn how to enhance your skills to effectively innovate in the real world and shape yourself as the future leader that our school libraries need. Join a hands-on guided expedition to taking those first steps in a new setting or making that leap into leadership. In its inaugural year, we are especially excited to present this event in Boston at Simmons, a highly regarded and nationally ranked institution cultivating new library professionals and leaders through its school of library and information science, school library teacher program and Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. The multi-tracked day, presented in partnership with Simmons School of Library and Information Science, will be taught by nationally recognized library leaders including Roger Sutton, Joyce Valenza, and Michele Luhtala will cover how to embrace and integrate new technologies, become Future Ready, move ahead on Making and STEAM learning, and connect with children and teens where they are. The Innovator Basecamp will help you increase the impact of your media and information literacy lessons and take an expansive approach to programming. It will offer guidance and tools to maximize your collections, engage your students in reading, and build your expertise on all things kid lit. Take advantage of the opportunity to find a mentor and build a peer network of like-minded professionals that can help guide strong career choices. If you are you a new librarian or one that is ready to take the next step professionally, this program is for you. Join School Library Journal at Simmons College in Boston, MA, on May 20 for this daylong event. You’ll walk away with inspiration and strategies to advocate for yourself, your library, and for the youth you serve. Gain the opportunity to find a mentor, and build a peer mentor network of like-minded professionals that can help guide strong choices for your career.
SCHEDULE 8:00-9:00 AM | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 9:00-9:15 AM | ORIENTATION Eileen Abels, Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College Rebecca T. Miller, Editorial Director, Library Journal & School Library Journal 9:15-10:00 AM | KEYNOTE: THE INNOVATOR MINDSET Presented by Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Master of Information Program, Rutgers University (NJ) 10:00-10:45 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Topics & Trends in Collection Development Roger Sutton, Editor-in-Chief, The Horn Book
Luann Toth, Managing Editor, School Library Journal
Designing a (Developmentally Appropriate and Educationally Sound) Learning Space Laura Koenig, Team Leader for Children’s Services, Boston Public Library (Central) (MA) Essential Partnerships Amy Short, Director for Library Media Services, Cambridge Public Schools (MA)
SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp
10:45-11:00 AM | BIO BREAK 11:00-11:45 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS So, You Want To Be a Reviewer? Martha Parravano, Book Review Editor, The Horn Book
Online Research in the Era of Fake News
Michelle Luhtala, Department Chair, New Canaan High School Library (CT) Dynamic Community Partnerships Liz Phipps Soeiro, School Librarian, Cambridgeport School (MA) 11:45 AM-12:15 PM | CAMP I Speaker TBA 12:15-1:15 PM | LUNCH ( PROVIDED) 1:15-1:45 PM | CAMP II: FAST LEARNING Mastering the Author Visit Cathryn Mercier, Professor, Director of the Children’s Literature Program, Director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons School of Library and Information Science (MA) Snapchatting the Odyssey Amanda Lawrence, Teacher Librarian, Dartmouth High School (MA) 1:45-2:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Diversity in Collections and Services Mahnaz Dar, Assistant Managing Editor, School Library Journal
Sujei Lugo, Children’s Librarian, Boston Public Library (MA) App Smashing
Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Master of Information Program, Rutgers University (NJ) 2:30-2:45 PM | BIO BREAK 2:45-3:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Maker Spaces Sue Cusack, Project Director, Educator, Inclusive Use of Technology, Universal Design, School of Education, Lesley University (MA) Shaping a Multi-Media Collection for Collaboration Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes, Lesley University’s, “Classroom Bookshelf” bloggers 3:30-4:15 PM | CAMP III: WHAT’S IN YOUR BACKPACK? TOOL INVENTORY AND SPEED MENTORING 4:15-4:45 PM | CAMP IV: AUTHOR KEYNOTE Presented by Rita Williams-Garcia, award-winning author of One Crazy Summer and the forthcoming Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 4:45-5:30 PM | BACK TO BASECAMP: FIND YOUR NETWORK / SOCIAL
SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp: Leading from the Library Build Key Skills to Speed Your Leadership Development, Establish a Network, and Take Your School Library to the Next Level. School Library Journal, in partnership with Simmons School of Library and Information Science, is pleased to present a new, full-day intensive learning experience: The Innovator Basecamp: Leading from the Library. Building on the decade-long success of the annual SLJ Leadership Summit, this program is designed to help foster a new generation of school library leaders. Learn how to enhance your skills to effectively innovate in the real world and shape yourself as the future leader that our school libraries need. Join a hands-on guided expedition to taking those first steps in a new setting or making that leap into leadership. In its inaugural year, we are especially excited to present this event in Boston at Simmons, a highly regarded and nationally ranked institution cultivating new library professionals and leaders through its school of library and information science, school library teacher program and Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. The multi-tracked day, presented in partnership with Simmons School of Library and Information Science, will be taught by nationally recognized library leaders including Roger Sutton, Joyce Valenza, and Michele Luhtala will cover how to embrace and integrate new technologies, become Future Ready, move ahead on Making and STEAM learning, and connect with children and teens where they are. The Innovator Basecamp will help you increase the impact of your media and information literacy lessons and take an expansive approach to programming. It will offer guidance and tools to maximize your collections, engage your students in reading, and build your expertise on all things kid lit. Take advantage of the opportunity to find a mentor and build a peer network of like-minded professionals that can help guide strong career choices. If you are you a new librarian or one that is ready to take the next step professionally, this program is for you. Join School Library Journal at Simmons College in Boston, MA, on May 20 for this daylong event. You’ll walk away with inspiration and strategies to advocate for yourself, your library, and for the youth you serve. Gain the opportunity to find a mentor, and build a peer mentor network of like-minded professionals that can help guide strong choices for your career.
SCHEDULE 8:00-9:00 AM | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 9:00-9:15 AM | ORIENTATION Eileen Abels, Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College Rebecca T. Miller, Editorial Director, Library Journal & School Library Journal 9:15-10:00 AM | KEYNOTE: THE INNOVATOR MINDSET Presented by Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Master of Information Program, Rutgers University (NJ) 10:00-10:45 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Topics & Trends in Collection Development Roger Sutton, Editor-in-Chief, The Horn Book
Luann Toth, Managing Editor, School Library Journal
Designing a (Developmentally Appropriate and Educationally Sound) Learning Space Laura Koenig, Team Leader for Children’s Services, Boston Public Library (Central) (MA) Essential Partnerships Amy Short, Director for Library Media Services, Cambridge Public Schools (MA)
SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp
10:45-11:00 AM | BIO BREAK 11:00-11:45 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS So, You Want To Be a Reviewer? Martha Parravano, Book Review Editor, The Horn Book
Online Research in the Era of Fake News
Michelle Luhtala, Department Chair, New Canaan High School Library (CT) Dynamic Community Partnerships Liz Phipps Soeiro, School Librarian, Cambridgeport School (MA) 11:45 AM-12:15 PM | CAMP I Speaker TBA 12:15-1:15 PM | LUNCH ( PROVIDED) 1:15-1:45 PM | CAMP II: FAST LEARNING Mastering the Author Visit Cathryn Mercier, Professor, Director of the Children’s Literature Program, Director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons School of Library and Information Science (MA) Snapchatting the Odyssey Amanda Lawrence, Teacher Librarian, Dartmouth High School (MA) 1:45-2:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Diversity in Collections and Services Mahnaz Dar, Assistant Managing Editor, School Library Journal
Sujei Lugo, Children’s Librarian, Boston Public Library (MA) App Smashing
Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Master of Information Program, Rutgers University (NJ) 2:30-2:45 PM | BIO BREAK 2:45-3:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Maker Spaces Sue Cusack, Project Director, Educator, Inclusive Use of Technology, Universal Design, School of Education, Lesley University (MA) Shaping a Multi-Media Collection for Collaboration Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes, Lesley University’s, “Classroom Bookshelf” bloggers 3:30-4:15 PM | CAMP III: WHAT’S IN YOUR BACKPACK? TOOL INVENTORY AND SPEED MENTORING 4:15-4:45 PM | CAMP IV: AUTHOR KEYNOTE Presented by Rita Williams-Garcia, award-winning author of One Crazy Summer and the forthcoming Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 4:45-5:30 PM | BACK TO BASECAMP: FIND YOUR NETWORK / SOCIAL
SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp
