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Cummings, Jennifer: Let's Get Serious About Play: Active Learning Spaces for Early Literacy and Elementary
Participants will learn why play is important, how it relates to school readiness skills, and various ways to implement active play in their libraries. The presentation will also feature Frisco Public Library’s active learning spaces, Tot’s Town (birth -5) and Kid’s Club (6-12).
Duncan, Alice Faye: It's Not Just Kids Stuff! (When and How to Use Picture Books with Pre-Teens and Teenagers)
Participants will learn "when" and "how" to implement the efficacy of picture books into Pre-teen and Teen Library Programming and Instruction. Participants will also receive a book list of picture books that should not be prematurely "shelved," but read aloud to inspire literacy and a love for language with older students beyond the primary years. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to plan a calendar of Holidays and Curriculum Tie-Ins where picture books will impact learning for the middle and high school student.
Duron, Hannah & Kristin Phillips: Turning Interest into Action: Getting Your Teen Advisory Board Up and Running
In this session, attendees will learn what one librarian did to turn a few scattered applications and lackluster levels of interest into a thriving Teen Advisory Board. We will talk about marketing, recruitment, communication, and give a sample agenda for a first TAB meeting, as well as discuss the role of the youth services librarian in empowering teens to have influence over library programming in their own community.
Faris, Theresa: Partnering with the Community: Tips for Prioritizing Your Library Needs
The positioning of libraries as “community spaces” has elicited interest from local organizations and businesses, eager to capitalize on the potential of offering programs. Libraries should take advantage of these community connections, but with limited staff, space, and time, saying yes to all of them is difficult. This session will help attendees become efficient in selecting excellent partners, establish clear expectations throughout the process, and decide when to politely decline.
Gaither, Kassandra: Little Reader's Book Club: A Preschool Prep Storytime
I will be going over planning and implementation of using a story time as an additional resource for caregivers getting their littles ready for preschool and kindergarten. Through this story time children will learn about sequencing, story elements, emotional intelligence, and literacy as well how to conduct themselves in a classroom environment and practice developmentally appropriate skills like tracing, cutting and pasting. At the end of the program, attendees will have resources for how to bring this type of story time to their libraries as well as templates to follow and plans to help them get started.
Griswold, Jennifer Coffey: Keynote "Who Cares? It's Just One Book!" Protecting Intellectual Freedom and the Fight Against Censorship
Kuentz, Sue: "Storytelling makes Reading and Writing come ALIVE!" Storytelling Workshop
Mayo, Leah: Embrace the Chaos
The teenage years are some of the weirdest and most wild for a lot of people. Logic is nowhere to be found and no one really knows what skibidi toilet means but it is certainly meaningful for the teens. While being the only adult in a room of 30-40 teens can be overwhelming at times, I am here to point out the beauty in that chaos and how engaging the teens more on their level can lead to much more positive results than focusing on policing their behavior. There is a way to follow the rules and still have fun!
Shepard, Sara: Lightning Title Talks with CATS (Kids and Teens)
Discover what's hot off the press and what trends to look out for in spring 2025 as your friendly neighborhood CATS manager booktalks the latest and greatest titles for kids from lots of different publishers. What are the upcoming season's buzziest titles? Can Sara get through at least 30 titles? Check out this session to get ideas for books your library needs to order for your book displays and book lists.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will be able to list at least 3 trends in children's publishing for spring 2025.
2. Attendees will be able to create book lists and/or displays with new titles centered around a theme.
3. Attendees will be able to recommend at least 1 new book to their library’s patrons.
Sidwell, Kelsey: Dungeons & Dragons as a Safe Space for Your Neurodiverse Teens
This presentation will address the need for low-tech tools like tabletop games to help neurodiverse teens learn communication and problem solving skills in a safe and low-stakes environment. Attendees will learn how tabletop roleplaying games help with this through looking at recent study results, examples from the presenter’s time as a game master, and the presenter’s own experience as an autistic woman with ADHD. Focus will be on why tabletop role-playing games are important to the neurodiverse community, but strategies for setting up a successful game that includes neurodiverse teens will also be discussed.
Warkentin, Andrea: Sing Your Way Through Storytime
Fake confidence as you expand the ways you include singing in your early literacy storytimes. Pick up tricks for adding songs to your storytimes, and learn how to select books from the 782.42s for your storytime rotation. If you have singing success--or horror--stories from your practice, of course we'll want to hear them!
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