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Conference Schedule
Co-Sponsored by: OCM BOCES SLS, CNY/Oswego County Teacher Center, Oswego County SLS, & Syracuse City Schools SLS
| Time | Event |
| 7:30-8:10 | Registration - Main Hall |
| 8:15-8:30 | Welcome - Ballroom |
| 8:30-9:30 | Keynote - We Need Diverse Books Gene Luen Yang - Ballroom From identifying trailblazers in the literary scene and comics world to outlining his own role in writing books, Gene emphasizes the importance of narratives that convey a multitude of cultural experiences. |
| 9:40-10:20 SESSION 1 |
How Comics Leads to Harmony Gene Luen Yang - Room 1/2 Through the lens of his personal journey with comics, Gene explains how we came to see a division between words and pictures and how comics teach us to bridge that gap. |
| Connecting Through Videoconferencing: Knowing Who and What to ASK! Amy Spath - Room 3 Videoconferencing is not only for classes for high school students, but also a great way to connect with Authors and Specialists to gain Knowledge. Using the ASK Program through videoconferencing, students will "move beyond basic reading comprehension and get them to tie what they are reading to their own lives and experiences - self to text." This program uses children's literature, journal writing, and interviewing techniques to promote reading for understanding. Come and learn about the possibilities for you and the students in your school! | |
| Maker Programming in Library Spaces: One Robot (Kit) Casey Coons - Room 4/5 In this program Casey Koons will explore the value that robotics kits bring to facilitating STEM programming in libraries with examples from various robotics kits, programs and exercises. He will show how even a single modular robotics kit can provide a platform for educational experiences across all subjects in the STEM fields, and one that neatly focuses and captivates students thanks to the project-based design of the lessons. |
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| 10:20-10:40 | Exclusive Vendor Time |
| 10:45-11:25 SESSION 2 |
Engaging Girls in STEM: A Summer Outreach Library Program Leslie Cartier & Lindsay Cesari - Room 1/2 This workshop will demonstrate how school librarians can develop a summer outreach program to tween/teen girls to get them interested in STEM concepts and activities. The workshop will also focus on strategies the school library can employ to sustain that interest and build female students' confidence in selecting and pursuing STEM fields. The workshop is applicable to school librarians serving upper elementary and middle or junior high school students. |
| Science Inquiry with Wildlife Wonders Jenn McDonald & Jana Silvestro - Room 3 This workshop will cover the process of obtaining our Fund for Teachers Grant and how we used our experience from that fellowship to create an outdoor classroom with a hands on science inquiry project in our school. | |
| Critical Inquiries for Critical Communities Karen Fenner & Sarah Fleming - Room 4/5 This workshop will describe our experience with a pilot course called Senior Scholars which was an independent study, online course at Westhill High School that focused on guided inquiry and research. The purpose of the course was to provide students with opportunities to engage in personally meaningful, self-directed, and collaborative research experiences using a guided inquiry approach. We will describe our goals for guided inquiry, the syllabus, student activities and products, the challenges, successes, and final presentations at a student symposium. | |
| Two Heads are Better Than One Penny Feeney & Alyssa Newton - Room 6 Join Alyssa Newton, Assistant Director at Onondaga Free Library and Penny Feeney, School Media Specialist from Onondaga Hill Middle school to learn about their creative MakerClub Collaboration. This collaboration between the public and school libraries not only created new learning opportunities for students but helped students understand that a library is also a great place to learn and explore their personal interests. Penny and Alyssa will share tips on how to create a successful partnership at your school, discuss grant opportunities their partnership provided and highlight the resource sharing network that empowered students to explore their passions year-round. |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
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| Time | Event |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:40-1:20 SESSION 3 |
New Books for Elementary the river’s end bookstore - Room 1/2 Hear about the best of the best for grades K-8 from Bill and Banna of the river’s end bookstore in Oswego NY. |
| A Quest for Change - Collaboration 4 Students Success Jing Xu - Room 3 Project based learning - “A Quest for Change” is designed to study Syracuse’s past and present peace makers, analyze and understand their positives impacts on our community, create messages and take actions of bringing a positive change to our community via many different methods in art, math, media, science and technology. From their research, students published books, built robots, conducted science experiments, designed billboards, created PSA health fitness messages, produced movie festival, and hosted a peace day event to spread the words of peace and advocate the community to make better living environment. With collaborative efforts, teachers and librarian at ELMS took leadership roles in facilitating this powerful learning journey for student success. |
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| Measuring Mastery Emily Zieno - Room 4/5 Participants will learn how to effectively measure student growth and mastery of grade-level Information Fluency Continuum benchmark skills. Various forms of assessments will be discussed as well as how to progress monitor and analyze the data to inform instruction and create differentiation strategies. Long-term management of student data and collected evidence will also be addressed. |
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| The School Librarians Role in implementing the NGSS Jessica Whisher-Hehl - Room 6 This session will provide participants with an understanding of the upcoming New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS), focusing on how school librarians can become an integral part in supporting student learning. The new standards call for students to engage in science and engineering practices to develop and understanding of science concepts. Specifically librarians will be a critical partner in supporting students engaging in obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. Additionally, librarians are well suited to support teachers in using technology to find and integrate into lessons data and resources to provide students with the opportunity to engage in evaluation and collection of evidence to support scientific explanations. |
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| 1:20-1:45 | Exclusive Vendor Time |
| 1:50-2:30 SESSION 4 |
ASK - 3 Steps to Advocating with Impact Sue Kowalski & Heather Turner - Room 1/2 Turn your accomplishments into a high impact advocacy plan. Join us to change the conversation with parents, administration, and your community into a positive vision of your program. You will leave with a plan to share your successes with your stakeholders. |
| Genre-Fication: Uncovering Hidden Potential Annarose Foley - Room 3 A middle school Teacher-Librarian will share the process and procedure she followed for genre-fication, a re-cataloging (but NOT re-shelving) of her fiction collection by genre, and the ways in which she has integrated this work with her instruction and collaborative partnerships. |
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| Helping Coders as a Non-Coder: Casey Coons - Room 4/5 In this program Casey Koons will discuss how to prepare a library for young coders. As librarians, we frequently find ourselves in the position of helping someone learn who knows a great deal more about the topic in question than we ourselves do. This can be especially daunting when the topic is computer coding. This session will explore how to gather resources and tools to provide learning experiences, practice and problem solving resources to those coders that come into your library. |
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| 2:40-3:20 SESSION 5 |
New Books for Secondary the river’s end bookstore - Room 1/2 Bill and Banna, long-time book mavens from the river’s end bookstore in Oswego, will share the cream of this year’s crop for grades 9-12. |
| Blended Learning Peri Nelson-Sukert - Room 3 Blended learning is a cross between "traditional" face-to-face instruction and online learning. There are many different models for blended learning, but all models are to help students become highly-engaged, responsible learners while teachers become guides and facilitators. | |
| Delving Deeper into the Social Studies Framework Marla Yudin & Barb Recchio - Room 4/5 Teachers will gain an understanding of the NYS C3 inquiries, as well as knowledge of the components of the Inquiry Design Model. Emphasis will be place on the seamless incorporation of Social Studies and ELA instruction. |
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| 3:20-3:30 | Conference Evaluations and Grand Prize Drawing |
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