2024 R10 Library Conference

During this session, you will learn how the librarians in Richardson ISD plan monthly to set up their campuses for success. After an initial summer meeting to make a basic outline, the librarians meet once a month to plan in detail for the following month. You will walk away with tools to get a system like this set up for your PLN.

This session will focus on the best practices for collection development, including a focus on local policies and procedures, tools available to help librarians with collection development, and the new Collection Development Standards adopted by TSLAC. Shawna will bring her experience as an ESC library services consultant, adjunct professor, and book vendor together to look at collection development from different angles.  

This session is designed to equip librarians and paraprofessionals with the skills and strategies necessary to improve students' vocabulary acquisition and usage. Participants will learn the latest research-based practices for building vocabulary skills and incorporating them into library and classroom instruction, as well as exploring practical techniques to engage students in learning activities that will create classrooms full of voracious “vocabularians” who become self-driven, word conscious learners.

Young children are naturally curious. They’re excited to soak up ideas and information about the world and how it works and their place in it. Some students remain passionate about the quest for scientific knowledge as they grow older, while others need our support to keep their enthusiasm alive. In either case, books have an important role to play. So, too, can podcasts. Many podcasts are structured as interviews that include personal information about the interviewee as well as their professional background and a discussion of their important work. This combination makes the podcast a perfect bridge between a biography and a fact-filled book about a particular topic. This interactive presentation by acclaimed STEM writer, Jennifer Swanson,  will take a look at how book pairs can be combined with podcasts to create text trios-- a cross connection between STEM and digital literacy. It will also show how introducing how introduction to STEM career path will open the eyes of the diverse and female learners to see themselves following this path with encouragement. And it will also show how you can get funding under the new U.S. Department of Education Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative.