Roanoke

Spring Regional Conference

March 20, 2018

Virginia Association of School Librarians

#VAASLRoSR
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 1st Concurrent Sessions

Roanoke Spring Regional Day at a Glance

8:00 am - 8:30 am
8:00 am – 10:00 am
8:30 am - 9:30 am
WiFi Password:
hi4624
*Ice water will be available
through lunch in the
Allegheny Room.
Registration 8:00 - 8:30 Allegheny Room
Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 10:00
Yogurt Bar, Pastries, Fruit, Coffee, Teas, Juices
Welcome to the Conference! Allegheny Room
Marcy Wohlford
Roanoke Region Director
Greeting from Laurie Bolt, VAASLPresident
Roanoke Region Librarian of the Year Announcement
Margaret Christle
Roanoke Region Director Elect
Guest Administrator
Keynote “STEAMing up the Library” Christina Coffey
IGNITE Announcement

9:30 am- 10:00 am Networking & Visits with the Vendors Allegheny Room
10:00 am- 10:45 am 1st Concurrent Sessions See Concurrent
Schedule
10:55 am- 11:40 am 2nd Concurrent Sessions See Concurrent
Schedule
11:45 pm- 12:40 pm Lunch Buffet Allegheny Room
Salad Bar, Potato Bar, Soups, Wraps, Dessert
12:45 pm-1:30 pm 3rd Concurrent Sessions See Concurrent
Schedule
1:30 pm- 1:45 pm Snack Break Brownies, Cookies, Popcorn, Drinks Allegheny Room

1:45 pm- 2:30 pm 4th Concurrent Sessions See Concurrent

Schedule

2:30 pm- 3:00 pm Closing Session and Door Prizes Allegheny Room
**Please return nametag holders at the door

Welcome to Roanoke and the regional meeting of VAASL. We hope you will enjoy a
day of informative group sessions, breakout sessions with great take-aways, friendly
networking, and plenty of good food.

Before you leave today, please take a minute to fill out the evaluation forms which can
be found in your registration packets and to sign up to help with next year’s
conference. Your participation is what makes our conference great. Also, please
stay for our Closing Session where you will have a chance to win a great door prize.

Thanks for being here and enjoy your day!

Marcy & Margaret


Digital Breakouts! They’re
Addictive (Part 1 of 2)
Doug Wickham & Alicia McGee
All
Alexa in the Library
Mary Boardwine
All
Capstone Content and How It
Relates to AASL Standards
Rick Beale
Elementary
Get Your Library On Ice!!!
Elizabeth Burns & Ellen McNair
All
New Makerspace by Monday
Ken Scheel
All
Literature and Research: a
Successful Collaboration with
the English Classroom
Megan Biggio
High
Digital Breakouts: Part 2 of 2
10:00 – 10:45 am
*Participants who attend this session must attend Part 2
during the 2nd concurrent Sessions In this session you will Grand Ballroom A
participate in a sample digital breakout, then learn how to
create your own using Google Sites, Google Forms, and more.
When you leave, you will have your own digital breakout and
ideas on how to create many more!
Using a third-party voice application device, Echo, I provide
multiple opportunities for students in the library. I will Grand Ballroom B
demonstrate how a low cost device can provide whole group
activities, intervention help, makerspace and small group
activities.
Join an informal chat regarding Capstone Community, a web
hub for educators to share and discover ways to Grand Ballroom C
use PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next. Also, new content in both
digital and print formats: Capstone 4D and a cool lesson plan
for Capstone’s Caldecott Honor Book: “A Different Pond” will
be discussed.
Not the frozen cubes, but the new National School Library Grand Ballroom D
Standards! Come learn all about Inquire, Include, Collaborate,
Curate, Explore, and Engage. We will unpack the new Learner
standards and highlight the School Librarian and School
Library standards.
Overwhelmed by the makerspace trend? Relax, it can be easy. Conference Room
Find out how to easily add interactivity or makerspaces using 1/2
wood KEVA planks. The hands-on workshop uses highlights
from top ranked sessions at education conferences and
science centers. Learn how to bolster literacy and STEM with
simple open-ended challenges. Students play and stay with
purpose.
This session will highlight many ways we have collaborated at Conference Room
LBHS and how you can too! You will learn about research 3/4
lessons, library/classroom literature connections, and
enrichment opportunities. This session will be led by a high
school librarian and two English teachers. Come hear
firsthand what is working and what is a challenge for grades 9-
12 including low level reluctant learners to AP level students.
2nd Concurrent Sessions
10:55 - 11:40 am
*Participants must have attended Part 1 during 1st Grand Ballroom A
Concurrent Sessions In this session you will participate in a
Doug Wickham & Alicia McGee sample digital breakout, then learn how to create your own
using Google Sites, Google Forms, and more. When you
All leave, you will have your own digital breakout and ideas on
how to create many more!
Future Ready With Destiny and Learn more about the transformative enhancements found Grand Ballroom B
Titlewave in Destiny and Titlewave. Track your sets and series with our
new tools. Curate any resource, on any topic, for any grade
Christopher Hutto level with Destiny Collections to facilitate collaboration with
your teachers. Make your resources more visible and
All accessible than ever before.

Top Ten Topics and Trends In this session we’ll explore ten hot topics and trends from Grand Ballroom C
advocacy through coalition building to LGBTQ in school
Audrey Church libraries to the new National School Library Standards. For
each topic, we’ll highlight at least three relevant resources.
All Fast-paced and information-packed, you’ll leave with great
ideas for your spring personal PD!

Coding, Makerspace & Digital
Citizenship: How To Implement
a Computer Science Program in
Your Library
Megan Graybill
Join this session to learn about ways to implement the new Grand Ballroom D
Computer Science Standards in your Library class time! We
will provide lesson ideas for coding, programming, looping,
animating and more! You will also get ideas to incorporate
Makerspace and overall do's and don'ts of implementing a
new Computer Science program.

Elementary

Librarian Resources for Exposing This presentation defines “fake news” and provides research Conference Room
Fake News studies from Stanford, classroom-ready lesson plans, videos, 1/2
checklists, and infographics from PBS, NPR and research
Paul Barron institutes appropriate for elementary, middle, and high
school students. With these sources, librarians will be able
All to guide students to detect fake news.

Teaching Tools Using World This session will unlock the valuable, but sometimes hidden, Conference Room
Book Online teaching tools available while using World Book Online. 3/4
Come see the latest gems found in this information literacy
Laura Brawley resource!

All

3rd Concurrent Sessions

Factcite Lincoln Library Online
with Virginia SOLs
Susan Gall
12:45 - 1:30 pm
FactCite is an affordable collection of databases with Grand Ballroom A
resources for elementary, middle, and high school students.
These databases cover Social Studies, English, Language
Arts, Science, Mythology and more.
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Teaching and Encouraging
Copyright Compliance
Kelly Passek
All
Putting Public Libraries To Work
For You
Beverly Blair, Public Librarian
All
Keeping the Customers Happy
Librarians from Salem City
Schools
Elementary
Using Question Formulation
Technique to Inspire Inquiry
Essential Questions
Alison Paulette
All
Izzy’s Fire: Humanity in the
Holocaust
Nancy Wright-Beasley
Middle
Get Your Library On Ice!!!
Elizabeth Burns & Ellen McNair
All
The Reveal: Virginia Readers’
Choice 2018-19
Tamara Teaff and Jane Fields
"Just because you know how to download music/copy a Grand Ballroom B
photo/paste information from the internet does not mean
that it’s legal!" Learn ways to direct, model, and teach
copyright compliance in your library in support of our
shared foundation of Engage, where we are committed to
demonstrating the “safe, legal, and ethical creating and
sharing of knowledge products.” While the presentation is
geared toward Secondary Librarians, Elementary Librarians
may also find some takeaways.
Come learn about online resources available to your Grand Ballroom C
students now; provide feedback on existing resources and
your WISH LIST for online resources; and learn how to
partner with your local public libraries. FREE STEM-BASED
BOOKS will be given away to attendees.
Come learn about a variety of resources used in the library Grand Ballroom D
to fit the needs of all students. An explanation of WHAT is
used and HOW it is used with students will be given.
In this session I will share how I have used the QFT Conference Room
successfully with high school students to develop essential 1/2
questions for research. Attendees will get access to the
Google slide presentation and handouts used with students.
Attendees will be completing their own QFT in order to
understand how the process works. MS, HS, Upper
Elementary
"Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust" & "The Little Conference Room
Lion: A Hero in the Holocaust," which are based on real 3/4
people/events, can be used to historically study the
Holocaust. These books have been used widely in
middle/high school and colleges in numerous states, as well
as abroad. A video will be shared about how read "Izzy's
Fire" changed one student's life forever.
4th Concurrent Sessions
1:45 - 2:30 pm
Not the frozen cubes, but the new National School Library Grand Ballroom A
Standards! Come learn all about Inquire, Include,
Collaborate, Curate, Explore, and Engage. We will unpack
the new Learner standards and highlight the School
Librarian and School Library standards.
Two members of the Virginia Readers’ Choice selection Grand Ballroom B
committee will give a brief book talk for each of the titles
chosen for the 2018/2019 list. The purpose of the VRC
program will be explained along with information about

Elementary
Be Smart Using T.R.A.I.L.S.
Cynthia Jeffress
All
Makerspaces: Getting Started
on a Budget
Librarians from Giles County
All
Building Positive Teacher-
Librarian Collaboration
Brooksie Kramer
High
how to participate in the program. The books on the
2018/2019 selection list will be reviewed and discussed.
Participants will receive an annotated bibliography of the
selected books.
Are you in search of assessments to use for your SMART Grand Ballroom C
goals that will produce lots of data? In this session
participants will learn how to use Tools for Real Time
Assessment Skills (T.R.A.I.L.S.) to gather data for their
SMART goals. Participants will leave with a free data driven
tool that covers the Virginia research Standards of Learning
and will make those goals SMART.
Come get some practical tips and ideas on getting a Grand Ballroom D
makerspace started with very little budget. Time, storage,
organization, ideas, etc. We have had makerspaces for
several years so we have learned a few things we want to
share with others. We all teach in combined schools--Pre-K-
through 7th grade...so it would be great for upper
elementary and middle school teachers, and possibly high
school teachers as well.
This session will explore how to set up positive collaborative Conference Room
teacher-librarian teams, focusing on inquiry projects that 1/2
combine information literacy skills and Virginia Standards of
Learning. Presenters will share best practices, lesson ideas,
and websites/Chrome extensions that enhance the
collaborative effort.
NOTES:
 Thanks to our Vendors

ABDO and Lerner Dolores Curtis

Accessit Library Bonnie Barr
Beale Educational Services Rick Beale
Bound To Stay Bound Janna Holden
Camcor Rodney Bailey
FactCite Lincoln Library Online Susan Gall
Follett Bernadette Londberg
Gumdrop Books Margo Jones
KEVA Planks Education Dr. Ken Scheel
Old Dominion University Elizabeth Burns
Perma-Bound Books John Zeller
Stop Falling Productions Sarah Hedrick
Virco Incorporated Brian Kirkwood
Virginia Lottery
World Book Laura Brawley

Special Thanks To
Kim Arrington
Angie Bock
Laurie Bolt, VAASL President
Vickie Daulton and the Holiday Inn Staff
Sarah Haskins
Kendel Lively, VAASL President-Elect
Rose McCarthy
Charles Richards
Leigh Shanks
State Standards Publishing
Joy Tarta
Our Amazing Presenters
All Door Prize Donors
 Certificate of Attendance

Certificate awarded to

5 Professional Development Points for Attendees

15 Professional Development Points per topic for Presenters

Virginia Association of School Librarians

Roanoke Spring Regional Conference
March 20, 2018

Roanoke Regional Director:

Marcy Wohlford

Your conference packet and program will verify your participation

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2018 VAASL ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2018

Gearing Up for the Future

Williamsburg Lodge
310 S. England St.
Williamsburg, VA

Keep watching for information and online registration- https://vaasl.org/

Conference Chair: Kendel Lively, President-Elect