May - My Webinar Month

I know it makes no sense to people who aren't yet retired, but it really does seem that I have had hardly a free moment since I retired last June and became a "teacher librarian in wild" (aka retired, consultant, volunteer, advocate, lifelong learner). This month, a good chunk of my time went to working on two webinars I co-presented. In case you missed them, I am sharing them here.

CSLA's Committee on Curriculum Standards Integration hosted three "Better Together!" webinars this spring. I was one of the co-presenters, along with friends Katie Williams, Sue Heraper, and Lisa Bishop, for "ESSA and School Libraries" on May 18. We talked about the impact of ESSA nationally, in California, and locally. For my part of the presentation, I spoke about ways to advocate locally, both in relation to ESSA and for any other forms of funding. Here is the archived recording.

I was also delighted and honored to join my friend Michelle Luhtala (@mluhtala) for her May 24 Edweb Webinar on ideas for motivating students to read over the summer and planning for ways to inspired them in the fall. The webinar was part of Michelle's monthly "Emerging Tech: Using Technology to Advance Your School Library Program" webinar series hosted by Edweb and sponsored by Mackin. This was Michelle's 77th webinar!

We shared a combination of our own experiences and a number of great ideas shared by other librarians we interviewed. You can watch the webinar recording at this link, the slides at this link, and all the resources we shared at bit.ly/edwebet77.