Library Professional Development
Our second Media Academy is in the books, and we can't wait to see you next time! We still have 2 more dates. I will be reaching out to participants about your goal and how I can support. Please ponder the question, what is the value of diverse reading?
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February 4th, April 6th
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY PARAEDUCATORS
Course: MB - Paraeducator Area Concentration Library Media Technology
Course Number: 189591
Course Dates: 3/1/2021 - 5/26/2021
3 Renewal Credits
Course Cost: $180 (price point is lower than originally shared)
FYI: This course is designed for any paraeducators interested! For those with the Paraeducator Certification, the Library Media Technology course can be added as an Area of Concentration to a license and renew a license.
MACKIN AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Christian Robinson received a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street (by Matt de la Peña), as well as many other awards and honors for his beautiful picture books. Here, Robinson talks with Lisa Bullard about his newest New York Times bestseller, the restorative power of creativity, and finding the answer to what the world needs.
Check out the full interview here!
world read-aloud day in february
LitWorld and Scholastic are teaming up for World Read Aloud Day to be held on Wednesday, February 3. Find out about the event and register here. Make sure to share what you're doing with your administers - and with me! :)
fun apps to share
- Itch-a-Skitch - it's like the childhood toy but online (not quite though - I didn't spell the name wrong)
- Turtle Academy - activities to learn the Logo programming language (which is what Scratch is based on)
- https://blabberize.com/ - I mean this is just silliness ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Copyright BriefNotes Updated
Iowa’s Area Education Agencies have created an extensive, easy-to-use resource to help students and educators understand copyright laws and the associated rights and responsibilities as users of copyrighted information.
Two versions of Copyright BriefNotes are available to support students and teachers in virtual and physical classrooms. You are welcome to link to your school website or LMS.
A new version of Copyright BriefNotes for Students has been updated for 2021 and is available in a Flipbook and PDF versions.
Copyright BriefNotes for Students and Teachers includes the same content from the student version plus information that helps address copyright questions related to online and virtual learning environments, digital content, copyright permissions, and more. Copyright BriefNotes for Students and Teachers also is available in Flipbook and PDF versions.
Additionally, this year the AEAs have created a Copyright Decision Tree poster. This poster features a QR code to the flipbook version of Copyright BriefNotes for Students.
In The News
(The image is that of a shirt you can purchase to support Jewels Academy, a Des Moines-based nonprofit that serves underrepresented girls in STEM. Order yours here.)
Professional Library
Schools across the United States and Canada are disrupting the adverse effects of poverty and supporting students in ways that enable them to succeed in school and in life. In this second edition, Parrett and Budge show you how your school can achieve similar results. Expanding on their original framework's still-critical concepts of actions and school culture, they incorporate new insights for addressing equity, trauma, and social-emotional learning. These fresh perspectives combine with lessons learned from 12 additional high-poverty, high-performing schools to form the updated and enhanced Framework for Collective Action.
Emphasizing students' social, emotional, and academic learning as the hub for all action in high-performing, high-poverty schools, the authors describe how educators can work within the expanded Framework to address the needs of all students, but particularly those who live in poverty.
Equipped with the Framework and a plethora of tools to build collective efficacy (self-assessments, high-leverage questions, action advice, and more), school and district leaders—as well as teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and other staff—can close persistent opportunity gaps and reverse longstanding patterns of low achievement.
disrupt texts
If you're on Twitter, you may have heard of #DisruptTexts - it's an effort to update the traditional canon to be more modern, more inclusive, and more equitable for today's language arts classrooms. In November, Penguin Random House and the Disrupt Texts organization released a list of titles and teaching/learning guides for each one:
- At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorrell
- Frankly in Love by David Yoon
- What Lane by Torrey Madonado
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
- Patron Saint of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Consider purchasing these books for your library!
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What is a HyperDoc?
HyperDocs are digital lesson plans that are designed by teachers and given to students. They provide access for students to all content and learning in one organized digital space. HyperDocs shift instruction by giving students the content to explore before direct instruction, and by asking students to apply their learning using the 4 C’s: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. We can’t always do things the way we’ve always done them and we encourage you to consider, “What is it that I can do now that I couldn’t do before?”Have you ever made a Hyper Doc? Google's HyperDoc site has some great examples. Here’s an example ("Save Our Earth) and another (a beating heart!).
Holidays and Observances
JANUARY
January 25- Chinese New Year
MBAEA Media Center
Please email or call us at 563-344-6459 anytime for appointments, assistance with usernames/passwords or any other support you need!
Email: hwhitman@mbaea.org
Website: https://www.mbaea.org/
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Phone: 563-344-6526
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