SLS 2/2 - Bookish Byte from O²CM

There are only 5 more spots available for mini-grants to attend the NYLA-SSL Conference! Sign up today to reserve your spot. The School Library System will cover the early bird rate for NYLA members and two nights of hotel. SLS will send instructions for conference registration and room reservations. PLEASE WAIT TO REGISTER. The conference is taking place at the Lake Placid Conference Center - Lake Placid, NY. Please indicate if you plan on attending by March 22nd, 2024. Filling out this form indicates that you have permission from your administration to attend!

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Students in PreK - 6 grades, who complete 6 or more hours of non-school related reading from home, can earn one free ticket to Enchanted Forest Water Safari for the upcoming summer! Please follow this link for more information and to fill out the registration application for the program. Upon receipt of the application, Enchanted Forest Water Safari will email you with acceptance into the program, with further instructions to begin your program!

- Thank you Rachel Allen, Sandy Creek CSD for sharing with us!!

Apply for Reading Safari

Coming Soon to Google

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Classroom Groups

Later this year, educators will be able to define groups of students in Classroom. With these custom groups, teachers can assign different content to each group. This can help to differentiate lessons, activities, and assessments to students' needs.
Launch Timing: Coming later in 2024

▶️ Classroom Interactive Video Activities

Interactive question incorporation into YouTube videos for Classroom assignments. Includes multiple choice and open-ended question formats.
Students receive immediate feedback as questions appear during video playback.Teachers can track individual student progress on questions.
Available for Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Education Plus users.
Feature already launched, with upcoming AI assistance for question creation.

🦸‍♀️CNYSL SuperLibrarian Award Nomination 2024 OPEN

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Awards & Author Event: May 10, 2024

Do you know a librarian who is amazing? Are they innovative, creative, and are a true leader? Nominate them for the CNYSLibs Super Librarian Award.

Past Winners can be viewed here: https://sites.google.com/view/cnyslibs/super-librarian-awards

Due: February 20, 2024

Nomination Form

📚FREE Virtual NY Author Chats from CLRC/LILRC

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Feb 6 - Long Island author, Karuna Riazi, is an online diversity advocate, blogger, and educator. She is a 2017 honoree on NBC Asian America's Redefining A-Z list, featuring up and coming talent within the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community. Her work has been featured on Entertainment Weekly, Shondaland, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, Book Riot and Teen Vogue, among others. Karuna will share her journey in becoming a notable YA author and share some excerpts from a recently published book. Sign Up Here

Feb 27 - Author Talia Carner: The Boy with the Star Tattoo. "An epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans—to the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg." Sign Up Here

❗Author Visit Opportunity❗

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Meg Medina: Young People's Ambassador for Literature

If you are interested in having Meg Medina to speak to your students please use the form. There will be a fee associated with her visit that can be run through Arts in Education (approx. $2000) and this is a significant discount due to her being in the area for our Awards Celebration. There are 3 spots available on May 9th and May 10th.

Submit the Interest Form

📚The Book Nook

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From Underestimated to Unstoppable

Ashley Lamb-Sinclair. Arlington, VA: ASCD, 2022. 144 pp.

In K–12 education, your job title or place of work should not prevent you from offering unique insights and pathways for creating change. You have a voice. Working in education today is to continually be on the precipice of change. However, far too many educators don't recognize the power they have to control and shape that change into what's best for students. Individual contributions create collective change, and you are an integral part of the change inevitably happening around you. With that in mind, Ashley Lamb-Sinclair invites you to identify and examine your personal leadership style (or change archetype), which includes what motivates you, how you respond to adversity, how you position yourself in the larger story, how you help move that story forward, and how you deal with the unexpected.