CSLA 2020 State Conference

Research, critical thinking, and collaboration happen every day in your library. Are you interested in tracking and celebrating these foundational skills to help tell the story of each individual student? Discover ways to design and leverage digital badges in your learning space and help each learner power up their confidence and communication skills. Our goal is to have you walk away ready to issue a digital badge on Monday!

Frustrated and overwhelmed by the many hats you wear in the library? Sara Escobedo, Teacher Librarian at Warren High School in Downey Unified, will show you ways to find balance, engage students and teachers, and put the joy back into saying “yes!”

An overview of the best practices for curating a healthy library collection, expert guidance on developing a manageable weeding and replacement plan, keeping your wish lists and new purchasing up to date and bringing the Wow Factor back to your shelves. Find new ways to recruit and engage volunteers, get the word out about library wish lists and grow your collection along with yourself. We will use the CREW Method and attendees will receive a copy to take.

Discover the secrets of CSLA's Technology Award winner's educational technology practices. Find out the new school-worthy ed tech tools and uses. Tune up your ed tech competency.

Students grow up with powerful technologies to access, share, copy, generate, and collaborate on creative work in new and evolving ways. They consume media, but also create, publish, distribute, and critique. In this rich environment, students must interact with creative work ethically and legally. Whether they know it or not, copyright and fair use are directly relevant to these activities. Through our unbiased curriculum that positively focuses on creating and sharing, attendees will reinforce their own copyright knowledge, get answers to situations in education, and participate in student lesson activities.