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Popular paranormal author Maggie Stiefvater entertained conference attendees with humorous stories of her adventures and experiences as a writer. She's also a competitive bagpipe player!

https://www.maggiestiefvater.com

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Session 1: What's new in kid lit with Shirley Mullins

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Session 1: What's new in kid lit with Shirley Mullins

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Kids Ink bookstore owner Shirley Mullins shared the best new children's literature of the season!

http://www.kidsinkbooks.com

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Session 2: Geekspotting 2.0 Building a popular and diverse collection for your library

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Session 2: Geekspotting 2.0 Building a popular and diverse collection for your library

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This session focused on diversity in comic books/graphic novels.  While it didn't include any elementary suggestions, it was an interesting session.  I even added a few to my TBR list, although I don't typically read adult comic books.  Here are a few notable websites that the presenters recommend following:

The Mary Sue

Women Write About Comics

Black Girl Nerds

Latinx Geeks

Dark Matters

Blerds Online

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Session 3: Primary sources: Continuing the adventure

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Session 3: Primary sources: Continuing the adventure

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I attended a session by Colette Huxford last year on primary sources.  This year, she expanded her list of sites that she uses for primary sources.  There are some fascinating documents, podcasts, and videos available that are sure to pique student interest! She primarily uses primary sources for book talks, but I would be more interested in using them as tools for inquiry.  She had a great powerpoint presentation that can be located here:  https://tinyurl.com/yb8d9zdv

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A fun, interactive session featuring read alouds chosen by an AISLE committee.  Here are this year's books:
Early Elementary:
Nanette’s Baguette

Everyone Loves Bacon

Everyone Loves Cupcake

Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast

Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs

Grumpy Pants

Upper Elementary:

How This Book Was Made

The Water Princess

Middle Grades:

Wolf Hollow

Scar Island

Ghost

Ageless:

How to Read a Story

They All Saw a Cat

Daniel Finds a Poem

For lists from previous years, click here: http://www.ilfonline.org/?page=readaloudbooks

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I attended the AISLE (Association of Indiana School Library Educators) meeting. This was an informative meeting of school library advocates. There was discussion about the new AASL standards, as well ways to align with other organizations to promote AISLE.  There are several committees to serve on, including YHBA, Rosies, and Read Alouds Too Good to Miss. I would be interested in serving on one of these committees in the future.  To learn more about these committees, visit ILF:
http://www.ilfonline.org/?page=programs

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BONUS!  YHBA nominees for the  2018-2019 school year

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BONUS!  YHBA nominees for the  2018-2019 school year

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I did not attend this session, but grabbed a copy of the nominees.  They will be officially posted online soon!  http://www.ilfonline.org/?page=YHBA

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Session 8: Building teen minds through the Rosie Program

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Session 8: Building teen minds through the Rosie Program

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Fantastic book talks about each of the new Rosie Releases for 2018-2019.  Here are the nominees:

All We Have Left-Wendy Mills

The Assassin Game-Kirsty McKay

The Boy in the Black Suit-Jason Reynolds

Burn Baby Burn-Meg Medina

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose-Gillian McCain

Death Coming up the Hill-Chris Crowe

Denton Little’s Death Date-Lance Rubin

Flawed-Cecelia Ahern

Girl in the Blue Coat-Monica Hesse

Highly Illogical Behavior-John Corey Whaley

I Will Always Write Back-Caitlin Alfirenka and Martin Ganda

A List of Cages-Robin Roe

A Madness so Discreet: Mindy McGinnis

One Paris Summer-Denise Swank

Riders-Veronica Rossi

Saving Red-Sonya Sones

The Serpent King-Jeff Zentner

Starflight-Melissa Landers

The Sun is Also a Star-Nicola Yoon

Superman: American Alien-Max Landis

Sweet-Emmy Laybourne

Taking Flight-Michaela DePrince

Three Dark Crowns-Kendare Blake

The Way I Used to Be-Amber Smith

We’ll Never be Apart-Emiko Jean

Incentive ideas:
-Library displays
-REaDBox
-Speed dating with a Rosie
-Special display in the library
-Rosie book club
-Put ballots in the book
monthly/quarterly drawings for pizza party for students who read the most Rosies
-Film students make a trailer for each of the Rosies
-Book passports—for every ten books, you get an entry for an iTune gift card contest.

Only need 12 books in collection to participate.

Here is a link and video to last year's nominees:

http://www.ilfonline.org/?page=eliotrosewateraward

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This was a session that I felt like I really connected with. This was presented by a LMS and a 4th grade teacher. These two developed an after school Makerspace Book Clubs for grades 2-3 and 4-5. Using picture books as inspiration, students work through the inquiry process to solve a problem that was presented in the book. I saw many possibilities for using this type of lesson design, not just in after school clubs.  The LMS could share these ideas with teachers and collaboratively plan units for use during regular class time.  A website that they took inspiration from was Novel Engineering.

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Session 6: Love of literature in the classroom

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Session 6: Love of literature in the classroom

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This session was about incorporating high quality literature into classrooms.  The presenters were a LMS and a sixth grade classroom teacher.  Much of the content was focused on the teacher's use of Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart as an all class read-aloud.  I particularly liked how the teacher made connections with classic literature like Lord of the Flies and Robinson Crusoe  and how she planned to read excerpts with her students.

http://dangemeinhart.com

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I fell in love with the YA series Ashfall a few years ago, only to realize much later that author Mike Mullins is Kids Ink owner Shirley Mullin's son!  I purchased the first book in the series today so that I could receive an ARC of his newest book Surface Tension to be released 5/2018.

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Wow!  I learned that there are many components to Breakouts!  They are exciting and something I would like to try, but, man, do they require some serious preparation!  And organization!  Here are some valuable tips I got from two Breakout EDU masters:

Setup instructions:

-Watch the videos

-Laminate everything, use cardstock, organize!

-Put everything in # totes, label each piece with a coordinating #, use plastic bags & label the type of lock on the bag, can add instructions for resetting the locks

-Keep a record of locks/combinations

-Directional locks are difficult to reset

-Invest in an actual BreakoutEDU kit!  Worth the investment!  Customer service is top notch! Will send replacements for broken locks

-Seek out a grant to purchase multiple boxes

Where to find games:

-breakoutedu.com

-Facebook groups: BreakoutEDU general, history, science, language arts, math

Tricks to use:

-Background information before starting: kids want a good story!  Personalize it to your school, community, make it relevant

-Lock parking lot: a place where students park the locks once they are opened.

-Create set up cards with step by step instructions for each unit, include links and QR codes

-Give younger grades or new to breakout classes specific directions/guidelines before starting

-QR codes to videos, with tinyURL at the bottom

-Use Google Forms

-Invest in extra invisible ink pens “like a sharpie” and flash lights

-Take batteries out of the flashlights because the batteries will corrode, put them in separate bags

-Secret boxes with two separate drawers for hiding keys or clues $6 on Amazon

-Ciphers can be alphabetic/numerical or directional patterns

-Puzzle pieces with pictures, puzzle on one side, picture copied on the other, cut out & laminated

-Use crossword puzzles—web generated, use invisible ink over the letters that they need to unscramble, laminated crosswords with vis-à-vis markers (make 2 per group)

-Use clues from books or maps (for directional locks), have a picture w/info from a database with a date & location