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Grant Writing Basics for Staff

Grant Writing Training for SWMS teachers

PrePlanning Presentation

Media Center Pre-planning PD for SWMS teachers

20 BC PrePlanning

SWMS 20 BC Preplanning PD for SWMS teachers

Sora Training & How-To's for Staff and Students

Setting Up & Using Sora

Database Training for Staff

A collaborative training was offered and provided to all staff on how to use our Gale databases and all the resources available. This training was offered by Mrs. Friday and Tammy Hettrich, our Gale representative.

Staff email tidbits they may have missed

Email to staff on how to use SORA

all the things.pdf

Email to staff about all the upcoming events

Resource & learning opportunity sent to staff

In January, an email was sent to all staff with a Destiny Collection created by Shannon Miller to use as a resource tool for Black History Month. This collection contains many readily available tools to use with students but it also has many tools to stretch our teachers such as using Pebble Go, Symbaloo, and a diverse book finder.

Destiny Collection Link

Learning Opportunity Available

Email sent to staff for them to come down and see the Makey Makey's in action and learn how to use them.

Presenting on Diverse Books at FAME 2018

Attended full conference and earned a certificate of completion. Also presented on using Destiny Collections and SSYRA. Attended some wonderful sessions on Fake News and the Read Woke program. I also completed the "Train the Trainer Makey Makey" one day full day training.

Presenting on Collaborating Across Curriculums at FAME 2019

Attended full conference and earned a certificate of completion. Also presented on Social Entrepreneurship, SSYRA, and spoke during author Christana Diaz Gonzalez's session about the importance of books in Spanish.

Presenting on the SWMS 20 Book Challenge at AASL 2019

Attended full conference and earned a certificate of completion. Attended some really amazing sessions on integrating Math in the Media Center and using Instagram to connect with students.

Presenting at FETC 2020

In January 2020, I presented on Collaborating Across Curriculums at the Future of Education Technology national conference in Miami, Florida. I also attended some really amazing sessions and trainings on Leading From Where You Are, Ozobot Classroom, the Wonder Workshop classroom tool, Social Media, and Teaching Memes among other sessions.

FETC: Collaborating Across Curriculums

FETC Presentation

Presentation on the importance of collaborating with every content area and some practical ideas of what that looks like in a middle school library.

Two part blog series written on inviting in district leadership published by Follett Community.

Email from another Media Specialist asking for help with a 20 Book Challenge of her own after AASL.

Destiny Collection was built and sent out to our school staff and across social media channels to provide resources for teachers and students to build their literacy and writing skills from home.

Destiny Collection was built and sent out to our school staff and across social media channels to provide resources for teachers and students to build their STEM, STEAM, & Engineering skills from home.

Several blog posts written and resources developed for Follett Community to share what's working in our school with others across the world.

Webinar for School Library Journal and Thorndike Press on literacy tips and how to get students reading using large print books.

Maker Magic Webinar where I taught colleagues all over the world how to enhance lessons virtually and/or in person with Maker Space and how it can be tied to all content areas.

A Culture of Literacy Webinar where I shared with colleagues all over the world how our 20 Book Challenge has revolutionized literacy at our school and how they can start one at their own schools.

Project Lit Book Tasting Slides & Training

I created a digital book tasting for all of our Project Lit slides and shared it through Social Media. Over 200 people requested help learning how to do it. I emailed them a video tutorial I created and some resources I built that would help them including websites I used, a start slide set, and a Google slide presentation full of transparent items.