Library Camp 2024

Elevate your impact in education with Scholastic’s session on representation in children's literature! Join us for an enlightening exploration into how diverse characters positively influence young minds both quantitatively and qualitatively. Discover strategies to select, integrate, and discuss inclusive books that reflect the richness of our world. This session promises to empower educators to create more inclusive and empathetic learning environments!

How can media literacy help us raise awareness, organize for change, and take restorative action? The Santa Clara County Office of Education’s grant-funded media literacy project explored this question while designing a media literacy and online critical thinking high school curriculum. This free curriculum includes a student-paced online course and a teacher-facilitated blended learning unit, both of which have been piloted by hundreds of high school students across three California counties. Session attendees will explore and experience the curriculum by engaging in interactive online activities, participating in discussions, and connecting to real stories. Educators will leave the session with full access to the curriculum, including strategies, resources, and examples to empower students to become critical media consumers and agents of social change.

Wondering when it's okay to reuse or remix other people's work? Confused by terms like copyright, public domain, fair use and Creative Commons? In this workshop, we’ll review these topics and discuss how to support making media that respects the rights of other creators. And you’ll learn how to find copyright-free media to use for your own work and your students.

AAW is an event that aims at bringing understanding and respect among the school community. Through readings and hands on activities the students and staff have a better understanding of the challenges students with different abilities encounter on a daily basis.

This session will focus on our youngest students, with an emphasis on resources that support early literacy. COMPASS staff will cover PebbleGo Science and PebbleGo Ciencia (duplicate resources in Spanish), tools that support the acquisition of literacy skills from TeachingBooks, plus National Geographic Kids and Britannica School and Escolar. These resources are designed for pre-K to third grade, as well as older students who may benefit from literacy supports.

Genrefication has been a school library buzz word for a few years now, but in practice, it's been around a lot longer, and not just in libraries. This session will describe what it is, the pros and cons, and how to do it and will also offer examples of genrefying on a smaller scale in elementary school libraries. Attendees will leave knowing not only how to genrefy their collections but also what questions to ask themselves to decide if it's right for their users.