FREE EXPO SEMINAR ON Future Forward School Libraries 

• They key components of AI literacy
• How generative AI tools are changing how students look for information
• Limitations and strengths of generative AI tools for informational synthesis and retrieval
• The role of library staff in supporting information literacy for students
• Key strategies for growing information literacy in an AI enabled environment

• benefits of 'gamification' in delivering a reading program
• diverse reading & literacy needs in various school contexts
• sharing ideas with colleagues

• Background to the Library at Fairfield High school. The most multi Cultural school in N.S.W.
• Why one cannot rely on Google and Social Media sites to do your research.
• Criteria for evaluating On Line Data Bases.
• How to make On Line Data bases easily accessible for both your staff and students to access.
• How to market the use of these On Line Data bases to staff and students to maximize their usuage.

• Why you should become an influencer
• Influence from the school library
• For the sake of the students

This session will outline the critical role that teacher librarians play in leading collaborative, whole school, high impact reading programs that support and nurture lifelong reading.

This session will:

• provide an overview of the SMART-ER Reading Program—a program informed by research, contemporary literature and student feedback.
• discuss advantages of implementation (whole-school model VS faculty-based model) 
• outline practical strategies that teachers and teacher librarians can use to support and celebrate student achievement of personalised reading goals.
• provide examples of contemporary reading response teaching and learning strategies.

Change is inevitable but maintaining relevance is a matter of choice! Join Library Consultant Kevin Hennah as he explains  how to breath new life into libraries while showcasing examples of dozens of schools that have actioned his advice on collection layout and learning spaces, achieving exceptional results.

• Responding to research by Deakin University and Margaret Merga to try and keep teens engaged in reading
• Switching from a ‘points-based’ reading program to something new – why make the change?
• My new reading program aimed at making reading a more social experience

• provide an overview of the PERMA model for wellbeing and how it has inspired collaboration between the Head of Learning Resources (school library) and ICT department
• reflect on the positive impacts of collaboration as a method of professional learning
• highlight research on libraries as wellbeing spaces in schools
• share our collaborative project(s)
• provide inspiration by sharing our future ideas and plans to continue our partnership

Geared toward Teacher Librarians but applicable to all teaching and non-teaching tech support roles in schools, this talk will outline how a partnership between the ICT department and the Teacher Librarians began and has continued as a result of the school’s positive education foundation. We will briefly outline our school-wide approach to positive education and wellbeing and how that influenced us, members of both teaching and non-teaching departments, to form a collaborative relationship underpinned by the PERMA model of wellbeing. We will share the process and products of this relationship (ex: a student-centred, self-paced online micro-credential built in our LMS, Schoolbox) as well as plans for future collaboration. We share our experiences with the hope that our unique partnership inspires others to reach across departmental boundaries to form collegial bonds that not only benefit student outcomes but sustain the wellbeing of teaching and non-teaching staff in schools.

nd out how to connect your school community to:

 

•     Rewarding online Global and Local Citizen Science projects 
•     Sustainable Development Goals
•     Authentic data
•     Science, information and media literacy