FOR EVERYONE

• Acknowledging our implicit bias and helping students recognize theirs
• Banning books for prisoners
• Books and bikes – making both fun from Virginia to Texas
• Practice your handwriting – it is good for your brain!
• Connected Teaching for classrooms, workplaces, and communities
• More on the opportunity/achievement gap(s)
• Research: Urgent Call to Improved Reading and Literacy Instruction based on declining reading scores
• Designing active learning spaces
• Content is key to reading comprehension
• Enjoying wordless books

FOR TEACHERS
– Using your diverse classroom library
– Power of Intrinsic Motivation and how it helps kids fight off digital distractions
– Importance of teaching oral communication
– Making school events more welcoming for single parents

FOR EARLY EDUCATORS
– Resources to ease transition to kindergarten
– Screen time linked to lower brain development in preschoolers
– Report: Young Learners, Missed Opportunities on getting high quality preschool for all kids
– Talk, Read, Sing Initiative
– Children as Teachers
– Learning from successful HeadStart programs
– New research on early childhood brain development

FOR LIBRARIANS
– What can schools learn from evolution of public libraries
– Examples of libraries supporting their communities beyond books and computers
– Libraries as second responders
– What does it mean to be an innovative library
– Bringing the book mobile to the homeless shelter
– Data on uptick in library usage

FOR PARENTS
– Helping tweens learn to be independent thinkers while embracing trends
– Why talking while reading is key to brain development
– Tips and Tricks to build a lifelong love of reading
– What parents can do about bullying