SLS 3/7/25 - Bookish Byte from O²CM

Article: 35 Engrossing New Titles From Tomie dePaola, Candace Fleming, and More

Article: Turning the Page on Book Bans, a guest post by Ashley Hope Pérez

Article: The COVID Pandemic Five Years Later: Looking Back, Assessing the Ongoing Impact, and Moving Forward

Article: Teachers Cope With Endless Distractions

Article: What Teachers Should Know About Education Research

Blog: AI Student Learning Activities with Prompts! Interviews, Debates & More

Blog: The Six Biggest Mistakes I Made with Genius Hour (And How I Fixed Them)

Blog: Teaching Teens How to Separate Fact From Fiction

Blog: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students

Podcast: Personalize Learning with Playlist

Note: School Library Journal is provided to School Librarians in the O²CM Region.

Note: Edweek.org is provided to all educators in the O²CM Region

In Person Professional Learning

• March 10 - Library PD Day & Automation User Group (Open to All)
• March 11 - Communication Coordinator Mtg
• March 11 - SLS Council Mtg
• March 20 - Coding Across the Curriculum: Unplugged
• April 4 - Building Ethical AI Education with Ken Shelton: Systems, Analysis, Critique, and Care
• Apr 29 - Bots and Plots: Tackling AI in Student Writing
• May 2 - Pawns and Play: Boards Games in Elementary EDU
• May 9 - The Power of Play: Transforming Secondary Education with Board Games
• June 6 - Learn with Jennifer LaGarde
• June 9 - EduProtocols: Student Engagement Made Easy
• June 10 - Game-Changing Gamification in the Classroom

Virtual Professional Learning

• Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13 - Manga Goes to School Webinars
• Mar 4 - The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
• Mar 3 - The Promises and Perils of AI in Education
• Mar 4 - Intro to Civic Online Reasoning: Teach Ss to Sort Fact from Fiction Online Webinar
• Mar 6 - Developing Digital Detectives by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins
• Mar 12 - Reading Like a Historian with Digital Literacy Webinar
• Apr 7 - Elevating Educational Design with AI
• Apr 7-Jun 9 - Unleashing the Power of Canva (Group 4)
• May 6 - Building Critical Literacy and Empathy with Graphic Novels

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