Friday, July 30, 2021

Discovery Education: Back to School Webinars

Welcome Back to School 2021! 


Over the summer, Discovery Education released many enhancements to save teachers time and engage students with exciting new features and functionality! Register for one of the learning opportunities linked below to learn how your current Discovery Education Streaming service supports multiple learning modalities, new ways to spark curiosity amongst students, and more.  


Come and see all of the tools that are ready for you to dive in and explore, such as the redesigned Educator Supports tile and some of our most popular resources like Instructional Strategies, Studio Boards, and Current Events Channel. Each event features creative ways to save educators time and invigorate your instruction with ready-to-use materials while engaging your students. You won’t want to miss these sessions:  

DE Streaming: Back-to-School Webinars

Friday, July 23, 2021

September 11 -- 20th anniversary free digital poster exhibition

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum is offering libraries a free digital poster exhibition, "September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed the World."

September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed the World is a downloadable educational exhibition that presents the history of 9/11, its origins, and its ongoing implications.

The exhibition explores the consequences of terrorism on individual lives and communities at the local, national, and international levels, and encourages critical thinking about the legacy of 9/11.

Request your free download to receive:
  • Digital downloads for 14 captivating posters, featuring archival photographs and images of artifacts from the Museum's permanent collection
  • An invitation to free virtual training, including a live virtual tour of the Museum and information on how to use the Museum's online resources to supplement the exhibition
  • Access to the 9/11 Primer, an online collection of resources for educators and online learners, to help you supplement the exhibition. NOTE: A limited number of printed poster sets are available to libraries with limited resources or technological barriers. Printed posters will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis and will be shipped, free of charge, to libraries. Printed poster requests must be received by August 6.

Librarians and educators are eligible. Questions? Contact posterexhibition@911museum.org.



Learn More and Request Posters

SLJ Teen Live! What's Next - Free Virtual Event


Join School Library Journal on Thursday, August 5, 2021 for their tenth annual SLJTeen Live! virtual event!

With hope on the horizon of an unprecedented, traumatic year, educators, librarians, and students are wondering: Where do we go from here?

So much of adolescence is preparing for the future—college, careers, adulthood, the next grade—and that's even tougher when no one knows what the future will look like. As we adjust to a new normal, we must move forward while remembering where we’ve come from. After a pandemic and amid continued tragedies of racist violence, teens and adults alike are called to heal and grow, to learn more, and to further conversations about history and justice. Through it all, books reflect and illuminate our lives, telling boundary-pushing stories that take publishing to the next level. As teens consider what comes after childhood, we all must think about what the future holds for students and storytelling.

The conference’s author panels and library programming sessions will help you support and engage teens in this new moment and beyond.

 

Event Hours: 6:00 AM PST - 2:00 PM PST


For more information and to register, visit https://www.slj.com/?event=slj-teen-live-whats-next.

Can't make the live date? No problem!
All the sessions will be archived, and the virtual environment will be accessible for three months.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

The ERS Library's revolutionary CheckThisOut! service is back for its 6th year.

"One form, a school year's worth
of educational classroom resources!"

  Click Here to Sign Up!

Participation in CheckThisOut! (CTO!) is FREE and available to all staff at our contracting sites. Once you sign up, the ERS Library Team will begin curating monthly sets of materials especially for you and your students. These kits, which are based on criteria you select, will then be delivered to your campus (or via email if you select a "digital resources only" kit). Look the materials over, share them with your students, and use them to support your lessons. Four weeks later, place the kit back in your site's designated location and request a pickup. We'll deliver a new kit and pick up the old one. 

Kits are available in August, September, October, November, January, February, March & April. December and May are PICKUP ONLY months; all materials need to be returned to the ERS Library before winter & summer breaks.