John Green keynote | SLJ Summit 2017

The importance of caring adults in the lives of students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDOCrJl284

Author John Green opens the 2017 SLJ Summit in Nashville, TN, and speaks about many things, including the role of TLs as the last best defence against the false information, and the importance of teachers who extend caring to students with struggles.

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Author Shaun David Hutchinson keynote | SLJ Summit 2016

Diverse books are bridges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWr2d00i7_c

Shaun David Hutchinson, author of 'We Are the Ants' and 'The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley' delivers a moving keynote at School Library Journal's 2016 Leadership Summit on October 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. He speaks passionately about the bridges that diverse books can be in the lives of teens, and how teacher-librarians are the caretakers of those bridges.

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Forest Teen Committee Summer Reading List

Check out what teens should be reading! 

http://www.accessola.org/web/Documents/OLA/Forest/Resources/2019/Teen-Committee-List-2019.pdf

"Pump up your summer reading with our Forest Teen Committee Summer Reading List. Check out what teens should be reading - as chosen by the readers themselves!: http://bit.ly/ForestTeenList2019"