Friday January 31: Opening Dinner, Keynote and Awards

ICTC Ontario

5:30: Meet & Mingle

6:00: Welcome to TMC6Anita Brooks Kirkland

6:15: Dinner

7:15: Keynote Speaker – Eric Walters

7:45: Awards

The Angela Thacker Memorial Award: Alison Bodner, Alanna King, Sarah Wethered

The Leading Learning Implementation Award: Pembina Trails School Division,
represented by Jo-Anne Gibson

8:10: Kick-Off Challenge – Carol Koechlin

8:25: Closing Remarks – Carol Koechlin


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Saturday February 1: TMC6 Symposium

ICTC Ontario / Niagara

7:45: Continental Breakfast

8:20: Welcome to TMC6 – Anita Brooks Kirkland

8:30: Spotlight Speaker – Garfield Gini-Newman

TMC6 Assessment Survey

9:30: Canadian School Libraries – Anita Brooks Kirkland

  • A New Brand for Canadian School Libraries: Explore CSL
  • The Eric Walters School Library Summer Lending Challenge: Findings from the Research: Connect to the paper

10:10: Break

10:30: Table Talks – You will have the opportunity to participate in two table talks.

  • Table 1Innovation Grants: Supporting Professional Learning and Collaborative Inquiry in the Library Learning Commons by Rebeca Rubio
  • Table 2Getting on the train: a decade of shifting culture in the school library by Alanna King
  • Table 3Coteaching Revisited: The Replication Study by David V. Loertscher
  • Table 4Maker. Space. Inquiry. Place. What might be the connection? by Beth Lyons
  • Table 5Toward an Understanding of the Impact of Youth Involvement in Purchasing Resources for the School Library Learning Commons and Issues of Equity in Participant Selection by Diana Maliszewski
  • Table 6Connections between campuses: Creating a collaborative OCULA/OSLA information literacy toolkit by Heather Buchansky
  • Table 7The Benefits of a Participatory Learning Environment in the School Learning Commons by Patricia Baker
  • Table 8 Amplify Student Voice by Connecting Students to Each Other & the World by Jennifer Casa-Todd

11:30: Virtual Spotlight Speaker – Leigh Cassell

12:00: Building Connections Activity – Carol Koechlin

How will you invest your time?

12:30: Lunch

1:15: Spotlight Speaker – Deborah Dundas

1:45: Table Talks – You will have the opportunity to participate in two table talks.

  • Table 1Libraries and The New Basics by Christine Corso
  • Table 2 Ontario School Library Impact Project (OSLIP): Information Literacy from High School to University by Dianne Oberg
  • Table 3The Human Library at the Louise Arbour Secondary School Library Learning Commons by Jonelle St. Aubyn
  • Table 4#12daysbooksnbytes – Fostering Professional Participatory Learning Cultures with Literacy and Code by Melanie Mulcaster
  • Table 5If You Give a Kid a Camera: Participatory Visual Literacy in the LLC by Jane Dennis-Moore
  • Table 6Reflections in the Library Learning Commons: Collaboration by Jennifer Brown
  • Table 7Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy in a Racially Homogenous School by Rabia Khokhar
  • Table 8 Participatory Learning through Phenomenon Based Learning: Moving from the Learning Commons into the Classroom by Greg Harris

2:45: Short Break

2:55: The Big Think – David Loertscher

Table 1Table 2Table 3Table 4Table 5
Table 6Table 7Table 8Table 9Table 10

A School-wide Learning Commons

3:40: Closing Remarks – Anita Brooks Kirkland

3:50: Adjournment

Thanks for participating in the important work of TMC6!