Advocacy Presentations (since 2009)

TUSD School Librarian Restoration Project - 2018-2023 (updated 10/17/24)

We Need You! Building Advocacy Coalitions. Solo and Panel Presentation(s). Arizona Library Association, Tucson, Arizona, and Amercian Association for School Librarians, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2019

Leadership: Many Roles for School Librarians. Panel Presentation. American Association for School Librarians, Phoenix, Arizona, November, 2017

Reach Across the Aisle: School-Public Library Partnerships Transform - Arizona Library Association Conference, Mesa, Arizona, October 2017

Advocacy for School Library Leaders: A Call to Action: Resources Wiki

Principals and School Library Media Specialists: Co-creating a Culture of Learning- Fayette County School Principals, Lexington, Kentucky, July 2016

Crowdsourcing: The New Bake Sale for School Libraries - April, 2016 at the Texas Library Association Conference

TEPSA - Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference, June, 2015

Learning Commons Think Tank with Dr. David Loertscher, Texas Library Association Conference, April, 2015

Advocacy for School Librarians: A Call to Action: Northwest ISD School Librarians, Fort Worth, Texas, August 2014

Principals Know: School Librarians Are the Heart of the School - Crowd-sourced Administrator Testimonials - Granted-funded Collaborative Project with Teresa Starrett, College of Education, Texas Woman's University, 2014

What Every Preservice Classroom Teacher Should Know about Working with the School Librarian

copresented with Jennifer Richey, Ruth Nicole Hall, Becky McKee, Rhonda Thomas, and Tammy Austin, for TWU Preservice Classroom Teacher Candidates, Denton, Texas, September 2013 and March 2014

Leading with Learning4Life: Using the AASL Framework to Build a Pivotal Literacy Program,Texas Library Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, April 2013

P-20 Vertical Alignment for Research with the Denton Inquiry 4 Lifelong Learning Team. Texas Library Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, April 2013

What Every Principal Should Know: Preservice Principal Workshops

American Association of School Librarians National Conference - The Principal Connection: Educating your Administrator to Value Your School Library Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2011

Advocacy for School Librarians: A Call to Action. Education Service Center, Region XI, Library Harvest, Fort Worth, Texas, September 2011

Advocacy for School Library Leaders: A Call to Action, Texas Association of School Library Administrators Workshop, Austin, Texas, June 2011

Professional Practice: Where Standards Meet Dispositions, Texas Association of School Library Administrators Workshop, Austin, Texas, June 2010 and Plano ISD K-12 Librarians, August 2010

L4L--Learning4Life with the AASL Standards, co-presented with Sharon Amastae, Suzanne Lyons, and Sara Kelly Johns, Texas Library Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2010

Teaching the New Standards to Preservice and Inservice School Librarians, Panel Presentation, 14th Annual National Conference, American Association of School Librarians, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 2009

Teacher-Librarians = Teacher Leaders!, Arizona Library Association, Teacher-Librarian Division, Leadership Workshop, July 2003