Library Mini Conference

Diversity, Social Justice & Social-Emotional Learning in the Library
Saturday 23 January & Sunday 24 January 2021

Format

Confirmed Hubs

We have the following confirmed hubs. If you are interested in hosting a hub please get in touch

Coming Soon!

A Hybrid Event – Join Face to Face or Online

We are designing this learning experience to take advantage of face to face connections where possible and the ability of the internet to widen participation to anyone. Participants will have a choice to meet up with fellow librarians in cities where there are volunteers to host – we call these “Hubs”. There you will listen to the guest speakers via video conference either on your individual laptops or together on a shared screen.

If you are in a city that does not have a hub you can participate 100% virtually where we will have discussions via Zoom breakout sessions.

No matter if you are participating at a Hub or fully online everyone will be plugged in and have the opportunity to connect with everyone else via the synchronous chats and other online tools.

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Featured Presenters

Dr Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal

Professor of Special Education and Advocate for Multicultural Children’s Books

Behrouz Boochani

Author, Journalist, Human Rights Defender, Associate Professor at UNSW

Deborah Abela

Children’s Author, Teacher, Speaker, Workshop Leader

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Author, Academic, Human Rights Advocate

Get Involved!

There are three presentation slots during the mini-conference. If you are interested in lending your voice scroll down for the submission form

Benefits to Attending

Connect
with Guest Speakers and Authors from around the world
Make connections
with librarians around the world
PD Hours
Receive a certificate of attendance with PD hours.
Curate
exceptional lists of books around the topic of social justice, social emotional learning and more.
Ask hard questions
about diversity, social justice with schools in similar situations

Key Learning Objectives

Diversity & Social Justice
Social and Emotional Learning
Explore Bibliotherapy

Essential Questions

How can libraries support teaching social justice?
How do the themes of social justice and diversity play out in the variety of different international school contexts? How should the library respond?
How can libraries support a teaching and learning environment that is supportive and caring for all learners?

Saturday, January 23

Times in Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)

Focus: Diversity & Social Justice

8:30	Registration (if onsite at a hub)
9:00	Kickoff Presentation (Presenter TBC) & Q&A
10:30	Break
11:00	Dr Myra – Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks: Why Educators Need To Know Them
12:30	Lunch (1h)
13:30	Behrouz Boochani Keynote
14:15	Group Discussion/Work – How do we bring social justice into schools? – breakouts around age groups
15:00	Break
15:30	Breakout Presentation
16:00	Breakout Presentation
16:25	Dr Myra Wrapping up & Consolidation
16:55	End

Sunday, January 24

Times in Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)

Focus: Social-Emotional Learning

8:30	Registration (if onsite at a hub)
9:00	Kickoff Presentation (Presenter TBC) & Q&A
10:15	Break
11:15	Breakout Presentation: Local Presenter or Author
12:15	Wrap-up
12:30	End

You will hear from a number of guest speakers during the course of the mini-conference as well as have the opportunity to hear from your colleagues in four breakout sessions.

Note: Final schedule subject to change depending on speaker availability.

Get Involved – Submit A Presentation

Presentations are 25 minutes long and should follow the theme of the mini-conference. There are three slots in the schedule for presentations. Presentations will either be delivered locally in a hub (and streamed via Zoom) or they will be intended to be delivered and received online. Accepted presenters get free access to the event.

If you could like to submit a presentation to the main conference you can do that here.

Register

The price for the whole mini-conference is $195USD + 4% registration fee; not including any F&B if you are joining one of the hubs

Main conference priced separately