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Continuing Education

Spring 2020

  • KidsFirst Conference - Iowa Library Association

    • When Programming Isn't Fun Anymore: Fighting Job Burnout and Relighting Your Programming Fire​

    • Stories & Stakes: How Roleplay Games Reach Tweens 

    • Tight Pants, Truancy and Temper Tantrums: YS Librarians' Top Legal Questions

    • Implementing Native American Materials Into Libraries and Collections 

    • What if Parents Get Mad?

    • Changing the Behavior Game: Build Relationships and Change the Culture of Your Library

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Spring 2019

  • Understanding Autism & Successful Strategies with Balance Autism

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Fall 2018​​

  • ALSC National Institute - Cincinnati, OH

    • Big Ideas: A is for Advocacy​

    • Summer (Mis)Adventure! Change is Hard: How One Public Library Took a Leap and Learned A Lot

    • Review is Critical: Developing Decolonial Book Evaluating Competencies

    • Feed the Whole Child: Un-limiting Approaches to Filling Children's Heads, Bellies, and Hearts

    • Afterschool at the Library: Mistakes May Have Been Made

    • Identity in Children's Literature: Representing All Kids Through Library Programming

    • Grown-Ups Are People Too: Promoting Caregiver Bonding with Awesome Early Literacy Programming

    • Big Ideas: Building Babies' Brains with Books

    • Moving from Ladybugs to Ladders: The A-Ha Moments That Led to Groundbreaking Program Models at Madison Public Library

    • When Leveling Helps, When it Doesn't, and How Libraries Can Make the Best of It

  • Niche Academy - ​Des Moines Public Library Staff Academy: Practical Tips for Difficult Homeless Patrons with Ryan Dowd

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Spring 2018

  • YALSA Webinar: Acknowledging the Elephant in the Library: Making Implicit Biases Explicit

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Fall 2017

  • Library Juice Academy Course: Bilingual Storytime at Your Biblioteca

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Spring 2017

  • ALSC Webinar: Early Literacy and STEAM

  • ALSC Webinar: Early Literacy Outside the Library Walls

  • Booklist Webinar: Teaching Tolerance

Coursework

Photo Credit: Ben Campney

Spring 2016​

  • Information Books and Resources for Youth

  • Collection Development

  • Adult Popular Literature

  • Library Buildings

  • Internship - Children's Services Department, The Urbana Free Library (not for class credit)

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Fall 2015

  • Literature and Resources for Children

  • Informal Learning Spaces and Pedagogy

  • Independent Study - Rural Libraries as Community Centers Through the Learning Commons

  • Practicum - Children's Services Department, Champaign Public Library​

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Summer 2015

  • Youth Reference Services

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Spring 2015

  • Literature and Resources for Young Adults

  • Storytelling

  • Libraries, Information, and Society

  • Administration & Management of Libraries and Information Centers

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Fall 2014

  • Information Organization and Access

  • Introduction to Technology in LIS

  • Youth Services Librarianship

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