MISBO DER Coffee Talk: TeachingBooks

Learn how you can easily enrich your entire collection with digital content that fosters a love of reading, supports curricular and instructional goals, and helps you respond to diverse student needs and interests.

You'll leave this session knowing how to use TeachingBooks to:

• Deepen and enrich connections to books with one-stop access to resources like video book trailers, read-along audiobook performances, original Meet-the-Author recordings, lessons, activities, and discussion questions
• Hook students with engagement pieces like QR code shelf-talkers, book-related games, and digital escape rooms
• Receive insights, reports, and confidence around the titles in your library and classroom collections with immediate collection analysis tools and book resumes
• Support Science of Reading instruction from the library with familiar picture books and beginning readers that reinforce phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills

Speakers

Nick Glass is a nationally known educational partner focused on improving literacy opportunities for all students. Equity work is how he defines his professional charge. He has a Master's in educational policy and the history of multicultural education from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and runs TeachingBooks.net -- a literacy service he created to empower every reader with meaningful connections to whatever books they are reading. As a long-time student of multicultural education, he strives to give all readers culturally relevant, primary source insights into the literary journeys they are experiencing. Nick has published in many educational journals, spoken at dozens of conferences, and has served on many children’s book award committees, including the Newbery, Legacy, Sibert, and Green Earth Book Award juries. And one other curious note about Nick -- he is one of the few children’s book experts who has worked in Major League Baseball. He was the statistician for the San Francisco Giants in the late 1980s to early 1990s.