Participate and share: Poster 
To share how St. Vrain created a digital library to support their Language Arts curriculum. We'll discuss how our collection supported student voice and choice, by giving our students some autonomy in selecting what and how they read.
Attendees will develop an understanding of how digital content can save space and provide easy access to content that directly relates to what's being taught. (Previously St. Vrain had a print collection that stayed in the classroom or library of novels that weren't aligned to standards. Now they have thousands of texts that can be accessed 24/7 by all students no matter where they are. They mention that same is also true for PD resources, which used to be in a small library away from school facilities.)
Attendees will also discover how digital makes it easier for students to find the content they are looking for when they need it. Which in turn gets students reading more. (Students can sort by interest level, Lexile Level, etc..)
-5 minute introduction to Jenny & Helen and St. Vrain
# of students & demographics
# of schools
What our roles are at the district
-10 minutes share how St. Vrain started with OverDrive
How the collection began
Why we decided to go digital in the first place
-15 minutes share how we built our collection to support our Language Arts curriculum
Determining factors for how we select our titles
Budgeting our collection
Title assignments-using class sets & bundled choices
Curating collections tied to thematic units
-15 minutes on Best Practices
Strategies for having students choose a book.
Lessons for students to learn to select a title as opposed to having one chosen for them.
How we teach students to learn digitally (For instance, developing the tools students need to read successfully on electronic devices, such as how to define terms, highlight within the text, and use iPad features to stay focused and reduce distractions/notifications)
-5 minutes Next steps
How we'd like to see our collection continue to grow
-10 minutes Q&A
1.) 'How digital Class Sets helped one North Carolina district reimagine required reading,' Retrieved from https://static.od-cdn.com/2023_Franklin_County_Schools_Class_Sets_case_study.pdf
2.) 'The Power of Reading Choice,' Scholastic, Retrieved from https://teacher.scholastic.com/education/classroom-library/pdfs/The-Power-of-Reading-Choice.pdf
3.) Zaitzeff, Gretchen (2023, August 30). 'Being shelf-less: How digital reading and listening boost literacy,' District Administration, Retrieved from https://districtadministration.com/being-shelf-less-how-to-digital-reading-and-listening-boost-literacy/
4.) Hughes, Caroline (2023, August 30). 'Encourage high-school students to read more by giving them choices,' SmartBrief, Retrieved from https://corp.smartbrief.com/original/2023/08/encourage-reading-in-high-school-with-choice
5.) Morrell, Drs. Ernset & Jodene (2019, February 11). 'Importance of Student Voice & Choice//Part 1 of 2,' University of Notre Dame: Center for Literacy Education, Retrieved from https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/notre-dame-center-for-literacy-education/news/importance-of-student-voice-choice-part-1
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