{"id":570,"date":"2021-05-24T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/?p=570"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:25:49","slug":"teacher-librarian-day-2017-inspire-critical-thinking-reaches-educators-across-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/teacher-librarian-day-2017-inspire-critical-thinking-reaches-educators-across-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Librarian Day 2017: Inspire Critical Thinking Reaches Educators Across Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a small scare at the beginning of the week with the weather forecasting snow on February 24th, 2017, Teacher Librarian Day was a huge success once again. Over 150 teachers, librarians, and education specialists from all across Colorado showed up excited to listen to our 10 speakers and get resources from 18 different educational resource tables. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a welcoming breakfast (and of course coffee), educators participated in a quick questioning activity using primary sources called Question Writer. It is a short adaptation of the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) from the Right Question Institute (RQI), that is meant to spur purposeful questions about a particular primary source. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will write down as many questions as they can in a certain time frame (1-10 minutes), label their questions with a \u2018C\u2019 for a closed-ended questions, and an \u2018O\u2019 for an open-ended question. Then, they choose the open ended question that they are most interested in to discuss in small groups. Download the activity sheets here:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UZiWlLdl3ZetKrC1l5JZm29Qzat6YY8qFhpnJ7SIeoE\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Question Writer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzehtLZPMEmWU1VUR3MwdmNhdHM\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Question Formulation Technique<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[foogallery id=&#8221;3881&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photos used for morning activity:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/lprbscsm.scsm0421\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cats &#8211; Question Settled<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/96524788\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basketball Players doing Charleston<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/ppmsca.33091\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil War Balloon<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/fsa.8a12622\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorado Bean Threshers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/cph.3a40211\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Portland Oregon 60 planes<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/cph.3a45218\/?loclr=blogpic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dive bomber almost crashing into ship<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/ggbain.19684\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Municipal Bat Roost<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/ppmsca.18646\/?loclr=pin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women with Fish Fashion<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/ggbain.27960\/?loclr=blogpic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dazzle Camo Ships<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our speakers at TLD this year were once again phenomenal. Each speaker brought their own unique approach to teaching with primary sources, and offered participants a slew of ideas for project-based learning (PBL), cross-curriculum strategies, and the importance of agile teachers in all K-12 grades and beyond. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kristen Lewis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, current Dean of Students at Boulder High School, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucdenver.edu\/academics\/colleges\/CLAS\/Centers\/ColoradoHistoryDay\/Pages\/ColoradoHistoryDay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National History Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (NHD) High School Educators of the Year in 2015, and World History teacher, spoke about how a project-based learning classroom that incorporates NHD inspires and prepares students for college and beyond. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/ForBlog_Inspiring-Critical-Thinking-NHD-1.pptx\">ForBlog_Inspiring-Critical-Thinking-NHD-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Kent Willmann<\/strong>, long time high school social studies teacher and current curriculum writer for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessonsonlocalgovernment.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lessons on Local Government<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and School of Education instructor at CU Boulder, spoke about the importance of civics and educating students about the elements of citizenship most important to our democracy, from the local to the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/tld-2017-Plato-Citizen-The-Title-of-Citizen.pdf\">tld-2017-Plato-Citizen-The-Title-of-Citizen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Renee Ruderman<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English at MSU Denver, reminded teachers about the power of poetry for all grade levels by inviting teachers to participate in writing a Shakespearean Sonnet in 10 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/PROJECTION_Renee-Ruderman_Better-than-Video-Games-the-sonnet-17.docx\">PROJECTION_Renee-Ruderman_Better-than-Video-Games-the-sonnet-17<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Thomas G. Andrews<\/strong>, Professor of History at CU Boulder and author of \u201cKilling for Coal: America\u2019s Deadliest Labor War\u201d, spoke about animal history asking, what might we discover about the human past by paying closer attention to other-than-human animals? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/2TPS-MSU-TLD-2017-andrews.pdf\">2TPS-MSU-TLD-2017-andrews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Shaun T. Schafer<\/strong>, Associate Chair of the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at MSU Denver, discussed the timely topic of fake news, helping educators incorporate instruction in their classrooms to help spot fake news and the importance of considering sources. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/Consider_the_Source02222017.pptx\">Consider_the_Source02222017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Marc Pomeroy<\/strong>, chemist and laboratory supervisor, and<strong> Susan Allspaw-Pomeroy<\/strong>, poet and IT professional, spoke about the US Antarctic Program and how cross-curricular efforts combining STEM and the Arts can create language-bending, history-hat-tipping, and scientific method critical thinking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/Pomeroy-TLD-2017-1.pptx\">Pomeroy-TLD-2017-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Taylor Kendal<\/strong>, previous Project Coordinator for Teaching with Primary Sources and current Instructional Designer at MSU Denver, spoke about how the practice of A\/B Testing can create an adaptable and comfortable classroom and prepare the technium of tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/TaykenSplit_TLD17.pptx\">TaykenSplit_TLD17<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Ashby Butnor<\/strong>, philosophy professor at CSU specializing in Asian philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, and high-impact teaching and learning practices, spoke about how philosophy can be incorporated in the K-12 classroom to help explore critical inquiry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/TaykenSplit_TLD17-1.pptx\">TaykenSplit_TLD17<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Peggy O\u2019Neill-Jones,<\/strong> Director of the Teaching with Primary Sources Western Region, and<strong> Kelly Jones-Wagy<\/strong>, social studies teacher at Overland High School, spoke about Twitter as yesterday\u2019s telegram, and how social media is a primary source meant to be analyzed using historical thinking skills for author intent, audience, evidence, and accuracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2021\/05\/021417telegramstotweets.pptx\">021417telegramstotweets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Rolly Schendel<\/strong>, prior elementary teacher and current Assistant Professor of Literacy at MSU Denver, spoke about his experiences teaching using project-based learning particularly with class pets, and how educators truly do make an impact on their student\u2019s lives, which is one important thing that teachers often forget in their overworked and busy careers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Learning Fair this year included 18 Colorado educators and educational organizations, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kelly Jones-Wagy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmpbs.org\/coloradoexperience\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocky Mountain PBS<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.state.co.us\/cosocialstudies\/pssets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorado Department of Education<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Denver Public Library<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historycolorado.org\/researchers\/stephen-h-hart-library-and-research-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Hart Library and Research Center<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April Pishna<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXFyBIqF4jXqGsJH4L7edsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maggie\u2019s Suitcase<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucdenver.edu\/academics\/colleges\/CLAS\/Centers\/ColoradoHistoryDay\/Pages\/ColoradoHistoryDay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NHD in Colorado<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nieonline.com\/coloradonie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Denver Post\u2019s Newspapers in Education<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lessonsonlocalgovernment.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lessons on Local Government<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorado State Library<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tpsteachersnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TPS Teachers Network<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facinghistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facing History and Ourselves<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historycolorado.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">History Colorado<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tchpreservation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelle Pearson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoencyclopedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cindy Stout<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/~coga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorado Geographic Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspireus-co.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspire Colorado<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TLD would not have been such a huge success if not for all of our presenters, Colorado\u2019s educational resources in the Learning Fair, and of course our amazing sponsors, History Colorado, National History Day in Colorado, Lessons on Local Government through the Colorado Municipal League, and most importantly, the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to schedule a TPS training at your school or district? We can customize the content and strategies to meet your curriculum needs. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tpsconnect.org\/about\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact us! <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a small scare at the beginning of the week with the weather forecasting snow on February 24th, 2017, Teacher Librarian Day was a huge success once again. 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