Name: How a Year-Long Nonfiction PLC Promoted and Celebrated Nonfiction
Start: 2025-03-03T13:30:00-0500
End: 2025-03-03T14:20:00-0500

Monday March 3, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm EST

Room 104

In 2024, two groups of Massachusetts school librarians participated in a nonfiction-focused personal learning community that met monthly via Zoom. In this panel presentation, discover how they supported one another as they curated their collections and implemented new programming to increase student awareness of and access to a broad array of nonfiction books. We will share our ideas, projects, goals, and a few of our favorite nonfiction read-alouds!

Speakers

Laura DElia

Library Teacher, Westborough Public Schools

Laura Beals D’Elia is currently the Library Teacher at the Armstrong Elementary School in Westborough, MA. She has been an elementary school librarian since 2002. She has a BA in English and Children’s Literature from Framingham State University and a MLIS from the University... Read More →

Melissa Stewart

Author, Children's book author

Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 180 nonfiction books for children, including Seashells: More than a Home, Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs, and Can an Aardvark Bark. She is the co-author, with Nancy Chesley, of Perfect Pairs... Read More →