I will be tweeting secret librarians business from #SLAVconf today.
p.s Paul Kelly is our guest speaker

Acknowledgement of country from SLAV president Di Ruffles, a welcome and now Megan Davies who I am looking forward to hearing on encouraging reading

In a world of wide choice how do we encourage readers? #SLAVconf
Megan Davies talks about her book Raising Readers
Parents and teachers actively seeking knowledge and ideas

Why we do what we do #slavconf

. @MKMerga on the importance of research to guide our practice

#slavconf why do you read? Survey your students

#slavconf Megan Daley touches on the teachers who do not read in front of their reading class. This is a pet pique of mine and why I try and join each class to read for 15 minutes

Trends in reading #slavconf

Reading is a social experience ....run book clubs #SLAVconf

It’s okay to expect that our students should read and we should schedule time for them to do so.
We expect kids to train and practice sport!

Many children’s and YA authors have a great social media presence eg @willkostakis and give much of their time to engage with their readers

Mindfulness is a thing in reading

Megan has rebranded silent reading as mindful reading and talks about deep reading not distracted by SM etc #slavconf

Megan says she has learnt more about history through reading @jackie_french_ than she did from school.

Shout out to @MKMerga and @KayOddone for their wonderful research (from me)
And here are Megan’s references

Inspiring speaker

Now speaking Christine Mackenzie on @IFLA the global library organisation. As we are now discussing world dominance by libraries I can say no more #slavconf