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How Health Systems and Public Health Can Collaborate to Reduce Tobacco Use – Long Version - Duration: 26:29.

Tobacco remains the number one preventable cause of death in the State of Oregon. Tobacco

kills 7,000 Oregonians each year, which is roughly the population of Wallowa County.

An addiction to tobacco starts during childhood. Ninety percent of current adult smokers started

smoking before they turned 18. Practically every person I know, including myself, has

a story of a family member or a very close friend who's been touched by the scourge of

diseases caused by tobacco use.

Thanks everybody for coming. To celebrate the success of Measure 44 in curbing tobacco

use, as a physician there's perhaps no more valuable endeavor to protecting my patient's

health than helping them stop consuming tobacco and keeping other new tobacco users from starting.

Doing something sensible like raising the tobacco purchase age could reduce teen smoking

rates by as much as 25% in the state. Every disease has its cure and efforts like this

are the treatment, but tobacco and tobacco-related illnesses are cured yet, and I'm asking everyone's

help here and throughout the state and Central Oregon to help encourage our representatives

in Salem to pass Tobacco 21 legislation through the house this session.

You know public health understands that by convening partners that's how we get the work

done. We do that in many areas in public health, not just tobacco work, and we understand that

part of that is collaborating with our coordinated care organization.

The conversations between public health and the CCO (coordinated care organization) really

focused on what are opportunities that we can look at, health outcomes, and really work

together and tobacco is really one of those opportunities to improve health.

PacificSource, a CCO, has partnered with our county health departments in Central Oregon

to help our members quit tobacco in a variety of ways. Muriel mentioned the regional health

improvement plan that has some specific indicators and health outcomes that we're working towards

in the next few years. We also have helped collaborate and funded with the OHA, the tobacco

quit line interface project that kicked off earlier this month which will leverage our

health information technology resources to enable a closed loop referral system to occur

throughout our region and send directly to and from the state's tobacco quit line. We

expect that this will increase the rate of referrals significantly and, of course, therefore

help to improve our succession rates regionally.

We also worked with our county health departments and the OHA to wrap our regional transit bus

system and so that was already mentioned earlier. These types of health communication campaigns

are a core strength of our public health in this region and the kind of support that health

systems can really use to improve our health outcomes.

This region, which includes Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties as well as the Confederate

Tribes of the Warm Springs, is an example both of innovation and leadership. It's forging

pathways from the clinic and the hospital to the community for improved health.

In 2016, the Central Oregon Health Council implemented its first joint project to improve

tobacco-related health outcomes, and this was really a community-based strategy to really

look at how can we make a difference, and by leveraging financial support with state

public health division, with the Central Oregon Health Council, the three health departments

were very engaged in this process and helped move it along. Also, we engaged with the Central

Oregon Intergovernmental Council where we're sitting today and really looked at implementing

a mass media health education campaign to support current tobacco users to use the quit

line. And I think that is really important, that we really look at a number of strategies

to effect public health and work on the tobacco issue. So this collaboration really succeeded

from the collective strength and expertise of the coordinated care, public health, state

health division. I think we really look at how many partners do we bring to the table

to really create these kind of strategies.

Oregon passed Measure 44, which increased the price of tobacco, and that's kind of what

we're celebrating today, the celebration of this 20 years ago. It solidified Oregon's

commitment to health and dedicated a portion of the revenue to activities that work to

prevent youth from starting to smoke and to help people who are smoking to quit. In 2017,

this year, the 20th anniversary, tobacco prevention and education activities have reached every

county and have reached every tribal nation in Oregon thanks to the collaboration of individual

communities coming together to set that goal. Nearly two out of three Oregonians who do

smoke currently want to quit and because of Measure 44, we have a tobacco quit line which

opened in 1998 making Oregon the very first state in the country to offer to help tobacco

users who want to quit, quit. And since 1998, Oregon tobacco quit line has helped close

to 140,000 Oregonians quit tobacco. In 2004, Oregon became the first state in the nation

to provide nicotine-replacement therapy to Medicaid members who called the quit line.

And today, Oregon is a national model for helping people who want to quit, quit. Our

model is built from the experience and the dedication of local governments and coordinated

care organizations working together, the kind of work we're celebrating here today.

So Central Oregon shows us what it looks like when health care, public health, and community

organizations and consumers sit down together and create a common investment in a healthier

outcome for their community. The investment Oregonians made 20 years ago in tobacco prevention

supported this region to build a model for collaboration between public health and health

care that now can be quickly translated into other health outcomes.

In 1996 it was really that partnership that got Ballot Measure 44 on the ballot and helped

to make sure that it passed, and Oregon is unique in that we do have this sustainable

infrastructure for tobacco prevention and that's really something special. We have an

ability to understand what's going on in our communities and to be able to react to it,

and that, as was said earlier, the tobacco industry is always evolving and it's you guys

in the community that let us know what's going on so that we can get you the data and the

information and the support that you need to address it in your own community.

So getting started, this is really just an opportunity to provide a state-wide overview

of what's happening in the state and then the moderated conversation is going to get

more specific to what's happening in Central Oregon. But really there's some context that

has inspired some of the conversations that we're having throughout Oregon. The first

is the Affordable Care Act. The second is some of the leadership that Oregon has taken

in implementing the coordinated care organizations and the Oregon Health Plan, and more recently,

and as it relates to tobacco, the work that the Health Evidence Review Commission has

done, which has really set forward a path for coordinated care organizations to implement

evidence-based tobacco cessation benefits and multi-sector interventions, which sounds

a bit wonky but is really reinforcing what you all have led here in Central Oregon, which

is that opportunity for public health and health systems to come together to do things

like a bus wrap and a communications campaign.

We know what works in tobacco prevention and because of Ballot Measure 55 we have 20 years

of experience here in Oregon implementing interventions to prevent tobacco use and work

with the other 50 states and territories to really set forth good population health approaches,

but as you can see in these increasing the price of tobacco, protecting people from smoke,

and helping people quit and using campaigns to inform that, this is not something that

public health can do alone. This is something that requires partnerships and collaborations.

So, again I mentioned earlier some of the policy context. Something specific to tobacco

that I really want to call out that the Affordable Care Act set forth and that Oregon's coordinated

care organizations through the Health Evidence Review Commission really solidified, and I

will say, whatever happens at the federal level, what we've got here in Oregon is really

solid, and that is gold standard benefits that are required for all coordinated care

organizations to provide, which includes covering all of the FDA medications with no prior authorization,

making it really easy for a doctor to write the script and the person to actually go down

to the pharmacy and pick that up versus needing to check in with their health plan first.

That had created a barrier and that was removed here in Oregon. The other thing that the Health

Evidence Review Commission did, and we are the first in the country to do this, and we're

working through the growing pains as we do this, is added more traditional public health

population-based approaches to the prioritized list, and in Oregon the Health Evidence Review

Commission that determines what is on that prioritized list, that is what Medicaid, or

the Oregon Health Plan, has to provide its members. So whether you're a member of a coordinated

care organization or your in fee-for-service, any plan has to provide what's on that list

down to whatever the budget allows for which the legislature determines. What the Health

Evidence Review Commission did that was so unique is when they updated the tobacco cessation

benefit line, they included this multi-sector interventions note which really started giving

leeway for health plans to contribute to media campaigns, which we saw here in Central Oregon.

Trillium in Lane County did something similar. It also made it easier for them to participate

in more population policy-based approaches like what Dr. Body had talked about in regards

to advocating and supporting Tobacco 21 or other types of important tobacco prevention

legislation. So because of that the public health division really saw this as an opportunity

so support coordinated care organizations and local public health departments in coming

together to determine what's going to work best in their community for implementing some

of these multi-sector interventions, particularly around tobacco prevention. And so we created

a grant program referred to as Sustainable Relationships for Community Health. We are

now at the conclusion of our second year of this. Deschutes County with Central Oregon

CCO was one of our first grantees in this endeavor and did some pretty spectacular work

to identify individuals who used tobacco, refer them to the quit line, and then get

information back from the quit line to the doctor so the doctor knew what had happened

and that their member was successfully quitting or had a really good effort and is going to

need continued support.

So I'm really looking forward to hearing more today from our panel and continuing to talk

about bringing these sectors together and learning from each other and what we can do

to improve the health of all Oregonians. First of all, what role do you or your organization

play in supporting tobacco prevention in communities?

I think our job at the state level, you've heard about the tobacco prevention and education

program which was funded through the Measure 44, and what we try and do is to make sure

that these resources are available to all Oregonians throughout the state, so that this

work is going on in each of our counties as well as with our tribal nations. The other

responsibility I think the state has is to really identify best practices and to do evaluation

in conjunction with the communities.

As a physician taking care of patients in the clinic one on one, one of the sad things

that I get to do, or treat first hand tobacco-related illness, a lot of my patients suffer from

the aftereffects of tobacco, either ongoing or a long history of it. I also get to do,

the fun part, a lot of screening, tobacco-related counseling, trying to help people quit because

there are very few smokers or tobacco users that don't want to quit. They're just stuck

there. It's an addictive substance. Then from my other job kind of as a city counselor,

some of the work on tobacco retail licensing and some of the legislative policy decisions

that we're working on, that's really the other side of that coin so those are the things

that don't lay at all on the individual and don't make it all the patient's job, but it

helps support the patients and the individuals when they're ready to quit.

I think the CCO role is largely a supportive one. We're supporting the work that Dr. Body

and his team and Muriel and their team and others are doing in the community for tobacco

prevention, so we're largely supporting our provider partners and community-based organizations.

Are any of these roles different than they may have been in the past?

I'm looking at this higher level of how do we create those policy changes that really

help people stop smoking and that is very different than it was years ago.

We're turning from making it the individual's problem and the individual's responsibility

to something that's more of our society's responsibility to fix this before it starts.

The biggest different is now people come together at the beginning to decide what is the goal

they want. So if this is the goal, friendly competition, we want everyone to succeed,

but we focus on the goal and it's not a program. It's a systems approach. And what do each

of us across the continuum of this system have to do to contribute to that goal and

I think that not only is a more successful, as Muriel outlined, approach but it's also

more efficient.

What would you say are some of the recent successes?

I think from a state level, we've been talking a lot today about the two recent initiatives

for tobacco prevention about the communication campaign for the bus wrapping and then also

the tobacco quit line interface. Both of those couldn't get off the ground without the support

from the state, so the state funded a half. Deschutes County did the work. PacificSource

and the Oregon Health Authority split the cost for the buses. We've never seen a proposal

like that before so that was fantastic. Of course it made it very easy to say yes to.

Then we also got a lot of support from the state and then we've also, certainly the tobacco

quit line interface has gotten a lot of technical support from the state folks. There's a great

partnership not just locally but also with our state folks as well.

But it really is multi-sector partnerships that help bring kind of, well here it's not

a CHIP, it a RHIP, so it's Regional Health Improvement Plan. I think it really brings

that to life because we have so many partners working on those so we have housing and we

have kindergarten readiness and we have all these different work groups, and I think that's,

you know when I think about the work we do, that's those multi-sector partnerships that

are really important and it does take a lot of time. That is the one thing I will say

but at the same time it's really worthwhile.

The Oregon Health Authority has these poly-incentive measures that asks every CCO to go forth and

do well on these quality measures.

It's been really fantastic though to have this money infused so that we can use it for

community reinvestments because that's what we've decided as a region in our community

governance structure is that we'll take 40% of all the dollars that we get on their performance

and use it for community reinvestments, and that's how we helped fund the bus wrapping

and the tobacco quit line interface and lots of other multiple projects to reinvest back

into the community, so we're just the manager of the money and really all of the work is

being done by all of our fantastic partners, of course.

The more we make something systematic or built into our process, the less it's on an individual

clinician to remember to do every visit. We have a significant load of things that we're

working through in a patient visit or through our length of time that we care for a person,

and the prompts that we get to, "Hey it's time for tobacco cessation screening." We

do that annually, every visit if somebody is a smoker or using tobacco. Every visit

we're then talking about that and that's then getting logged into our EMR so it's prompting

the rest of our staff to check back in with that patient. Then with our partners and insurers

and the public health folks at the state, then we're getting things like medications

that can help with tobacco cessation coverage so that the patients don't have to pay for

that out of their pocket because indeed it's much cheaper, right, if we pay for that, it's

far cheaper than paying for the lung cancer down the road and we're starting to recognize

that, I think, and really starting to coordinate all those systems together. The most recent

and encouraging thing that we're working on in my clinic is coordinating our EMR, which

is called Epic, so that I can order tobacco cessation, I'm talking about it with the patient

and then that patient then gets a phone call from the quit line at the state level to follow

up and close that loop.

How about any challenges that you've faced?

Since we've been talking a lot about our community governance process, I always say when it works,

it works so well and it's feels so good and everybody's on the same page and we've all

unanimously voted. And when it maybe doesn't work or it's harder, it just takes a lot of

time.

I think the other challenge is, hey we're up against a multi-billion dollar global sort

of marketing and industry apparatus that's selling something that people become addicted

to very quickly and easily, that sort of sells itself. So we've got, we're fighting against

a pretty big systemic process and physiologically nicotine is just a very tough thing to stop

using. So we've got that deck kind of stacked against us. Fortunately, I think there's an

awareness and I don't hear from my patients at any age that they sort of don't understand

that smoking is a risk and it's bad. I think we're over that hurdle, now it's a matter

of how do we get folks, how do we get patients the help that they need to stop so that they're

not just out there on their own trying to fend off commercials, television, flavored

products for children that's sort of flying in the face of our whole society.

One of the challenges is having the humility that you might have a partner that knows more

about something than you do, and I think for public health and the healthcare system, we

speak different languages and sometimes they say population health and I say population

health and we find out we're not talking about the same thing you know. One of the challenges

is to make sure you're talking about the same thing and that you can defer to, you know,

someone else's expertise and figure out how to put it in the quill, you know, as opposed

to having to do it all yourself and I think that's a big challenge in any, you know, robust

collaboration.

How do we push the Central Oregon Health Council towards policy? And they hear me say that

a lot, so it's not just about our individual agencies doing policy work. It's about this

overarching Central Oregon Health Council that has a lot of power and a lot of individuals

and a lot agencies to really help us think about these policy issues.

What does the future hold for tobacco prevention?

It's hard sometimes to get policies in some rural counties as opposed to some other counties.

I think part of it is, you know, it's easier to get your commissioners to support state-wide

initiatives at times. So when we look at retail licensing, when we look at some of those things,

the state-wide push for those things really helps everyone in the state. When I think

about the future on prevention work, it's really thinking about how do we support that,

you know, those kinds of policy initiatives at the state-wide level across the state so

it really helps all Oregonians because there really are disparities in specific communities

around tobacco use.

Well I anticipate that we'll have more referral to the tobacco quit line based off of the

closed loop referral system for the tobacco quit line interface. It's pretty cool that

this region is going to be the pilot for the state, so, I know it hasn't barely started,

but really looking forward to seeing how it does here, of course, but then also how it

rolls out in other regions and so to be kind of the trailblazer on that is pretty fantastic.

I also think we're getting just better, in general, on making data-driven decisions and

making sure that we're using data to inform where we're going.

Do you see this partnership and this work applying to other aspects of health? I think,

I mean in many areas if we're talking about diabetes prevention. I mean I remember way

a long time ago in Douglas County doing a diabetes prevention program that was really

lot about population health. You probably remember those. You know, we know what needs

to happen in the medical community but at the same time there's some things that can

really happen in the community around diabetes, so I think there's other public health issues

that there isn't, you know, part of the challenge in Oregon and it's part of the reason we're

looking at modernization is that there's so much categorical funding and so you really

want to focus on these things, but I do think the opportunity of working with our CCOs and

looking at what our metrics are and looking at what's the role of public health in this

around the population effort. So I see that as a great opportunity and that's just one

example. I think there's many but I think diabetes is another one we could take a look

at.

I think we could take any chronic disease and think about risk factors, hypertension,

diabetes, heart disease, smoking tobacco, anything if we take a look at the entity and

then look at the external environment that's contributing to that and then target those

forces, that's applicable to any chronic disease. That's preventative health, that's really

what it is.

What advice would you give to your peers in other parts of Oregon who are just getting

started on this work?

I'm always telling my peers it's really important that you reach out to your CCOs but it's challenging

because the structure is so different everywhere. But I do think you still have to be at the

table so no matter what you still have to think about how do I get to that table and

it may not be you, it may be a commissioner, but you still have to push that envelope.

I think my advice would just be very simple, to work together, collaborate and, sorry,

but you need to meet frequently and you need to meet face to face. It's unfortunate but,

I mean, I think that that's the part of what makes it work is face-to-face meetings on

a regular basis. I mean otherwise we'd just be behind our computer screens anyway.

You can't have a conversation if you have nobody from the other two counties at the

table, and so I think it's also speaking up and saying, you know it's really important

that we make sure we have voices from Warm Springs and we have voices from Jefferson

and from Crook and from Deschutes and in Deschutes, La Pine and Sisters. You know there's a lot

of other communities so it's really thinking about how do we bring that whole, and it's

hard work to get people from many of those more rural areas to come to the table and

I think you have to make an effort and I think that's another thing we really work at.

Well thank you all very, very much. I really enjoyed this conversation and I want to thank

our panelists. I think that, I was sitting here thinking, the tobacco industry would

love to make sure that there were no community conversations about tobacco and that's the

first thing that they try to get rid of when they target tobacco prevention are the community

efforts that address this issue, and the reason is is that you at the community level are

so effective and I think that we've seen that here today. I'm really, really proud of the

work that you're doing. I'm really pleased to be here and thank you very much.

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Plan to hold public vote and local gov't election thwarted - Duration: 1:12.

South Koreans won't be voting in June on amending the Constitution, as the National Assembly

thwarted plans for a public vote to be held alongside local elections.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Moon Jae-in expressed regret over

the failed attempt to revise the National Referendum Act, which was ruled unconstitutional

back in 2014.

"As the Referendum Act was not revised on time, the plan to hold a public vote on the

Constitution and the local government elections simultaneously was thwarted.

The National Assembly did not even deliberate on the constitutional amendment I proposed,

which includes the people's will."

President Moon apologized for not keeping his campaign pledge, as he expressed frustration

over the National Assembly's decision.

He added that the proposed constitutional amendment is not for the President himself

or the ruling party, but rather for the citizens as it expands citizens' basic rights and lowers

the age of suffrage to 18.

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School & Public Library Partnerships: STEAM to Students 4-3-2018 - Duration: 45:53.

And now without further ado I will turn things over to Deborah Gaff of the

Bartholomew County Public Library for her presentation on School and Public

Library Partnerships: STEAM to Students Deb Hi thank you very much

Deb Gaff speaking and I am with the Bartholomew County Public Library we are

located in south-central Indiana the main branch of the library is in

Columbus Indiana and we also have a branch in Hope Indiana

I'm the STEAM programming specialist I am a retired computer programmer and I'm

a licensed educator with teaching experience in grades K through 12 so

throughout the webinar I'll be pulling on sometimes my library hat sometimes my

teacher hat to sort of give you perspective on both sides

I have several programs I manage at the library Full STEAM Ahead is an engaging

program for our young patrons in grades k-2

and grades three to six I host two separate sessions each program begins

with a read aloud it ends with an engaging activity our new highly

successful program is called Stitch Camp it's an introduction to sewing and

making and one of my biggest programs that we'll be talking about today is

Coder Dojo learning to code at the library a new

program we're implementing at the library is Crypto Club learning about

secret messages how to encrypt and decrypt messages and these are just a

few other programs I lead throughout the month I have had the awesome opportunity

to engage patrons through both of the Bartholomew County public school

corporations extending what I do at the library to the patrons at their school

in this webinar I will share some tips for collaborating with schools as well

as some additional information about the programs I take on the road in

Bartholomew County the screen that you see now you're free to feel free to

contact me at my email there or follow me on Twitter or Instagram I often post

what I'm doing with the schools or at the library so I'm

I'm always happy to share ideas so please steal ideas it was a great thing

all right I've had probably the most success collaborating with public

schools by first making connection with the public school librarians and the

educators but my primary contacts have been with the public school librarians

this is a pretty easy first step as school librarians and public librarians

share essentially the same goals we want to provide access to information in

a variety of formats whether it be books movies digital resources or after-school

opportunities for children and teens we all strive to better serve our patrons

at the beginning of this school year our library hosted a regularly scheduled

meeting of school librarians from our County's largest school district the

group had scheduled their meeting in our library conference room and our library

just happens to be centrally located so this was an ideal meeting place for

the school corporation as part of the meeting we were able to offer a tour of

the library as well as the opportunity to share some of our newest programs

with school librarians we were they were pleasantly surprised to hear about new

developments and opportunities at our library here is my first tip always have

an elevator speech ready so this is was an opportunity they were going around

touring the library I happen to be present and hey Deb what's new and in

your world and I was able to pitch my Nick and Tesla Book Club which has

resulted in activities being held off-site at schools and I'll explain a

little bit more about that later you may wish to invite the public school

librarians to your library keep in mind that National Library Week is April 8th

through 14th and of course April is natural library national library month so invite

your school librarians to the public library

for a tour Hey and perhaps a light snack because I'm going to tell you as a

teacher after school I would always like to have a snack right i have a question

sure so what time of day is is best do you think to invite them to do some sort

of meeting like that like after school hours probably I would say definitely

after school hours because they're pretty busy and they have very little

free time during the day I mean librarians are at the schools are being

asked to do a lot more to help out in the classrooms and to provide

programming within their library so I think after-school would be best you

could try an afternoon meeting and and you know contact them ask them what what

do you think works is yeah yeah makes sense yeah

summer reading programs are scheduled to kick off soon at your library this is

a great opportunity to make a school does it or share promotional materials

as you know and meet school librarians having a face with a name is a great way

to facilitate ongoing conversation it's nice to know who you're getting that

email from I don't know about you but my priority always goes to the emails from

people I know and and lastly then to people I don't know so if I have a face

with a name I'm more likely to answer that email and here's another tip be

sure to share share some research about the high impact of summer learning and

what it can do for this students the ALA for instance has a some nice

documentation on their website Richard L Ellington is an American

scholar and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he's

been a professor of education since 2005 and his research shows that summer

learning especially self selected reading can help prevent the learning

loss during summer vacation and this is huge remember that our our school

teachers are being graded the schools are being graded on student

performance and if they have an opportunity to help their students

achieve and and not lose their prior learning during the summer break that's

huge for them and that's huge for those students that are taking those

standardized tests so when you approach a school or the school librarian the

more you connect to how it can benefit the school really the better it's going

to be school teachers like librarians have very little free time little little

very little wiggle room and they're their classroom day so if they know

something is going to directly impact their students and help their students

achieve all the better because it indeed does take a village to nurture our young

patrons that village can begin with connecting with your peers and the

public or private schools in your area I will share in a few minutes some of the

collaboration opportunities developed by contacting school librarians and don't

here's another tip don't forget to make connections at the Indiana Library

Federation events these events are a great place to introduce yourself to a

school librarian even if they're not part of your community they're a

fantastic resource you can ask them hey you know what's the best way to

collaborator or bring programs to the school they probably have some really

good information for you too often and I'm going to tell you I'm guilty of this

as well we seek out our known friends at ILF events but I try to make an effort

to reach out and make new contacts at each event I attend you never know where

they're going to lead I have learned a lot from school librarians at ILF

by striking up conversations at the lunch table attending sessions delivered

by school librarians that's a good idea yeah for sure and it's a great opportunity to find out

what are being offered at the schools so if

you're in a session and you learn about this cool program that they're doing at

one of the schools the school librarians have put together you might want to

check with your own community and say hey are you doing a program like this we

hear it's highly successful at schools in other communities and you know you

can that's it that's another foot in the door another opportunity to bring

programming once those teachers or public school librarians know that you

have a successful program you're in like flint yeah that's actually in one of our

previous school and public library partnership webinars I think I mentioned

this to you at one point one of our media specialists mentioned that if you

can approach a school librarian with a concrete idea of what you'd like to do

it usually is more effective than just going to them and saying hey we should

partner but not really knowing what you want a partner to do so you know

obviously you might have to still work with them to collaborate on an idea but

approaching them with an idea already is great yeah I I think that's that's

really key and then when you're presenting that idea make sure you

emphasize how this can benefit the school how this benefits the children in

the school the teachers in the school what what are they gonna get out of out

of this partnership or this program that you want to bring to the school how is

it helpful for them one of the things that is good to think about is is what

is your niche what did what do you do best and and take time and call and

introduce yourself and my personal favorite though is I like to make

connections in person especially at conferences in fact I've even written

for proposals to present it ILF that the

summer conference are what do they call them their regional conferences yeah

this year so presented I want to present so I'm hoping to have that opportunity

and also at the Indiana Department of Education summer of eLearning

conferences so let me tell you a little bit about that because I love these

conferences as both a teacher and a representative of the library so the

Indiana Department of Education helped sponsor several of these elearning

conferences and if you just google search Summer of e-learning for the indy

IDOE Indiana Department of Education you'll see the list of locations where

the Summer of E-learning conferences are taking place and there is about 20 or so

happening throughout the state during the summer so chances are there's one

near you so why would you want to present add in a Summer of E-learning

conference because you have e-learning resources right you have a great already

bag of great opportunities to connect and let the teachers know about and let

them know what you have so for instance you have ebooks to start with and you

have databases and you have okay what what else my thing is it will they you

could talk about the INSPIRE databases oh yeah I mean yeah and then like you said

other databases if your library has something specific to your community for

sure and you know this is a great place to connect and you're connecting with

teachers you're talking to teachers and maybe they're not teachers in in your

area however you know teachers are going to talk to other teachers you're going

to get some feedback from those teachers and you know you you're starting the

ball rolling and pretty soon it's just gonna snowball

right look for other opportunities as well school staff meetings after school

so in in a school environment we would have staff meetings well one school I

worked out we had a staff meeting every Wednesday after school for an hour and a

lot of times it said you know just bringing everybody up to date on what's

going on and what's what's the news we also had some time devoted for a little

professional development hey did you know about this or know about that and

and teachers and the school librarian we're always tapped to hey tell us a

little bit about what you're doing in your classroom because that's pretty

exciting but that would also be a great time for the library to come in and let

us know what kind of resources you have how you can help us students have a

research paper to do we can help you with that

you know looking for e-books we can help you with that we have digital card

e-learning cards or or a library card so what students access our electronic

materials share that with the schools and how you would get into a school

staff meeting is you probably want to contact directly the administrator of

the school so the principal or assistant principal but let them be sure to let

them know hey you know here are the things that we can talk about here are

the resources that we have at the library that we'd be happy to share and

how this would benefit the teachers at the school also do you have a great STEM

or a STEAM activity that's just oh my gosh every time you do it it's like it's

a home run that's a great thing to you know create a flyer here's here's

this great program and I'm just gonna pick something let's say we're gonna

talk about bubbles and we have a good book to read for

primary students about bubbles and then we have a great opportunity to do a

little hands-on activity and and why my schools be interested in that well a lot

of times you're looking for opportunities to reward students I

finished all my AR points for the school year I have had perfect attendance so

they reward those students field days at the end of school you might have

stations in the that the children get out to go out and experience so why not

have a station from the library you know there are many many opportunities to

highlight hey this is a great program what what else can we do where can we

move that into your school activities and the core story times at school at

the Bartholomew County Public Library we have a staff member who goes out pretty

regularly to do story times at schools especially in the primary and pre-k

group and it just started with making a contact with a single teacher getting

into that classroom with a single teacher the teachers oh my gosh I had

this great experience that this librarian came in and and did some read

a story maybe did a little activity with the students and and then that word

spreads and in teachers say well you know how do I get that person into my

library as well the other things to think about is how can i connect the

activities that I currently do or my special activities to the Indiana State

Standards and Indiana State Standards are in this not for teach only for

teachers anybody can view the State Standards you can look at the State

Standards they're not that difficult to read or understand and of course if you

have any questions um please don't hesitate to ask me

having worked on both sides I can certainly help you find standards that

go with the activity that you're doing standards are really important like I

said before teachers just have very little precious free time so I'm gonna

put on my teacher hat and I'm gonna talk to you about some of the experiences

that I had as a teacher in with librarians coming into the school and

what I really liked about them so when I was a teacher at the Greensburg Junior

High School we had a team librarian from the Greensburg Public Library visit our

school during each of the lunches she did this about once a month and how this

worked students would get passes from the school librarian to bring their

lunch to the library and eat while listening to the visiting public

librarian and this this was awesome because she did such a wonderful job so

she would do book talks so she might bring in a collection of books maybe a

dozen or so books the kids have a short amount of time and the kids by the way

because sometimes it's very noisy or it's very crowded so those those kids

that are gonna like the book talks are gonna you know they're gonna like the

library they're gonna jump at the chance to be part of this group so her books

could might be on a particular topic or they might be new blacks or a particular

genre she might talk about young Hoosiers and if you're dealing with

older school children you might want to talk about the Rosies as well but when

she was talking to do this short talk maybe 15 minutes or so after she

explained to all her books and then she'd engaged the students which I

thought is awesome so she asked them have any of

you read any of these books would you like to give me some feedback on books

that you've read have you read similar books how has

that worked for you what did what did you like about them what kind of books

do you like what kind of books would you like me to feature on my next visit

she's not talking at my students she's talking with my students that's just

made me really super happy as a teacher

she also sponsored battle of the books and I particularly I liked that a lot

and what she would do is when she introduced Battle of the Books she'd

bring in the books book talk them and she would leave a set of all the books

with our library so there was no there was never any barrier for our students

to participate in Battle of the Books because we would have a set of blocks at

our school that the students could check out now we bought extra copies of the

books as well so you want more than one student reading books for Battle of the

Books right but it was just really nice to know that that she leveled the

playing field for all of the participants throughout the county

by leaving with his stack of books when she left and it was it was a great

experience we loved Battle of the Books I would meet with the group once a week

after it was introduced I had a help coach a team and I really liked that too

of course I've loved to read so yeah but I contacted your school librarian make a

flyer what will you talk about how long is the talk and be very specific about

what you want it what you want to do how the students might benefit from that

it's a great idea to do the Young Hoosier Book talks because there the

list is already out there students like to read them over the summer middle

schools in Bartholomew County are especially in tune to the Hoosier Young Hoosier

books because they get prizes for finishing all the Young Hoosiers and

they get to vote on their favorite book is there's lots of supplemental material

that the committee actually creates to go along with those books to help you to as

the librarian talk about them absolutely you don't have to ever invent any new

wheel to do some of these programming opportunities in the schools there are

lots of resources available to you just reach out ask ask about them I think

you'll find that a lot of people have resources to share or favorite websites

that they like to go to and stuff like that so just a few other ways that that

you might help at the school is to put together maybe a little program on

digital citizenship oh my gosh that's like so huge in the schools right now

especially when students are often given presentations or they're writing papers

and when they do those presentations they need to know things like what's

copyrighted what do I have to do if I want to use this picture well it's on

the internet must be free right you know how do I give credit to where credit is

due and they always like music in their video videos that they create or

powerpoints and what is an amount of music that I can use before I have to

buy the song right so letting them know and letting them understand that and you

know we talked about earlier about it takes a village you

know I can tell my kids 100 times about this but what's really nice is if they

start hearing it from somebody else

and citing resources okay so I was a science teacher and science teachers and

social studies teachers also have writing standards we have to write in

science and social studies so it's not just that language arts teacher that you

want to be making connections with if I had had access to someone coming in to

mice that would come into my classroom and help me explain how to cite

resources oh my gosh that would have been good wonderful and the other thing

would to be a great thing to share is how to use informational databases so

one of the really sort of sad things is it if you peruse the public school

librarians web page you're gonna find access to INSPIRE maybe Worldbook or

other informational databases and they're probably one of the most

underused resources in the school they're probably even in your library

and underused resource it's because people really don't know how to use them

butt they do know how to Google right but what I really like about the

informational databases is I know that they're getting correct information and

you can even start this off by showing them some really good looking websites

that have really bad information on them so one of my favorites there is a

website and that it is about octopuses that live in trees in the Pacific

Northwest and if I know right and they even have a

little link you can donate to the cause to save these it looks really super good

it looks authentic and you know the kids don't live near water probably think oh

maybe maybe they are rains all the time in the Pacific Northwest right so maybe

you know but you know let them know that that's how to access information in

those databases and why those databases have more accurate information than you

might find Thank You Suzie shared the the link to the tree octopus yeah Thank

You Suzie cuz that's just a really standard favorite of mine to get kids to

think about you know using really good sources and how to tell if the source

is good so all of these things librarians do because that's what you

you know best but you know we need some help in the schools with those as well

I'm gonna talk about one of my some of my programs that I actually do in the

schools at this time so I do CoderDojo and what a CoderDojo is it's an

opportunity for our young people to come in and learn about computer programming

a CoderDojo so dojo by definition is a place where

people come together to learn and the participants in my CoderDojo are called

ninjas and they're not fighting ninjas but think of a ninja as a person who

strives to be the very best that they can add something and and will persevere

and work hard to learn more about it I started these programs at the

Bartholomew County Public Library and we meet most with Wednesday's after school

and I had been doing that for oh gosh about a year and had a really

established program at our main branch and wanted to reach out to our Hope

Branch our Hope Branch is very small and so the

really was in space to host a CoderDojo and I wanted to reach out start reaching

out to upper elementary school students so I met with our branch manager and

they said is it okay you only serve one elementary school at this branch is it

okay if I make contact directly with the elementary school and he's like yeah

sure go right ahead so I contacted the principal and the Dean and told them

about CoderDojo and you know we actually in the state of Indiana have a coding

standards in a better computer programming standards that are part of

our science strand for standards and a lot of schools don't have the resources

or the training to offer that program so they were really enthusiastic about that

in fact they have some sixth-grade students who are meeting or exceeding

their expectations so they get sort of an a bonus special with me three times a

week I go in three days a week in the morning and meet with about 12 to 15

elementary school students sixth graders at this point and and we do a little

mini CoderDojo how time-consuming is that for you to plan out of curiosity actually

it's not as time consuming as you might like I'm gonna share a couple of slides

I'm going to share one of my favorite pages for for resources but you know

you don't have to be a coding expert to lead a CoderDojo you have to be a

willing learner and and learning alongside the kids I'm not a Scratch

programming expert and that's primarily what I do with the sixth graders but I

know where to find some resources I know how to get them started and if I don't

know of an answer to a question I'd say hey let's just figure it out yes that's

a really good point and that is the direct

that STEM programming should really go is being a co-learner with the kids and

taking some of the pressure off librarians we feel like we have to be

experts in everything and we're probably most of the time with your you as an

exception most of the time we're not technology or STEAM experts but if we're

learning with the kids and we're figuring out with them and letting them

take the lead on stuff now take some the pressure off of us absolutely sometimes

even if I do know the answers say oh oh look at what she's doing on her screen

because she's already got this figured out

and you know that that develops some of those 21st century skills that employers

tell us I was like super important so collaboration teamwork and in modeling

that for kids is just a super great thing so if you were at the ILF conference this

past fall you probably at least saw in the program that there was going to be a

presentation about CoderDojo Indiana and this was done by Courtney Lambert and if

you just google search Tech Point Youth or CoderDojo it'll take you to a page

about CoderDojo and at the bottom of the page his Courtney Lambert's contact

information so Courtney is like the most enthusiastic person about running these

little CoderDojo and she would like to see Indiana become one of the leading

states in the number of CoderDojos that that we have available for students so

during this presentation several school librarians contacted Courtney and said

can you can you tell me more can you put me in contact with somebody who does

CoderDojo so Courtney shared several of those names with me and one of them

happened to be a middle school librarian in my own community so I contacted her

and how she got interested in CoderDojos this is

sort of a fun little fact I host these on Wednesdays after school and there are

two middle schools in Columbus Indiana one the students can walk to the library

the other is on the opposite opposite side of town and there is a young man

that was coming from there that other middle school and he was the only one

from his middle school that was attending my dojos and he said to me one

day hey you know what can you come to our school sometime and do this like

well talk to your librarian and see if we can have a place to hold it he was he

was concerned that you know I have friends that want to learn this too and

but they can't get here after school so I contacted that that school librarian I

invited her to a CoderDojo because I think the best way to learn about them

is to be part of one see what's going on she sat down just like a ninja and did

the activities that I was doing with the kids and it it was it was great she's

very enthusiastic so I go over there two days a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays

it's today being an exception I'm here with you to help host a

CoderDojo during their lunch so we've worked out a program where the kids

bring their lunch trays and their chromebooks and learn about coding and and

we we just keep the information that we're sharing with them - like 10 or 15

minutes so they have an opportunity to explore it and still eat their lunch and

the kids the kids love it in fact this has led to another program because I can

only go over there for one lunch period it's the only time I have in my day to

go over there and the other two lunch periods of like what when are we going

to do this so now we're gonna start an after-school program as well there with

CoderDojo so you know just you don't feel like you have to be a coder to start a

CoderDojo you just have to be enthusiastic this is

the website that I had mention it's a code club dot org in the UK we don't

have a US version yet but they are working on it they've been doing code

clubs for years in the UK and in Europe and we're just sort of jumping on the

bandwagon now but if you look at all the resources they have available for you

what I really really like about this website is and I'll print out copies of

the projects for students I might spend 5 or 10 minutes of that CoderDojo giving

them some general instruction maybe I'll show them hey in Scratch do you know

you can move sprites around the screen with it arrow key you know something

like that related to one of the projects that I'm going to share with them but

the projects are written in such a way that it not only shows the kiddos what

to do but also explains to them why they're doing it so they code a few

lines and then they test it and code a few lines and then they test it it's

really very nicely done because that's exactly what we do in the real world as

a former computer programmer I did not write hundreds of lines of code and hope

that they worked I wrote a few lines and then tested it and I collaborated with

my friends and I showed my friends what I had created and and I don't set any

expectations that they will do one of my projects so they might be inspired by

the project and then try something on their own just a tip when you go into

schools if you have an idea to do a CoderDojo at the schools just check

with the IT department or with the librarian or whoever you're

making contact with and make sure that the students can access the websites

that you intend to use one of we found out one of the schools does not let the

students go to the Scratch website whoa what it's computer programming but there

are sample games that other people had invented and the kid they're afraid

that the kids will spend too much time playing games I like to look at it this

way though hey you know I'm being inspired by what somebody else has done

and you can remix them and you can change them and make them your own

so you know you just always check before you go especially if you plan on using

the computers when I go to the elementary school the students use a

computer lab and when I go to the middle school the students have one-to-one

Chromebooks so they use their own devices I just make sure they can access

what I'm showing them okay remember when I told you I had that elevator speech

are ready so when those librarians came to tour the public school librarians

came to tour our library hey I talked to them about the Nick and Tesla book club

way we've organized this at the Bartholomew County Public Library is

that when students take check out a book they get a little kit one of the gadgets

that Nick and Tesla invent so for instance Nick and Tesla would like to

invent things to solve problems and they suspect that this person has stolen a

comic book and they're trying to get him out of the office so they built a little

bristlebot and they let it listen the guy is like oh my gosh runs out of the

office and they are able to search for the comic book so I had my little

elevator speech ready and I talked to um to the ah to the librarians about

the program the next day I got a contact from a local elementary school and said

hey we passion projects on Friday and we'd like

to bring kids over to the library to be part of this Nick and Tesla book club so

I meet with eight to ten students every nine weeks for about six weeks of that

nine weeks and talk about a Nick and Tesla book and we also make one of the gadgets

that's featured in the book each time so just having that elevator speech ready

and being ready to go as awesome another program I happen to be walking through

that elementary school with some Ozobots the one where I'm doing the CoderDojo

and the third-grade teacher stopped me and said whoa can you tell me about

those cuz I've been thinking about buying them and I said great and then I

have to think well how can I develop a program that she might be able to use

these in her classroom and I found a book if you were a polygon and read it

and that was a read aloud for the kiddos to get them started using the Ozobots

nonfiction read it actually covers three standards for third-grade reading so

learning new vocabulary and applying these and the new vocabulary we observe

the Ozobots and you see here in the top right hand corner of the screen you know

though we know who find out what kind of tricks they can do these are Ozobot

Evos and then we learned that you know robots are everywhere they mow our lawn

they vacuumed our carpet and I show them a little video clip of how they're used

to the factory to take products from one place of the factory to another so we're

gonna train our Ozobots to do the same and they had some little challenges like

the one you see on the bottom right so they're learning about perimeter and

then we did some area and they're using rulers which is great because

measurement skills are really one of the lowest scoring areas in in schools I had

these third graders for 90 minutes and they were not off task

even one minute that um then I also want to do some decoding this was really

amazing because I wasn't sure that they were gonna have that manual dexterity

skills to create these fine lines and to make the codes they need to be exactly

the way you see them on this color chart but they did and they made their Ozobots

act like a tornado and spin and so I got these Ozobots from being part of

the CoderDojo Network and CoderDojo the Tech Point

Foundation has several grant cycles and you can apply for grants so I was able

to use the grant money to purchase the Ozobots I have a set of 18 and you

should watch for them they often go on sale so it's not just something that you

use only in elementary school but this is a middle school activity whether they

have Chromebooks or iPads or uh PCs you can code them and then load the

program onto the Ozobot double-click him he goes and does so what you coded to do

and if he's you're successful he does a little victory dances like so and you

know just so you know you don't have to make up these lessons there are hundreds

hundreds of online lesson ideas you can level this all the way up to high school

activities and hey if you happen to have a 3d printer you can make little

costumes for them how cute is that right and use a program like BlocksCAD

and have children learn how to how to do that and the last program that I'm

implementing out at the schools right now is called Crypto Club and this is in

collaboration with that National Girls Collaborative Project and it's by no way

girls only program it's just the National Girls Collaborative tries to

make sure that the programming appeals to girls as well as boys

so it's about encrypting and decrypting secret messages using different ciphers

it was developed by the University of Chicago there's a great curriculum that

goes with it it scaffolds children very nicely and I'm just going to go out and

share that curriculum with at the schools and by the way by Bartholomew

County Public Library is the hub site for the Crypto Club so we can do some

training if you're interested in learning more about a program like this you can

take to the schools strong math skills a lot of connections to standards really

fun and by the way cybersecurity hmm big big career opportunities available

for kids there too so making sure that they have that opportunity and I also

like Little Bits coding with Little Bits so I'm actually going to be doing a

presentation shamelessly promoting the ILF Southeast on April 20th so if you

want to connect I'll be down there showing you a little bit about Little

Bits and I'll have several kits available that you can test them out and

hands-on try them yourself I am see if you like them right and once again

here's my contact information so if you'd like to contact me I'd be happy to

hear from you.