Name: From Topic Pages to Classroom Practice: Using HIDOE Gale Resources in Middle and High School
Start: 2026-08-07T10:10:00-1000
End: 2026-08-07T11:10:00-1000

The 2026 Hawaii School Library Conference, centered on the theme "Think. Create. Share. Grow." invites school library professionals to dive deep into the four domains of the AASL Standards Framework for Learners. This theme is a call to action, emphasizing the pivotal role school librarians play in empowering students to become ethical, critical, and collaborative citizens in the digital age.

What to Expect

Through engaging keynotes, hands-on workshops, and collaborative sessions, we will explore practical strategies to:

🧠 Think (Inquire & Analyze): Equip students with the critical thinking and research skills necessary to navigate complex information landscapes, evaluate sources, and become proficient users and creators of knowledge.
💡 Create (Design & Construct): Foster innovation and digital literacy by integrating tools and practices that encourage learners to design solutions, construct new understandings, and express their ideas creatively.
🤝 Share (Collaborate & Connect): Highlight the importance of the library as a hub for collaboration, ethical digital citizenship, and connection, promoting respectful dialogue and the responsible sharing of ideas and resources within the school and global community.
🌱 Grow (Explore & Engage): Focus on the personal and professional development of both students and librarians, championing a mindset of continuous learning, adaptation, and reflective practice that fuels lifelong literacy and intellectual growth.

Join us in celebrating the vital work of Hawaii’s school librarians as we collectively cultivate the future-ready learner by embedding these essential domains into every facet of the school library program.

From Topic Pages to Classroom Practice: Using HIDOE Gale Resources in Middle and High School

Friday August 7, 2026 10:10am - 11:10am HST

Piinaio Ballroom 1

Discover powerful ways to elevate middle and high school instruction using Gale resources from the HIDOE. This session focuses on using Topic Pages from the In Context resources to supplement classroom units of study and library learning across content areas. Explore how curated Topic Pages provide trusted content, multimedia, and primary sources on topics ranging from Financial Literacy and Manifest Destiny to Endangered Species, American Revolution, Climate Change, and Plate Tectonics. In addition, this training highlights the wide variety of premade, ready-to-use student activities and lesson plans available on the Gale Support Site, designed to seamlessly connect the library to the classroom. Explore engaging student activities such as Escape Rooms, Searching Skills activities, Novel Studies, DBQs, Choice Boards, Argumentative and Persuasive Writing tasks, CER activities, and more. Walk away with practical strategies and classroom-ready resources that support inquiry, critical thinking, and active learning in middle and high school classrooms. A guest librarian will join us to share firsthand experiences and instructional strategies for integrating Gale resources into classroom teaching and library instruction. **Will send over contact information as a follow-up after we finalize the details.

Speakers

Caroline Lee

Librarian, Honouliuli Middle School

Middle school librarian

Carolyn Kirio

Librarian, W. R. Farrington High

Carolyn H. Kirio is a Librarian at Farrington High School where she collaborates and instructs with teachers in project-based learning work. She has presented at state and national conferences and has coauthored Collaborating for Project-based Learning in Grades 9-12 (Linworth Publishing, 2008). In 2006 the American Association of School Librarians selected Kapolei High's library as one of the National School Library Media Programs of the Year (SLMPY), in 2015 awarded Kirio with the Information Technology Pathfinder Award, and in 2016 President Ob... Read More →

Tammi Burke

Senior Training Consultant, Gale in partnership with the HIDOE

Tammi Burke is a Senior Training Consultant at Gale with over a decade of experience helping librarians and educators maximize their Gale resources. A former educator with degrees in Education and Advertising/PR, Tammi combines instructional expertise with a passion for practical... Read More →

Friday August 7, 2026 10:10am - 11:10am HST
Piinaio Ballroom 1

Breakout

2026 Hawaii School Library Conference

Caroline Lee

Carolyn Kirio

Tammi Burke

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