Welcome the to the 2022 PSLA Conference!
April 21-23 | Hershey Lodge and Convention Center
Get ready for the 2022 conference
Keynote Speaker- Joyce Valenza |
Keynote Author- A.S. King |
After 25 years of joyful practice as a teacher-librarian in K12 education (in the Wissahickon and Springfield Township Districts), and several more as a public and special librarian, Joyce joined the faculty of Rutgers University where she prepares future librarians to lead cultures of literacy and engage communities.
Joyce writes the Neverending Search Blog for School Library Journal and contributes to several other library and edtech publications. She speaks globally about the thoughtful use of technology in learning and the power of librarians to lead. Joyce has been honored as the AASL 2017 Social Media Luminary, with the AASL 2019 Distinguished Service Award, as a PSLA Outstanding Contributor and with the PSLA Outstanding Individual Library Program of the Year Award. Her research interests include: school librarianship, youth information seeking, educational technology, social media curation, OER, emerging literacies, social media and online communities of practice. |
A.S. King has been called “One of the best Y.A. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review. King is the author of highly-acclaimed novels including 2020 Michael L. Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist DIG, 2016's Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz among others. She also writes Middle Grade fiction as Amy Sarig King.
She is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and spends many months of the year traveling the country speaking to high school and university students, educators, and humans who care about the mental health of young people. After more than a decade living self-sufficiently and teaching literacy to adults in Ireland, she now lives in Pennsylvania. |
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