MLA/DLACon2025

The educational waters can appear choppy with much to navigate for student success: early literacy and school readiness, emergent readers and literacy instruction, college and career readiness, and equitable, inclusive access to resources and materials for all our students of all abilities. How to tread these waters? In this session, LaShawn Myles, Carrie Sanders, and Kim Cowles share about statewide educational resources and services available to public libraries. Attendees will also hear how the Maryland State Library Agency and the Maryland State Department of Education are fostering school-public library collaboration in all communities to support youth learning and family engagement.