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dents to submit videos in February. The March event celebrates innovative teaching
practices that make learning more personalized and engaging. DLD is also intended
to encourage exploration of how digital learning can provide more students
with more opportunities to get the skills they need to succeed in college, career,
and life. During DLD AASL celebrates innovative teaching. For more, visit .
Freedom of Information Day
This annual event is observed on or near the birthday of James Madison, the “Father
of the Constitution” and the foremost advocate for openness in government.
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for upcoming events.
Read Across America
Started in 1998 as a way to get kids excited about reading, the National Education
Association’s Read Across America has become the nation’s largest reading event.
The year-round program culminates each year on or near Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Promotion
ideas and links to free resources and files of posters and other promotional
materials can be found at .
Teen Tech Week
Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services
Association and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators, and other concerned
adults. The purpose is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users
of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries, such as DVDs,
databases, audiobooks, and videogames. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use
libraries’ non-print resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that
librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.
Teen Tech Week began in 2007 and has a general theme of Get Connected @ your
library. For more information, visit .
April
El día de los niños/El día de los libros
This annual celebration of children, families, and reading focuses on the importance
of advocating literacy for every child regardless of linguistic and cultural
background. It is sponsored by ALA and Association for Library Service to Children,
along with REFORMA National Association to Promote Library and Information
Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. Free resources for planning
a celebration are at .
60 Calendar of Events