K12 Community Engagement Calendar

K12 Community Engagement Calendar

Welcome to your K12 Engagement Calendar—a hub of opportunities to learn, grow, and connect to your Comics Plus Community! 

This calendar is here to support your ongoing engagement and success, and is led by our K12 Engagement Team (read more about them below!). We encourage you to explore, participate, and reach out any time!

Calendar Content

Here's what you'll find throughout the calendar:

Theme Days
These are color-coded across the calendar. Hover over any colored date to explore a curated list of titles from our collection, thoughtfully selected by our K12 Engagement Team to align with that day's theme.

Color Key:
  1. Elementary Title Suggestions Only = Blue
  2. Elementary & Middle Title Suggestions = Green
  3. Middle School & High School Title Suggestions = Orange
  4. High School Title Suggestions Only = Red
  5. K12 Title Suggestions = Purple

Engage & Inspire Info Sessions
Join live sessions where our team shares best practices, programming ideas, and helpful tips to make the most of your digital collection. These sessions are open to all—feel free to add them to your own calendar!

Office Hours
Have a quick question or need guidance? Drop into our open office hours—no appointment necessary. Our K12 Engagement Specialists are here to help.

Meet your K12 Engagement Specialists

Vickie Blankenship and Stella Bromley are Engagement Specialists for LibraryPass, as well as school librarians and educators with extensive experience in librarianship at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Both bring expertise in professional development and educator training, working with school districts nationwide. They have presented locally, regionally, and nationally on best practices for collection development, library programming, and classroom pedagogy. Active members of their state library associations, they are dedicated to fostering a love of reading in students and educators alike. They share a passion for connecting readers with the “just-right” book and believe that reading takes many forms, whether it’s traditional print books, comics, graphic novels, or manga; as long as readers are engaged with a book, their love for reading will grow.

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