Shannon Miller

Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher librarian and technology specialist at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, Iowa. She is also an educational consultant for Mackin Educational Resources and Rosen Publishing. She encourages her students to have a voice while learning, creating, collaborating, and connecting to others within their school and around the world.

Shannon is the author of the award winning Van Meter Library Voice blog and enjoys writing for ISTE's Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, librarianship, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others.

Shannon is a member of ISTE, SIGMS, ALA, AASL, and ILA (Iowa Library Association). She is also a member of the Children's Literature Network.

Shannon serves as the advocacy chair on the Iowa Association of School Librarians and on the Iowa Center for the Book Advisory Council as the public school students and libraries representation. She also serves on the advisory board for Library Journal, Horn Book, and School Library Journal; School Library Monthly advisory board; StarWalk Kids board of advisors; and the BiblioNasium advisory board. She is a FableVision Learning Ambassador and presenter for SimpleK12. Shannon is a Social Media WRADvocate for LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day campaign. She is part of the Bammy Awards Council of Peers. In 2010, she was also chosen to be part of the Cengage Learning/School Library Journal New Leaders Program. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty Award.

Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at shannonmmiller.com.