FYI,

If anyone is attending PLA in Denver in April, 2016, here’s a worthwhile precon program being presented:

Every Child Ready to Read: The Spirit of Collaboration

Wednesday, April 6, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM

The ultimate goal of this preconference is to spark curiosity about how we can best serve families through community cooperation, collaboration, and celebration using Every Child Ready to Read. Join your colleagues to discuss how ECRR is helping the library redefine its role to better collaborate with parents and child-serving agencies to serve children birth through age eight. Does your community have small pockets of poverty or large areas of poverty? Do you serve wealthy families or middle income families? Or do you serve a mix of many types of families, individuals, and organizations? No matter your community composition this workshop will offer thoughtful dialogue around using the five early literacy practices as a conduit to celebrate collaboration and support families. NY Times best-selling author and children’s advocate, Regina Calcaterra, will join a panel of librarians and educators as they explore how to develop extraordinary partnerships among early childhood allies—parents, caregivers, agencies, schools, and, public officials—and promote talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing in order to help children get ready to learn to read. Come prepared to share your experiences and learn how other libraries incorporate Every Child Ready to Read into partnership efforts. No matter your starting point, this preconference will offer tips, conversations, and inspiration to reach out and engage families.

http://www.placonference.org/preconference-ecrr-collaboration/

Forwared by:

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

...@njstatelib.org">sraw...@njstatelib.org

609-278-2640 ext. 116 - phone

609-278-2650 - fax

CSLP 2015-2016 Vice-President/President Elect