Happy New Year!
Spots are filling up fast for my January - April Stories, Songs, and Stretches! online certification with Library Juice Academy. This training consists of 3, four-week modules, with two-week breaks between each module. The content is released
weekly for students to complete at their own pace. A combination of recorded lectures, video demonstrations, discussions, readings, group work, personal practice, and occasional in-person meetings are used to help trainees build all the skills they need to
intentionally and effectively use yoga-inspired movement and mindfulness to enhance school readiness in their storytime programs. I only offer two online series per year. It’s looking like this one will fill up, so if you are wanting to join us, register today!
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate-sss.php
Katie Scherrer, MLIS, RYT
Founder, Connected Communities, LLC
www.connectedcommunitiesconsulting.com
Founder, Stories, Songs, and Stretches!®️
www.storiessongsandstretches.com
MDHHS has created a youth marijuana prevention campaign to educate people 14-21 of the legal, educational, health and social risks that come from using marijuana underage.
The campaign will be running on various digital, streaming, and social media sites from now until April 2020. There are :30 and :15 spots that will guide youth to our drug free website. Please feel free to share the videos and website link with your networks
as you deem appropriate. The Youth Marijuana spots have been put on the MDHHS YouTube Channel and the :30 general spot has been added to the
Michigan.gov/DrugFree website. Links to the videos are below.
Future Self :30 -
https://youtu.be/-va_sMteB3Q
Future Self :15 -
https://youtu.be/XE5KWE_Kumo
Future Self Health :30 -
https://youtu.be/QLfFxfu8IIA
Future Self Future :15 -
https://youtu.be/4-b9FVc-pVU
Future Self Financial :15 -
https://youtu.be/ikekVH9BIuo
Future Self Relationships :15 -
https://youtu.be/AOBQf-4PJpI
The Afterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators (ACRES) project at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) is thrilled to announce our Spring 2020 schedule of offerings!
Thanks to the generosity of the STEM Next and the National Science Foundation, it is FREE to participate in ACRES. You will also be compensated with a stipend for completing a survey before and after you participate.
Sign up by visiting: https://mmsa.org/projects/acres/join-a-cohort/
Offerings for NEW and RETURNING ACRES Participants:
ACRES Graduate Course – Thursdays, 12:00-2:00 EST (via Zoom), January 16-May 21
Earn three graduate credits in this completely virtual course on facilitate STEM learning in informal educational settings. With the help of our generous funding from STEM Next, MMSA is able to offer significant financial support for participants
to enroll in this course. For a limited time only, MMSA will cover nearly all of the tuition costs for participants.
*When prompted on the registration page, enter the code: MX13ALL
Offerings for NEW ACRES Participants:
Asking Purposeful Questions – Thursdays, 7:00-9:00pm EST (via Zoom), April 9, May 7, June 4
Questions are the beginning of a path towards discovery, imagination, and STEM exploration. How can we help youth expand and clarify their thinking and develop their reasoning through the questions we ask them? This module is designed for
educators who have some experience facilitating STEM learning and would like to grow in their practice within a supportive group of other educators.
Offerings for RETURNING ACRES Participants:
Exploring Youth Understanding in STEM – Tuesdays, 12:00-2:00pm EST (via Zoom), March 24, April 14, May 12
What can we do to find out what youth know about a particular topic without resorting to a quiz or test? What strategies can we use before, during and following an activity to surface youths’ understanding? In this module, participants
will first clarify the purpose of formative assessment and then learn several easy-to-implement strategies for monitoring youths’ understanding.
Modeling Science Practices – Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00pm EST (via Zoom), May 5, June 2, June 23
How can we make sure that our ‘hands on’ science experiences for youth are also ‘minds on?’ In this module, participants learn how to support youth as engage in the science practices to learn science ideas, including planning and conducting
investigations around testable questions. They’ll talk about the similarities and differences of questioning in science versus questioning in engineering contexts.
Giving Youth Voice and Choice – Tuesdays, 12:00-2:00pm EST (via Zoom), January 28, February 11, March 10
How often do youth in your program get to choose what they’re investigating or designing, the materials they might use and/or how they engage with the work? In this module, participants try out strategies for giving youth voice and choice
and apply the ideas as they redesign a STEM activity to incorporate a greater variety of youth input.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to participate in ACRES for free!
Time is running out - our current funding can only support your free participation for another 1.5 years.
Manuals are available online. Please go to
www.cslpreads.org to login and access your manual code (only 1 code per library location, please) to download and start planning your 2020 summer library programs today!
Due to limited resources and a short timeline, CSLP has only been able to provide 1 simply designed poster replacement. The Library of Michigan feels it is important for public libraries to have access to all the poster art, and with the
Rules of Use in mind, created the following updated 2020 posters:
http://bit.ly/LM2020CSLP, to be downloaded & printed by public libraries for their summer library program use.
Free Books – still available! Sign up today!
Money
Smart Week 2020 (MSW) will kick off
National Financial Literacy Month. Michigan’s MSW Campaign is once again offering
Money Smart Kids Read for interested public libraries to incorporate into story times,
March 28-April 18, 2020.
2020 title: Save It! A Moneybunny Book by Cinders McLeod.
What to do?
Special THANKS to our generous 7-year-running
Money Smart Kids Read underwriting partner, Michigan Credit Unions. Thanks also to the Library of Michigan, Michigan Library Association, and The Library Network & RIDES for their support! Questions may be directed to Michigan Money Smart Week Chair,
Kelly Masters; MoneySmartMichigan@gmail.com.
Imagine
Your Story: Ideas & Tips from the Library of Michigan’s Youth Services Advisory Council
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
2:00 PM ET
Programming ideas and tips for the Collaborative Summer Library Program’s 2020 summer reading program, “Imagine Your Story,” will be shared from your peers in the field.
This webinar is recorded for participants that cannot attend live and is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Starting
a School Outreach Program from Scratch: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Everything In Between
A webinar with Clinton-Macomb Public Library’s Amy Young and Brittany Wesner
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
2:00 PM ET
We will discuss how Clinton-Macomb Public Library went from little school outreach to developing a streamlined plan that allows us to see over 20,000 students a year. Specifically, we will focus on how developing curriculum-based, grade
specific programs helped us to appeal to teachers and administrators while still attracting students to participate. These strategies can be adapted to serve communities of any size. Additionally, we will talk about the differences between curriculum-based
school outreach and relationship-based school outreach as well as how to meet the need of schools from varying socioeconomic backgrounds.
This webinar is recorded for participants that cannot attend live.
Stepping
Gently Outside of Your Comfort Zone! With Jenifer Strauss
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
2:00 PM ET
So…you have been doing Storytime for years! You have a reliable plan and you have developed your own special storytime groove! That is wonderful! But…maybe it’s time shake it up and try something new!
In this interactive webinar, Storyteller and Narrative Consultant, Jenifer Strauss will encourage you to step gently out of your comfort zone and create storytime programs with a new twist and some unique razz-a-ma-taz! Jen will be presenting
innovative, “Out of the Box” ideas for storytime planning and model NEW use-right-away songs, stories and activities.
In this webinar you will:
This webinar is recorded for participants that cannot attend live and is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Parade
of Elephants: Ready to Read Michigan 2020 with Jenifer Strauss
Thursday, February 20, 2020
2:00 PM ET
In 2020, the Library of Michigan’s Ready to Read Michigan program will feature the book, Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes.
In this informative and interactive webinar, Storyteller and Narrative Consultant, Jenifer Strauss will feature
Parade of Elephants and then share a plethora of ideas to build a storytime for your youngest patrons using this sweet, action-filled story. In this webinar you will:
This webinar is recorded for participants that cannot attend live and is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Beyond
Storytime: The Care and Feeding of Teens at Your Library with Jenifer Strauss
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
2:00 PM ET
“If you feed them, they might come”, but food alone will not keep teens coming back to your library for more! A sense of place, belonging and strong programming will.
Don your hard hats and take a journey inside the teenage brain with former sixth grade teacher, Institute on Media and the Family speaker and Storyteller, Jenifer Strauss. Find out “why they act that way” and what it takes to really connect
with tweens and teens at your library.
In this webinar you will:
This webinar is recorded for participants that cannot attend live and is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Cathy Lancaster
Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
LancasterC5@michigan.gov
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