Road Maps and Sign Posts: Planning Ahead for a Successful Storytime
Leah Langby
January 26, 2016
Keeping Up With Kids
Road sign picture, courtesy of Pixabay

I attended quite a few of the Wild Wisconsin Winter Webinars last week, and I’m looking forward to listening to several more of them–I’m going to put it on my calendar so I actually do it, and I encourage you to do the same.  All the recordings are here.  There is a youth services track, but many of the webinars are useful for everyone!  And some of the leadership track sessions were led by youth services phenoms.

Today, I’m just going to mention that if you didn’t yet listen to the Road Maps and Sign Posts webinar with Melissa Depper, I hope you will take an hour to do so.  Melissa talks about thoughtfully planning ahead for behavior expectations, transitions, and more.  Yet another reminder of how important it is to be intentional instead of haphazard with our efforts.  This can be difficult when trying to juggle too many things–believe me, that seems to be the story of my life!  But having regular reminders of concrete ways to practice this is one of the best ways to help me change my way of doing things.

search all blog posts using keywords or title, date, categories

Archives

Categories

Related Articles

IFLS Youth Services Check-In: Play!

Great questions were asked, great ideas were swapped!  Here are a few highlights (sorry if I’m forgetting something):   Karen Magnusson (formerly of Woodville, now of Baldwin) gave a report about her experience at the Play, Make, Learn Conference in...

Great Halloween Cupcake Bake-Off in Phillips

Thanks to Linda Johnson, the new youth services librarian in Phillips, for sharing this fun collaboration.  Leveraging her existing connection with the school and with the Family and Consumer Education teacher, Linda organized a Great Halloween Cupcake Bake-Off for...

The Power of Partnerships (guest post by Valerie Spooner)

I had a great chat with Valerie Spooner, the youth services librarian in Ladysmith, this afternoon.  I LOVED hearing this story about the ways putting in the time for partnerships and relationships can pay off! In 2020 I was able to fulfill one of my library dreams -...