by Leah Langby | Mar 8, 2022 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’ve come across some great resources about summers and libraries lately. Here are a few: Association for Library Service to Children’s new(ish) creation: Learning Beyond: 21st Century Summer and Out-of-School-Time Programs for Youth Toolkit This...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got the most amazing email from Betty Anne at the Turtle Lake Public Library this week, I asked if I could just turn it into a guest blog post. So many great ideas! So inspiring! Thanks Betty Anne! I’ve heard the idea of the CSLP theme “Imagine Your...
by Leah Langby | Sep 10, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
The YSS Blog had a post recently linking to this article about Summer Learning Loss. The article calls into question the 30-year-old research that many of us have been using that points to a dramatic difference between students from high income and low income...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I came across an article from the Harvard Business Review about How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work and thought immediately of all you wonderful peeps out there in the thick of kicking off your summer programming....
by Leah Langby | Jun 6, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
A few weeks back, I put out a call for cool SLP promotion/ideas. I heard from 4 libraries with great info about their SLP (and beyond!). If you have stuff to share, I’d love to hear about it! Barron is having a Summer Reading Program Launch on June...