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...
by Leah Langby | Jan 8, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: Pixabay Making the Move from Summer Reading to Summer Learning Thursday, 1/17 1:00 pm (Central) Children need to keep learning during the summer. Libraries have long embraced their role in the summer learning landscape. The National Summer Learning...
by Leah Langby | Jul 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by Julian Lozano on UnsplashPhoto by Julian Lozano on UnsplashChristy from Pepin recently shared a fun idea for a challenge for kids in the library. The goal: have a 3 minute conversation with library staff without...
