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Bringing it Home: Taking ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read program to your library

Bringing it Home: Taking ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read program to your library. Presentation by: Every Child Ready To Read @ Dallas Jo Giudice, Administrator of youth services Jasmine Africawala, Program coordinator 2011 TLA Annual Conference. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: ecrrtla2011. History.

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Bringing it Home: Taking ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read program to your library

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  1. Bringing it Home:Taking ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read program to your library Presentation by: EveryChildReadyToRead@ Dallas Jo Giudice, Administrator of youth services Jasmine Africawala, Program coordinator 2011 TLA Annual Conference FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: ecrrtla2011

  2. History • What is ECRR? • ECRR @ DPL • Art component • Book giveaway DALI Mayor’s Office Dallas Public Library

  3. Partnerships • Roll in existing partners Dallas Museum of Art,Junior League of Dallas, Parks & Recreation

  4. Crossing Boundaries • Getting out of the Library! Farmer’s Market Parkland Hospital clinics WIC clinics City Arts Festival Health Fairs Frank Crowley Jail State Fair of Texas

  5. Listening to your community • Can children come to ECRR workshops? • Do your facilitators speak Spanish? • Does ECRR teach children to read? • Does ECRR help school-aged children?

  6. Tailoring your program ALA’s Design ECRR@D’s Design Born to Read Full workshop (0-2 yr) Discovering Books Print motivation & awareness Letters & Words Letter knowledge & vocabulary Stories & Sounds Narrative skills & phonological awareness • Early Talker workshop • (0 to 2 yr) • Talker workshop • (2 and 3 yr) • Pre-Reader workshop • (4 and 5 yr)

  7. The Evolution of a program • A Resource to the Community: • ECRR website resources • Early childhood professional development trainings • Emerging Reader workshop (August 2011) • Home-instruction DVD (August 2011)

  8. Grant support - Sustainability • Get the money ball rolling International City and County Managers Association (ICMA) U. S. Department of Education

  9. Grant support - Sustainability • And the ball rolls forward Junior League of Dallas Better World Books/NCFL Dollar General and Target

  10. Setting program goals • Outputs versus Outcomes • “Feel-good” not good enough • Be realistic in program goals and objectives

  11. Our program objectives • Encourage parents/caregivers: • To be more aware of the importance of early literacy • To spend more book sharing time with their children • To engage in more literacy-based activities with their children • To visit the library more

  12. Evaluation processes • Pre-workshop survey • Post-workshop survey • Follow-up evaluation phone calls

  13. Tracking results • Maintaining statistical database • # of parents • # of children • Race/Ethnicity • Customer satisfaction • More aware of the importance • Reading more with your children • Engaging in more literacy-based activities • Visiting the library more

  14. Measuring outcomes • Review data • Assess outcomes • Adapt program for success • Outcomes are evidence to defend continued funding AND to attract new funding

  15. WARNING! Bragging will commence in… 5 4 3 2 1

  16. Our Successes: March 2008-NOW • 26,667 children affected through workshops • 835 workshops conducted in community • 15,021 parents and caregivers attended workshops • 81% Hispanic or African-American • 16,053 people attended State Fair program • 99% are more aware of the importance • 75% will read more with their children • 84% engage in more literacy-based activities • 23% attend librariesmore than before

  17. Visit us online!www.dallaslibrary.org/ecrr

  18. Questions? Share your successes!

  19. Stay in touch! • ECRR@dallaslibrary.org • Jasmine.africawala@dallaslibrary.org • Maryjo.giudice@dallaslibrary.org • 214-671-8291

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