I am honored to say that I have been named the recipient of the 2013 ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award — an annual honor presented to an ASCLA member exemplifying leadership and achievement in one or more of the following…
Upcoming MGOL Training Workshop
Training Workshop, Full Day Consider signing up for the upcoming MGOL training workshop at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore, Maryland on Monday, September, 9: Location: Port Discovery Children’s Museum, 35 Market Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 Price: $300…
Great Website for Parents with Developmental Tips
A great website for parents with suggestions for parents regarding ways to respond their child, activities to share with their child, and the developmental tips behind them can be found at: Healthy Beginnings http://pfs.cte.jhu.edu/pf/pfs/pflink-4zxesty.
Does your library have MGOL Kits that can be borrowed?
A friend and colleague is in the process of getting funding for ECRR workshop kits and was wondering about creating a MGOL storytime kit as well. Is anyone using something like this? If so, please tell us about it!
Join us for ECRR2 Discussion at ALA Midwinter in Seattle
Are you coming to ALA Midwinter later this month in Seattle? Would you like to talk with other children’s librarians about early literacy best practices and share ideas about using the ECRR2 Toolkit and other resources? Join our cozy Implementing Every…
See the ponies galloping, galloping….
In California, the Wells Fargo Bank, Lincoln branch, just donated a cute stuffed pony to the Lincoln Public Library’s Mother Goose on the Loose program. The children love it. READ MORE ABOUT IT!!!
Positive reinforcement, words of praise vs. acknowledgment
At a recent MGOL training workshop in Indiana, a discussion on the effect of praise was started. Apparently, according to the HighScope curriculum, praise can be harmful. In a 2011 resource guide (ReSource2011.12winter_72-1.pdf): “Many well-intentioned teachers have used praise to…
Mother Goose on the Loose is “a typical public library program for babies, parents, and caregivers”
A survey sent out by the ALSC Early Childhood Programs and Services Committee (ECPS) contained questions regarding current efforts by public libraries to serve parents/caregivers and their babies. Although responses showed that programs varied significantly in frequency, attendance, and length,…
Knee Bounces – are they safe?
Yesterday, a listserv for public librarians questioned the safety of knee bounces. My response was this: When I was in Oakland, California presenting a training workshop, one of the participants spoke about this. She said that she worked with teen…
MGOL is at the Piedmont Library
Rhonda Turley at the Piedmont Library in Oklahoma wrote: I held my first weekly Mother Goose on the Loose program last week. I had 6 kids and their grownups, and received unsolicited hugs from 5 out of 6 kids. Not a bad…