bringing it home: taking ala’s every child ready to read program to your library

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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 servicesJasmine Africawala, Program coordinator

2011 TLA Annual Conference

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: ecrrtla2011

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History What is ECRR?

ECRR @ DPL Art component Book giveaway

DALI Mayor’s Office Dallas Public Library

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Partnerships Roll in existing partners

Dallas Museum of Art, Junior League of Dallas, Parks & Recreation

Crossing BoundariesGetting out of the

Library!Farmer’s MarketParkland Hospital clinics WIC clinicsCity Arts Festival Health FairsFrank Crowley JailState Fair of Texas

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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?

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Tailoring your programALA’s Design

Early Talker workshop (0 to 2 yr)

Talker workshop (2 and 3 yr)

Pre-Reader workshop (4 and 5 yr)

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

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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)

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Grant support - Sustainability Get the money ball rolling

International City and County Managers Association (ICMA)U. S. Department of Education

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Grant support - Sustainability And the ball rolls forward

Junior League of DallasBetter World Books/NCFLDollar General and Target

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Setting program goals Outputs versus Outcomes “Feel-good” not good enough Be realistic in program goals

and objectives

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

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

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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

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Measuring outcomes Review data Assess outcomes Adapt program for success

Outcomes are evidence to defend continued funding AND to attract new funding

WARNING!

Bragging will commence in…

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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 libraries more than before

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Visit us online!www.dallaslibrary.org/ecrr

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Questions? Share your successes!

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Stay in touch!

ECRR@dallaslibrary.org Jasmine.africawala@dallaslibrary.org Maryjo.giudice@dallaslibrary.org

214-671-8291