by Leah Langby | May 31, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s the next installment in the continuing series of ideas from The Wakanheza Project™. From The Wakanheza Project Agency and Community Organizing Guide:Culture:Many things make up a person’s culture, including language, religion, food, art, music,...
by Leah Langby | May 27, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: flickr.com by thejbirdThe Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has developed an Early Literacy manual to go with the One World Many Stories theme. It includes programming for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It is available right here:...
by Leah Langby | May 16, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
From The Wakanheza Project™ Agency Business and Community Organizing Guide:”Principle 1: Judgment. We make judgments every day to help us make decisions. When we see a person who is struggling and we make assumptions and judgements abotu who they are and why...
by Leah Langby | May 11, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, 3 IFLS-area librarians and I went to Sun Prairie for further training in the Wakanheza Project™. The Wakanheza Project™ is an initiative/concept started by the Ramsey County Public Health Department as a community-level primary prevention approach to...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Every once in a while it seems like a good idea to post a conglomeration of unrelated cool things I’ve gleaned from list-servs, notes from IFLS librarians, newsletters, etc. So here goes!Hollis Helmeci, library director in Ladysmith and self-proclaimed SkippyJon...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Hooray for Christy at Pepin for sending in some photos and ideas just when we needed them! Doesn’t this look fun? You don’t have to be a large library to have a successful toddler program. If you need help with coming up with ideas, please contact...