Bringing it Home: Taking ALA

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Bringing it HomeTaking ALAs Every Child Ready
to Read program to your library

• Presentation by
• Every Child Ready To Read _at_ Dallas
• Jo Giudice, Administrator of youth services
• Jasmine Africawala, Program coordinator
• 2011 TLA Annual Conference

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History

• What is ECRR?
• ECRR _at_ DPL
• Art component
• Book giveaway
• DALI Mayors Office Dallas Public
  Library

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Partnerships

• Roll in existing partners
• Dallas Museum of Art, Junior League of Dallas,
  Parks Recreation

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Crossing Boundaries

• Getting out of the
• Library!
• Farmers Market
• Parkland Hospital clinics
• WIC clinics
• City Arts Festival
• Health Fairs
• Frank Crowley Jail
• State 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 program

• ALAs Design

• ECRR_at_Ds Design

• Early Talker workshop
• (0 to 2 yr)
• Talker workshop
• (2 and 3 yr)
• Pre-Reader workshop
• (4 and 5 yr)

• 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 Dallas
• Better World Books/NCFL
• Dollar 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

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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

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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_at_dallaslibrary.org
• Jasmine.africawala_at_dallaslibrary.org
• Maryjo.giudice_at_dallaslibrary.org
• 214-671-8291