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Nikki Giovanni's wonderful poems celebrating libraries and librarians

#NationalPoetryMonth

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/11/nikki-giovannis-poems-library-librarians/ … 

@brainpicker 28 Apr 201628 Apr 2016 28 Apr 2016

National Implications of Moving the Literacy Needle in California

Huffington Post

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 The Classical Music in Stanley Kubrick’s Films: Listen to a Free, 4 Hour Playlist http://goo.gl/Ul7MwF  Flint, Michigan isn't the only place with lead problems. Here's how to check your community: http://lifehac.kr/XYVkDu1  Flint, Michigan isn't the only place with lead problems. Here's how to check your community: http://lifehac.kr/XYVkDu1  lifehac.kr/XYVkDu1 

@CALnewswire 11 Apr 20163:35 AM - 9 Mar 2016 · Details

31% visit #libraries at least once a month

California and Florida are the most popular states for library visitors

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@paidviewpoint  12 Mar 2016 4 Apr 2016

Brainspace: Augmented Reality Enhanced Print Magazine

must see to believe

#ScannableTech

http://wp.me/p42mcK-1LZ

@ClassTechTips 6 Apr 2016 

25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area :: Teach Thought

25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area

Teach Thought: 3.14.2016

Reading is reading. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another.

Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Only sometimes it does.

Science content can often by full of jargon, research citations, and odd text features.

Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery.

Literature? Well, that depends on if you mean the flexible form of poetry, the enduring structure of a novel, or emerging digital literature that combines multiple modalities to tell a story. (Inanimate Alice, for example.)

This all makes reading strategies somewhat content area specific. Stopping (maybe the most undervalued strategy ever) and Rereading might make more sense in science, while Visualization and Text Connections may make more sense reading literary works. Questioning the Text may make equal sense in both.

But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com. (Useful site, by the way. Check it out.) It lists 12 basic reading comprehension strategies.  READ MORE @

Los Angeles Public Library :: Graduation - Career Online High School

Graduation By Brian Cunningham, project coordinator

READ:  Spring 2016

Adult Literacy Services | Changing lives one chapter at a time.

A newsletter written by students and tutors

In January the library held the inaugural ceremony in honor of our first graduates from Career Online High School. I had never met most of these students in person, so it was a treat to finally come face to face with them.  

Graduate Angie Velasquez gave a beautiful speech, recounting the personal and professional growth she attributes to COHS. The career certificate she received in Office Management, in addition to her diploma, inspired her to pursue a career in Human Resources. She is currently attending Harbor College and applying what she learned in her courses to make improvements at her current place of work.

In addition to our own John Szabo, we also had a few guest speakers, including Mayor Eric Garcetti, State Librarian Greg Lucas, and Board of Library Commissioner President Bich Ngoc Cao. Each of them shared powerful and inspiring speeches; we learned that the Mayor’s grandfather had been a barber, as he referenced one of our graduates currently enrolled in barber college.

We are grateful for the generous support of the Library Foundation and the California State Library. There are currently 34 graduates and many more students are approaching the finish line. Between the press we received and the family members who were inspired to apply for the program as a result of the ceremony, I am proud to say there seems to be more interest in Career Online High School than ever before. 

A New High School Graduate By literacy coordinator Janis Risch

Holly Maidens knew that she wanted to complete her GED and she found out about the LA Public Library’s Adult Literacy Program in late 2013. She hoped working with a tutor would help her to achieve that goal. She was matched with a tutor in early 2014. Her tutor helped Holly to improve her reading skills and also built up her confidence by offering ongoing encouragement. Soon after Holly started in the library’s program, the library introduced the Career Online High School (COHS) and Janis Risch, the Literacy Coordinator for the West Valley, told Holly about it. She began the COHS program in the spring of 2014 and, with her hard work and the encouragement of others, she completed her coursework and earned her high school diploma and career certificate on June 25, 2015. Holly liked the online learning environment because it allowed her to work at her own pace as her busy schedule permitted. She really liked the visible cues given by the program (checkmarks) as she progressed through the coursework. Her academic coach was ready to help her with any computer issues or questions about the lessons.

Holly is now in her third semester at Pierce College. She is taking General Education classes in preparation for transferring to California State University-Northridge where she will major in Psychology. Her long term goal is to become a social worker who works with special needs families and links them with resources.  READ MORE @

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events : : May 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events

May 2016

SCLLN

Literacy & Library Events & Conferences

- Local, California and National –

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

for more information

Get Caught Reading Month

May 01+ Choose Privacy Week

May 02+ Children's Book Week "A great nation is a reading nation"

May 02+ National Library Legislative Day Washington DC

May 02+ Virtual Library Legislative Day #VLLD16

May 02+ Teacher Appreciation Week

May 03   Teacher Day

May 04+ Health Literacy Conference Anaheim

May 06+ National History Day California

May 06+ Steinbeck Festival Salinas

May 09+ Reading Is Fun Week - RIF

May 10   Autism Sensory Friendly Films CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR 7p

May 14  Women's Literary Festival Santa Barbara

May 14  Autism Sensory Friendly Films CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR 10a

May 18  International Museum Day

May 21  Sacramento Latino Book & Family Festival

May 21  Readathon Day #Readathon2016

May 24  Autism Sensory Friendly Films NEIGHBORS 2  7p

May 28  Autism Sensory Friendly Films ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 10a

May 30  Overview of Dyslexia Screening Cyberspace May 30 — Jun 24, 2016

ALOUD: Library Foundation of Los Angeles  @ALOUDla

Los Angeles Literary Calendar  @LALitScene

Poets & Writers Los Angeles Literary Events Calendar

California Book Festivals

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: May 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar: May 2016

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

             Redlands Library        Huntington Beach

May 01 Literacy FUNd raiser “2 Across” Redlands Library 2:30p

May 04 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Library 5:45p

May 04 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation Huntington Beach Library 6p

May 05 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy Co Torrance Library 7p

May 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Chino Hills Library 9:30a

May 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Yucaipa Library 10a

May 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Grand Terrace Library 10:30a
May 09 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Santa Barbara Library 1p

May 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 12N

May 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ/San Diego Library 6p

May 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Fontana Library 5p
May 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Newport Beach Library 9a

May 12 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Burbank Library 6p

May 14 Duck-A-Thon Literacy FUNd raiser Huntington Beach Library 10a

May 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Placentia Library 1p

May 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Adelanto Library 11a

May 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Chino Library 10a

May 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Lake Arrowhead Library 10a

May 16 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Library 9:45a

May 16 Adult Literacy Volunteer Orientation Corona Library 7p

May 17 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Co Hesperia Library 3p

May 18 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Barstow Library 11a

May 19 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 6p

May 19 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Big Bear Library 4p
May 21 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Santa Barbara Library 1p

May 23 Adult Literacy Tutor Workshop Downey Library 9a

Beverly Hills Library Adult Literacy last Friday of month 10:30 - 12 N

LAPL Adult Literacy volunteers receive 7 hours of Online Instruction

Local Tutor Workshops :: Always Scrolling in the Right Frame

Statewide Workshops @ California Library Literacy Services

Literacy Library Jobs :: West Marin | Glendale | Beaumont

Literacy Library Jobs – California

Community Library Specialist - PT

Spanish Language Services

West Marin Literacy Program and Point Reyes Library

West Marin Literacy Program

ESL classes and one-on-one tutoring to English language learners throughout West Marin County.

DEADLINE:  May 16

Literacy Services Coordinator (Hourly) – PT

Glendale Library – Arts - Culture

performs duties that routinely draw upon and require specialized knowledge, experience and skills and abilities related to literacy programming. 

DEADLINE:  OPEN

Early Literacy Outreach Librarian - FT

Beaumont Library District

driving a van for outreach delivery of library service to child-care providers, programming for the target audience and collection development for the children's collections and the outreach Ready to Read Van.

DEADLINE:  OPEN

Library Jobs in California

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Redlands Library :: Literacy FUNdraiser :: " 2 Across "

Have Fun & Support Redlands Adult Literacy

 “2 Across” by Jerry Mayer

May 1, 2016

Reception and Performance

The fun begins at 2:30 pm with a dessert reception and a Redlands Adult Literacy Open House. Visit with Redlands Adult Literacy supporters, tutors, learners and lovers of reading and crossword puzzles.

The reception will be followed at 3:30 pm with a performance of “2 Across,” a poignant and witty 90-minute, one-act play written by Jerry Mayer. Local thespians, Deborah McFatter and Jeff Richards star in the play, directed by Kerry Jones.

Redlands East Valley High School

Blackstone Theater

1000 Colton Avenue

Redlands

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the A.K. Smiley Public Library or by contacting literacy@akspl.org. Checks may be made payable to Friends of A. K. Smiley Public Library, Attn. “2 Across.”

DONATION NEWS

Modern Woodmen of America has agreed to match any donations up to $2500 so that Redlands Adult Literacy can start an adult literacy book club.