Resources from STEMIE Fest 2020

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STEMIEFest Innovation for inclusion in early education

9/14/20

Two popular early learning robots were Beebots & KIBO.

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AFIRM Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules: AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with ASD from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.

Supporting Individuals with Autism Through Uncertain Times-7 Support Strategies.

CSLP Child and Community Well-Being Committee shares their new mini-manual

The CSLP Child and Community Well-Being Committee (CCWB) is pleased to share  “Read Up!”, a mini-manual for non-library summer feeding sites, is now available for download on the CSLP website:

https://www.cslpreads.org/libraries-and-summer-food/#resource<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cslpreads.org/libraries-and-summer-food/*resource__;Iw!!Oai6dtTQULp8Sw!BuF-ecZ_L2j8e5SkKnSZh0ZniOzxOClNK2AoMR35GmIqWtt8RQT5AGtWtAyCDRJ3mBON7qkv$>

Read Up! is a free 26-page resource for Summer Food Service Program sites and other feeding sites outside of libraries, featuring easy-to-implement enrichment activities that support reading, creativity, and fun. The activities are adapted from the 2020 CSLP manual. A section on Reading and Literacy Basics, written by the team, guides such sites on how they can organize literacy-supportive activities even with no books on hand, and how they can partner with libraries, involve teens, and collaborate with other community entities.

MANY thanks to the CCWB team responsible for this project:

Linda Bartley

Ally Doliboa

Stacy Hill

Janet Ingraham Dwyer

Danielle Margarida

Jennifer McNeal

Janet Reynolds

Lisa Valerio-Nowc

And to Cathy Lancaster, the Library of Michigan, and LM’s contract designer who turned our Google doc into a crisp, appealing, professional publication. And to Luke Kralik for support and encouragement throughout.

When this resource was envisioned last spring, and through the fall and winter when they worked on selecting and adapting CSLP manual programs and writing the Reading and Literacy Basics content, no one could have had any idea the committee would be releasing this resource into a world without congregate settings such as summer camps and sit-down lunches at parks, rec centers, and churches. Though states are starting to “open up,” there is of course so much unknown about the future and about the duration of the public health emergency. However the mini-manuel was written to be “evergreen”, not specifically tied to the 2020 Summer Library Program (though it takes its activities from the current program), and will be helpful and encouraging whenever sites are safely permitted to feed and engage young people in congregate settings. Please share, however and whenever appropriate, with your communities SFSP administering agency and other partners in child nutrition.

Music Therapy Library Groups with Miss Julieann

Contact: Julieann Hartley, MT-BC
Location: Concord Area
Phone: 603-848-5037
Email: info@missjulieann.com

Julieann Hartley, MT-BC is a board certified music therapist and songwriter/coproducer of Miss Julieann: Therapeutic Songs for Kids. She is currently the director of the Music Therapy Program at the Concord Community Music School.  She works with children and adults with a variety of disabilities and those affected by the opioid epidemic.

Library Offerings: Intergenerational Music Therapy Group; Singing, Social, Sensory Time, Songwriting Series, Open Acoustic Jam, Sing the Stress Away and Using Music Series.  2019 Summer Library Program.

Early Literacy Resources for Parents

Are you looking for some handouts to give to parents of young children?  Check this resource from the Center for Early Literacy Learning for good activities that can be practiced by parents.  You can create handouts from the different pdfs on the website. There are also early literacy resources for parents of children with disabilities at this website.