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Library-School Partnerships: Promoting Student Success Together

Learn how to connect with schools for successful collaborations that benefit both parties. Explore various methods of making the connection, promoting library resources, organizing events, and engaging educators and students. Discover win-win strategies for boosting student achievement through library-school partnerships.

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Library-School Partnerships: Promoting Student Success Together

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  1. We All Care!: Partnering with Schools for a Win/Win Heather McNeil, Deschutes Public Library, heatherm@deschuteslibrary.org Jackie Partch, Multnomah County Library, jacquelp@multcolib.org

  2. Connecting with Schools • Who to contact: • Library staff • Principal • Interested teachers or other staff • District library media coordinator • Friends/relatives/ coworkers

  3. Making the Connection • Letters? • Email? • Phone? • Social media? • In-person meetings?

  4. Successful Collaboration • How can you collaborate to promote student success? • Successful collaborations are a benefit to both parties.

  5. Face-to-Face Collaboration

  6. Win-Win Collaborations • Promote library databases: www.multcolib.org/homework/db.html • Promote summer reading • Booktalks with book tubs: www.multcolib.org/los/books2u/ • Author visits

  7. More Win-Win Collaborations • Teacher inservice: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/gotta.htmlwww.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/novelties.html • After-school programming: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/sun.html • Parent programs • Schools as a location for library performers

  8. Help! I Can’t Leave the Library • Or, how to collaborate with schools when you have limited time for outreach

  9. Basic Collaborative Efforts • Educator library cards: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/edcard.html • Library card campaigns: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/glca.html • Newsletter: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/scq/

  10. Create a kit: or, the next best thing to cloning yourself • Curriculum support tubs: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/bucket.html • Book group support • Booktalking tubs • Program-in-a-box

  11. Summer Reading Collaboration • Sign up kids while still at school • www.multcolib.org/summer/ • Questions? suzanneh@multcolib.org

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