[yscon] Family Engagement & Department of Ed collaborations

Thu Jan 25 07:29:10 PST 2018

Hi All,

I’m late in chiming in about family engagement, but I wanted to toss a bit of info into the pile. Our state library is part of the state education agency, so I regularly collaborate with my PK-12 colleagues. I am on a Family Engagement cross-agency committee, and it is has been informative for me to learn about how schools are trying to adopt more holistic relationships with students and families.

Our committee recently collaborated to create a short video that explains what family engagement is and a brief website on a webpage. You can view the video and the webpage here: https://dpi.wi.gov/engaging-families

Be sure to listen for “public libraries” around the 2:00 minute mark. I made sure we were listed as a community partner ☺

Cheers,
Tessa

Tessa Michaelson Schmidt
Public Library Youth and Inclusive Services Consultant
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
(608) 267-5077
tessa.schmidt at dpi.wi.gov<mailto:tessa.schmidt at dpi.wi.gov>

From: yscon [mailto:yscon-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Sharon Rawlins
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [yscon] [External] Re: Family Engagement & Department of Ed collaborations

Hi, Cathy,

Sorry for the delay in responding. It’s been a very disrupted several weeks with days off for vacation and bad weather. I know we had a discussion about this last August because we posted some of the links to  family engagement brochures that some of our states had developed in collaboration with our DOEs, like Carrie’s from Maryland, and the one I worked on with my state’s DOE. It was done in preparation for the family engagement session for the YSCon monthly meeting last August 31st. Here’s the link to all the resources we posted in a Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z5J5a--9r1Ol_VcWx219j3OkVq07kpRESzR60w8zg5I/edit?usp=sharing<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1nUkngudhip_2SqvQCwksy8JGnRxTRgMiIN9VM63R5s_TL_HgwB5SFxjmj5HxP3SbemKisHjWwIIhO29Nu9-gqzjIuM6DACNaplvpkc9dYAftMgxEHlTa1pzeb5s1yKz2P2vZC4o4spKJ0XYTx727FfEbfQILpD0HP1FZ1nkQv-FFt5tj1o0WUnaI76rw31N9raZZAGFPvZa0Xw8UWYI9FZXcFTjV8vQtmOQnvYXsIEMrkYwZ8mpbgitGbDVtuAealMtakMHvItWLpOvQz7rOTw/https%3A%2F%2Fna01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fdocs.google.com%252Fdocument%252Fd%252F1Z5J5a--9r1Ol_VcWx219j3OkVq07kpRESzR60w8zg5I%252Fedit%253Fusp%253Dsharing%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjdwyer%2540library.ohio.gov%257C8567648cbc1a4e350c5808d4d5e8a382%257C50f8fcc494d84f0784eb36ed57c7c8a2%257C0%257C0%257C636368642548401266%26sdata%3DyTQ6NVk%252B%252F34x87huCBry1DwRiFPEoGMnYDpZIAXJGnE%253D%26reserved%3D0>
To address your question about how to approach them to include libraries, I’ve been lucky enough that they contacted me to be included in the discussion. It’s taken years to get to this point. I started by inviting the State Director of our Head Start Collaboration Office to lunch years ago and we’ve been working together since. She introduced me to her contacts at our DOE and I offered to work with them as well. I’ve also shared the Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement publication with them.

Aside for the family engagement brochure, our group hasn’t met in a few months but I’m hoping we’ll do so soon. Since we have a statewide listserv for youth services librarians, I can send out resources from the DOE to the library staff. We’ve also exhibited or presented at each other’s conferences.

~Sharon

Best regards,

Sharon Rawlins, MLS
Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning
NJ State Library
185 West State St.
P.O. Box 520
Trenton, NJ 08625-0520
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609-278-2640 ext. 116
609-278-2650 – fax
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From: yscon [mailto:yscon-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Rockwell, Jasmine K
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [yscon] [External] Re: Family Engagement & Department of Ed collaborations

From what I’ve been told, the State Library of NC and the NC DPI have never been friendly. Except for Kathy Parker, my approximate counterpart in DPI who works with school media coordinators, who I have met, it is more of a “stay in your lane” attitude but without any hostility. On a local level, schools and public libraries do a decent job of partnering at least for information sharing, the partnering just doesn’t happen at a state level. I am hoping to change this with Kathy’s help as she definitely understands the need for schools and public libraries to work together in order to best serve their communities.

I’ll be keeping my eye on what any of y’all are doing so we might be able to clone something here.

From: Snyder, Sally [mailto:sally.snyder at nebraska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 11:44 AM
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Ditto from Nebraska.  Nothing happening now, but I am interested in hearing about your meeting and others’ experiences.

Sally

Sally Snyder
Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services
Nebraska Library Commission
1200 N Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, NE 68508-2023
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From: yscon [mailto:yscon-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Paige Bredenkamp
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [yscon] Family Engagement & Department of Ed collaborations

Not in Wyoming but I would be interested in knowing more about how you and your Dept. of Ed move forward on this.

Thanks,
Paige

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Lancaster, Catherine (MDE) <LancasterC5 at michigan.gov<mailto:LancasterC5 at michigan.gov>> wrote:
Any State Libraries collaborating with their Department of Education on Family Engagement?  How do you approach them to include libraries?

The Michigan Dept. of Ed has begun a task force to develop “Family Engagement Framework,” for ages prek-20, and I’m heading to my first meeting today.  I’ve got the Ideabook: Libraries for Families and the Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement publications, but am curious if any of you are working on this in your states?

Thanks,

Cathy Lancaster

Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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