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SDCLibrary Summer Learning Kindergarten Academy to Kindergarten

Gear Up! • School Readiness Program

• Unites parents with community resources

• Provides a preschool experience for the 40% of children that don’t have that in California

All Star Book Club • Literacy intervention for students just finishing

Kindergarten

• Partnership Between Schools, Kindergarten Teachers, Students, Families and Public Libraries

Wee Readers • Response to DELAC request for reading tutors

• Designed for all literacy levels

• Run by Teen Volunteers

Need

Collaboration

Resources

Program

Evolution

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Kathleen Sullivan-Long, Librarian I ◦ Need in local schools for Fine

Art instruction

10 Fine Art Kits ◦ Lessons in artists, technique

and movements

◦ Pitch an Idea Grant for CLA

◦ Flexible

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Art kits that highlight artists: ◦ Frida Kahlo

◦ Henri Matisse

◦ Jackson Pollack

◦ Wassily Kandinsky

◦ Georgia O’keefe

◦ Andy Warhol

◦ Vincent VanGogh

◦ Pablo Picasso

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Public Libraries & Schools Collaboration ◦ Identifying the voids

Similar Missions

Goals

Jodi dela Pena, Librarian I – Youth Services jodi.delapena@sdcounty.ca.gov

Laura Mendez, Librarian I – Youth Services

laura.mendez@sdcounty.ca.gov

Elizabeth Vagani, Librarian II – Branch Manager, Lemon Grove Library elizabeth.vagani@sdcounty.ca.gov

Kathleen Sullivan-Long, Librarian I – Youth Services

kathleen.sullivan-long@sdcounty.ca.gov

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