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Advocacy Tip for July: Give handouts to parents during Storytime

July 5, 2010 - 3:15pm — CLEL

Note: CLEL will be posting a new Advocacy Tip every month. To see all the tips, click on the "Advocacy Tip" tag above.

You are an early literacy advocate if you: Give handouts to parents during storytime. 

Handouts provide a tangible reminder of visiting the library, let the parents check out books they liked from storytime, and are an opportunity to provide low key early literacy tips.

Nobel-prize-winning economist advocates for early childhood education

June 16, 2010 - 9:25am — CLEL

Dr. James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago and a nobel-prize-winning economist, has spent his career studying the economics of human potential. Through his study, he has found that there are great economic gains to be had by investing in early childhood development. In fact, the rate of return on investment is 10%!

Support the efforts of CLEL: buy a t-shirt!

June 9, 2010 - 12:34pm — CLEL

CLEL mugYou can now support CLEL with just one click! We've added a link to our zazzle merchandise shop to the homepage - on the lower right side. Part of the proceeds from each coffee cup, sticker, magnet, tote bag, or t-shirt goes to CLEL, helping our efforts to promote early literacy learning in Colorado! Thank you!

Advocacy Tip for June: Organize a Read In!

May 26, 2010 - 11:33am — CLEL

Note: CLEL will be posting a new Advocacy Tip every month. To see all the tips, click on the "Advocacy Tips" tag above.

You are an early literacy advocate if you organize a Read-In to kickoff the summer reading program, National Library Week, Children's Book Week, etc.

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Blog comments working again

April 6, 2010 - 3:26pm — CLEL

Hello friends,

CLEL is aware that it's been difficult recently for folks to post comments to the blog.  Our web guru believes she knows what's causing the problem, and I think we've come up with a temporary fix.  So, please, try, try again!

We value your comments!

Progress report on CLEL's LSTA grant project: "Building Reading Readiness"

March 8, 2010 - 12:44pm — CLEL

CLEL members who were able to attend last November's annual meeting heard about the latest LSTA grant project we are working on, which is to create a website with videos of rhymes/fingerplays and songs with early literacy tips.  Patricia Froehlich, Youth Services Senior Consultant with the Colorado State Library, has submitted this report on CLEL's progress on the grant so far:

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Job Opportunity at Denver Public Library: Senior Librarian - Early Literacy Department

February 22, 2010 - 1:37pm — CLEL

The full listing for this opening can be found here.

CLEL Seeking Contract Drupal Developer

January 16, 2010 - 3:27pm — CLEL

The Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy seeks a web design and Drupal development firm to create a website of video vignettes on early literacy. CLEL is looking to add streaming video to our existing web presence. We would like to create an auxiliary site to integrate with our existing Drupal site at www.clel.org.

Please see the full job description for more information about the project and the submission process.

Proposals are due February 8, 2010.

Annual Meeting Recap!

November 25, 2009 - 11:12am — CLEL

The organizers of CLEL's first Annual Meeting would like to thank everyone who attended for their enthusiasm and support. We are excited about all our new memebers and are looking forward to all we can accomplish together for early literacy in Colorado in 2010!

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