2025 CLEL Conference
Save the Date! October 16 and 17th will be dates for our Annual Conference. The conference will be virtual this year on our Zoom Platform.
Notes From our March Meetup
Next Steps After Storytime: A Meetup Recap On March 11, 2025, we had a small but lively discussion about serving emerging readers in a holistic way after storytimes. Our talk centered on how we can promote and encourage literacy for young pre-readers as well as support caregivers trying to bridge the gap to help children …
March Member Meet Up
Member Meetups are an informal way to network with other professionals around a topic relevant to youth librarianship. Librarians promote early learning for ages birth to 5 primarily through ECRR. But how do you support children as they transition into reading independently? Join our next meetup to be held on March 11th from 1-2 (MST) …
Announcing the 2025 CLEL Bell Award winners
COLORADO – Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy today announced five winning picture books that exemplify the early literacy practices READ, WRITE, TALK, SING, and PLAY. Winners were selected from a 25-title shortlist put forth by the awards committee. The 2025 CLEL Bell Award Winners are: READ – When You Love a Book – written by …
2024 Conference Materials
CLELCON24 Final Schedule Cena Con Cuentos: Spanish-Language Storytime and a Shared Meal Sara Meldrum Challenging Post-COVID Impacts on School Readiness through Storytime Standards Cassandra Welch and Kristin Hare CLEL Mini Grant Winners Kellyanne Healey, Sarah Bean Thompson DEI and Belonging in Children’s Programming Tiffany Miller Teaching a Baby Storytime Tiffany Miller Windows and Mirrors: Library …
¡El Premio CLEL Bell 2025 está buscando candidatos para el comité de selección! – El plazo de la aplicación ha sido extendido hasta el 31 de enero.
Cada miembro seleccionado formará parte de uno de los cinco subcomités que se centran en las siguientes prácticas: Leer, Escribir, Cantar, Hablar o Jugar. Los miembros del comité se comprometen a leer libros ilustrados y libros de cartón publicados entre junio 2023 a junio 2025, con el fin de eventualmente nominar libros que mejor reflejen …
Meetup Recap: Best Books of 2024
On the afternoon of November 7, a small yet mighty group of librarians came together to discuss the books they have been enjoying this year, both inside of Storytime and out. The booktalks were animated, and the list grew longer with each passing minute. Below are the titles that were shared, and a recommended age …
Call for New Leadership!
Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy is seeking new leadership! This is an exciting opportunity to connect with early literacy leaders statewide, empower fellow professionals, and affect great change. Members of the Steering Committee serve a minimum two-year term and are divided into specific subcommittees: Steering; Communications; Advocacy and Fundraising; Training; Membership; and Conference. All committees …
Serving Neurodiverse Families: A Meetup Recap
On July 25, 2024, 26 librarians from across the country came together to discuss the topic of neurodiversity in both Storytimes specifically and in libraries as a whole. The conversation sparked several questions, ideas, and thoughts as it continued, and it ended with a good number of resources for folks to take back to their …
Announcing the Spanish CLEL Bells
May 25, 2024 • info@clel.org COLORADO – Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy is pleased to announce a newly formed committee that will present CLEL Bell Awards to winning Spanish-language titles in 2025. A complement to the English CLEL Bell Awards, the Spanish Bells will select five outstanding picture books produced in Spanish that model the …
