KRARI Book Set Requests
Copies of the 2019 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Sanity and Tallulah by Molly Brooks, are available to public libraries interested in hosting a KRARI book discussion. Please submit your request by Monday, March 4. Book sets will be sent through delivery at the beginning of March. Request your set at http://olis-ri.libwizard.com/krari2019public .
The KRARI kickoff event is scheduled for Saturday, May 4th 2pm-4pm at the State House. If you would like to have a table at the event, you can indicate “yes” in the book set request form or you can just shoot me an email. There’s also a space on the request form to indicate whether or not you would like for your library to be a pick-up location for schools that have requested KRARI sets. In the past, volunteers from the RI Center for the Book have distributed book sets to requesting schools that do not receive OLIS-LORI delivery. However, if you're looking for a way to connect with schools, you may want to consider being a pick-up location for book sets requested by school librarians in your community.
FEMA Seeks Youth Leaders for National Youth Preparedness Council
FEMA announced the agency will start accepting applicants for the Youth Preparedness Council. This program brings teens together from across the country who are interested and engaged in community preparedness. Council members are selected based on their dedication to public service, their efforts in making a difference in their communities and their potential to expand their impact as national leaders for emergency preparedness. Students in 8th through 11th grade are eligible to apply.
Formed in 2012, the Youth Preparedness Council offers opportunity for youth leaders to serve on a distinguished national council and participate in the Youth Preparedness Council Summit in Washington, D.C. During their two-year term, the youth leaders will complete both a local and national-level project and share their ideas regarding youth disaster preparedness with FEMA leadership and national organizations.
Youth interested in applying to the Council must submit a completed application form, provide two letters of recommendation, and academic records. All applications and supporting materials must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. PST, March 31. New council members will be announced in May. To access the application materials, read about the current Council members, and for more general information about the Youth Preparedness Council visit www.ready.gov/youth-preparedness-council .
RI Book Award Voting
It's book award season!
RI Children's Book Award (RICBA)
February 1 - March 1
If you are a public library that will have a voting station, please contact Danielle Margarida to have your library listed on the voting web page and in the next RICBA newsletter.
RI Teen Book Award (RITBA)
January 22 - February 28
We are once again offering free books as prizes and incentives for both teen voters and voting stations in public and school libraries across Rhode Island. For more information and to get your voting station involved, click here for 2019 Voting Incentives .
Please direct any questions to riteenbookaward@gmail.com
RI Middle School Book Award (RIMSBA) voting to be announced, March 1st-March 31st.
Help Support RIDE's SurveyWorks
Last year, more than 119,500 (up from 113,000 in 2017) students, parents, and educators participated in SurveyWorks, a school culture and climate survey that helps illustrate what is working and what can be improved in Rhode Island schools.
Are students engaged in their learning? Do parents feel welcome in their school community? Are teachers included in decision-making with school leadership? These are the kinds of important questions asked through SurveyWorks, and this year, we want to engage even more Rhode Islanders in the discussion.
In particular, we’re focused on increasing family participation, because parent voices are too often left out of the discussion when it comes to their child’s education.
That’s where our public libraries come in.
Attached are flyers in English and Spanish that we hope you may consider displaying in your library. On the flyer, you’ll note that it encourages parents to visit your Reference Desk for help. If you are willing to support this effort, we can provide you with instructions on how to access and navigate the SurveyWorks website, as well as a customized list of school codes for your community. Each school in the state has a unique code for SurveyWorks, and we are happy to generate a list for your city or town, if you are willing to help local families complete the survey in the library.
The SurveyWorks window will be open from January 14 to March 31, 2019. Schools will select two-week windows in which to more heavily promote the survey, but parents can complete the survey at any time during the full survey window. The survey takes approximately 20 minutes from start to finish, and is available in English and Spanish. Schools have a very limited number of paper copies available, but with your help, we are hoping to transition to an almost entirely online administration. If you have any library events in that survey window at which you think it could be helpful for RIDE to attend and promote SurveyWorks, please let us know and we can work with your team.
Thank you for your support, and if you are willing to help us in this effort, please contact Meg Geoghegan at Megan.Geoghegan@ride.ri.gov for more information and for a list of your local school codes.
Contact
Email: danielle.margarida@olis.ri.gov
Website: http://www.olis.ri.gov/
Location: 1 Capitol Hill Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-574-9309
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Twitter: @olisri