Category: Blog
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‘Read Brave’ Fosters Passionate Reading and Intergenerational Dialogue
Read Brave is a city-wide one book project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, facilitated by a small but passionate group from the Saint Paul Public Library’s Createch program, part of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network. Marika Staloch, one of the facilitators, recently spoke with K-Fai Steele, of the YOUmedia Network and the National Writing Project. You…
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Why the School Library Is the Perfect Place for Maker Education
“Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia. But in this case, Jopeck is not talking about just online research or reading about animal behavior or electrical engineering. Instead, Jopeck and her colleagues are talking about a new kind…
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Meet the Mentor: Sienna Cittadino, The Labs @ CLP
When I first hopped off the 57 in Hazelwood, I didn’t have anything in my backpack except paper and drawing pencils. I was heading to my first day, and first Labs Workshop, at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Hazelwood. Hazelwood was one of two new weekly locations for Labs programming—the other being CLP – Beechview—and…
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Nashville Library Gives Incarcerated Teens the Freedom to Create
How a local public library in Nashville is using digital media to help teens see themselves as readers, and much more. It began with a simple library lending program. When funding for the library at the Woodland Hills Development Center in Nashville, Tennessee, was slashed in 2015, the staff there reached out to their local…
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YOUmedia radio interview: Meet the Mentor
An interview with Jeff Hodges, mentor at YOUmedia Chicago. Jeff talks about HOMAGO, his approach towards working with teens, some anecdotes and stories, and his personal creative practice and how that overlaps with and enriches his teaching style. “[At] YOUmedia, we use real people, real mentors… They use their real-world experiences to connect with the…