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Workgroup: Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Workgroup: Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

The Early Childhood Literacy Coalition is a volunteer action committee comprising many of the capital area’s leading literacy, education and early childhood advocates.

The group gathers monthly to network, share resources and discuss ways to promote literacy among Michigan’s youngest citizens and their families. The Coalition is a sub-committee of the Ingham County 0-5 Committee.

Meetings are usually held at the East Lansing Library, the third Tuesday of each month 8:45-10:30 and are open to all. There is no meeting in December. For more information contact Beany Tomber at beany@wkar.org or Phone 517-432-3120 Ext 406

See the Early Childhood Literacy Coalition in our Early Literacy Celebrations for 2008 - Everyday Moments are Learning Moments Click here to view full brochure of the 2008 events (in pdf format)

SAVE THE DATES for 2008
Early Childhood Literacy Coalition for the Early Literacy Celebrations
with Special Guest Roscoe Orman (Gordon of Sesame Street)
Saturday, October 18 at the Lansing Mall
Sunday, October 19 at Meridian Mall

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Minutes – September 23, 2008

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz CADL; Beth Revers, DeWitt Library; Karen Black Clinton County Great Start Collaborative; Mischele McManus, Michelle Nicholson, Ingham ISD; Deb Hill, Head Start; Keri Keck, Teen Parenting Network; Lisa Chambers. Jump Start; Mary Jo Gallagher, East Lansing Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Jill Lawlor, Office for Young Children; Becky Fermanich, Delta Township District Library; Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent

Barnes & Noble

After we discussed issues and concerns relating to the B&N event including too much focus on B&N vs. ECLC it was decided to move ahead with the following:

-B&N will set up tables in their Children's area. They will be covered in plastic tablecloths (they will provide) and "named" for Sesame Street characters. On each table B&N will supply a few boxes of crayons. Mark will provide coloring sheets.

-Display areas with age-appropriate recommended reads

-Raffles in several areas throughout the store. At least two baskets of prizes will be provided by ECLC members including ELPL, CADL, etc. and may include books and ECLC merchandise. Send prizes to Mark or bring directly to B&N at least 1 week before the event.

-Special cookie packets will be made for our event in their café area.

-Mary Jo Gallagher volunteered to do a storytime from 11:30am-12 pm in the Children’s area. This will give us time to get tables set up inside mall. Clifford will appear at the end and wave to kids then go out to the mall area to meet and greet his fans.

-Beth Revers volunteered to do a PJ Storytime from 7-7:30 pm that evening in the Children’s area to help promote the literacy weeks and Sunday’s shows.

-Mary Jo will remain in the store from 12-4 pm helping B&N, letting parents know about the stage shows, etc.

Volunteers

Lansing Mall: Jill will have 6 girls; Deb will have 2 volunteers; Meridian Mall: Jamie will have 7-8 students. Volunteers will be used for handing out ECLC stickers, promoting stage shows & tables, and escorting Clifford. Volunteer hours are 11:30 am – 4 pm.

Update:

Lisa Chambers has been in contact with the Youth Commission Coordinator through MSU Extension. She has teens who are very interested in volunteering at the event. Lisa will know how many at the date approaches

Costumed Characters

Checks and contacts have been sent in to Costume Specialists from DeWitt Library, Delta Library, ELPL, Head Start, and Early Childhood Connections. All costumes will be sent to and returned from CADL.

Gordon

Roscoe Orman’s plane arrives in Detroit very early Saturday morning. He will arrive in Lansing around 8:30 am. Mark will arrange transportation for him while in town.

Publicity

Mark has extra brochures if needed. Beany sent out press release that can be customized for your local event.

Budget

We are about $329 over budget as of now. The breakdown is as follows:

Expenses
Roscoe Orman (estimate includes airfare, hotel, food, etc.           $6000
Jean Bolley                                                                          $500
A1 Rental Staging                                                             $376.60
Capital Imaging – ECLC stickers                                      $181.75
BRD Printing - brochures, fliers, posters, table tents                    $970.65
            TOTAL                                                                              $ 8029.00

Income
Friends of Lansing Libraries                                                           $2000
CADL Marketing                                                                    $2000
Library of Michigan Mahoney Grant                                                $500
Capital Region Community Foundation Grant                   $2700
Ingham ISD Printing – invoice them for printing                             $500
TOTAL                                                                                           $7700.00

Banner/Sound System

No money left to do a vertical banner. Rhonda will check about using Great Start money to get the ECLC/Great Start logos on a horizontal banner that could be taped to the front of the stage. She will go ahead with that option if she is able. Otherwise Head Start offered to do something with their poster/banner maker. At the very least we still have those mounted ECLC table signs.
A portion of the sound system may have to be rented. Mark will pursue.

Toolkits

Deb distributed the 2008 Literacy Toolkits. The library page has be revised and was redistributed electronically.

Other

Winter Literacy Event – Beany will call a meeting in November for anyone interested in working on a subcommittee to plan a winter event of some kind.
501 (C) 3 – this may not be an option as we are already a subcommittee of Birth-to-Five and. We may need to consider other ways of handling bills, etc. in the future.

NEXT MEETING SPECIAL DATE:

Tuesday, November 4, 8:45 am at East Lansing Public Library.
There will be no meeting in October. And the Nov 4 meeting replaces our regular November date. We will most likely not meet in December.

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

AGENDA - September 23, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions; Review of August minutes

II.        Barnes & Noble Discussion
            Discussion & options for Lansing Mall event
            Vouchers
            Guest at 9:15 am: Elaine Brockhaus – Barnes & Noble

III.      Volunteers
            Volunteer coordinator
            How many do we need? How many do we have?
            DeWitt Library providing person to be Clifford

IV. Costumed Characters
Did contracts get sent back to Costume Specialists from everybody?

V.        Publicity
            All materials have been distributed
            Mark has extras brochures
            WKAR’s Press Release

VI. Budget

VII. ECLC Banner/Sound System

VIII.    Other
a.       Winter Literacy Event – volunteer sub-committee
b.      ECLC consider becoming a 501 C3

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, October 21, 8:45 am – East Lansing Public Library
or do we want to meet a week earlier for last minute plans?

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Minutes - August 19, 2008

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, Head Start; Keri Keck, Teen Parenting Network; Lisa Chambers. Jump Start; Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Jill Lawlor, Office for Young Children; Becky Fermanich, Delta Township District Library; Karen Black. Clinton County Great Start Collaborative; Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library.

The minutes of the July meeting were reviewed.

Mall Events

Mark and Becky met with Michael Cook, General Manager and Ryan Gillette, Common Area Coordinator at Lansing Mall to review specifics of our event. The event is now on their calendar and they are excited to have us at the mall. Contract will be sent to CADL when we submit table/chair count. We do not have to pay for tables this year! We will ask for:

TableCount for Lansing Mall: Table Count for Meridian Mall

1.      Check-In Table                             1. Check-In Table
2.      Head Start                                   2. Head Start Books
3.      Head Start Books                               3. WKAR
4.      CADL                                                  4. CADL
5.      Safe Sleep Coalition                          5. Safe Sleep Coalition
6.      IISD – Great Parents/Great Start       6. IISD – Great Parents/Great Start
7.      IISD – Early On                                  7. IISD – Early On
8.      CCRESA                                              8. CCRESA
9.      Early Childhood Connections             9. Early Childhood Connections
10. Early Childhood Connections               10. DeWitt Library
11. Delta Township Library                        11. East Lansing Library
12. WKAR                                                   12. Ingham County Health Dept
13. Ingham County Health Dept                13. Ingham County Health Dept
14. Ingham County Health Dept
15. DeWitt Library

Plus 30-50 chairs for tables/public seating as space allows at both malls.

Barnes & Noble

Mark and Becky met with Elaine to sign the contract and make final arrangements. B&N will provide dressing room for Mr. Orman and changing area for Clifford. It was decided that we wound not provide an activity in the store but could still possibly provide a coloring/activity page in the café area provided we have a volunteer to hand them out. Head Start has a “Clifford goes to the library” coloring page if needed. The Literacy Lotto may also be revised to include something inside the store. ECLC stickers will also be available to hand out at the tables to help remind clerks in prompting the discount. The store will have various Clifford/Sesame Street displays/signage to help promote the event. Mark will ask if B&N would incorporate Clifford into their regular storytime event that week.

Publicity

Drafts of the brochures/fliers/table tents were passed around. Slight corrections will be made and when final, Mark will end out electronically to ECLC list serve. Final numbers for the 2500 8 ½ x 11 fliers are as follows:

            CADL 300
            Cristo Ray – 50
            DeWitt Library – 40
            ECC – 50
            Great Parents/Great Start – 300
            Head Start – 1500
            Teen Parent Network – 150
            East Lansing Library – 20
            Clinton – 25
            Delta Library - 50

10,000 brochures will be divided similar to other years. Both pieces should be available in early September. Mark will let everyone know when they are ready for pick up if people want to get them before out next meeting.

Michelle reported that their will be two presentation of checks for the foundation grant money. One will be in September and one will be with us at the Lansing Mall. It is possible to have our events promoted through these announcement/presentations.

Mark will ask Beany to once again write up an official press release and send it out to the ECLC list serve so agencies can add their events as well as the mall. All agencies are encouraged to use this so we are consistent in our wording. It was reminded that we especially need to credit the Foundation grant in the press release.

Mark is still working on a banner for the staging area. Cost is estimated at $500. And portions of the sound system may have to be rented. Mark will provide some parts and Michelle said IISD may have some things if we need it.

Volunteers

Jill and Karen’s troops are older and are choosing other options. Jamie contacted Volunteens and found out it is a summer program only. Michelle and Julie will check into possible groups some of which we may not know until school is back in session in a few weeks. Lisa will check with Ingham County Youth Commission. If you have any other ideas, please let us know ASAP.

NEXT MEETING SPECIAL DATE: September 23, 8:45 am at East Lansing Public Library.
We will resume our regular third Tuesday schedule in October.

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

AGENDA - August 19, 2008

East Lansing Library

I. Welcome and Introductions
Review of July Minutes

II. Mall contract update
Insurance

III. Barnes & Noble
Vouchers not necessary but encouraged
Will provide dressing room/changing area for Mr. Orman and Clifford
Coloring/Activity sheets in café area? Volunteer hands them out?

IV. Publicity
Final count for how many of each...
Brochures
8 ½ x 11 fliers
Table Tents
Official Press Releases - who will send and to where?

V. Table count for both malls
Lansing Mall Meridian Mall
1. Head Start 7. 1. 7.
2. CADL 8. 2. 8.
3. WKAR 9. 3. 9.
4. Safe Sleep Coalition 10. 4. 10.
5. 11. 5. 11.
6. 12. 6. 12.
And who needs electricity? Electricity?

VI. ECLC Banner for staging area
Sound System

VII. Other

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, September 16, 8:45 am - East Lansing Public Library. Head Start's Supervisor's meetings are falling on the same days as the Coalition meetings. Is anyone interested in changing the day?

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

MINUTES - Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Members Present: Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent; Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Jennifer Lamphere, Cristo Rey; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Ronda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Michelle Nicholson, IISD; Jill Lawler, OYC; Keri Keck, Teen Parenting Network; Susi Elkins, Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the June meeting were reviewed. Beth Revers’ name was added to the list of those in attendance.

More Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Mall Events

Mark Buzzitta still has not received the contract from the Lansing Mall. He will follow up on this and ask help from Barnes & Noble. There has been staff turnover at the mall and this may explain the delay. He has received the contract from the Meridian Mall. CADL will be signing the contracts again this year and will also be taking care of liability insurance coverage for the Coalition and all members that participate. By the August meeting we need to know the number of tables that each agency needs and any special requests for electric connections, etc.

A1 Rental Staging will rent us an 8x16 stage for the performances. The cost for both malls is $376.60 and includes setup and takedown.. Gordon had requested a stage 16x20. We will work with him on how to use the smaller stage to fit his needs.

Mark had prices from Capital Imaging for printing various quantities of logo stickers to use to gauge attendance at the mall events. Members decided the best deal was to order 5,000 for $156.75. These can be used at other events during the year.

Mark has talked more with Elaine Brockhouse at Barnes & Noble about our Book Fair at the Lansing Mall event. Clerks can not give buyers an automatic discount but they will be instructed to ask if they are supporting the ECLC. We can put out table tents promoting our activities in the store café. Mark will ask about having a Clifford activity in the store and then have Clifford leading the way out to our first performance.

The character schedule and the contact list for the agency events were passed around for review and corrections. Nichole Welz will email the final versions to all members.

Promotion

CADL will do the original art work for all print items and have them printed. They will invoice IISD for the cost of printing the brochure. ($500) We will order 10,000 copies and have them to distribute by Sept. 2.

We will order 150 table tents for each mall, 4 22x28 posters for each mall, and 1 vertical Coalition banner on a base from Art Craft ($500).

We will order 2500 8x11 flyers to promote the mall events. The following were numbers that each agency requested:
CADL - 500
Cristo Rey – 50
DeWitt Library - 40
ECC – 50
Great Start – 250
Head Start – 1500
Teen Parent Network – 75

NOTE – East Lansing Library wasn’t represented. We need to add them to the count. Anyone else that wasn’t there that needs flyers, please email Mark Buzzitta the numbers you want.

The Foundation/United Way funders may wish to do a press event during one of the mall events to announce their gift. Michelle Nicholson will be talking with them soon about this.

Acknowledgements on print materials and at events

We discussed the various contributors that need to be acknowledged on our print materials and tried to come up with some criteria given the different cash and in-kind levels of donations. They include:
            CRCF/CAUW - 2700
            CADL – 2500
            Friends of Lansing Library - 2500
            IISD – 500
            Head Start – 500
            Library of Michigan foundation - 500
            Barnes & Noble – 200
            WKAR – in-kind 1250
            All Coalition members – in-kind

Mark will talk with the CADL Marketing Director to get suggestions about how to do acknowledgements without taking up all the space on the brochure and flyer.

We also need to combine the Great Start logo with the Coalition logo on print materials and the banner.

Budget

All money will be channeled through CADL.
Our expenses estimated so far are as follows:
Roscoe Ormand (Gordon) – 6000
Jean Bolley (storyteller) – 500
Brochure Printed - 500
Stage Rental – 377
Tables – 300
Stickers – 157
Posters, banner, signage - 700
Sound System - 200
Estimated Expenditures- $8734
Estimated Revenues - $8700

Volunteers

Jill Lawler’s troop has gotten older (they do that) and does not wish to participate this year. Karen Black was not at the meeting so we have no report on participation from her troop. Jamie Yeomans will contact Lansing Parks and Recreation to see if their volunteers might be interested in working. Michelle Nicholson will talk with the Okemos Honor Society. We will want volunteers at the play area in the Meridian Mall.

Beth Revers will arrange for a wearer (her son) for the Clifford costume at both malls.

Coalition Brochure

Karen Woodman passed around a draft of the proposed brochure. Members approved the format and made several suggestions for additions. We would like to add the Great Start history. Also add the Great Start web sites for all four county Great Starts. Add United Way logo to slogan “Everyday moments…” since this is copyright by Born Learning/United Way. (Need to check if this is okay.) Deb Hill will bring the revised brochure to the August meeting for approval.

The meeting was adjourned.

Next Meeting August 19, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

AGENDA - Tuesday, July 15, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I.        Welcome and Introductions, Announcements

II.      Review of June 2008 Minutes

III.      Literacy Events and Oct. Literacy Weeks
            Updates

      Barnes & Noble – activities/storytelling in a.m. late p.m.?
      Schuler’s – response to Beth Revers
Mall contracts, number of tables needed
     Volunteers – Girl Scouts
      Promotion – Event flyers and postcards – how many, attendance stickers,    brochures, posters, banner, table tents, press release, acknowledgements on print pieces
     Budget – What have we committed so far and what do we still need ifunding?
   Characters – Bob the Builder
     Other

IV.     Other
         Next Meetings – August 19, September 16, 2008
           Adjournment

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes June 17, 2008

Members Present: Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent; Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Karen Black, Clinton County Early Childhood; Becky LeBoeuf, Delta Township District Library; DeWitt Public Library; Ronda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Mary Jo Gallagher, East Lansing Library; Michelle Nicholson, IISD; Jill Lawler, OYC; Keri Keck, Teen Parenting Network; Susi Elkins, Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Guests Barnes & Noble: Mike Pearson, Store Manager and Elaine Brockhaus, Community Relations Manager

Barnes & Noble Book Fair Oct. 18 at Lansing Mall

Members introduced themselves. Our guests, Mike and Elaine, from Barnes & Noble were introduced. They presented information on the Book Fair program .which is supported at the corporate level and implemented throughout the country at the local stores. They only donate to schools, libraries and literacy based non profit organizations. A percentage of everything sold in the store the day of the Book Fair is donated to the participating agency not just during the hours of our event. (Gift cards and member cards are not covered.) The agency receives 10% of sales up to $2000, 15% for $2000-$10,000, and 20% for sales above $20,000. The store does a big promotion on the event. The store will produce a voucher template for agencies to copy and distribute The customer does not have to have a voucher but can just tell the cashier they want donation to go to ECLC. However, it’s a good idea to have vouchers as a promotion tool. We could also have table tent cards on the tables in the café and signage in the store.

Elaine and Mike encouraged us to think about having activities and storytellers in the store, along with book displays highlighting the characters we are featuring. There would be a space for Clifford to use to change “wearers” during the event. There would be space for 100 in the story book area. Elaine will be our main contact. She wants B&N to be an integral part of our event and wants to have it be a “signature” event for them. It was suggested that we promote heavily starting one month before the event. We discussed using balloons to draw people into the store and decided they were too dangerous for small children. We will think about handing out vouchers inside the store when it opens. We may try to have the store do activities and storytelling between 10-12 and again after 4 when our event is over. B&N questioned why we were being charged a fee for tables when other non profits were not. They may be able to help us have this charge dropped by the Mall.

Mark Buzzitta will be our main contact with Elaine as we continue to plan for the Book Fair and work out details.

More Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Funding

Beth Revers received a response from her letter to Schuler’s Books. They are interested in working with us in some way, although they don’t have much budget. Beth will suggest percentage of sales (aim high), displays, and gift certificates for a drawing during the event on Oct. 19 at Meridian Mall. It was also suggested that the downtown bookstore, Everybody Reads, might be interested in donating books and distributing our flyers.

Birth to Five CRCF/CAUW grant - Michelle Nicholson updated members on this grant. She passed out a chart that showed indicators as measurable characteristics of outcomes that had been added at the request of the funders. For the Mall events, Emergent Literacy Skills was added. We also added performance fees, promotion and printing under the budget column for the Mall events. For the Emergent Literacy event, we added keynote speaker, facilitators and childcare under the budget item. Change in knowledge of emergent literacy skills was added as the indicator under this item.

We will receive $2700 by September 1 from this grant and can plan on it as we work with our budget. Michelle asked if we would be willing to have a press conference incorporated into a Mall event to announce the grant award. It would probably be between the two performances at about 1:30. There was no objection to working this into the schedule.

We need to check on how the Foundations wish to be acknowledged on promotion pieces. Michelle will ask. We will have a number of funders to acknowledge: Foundations, Library of Michigan Foundation, Barnes & Noble, CADL, Great Start, and other Coalition members making large donations.. We will have to figure out how we do this in a fair and attractive way.

For the Eaton and Clinton County Imagination Libraries funding, the indicator of emergent literacy skills was added.

Promotion

Val Getter, IISD graphics artist will be out on sick leave during the summer. CADL will take over the design and preparation of the brochure and the other promotion pieces. They may also send them out for printing. If this seems the easiest way, CADL will bill the IISD later. Mark will check on this with the CADL marketing director. We hope to send to the printer by August 15. We will print 10,000 of the schedule brochure this year. We must decide how many mall event flyers, postcards and table tents we want. We also need to print a large quantity of Coalition stickers if we plan to use them as attendance measures.

Coalition Brochure

There was discussion abut what should be included in a brochure, i.e. agency contact names, tips for reading, resources available, messages (Born Learning literacy ones, Everyday Learning Moments). Karen Woodman will work on this but she would like some direction.

Volunteers

Karen Black and Jill Lawler have talked with their scout troops and are waiting to hear if they will work at both events.

Other

Carol Buzzitta asked if the Safe Sleep Coalition could have a table at the Mall events. Since they are a member of the Great Start Birth to Five Collaborative, it was thought this was appropriate and they were welcomed. Other requests will be considered on a case by case basis. Becky announced she is changing her name (getting married) and will not be at the July meeting. Best wishes were extended by all members.

The meeting was adjourned a 10:45 a.m.

Next Meeting July 15, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

AGENDA Tuesday, June 17 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions
Announcements

II. Review of May 2008 Minutes

III     Literacy Events and Oct. Literacy Weeks
                  Update on Funding
                       Macy’s, Schuler’s, others – Lisa, Beth, Mark, Michelle
                  Promotion
                       ISD/CADL brochure layout and printing
                      Coalition brochure – Karen Woodman
                      Flyers/postcards/table tents – number needed
                      Attendance Count – stickers, other
                  Book lists – Nichole Welz
                  Other

IV. Update CRCF/CAUF Grant - Michelle

V. Other

VII. Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library - July 15, August 19

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Minutes May 20, 2008

Members Present: Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent; Ken Sperber, Birth to Five Staff; Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Karen Black, Clinton County Great Start Collaborative; Jennifer Lamphere, Cristo Rey; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Ronda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Julie Pierce, East Lansing Library; Lisa Chambers, JumpStart; Jill Lawler, OYC; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the April meeting were reviewed.

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Dates for Literacy weeks following the Mall events are Oct. 20-Nov. 3

Funding

Tomber passed out the report she handed in to the Birth to Five Operations Committee requesting funds from the CRCF/CAUW grant for the Coalition. She estimated that we need $9500 for the events (with in kind and cash of $5800 pledged) for a request of $2700-$3700, and $5000 for an emergent literacy event. Members asked if this is just for one year and when we might receive money. Each year will have its own work plan. We are likely to receive some money for this year’s events but won’t know until late summer or early fall.

We have not had a response from our proposal to Macy’s nor from our letter to Schuler’s Books.

The storybook characters will be paid for by CADL, Delta District Library, DeWitt Library, Early Childhood Connections, and Head Start. Clifford will be paid for by WKAR. Beany Tomber will try to book Bob the Builder and we will decide whether or not to add him after we know the cost.

Mall Events

The Meridian Mall does not open until noon. It was decided to schedule performances for Gordon at 12:30 and 2 with meet and greats to follow. The hours to be promoted for the events will be 12-3.

Scheduling

Again this year Nichole Welz and Ronda Rucker will do the scheduling for the character visits to individual sites. They will send the form out to all members by the middle of June and ask that it be returned by the middle of July. All information should include addresses, contact names, and cell phone numbers. The final schedule will be ready to go to the ISD for layout by August 1 and we hope to have the brochures for distribution after Labor Day.

Promotion

We will plan to do a flyer promoting the mall events in addition to the printed brochures with the site schedule. Jump Start would like the postcard format, Head Start would like a one page flyer, East Lansing Library and Teen Parent Network would like some of each. We need to firm up
numbers for this piece. Again this year we will plan to do table tents for the mall food courts to be distributed a week before the events.

The East Lansing Library (through the City), CADL, and WKAR will do press releases. OYC will contact the LSJ MOMS insert editor We will have information in the Clinton County school newsletters, at area neighborhood centers, in the CMAEYC newsletter (Lin Hirea), in Kids World at schools, and in the WKAR September and October program guide.

Head Start staff will prepare the tool kit. They have a new machine that does two color posters and they also have a banner maker. Both of these could be used for coalition materials.

Karen Woodman will talk with channel 10 and have a “Mug of the Day” for the events. T-shirts with the Coalition logo may be ordered at cafepress.com/eclc for $25.

Volunteers

Karen Black and Jill Lawler will talk with their scout troops and see if they are willing to work at both events.

Nichole Welz reported on a speaker that she heard at the Michigan Library Association Spring Institute. His name is Jim Gill. He is a musician with background in child development. He sings, talks about what he was trying to do with the song he wrote and how it affects the child. His fee was $1900. Several others joined in who had heard Jim and expressed great interest in bringing him to Lansing for a future event. There is more information about him on the MAEYC web site.

The meeting was adjourned a 10:25 a.m.

Next Meeting June 17, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

AGENDA Tuesday, May 20, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions

Announcements

II. Review of April 2008 Minut

III Literacy Events and Oct. Literacy Weeks

           Update on Funding
                  Bob the Builder/Martha
                  Volunteers
                  Promotion
                  Other

IV. Capital Region Community Foundation/Capital Area United Fund

                 Our Report – questions/comments
                 Progress Report on all Workgroup Requests
                 Other

V. Other

VII. Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library

June 17, July 15, August 19
Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Minutes April 15, 2008

Members Present: Ken Sperber, Birth to Five; Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Di Clark, Capital Area Literacy Coalition; Karen Black, Clinton County Great Start Collaborative; Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Michelle Nicholson, IISD Great Start Collaborative; Jamie Yeomans, Birth to Five Parent Liaison; Lisa Chambers, JumpStart; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. We welcomed new member Karen Black from Clinton County. The minutes of the March meeting were reviewed.

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Dates/Places – We have confirmed dates for October 18 at the Lansing Mall and Oct. 19 at the Meridian Mall. Although the Meridian Mall doesn’t open until noon, we will be able to get in earlier for set-up. CADL will sign the contracts and assume liability for all agencies as they did last year. Dates for Literacy weeks following the Mall events are Oct. 20-Nov. 4

Funding – Roscoe Ormond’s is the performer at the Malls. His appearances will cost us $6,000. CADL will contribute $2000, Friends of CADL $2000, and the Library of Michigan Foundation $500. A letter has been sent to Macy’s by Lisa Chambers with information about the Coalition and the events requesting a grant of $2000. Next step is an invitation to formally apply for a grant. Beth Revers has contacted Schuler’s in the Meridian Mall and Barnes & Noble in the Lansing Mall asking for financial support. Barnes & Noble would be willing to do a Book Fair day for us on the day of our event. We would receive a certain percentage of all sales that day if customers request it. Mark Buzzitta has submitted a request to Target for $2000. We may not hear on this until September 30, too late for this year.

The projected budget for both the Kick-off events and the individual sites was distributed and discussed. Cost for tables at the Lansing Mall may be reduced or eliminated this year. (They have a new interim marketing manager.)

Karen Woodman will work on a brochure about the Coalition to be distributed at events and for use throughout the year. The cost of printing this will be added to the budget.

Characters- Clifford will be the character at both malls. Arthur was too expensive because the firm handling the rental charges $1500 if the event is held at a commercial site.

There was discussion about the selection of storybook characters for the two weeks of individual events. Members of the Birth to Five Parent Liaison Workgroup had some concerns about the Coalition’s choices. They felt some of the characters were too intimidating for small children. Final choices were Skippy Jon Jones (10/20-10/27); Stella Luna, Little Critter, Miss Spider, and Curious George. Nichole Welz will develop book lists to complement all characters for all events.

The Tool Kit will be developed again this year by Head Start staff. IISD will be responsible for printing the brochure. (We need to increase last year’s number back to 10,000.) They have budgeted $500 for this.

We will discuss recruitment and coordination of volunteers for the mall events at a later meeting.

The Lead Awareness Coalition composed of city/county/coalition members has requested an information table at the mall events. They are welcome to participate.

Members discussed various ways to get a more structured estimate of the numbers attending the mall events. One idea suggested was to give each person entering the area a Coalition sticker. Another was to do some sort of survey. We will continue to talk about a realistic way to get a fairly accurate count of those participating/attending. This would be helpful information in looking for future grant funding.

Rhonda Rucker has 2000 Bob the Builder books she will contribute as prizes for the Literacy Lotto activity at the malls. Beany Tomber will investigate the possibility of having a character from the television program at the events.

Members reviewed the RFP and looked at how our priorities from the

CRCF/CAUW (the Funders) RFP for Funding Great Start Collaborative Action Plan

Great Start Action Plan related to the grant priorities. Their will be approximately $185,000 available for the next three years to fund initiatives identified by Great Start and the Funders as priorities. Each workgroup has been asked to identify the priorities it is working on and the amount requested for the coming year to implement these priorities. Our group identified 5 c. under the Action Plan as our highest priority. We discussed the amount we would request for the Early Childhood Literacy Coalition Workgroup. (See attached for description of our priorities and the requests made.) The chair (Tomber) and vice chair (Buzzitta) discussed it later and added an additional request to fund an emergent parent/child literacy event. Members had talked about having some sort of event in conjunction with our literacy weeks if there was money to do this. We elaborated on this idea when we added it to our request.

The Funders are looking for programs that have measurable outcomes, that have impact, and that have their dollars leveraged. They are also interested in larger events. They want a draft proposal in response to the RFP by mid-May.

The Funders are also committed to funding outreach in Clinton and Eaton Counties and are looking, in particular, at the Dolly Parton Imagination Library projects already underway or in the planning stage in those counties. Ingham Great Start looked at this project previously and because of the very large numbers involved decided it was not practical for our county.

Michelle Nicholson reminded members that the book she had ordered in bulk last year, Rock-A-Bye Baby Reader was still available for purchase.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 a.m.

Next Meeting May 20, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

The next meeting of the Early Childhood Literacy Coalition will be Tuesday, April 15, 8:45-10:30 a.m, East Lansing Public Library. It's possible we may be in the children's area if the piano is being tuned in our regular meeting room. Look for us! Please enter through the double doors on the south side of the building near the book deposit.

The agenda for the meeting is below. Minutes of the March meeting were sent to you earlier. Also attached is the Request For Proposal from the Capital Region Community Foundation/Capital Area United Way. In addition to firming up plans for our fall events, we will be discussing our request for funds for our work group from this grant that has been awarded to Birth to Five. Please plan to attend or send a representative from your agencies to participate in this important planning process;.

Beany Tomber, Ready to Learn Coordinator
WKAR 283 Communication Arts Building, MSU
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
Phone 517-432-3120 Ext 406 Fax 517-353-4359

AGENDA – April 15, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions, Announcements

II. Review of March 2008 Minutes

III Literacy Events and Oct. Literacy Weeks –Buzzitta et al

                  Dates/Places
                  Performers – Gordon, Clifford
                  Budget/Funding – CADL, Library of Michigan Foundation, Macy’s
                  Storybook characters for individual sites
                  Tool Kit
                  Brochure
                  Volunteers
                 Other

IV. Capital Region Community Foundation/Capital Area United Fund RFP
(see RFP Summary)

Please be thinking about what our group would like to request from the total pledged amount of $250,000 for next year, including events, and other activities that would enhance early childhood literacy. We should be looking at the priorities that we have selected from the Birth to five strategic Action Plan as we discuss our request.

V. Other

VII. Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library
May 20, June 17, July 15, August 19

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

MINUTES – March 18, 2007

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Jill Lawlor, OYC; Beth Revers, DeWitt Library; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Lisa Chambers, Jump Start; Becky LeBoeuf, Delta Township District Library; Mary Jo Gallagher, East Lansing Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Jamie Yeomans, Great Start Collaborative, Parent Rep.; Deb Hill, Head Start.

Members introduced themselves. Welcome to guest and possible new coalition member Carol Allen from Union Missionary Baptist Church who discussed and passed out information on their “Be A Star Literacy Program.”

The minutes of the February meeting were approved.

Fall Literacy Events

Mark reported that Roscoe Orman (Gordon of Sesame Street) was not available on the dates we originally suggested for the mall events. New dates of Saturday, October 18 at the Lansing Mall and Sunday, October 19 at Meridian Mall were approved for Gordon’s appearance. Performance times will be 12 pm & 2 pm at both malls. Tables should be set up and ready to go by 11 am and taken down at 4 pm. We have not heard back from Meridian Mall yet to confirm this date. Mark will continue to make contact with them and we hope to have a firm decision by our next meeting. We will be asking Lansing Mall to waive the costs of the tables this year.

New Literacy Week dates will be October 20 – November 3, 2008.

Mark negotiated a fee of $5000 for 4 shows and 4 meet-and-greets (two at each mall) plus an estimated $700 for airline, hotel, food, and misc. Mark already has a contract that we will need to sign and return with a check by the end of April.

We still have the option of adding another program/speaking engagement at an additional cost but we are holding off until our funding for the mall events is secure.

The Library of Michigan Mahoney fund amount will be $500 this year. This will also be the last year they will provide any funding. CADL will help with funding in the range of $2000-2500. The Friends of Lansing Libraries will donate up to $2000.

Book Donations

Beth will contact the bookstores at each mall and see if she can secure some book donations and/or money from them to help with general costs or giveaways for the Literacy Lotto. Rhonda will also look into getting books donated from the First Book program. It would be nice to have more than one book choice for siblings.

Costumed Characters

We may try to book five characters for the agency events this year with Delta Library, DeWitt Library, Head Start, Early Childhood Connections (and maybe CADL) each paying for one. Characters chosen were: Miss Spider, Stellaluna, Wild Thing, Skippy Jon Jones and Little Critter. Mark will try to reserve them for October 20 – November 3.

Beany is trying to get Arthur reserved for the malls.

Other Fall Events Discussions

It was suggested to work on a brochure specific to ECLC that could be distributed at the mall events. Also to have an ECLC banner for the staging area. We will discuss further at our next meeting.

The Capital Community Regional Foundation may have some grant money that we can apply for to use with the fall events. We hope to get an update next month from Michelle Nicholson.

Other

There is a new Parent Education Work Group through Great Start. Anyone interested in participating in this group should contact Beany Tomber.

Meeting adjourned at 10:35 am.

NEXT MEETING:

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 8:45 AM, EAST LANSING PUBLIC LIBRARY

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

Minutes February 19, 2008

Members Present: Mark Buzzitta, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start;; Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Michelle Nicholson, Great Start Collaborative; Jill Lawler. OYC; M.C. Rothhorn, Jamie Yeomans, Parents; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the January meeting were reviewed.

Beany Tomber announced the days and times judges are needed for the second and third rounds of the Reading Rainbow Writers contest for K-3 grades. Members who can serve on a panel for any of those times will email her by the end of this week.

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Mark Buzzitta passed out a working document for possible dates, performers, and funding for the October 2008 Literacy Events. After discussion of possible venues, i.e. malls, Pettingill Middle School, Hannah Center, it was decided that we would try to book Roscoe Orman (Gordon on Sesame Street) for performances at the Lansing and Meridian Malls Oct. 11 and 12. We also will try to book Arthur for both Malls. We discussed trying to hold some type of parent education event during this weekend with Orman at Union Missionary Baptist Church. Jill Lawler will explore this possibility.

The quoted price for two performances for Orman is $3500. Mark Buzzitta will continue to negotiate with Orman’s agent and the malls to reach an agreement on price and dates. CADL’s marketing director will help with funding and with recruiting other businesses to help fund Orman’s visit. Beany Tomber will talk with the Library of Michigan Foundation about a possible grant again this year. We have been warned that there may be a lesser amount or no grant at all. Tomber will also book Arthur for the mall events.

Literacy weeks will be Oct. 13-24. We will decide on characters for the individual events at our next meeting.

It was also agreed that last year’s theme “Everyday Moments Are Learning Moments” was an excellent one and we should use it again.

Great Start Collaborative Action Plan

We reviewed our role with the Great Parent Great Start Collaborative Action Plan. Members discussed the idea of forming a new work group for the Collaborative to focus on parent education presenting training at non traditional sites and utilizing a mix of the curriculums of a variety of agencies. This recommendation will be taken to the next Birth to Five meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 a.m..

Next Meeting March 18, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

AGENDA Tuesday, February 19, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I.         Welcome and Introductions
         Announcements
         Dates and times for Reading Rainbow contest judging

II. Review of January 2008 Minutes

III      Plans for October Literacy Events
                  Dates
                  Performers
                  Funding Ideas

      IV.     Great Start Collaborative Action Plan (Check web site)
                        Review of decisions made January 15
                        Next steps

V. Other

       VII.       Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library
                          Next meeting dates
                          March 18, April 15

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

January 15, 2008 MINUTES

Members Present: Mark Buzzitta,Nichole Welz, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start;; Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Mary Jo Gallagher, East Lansing Public Library; Michelle Nicholson, Great Start Collaborative; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County Health Dept/JumpStart; M.C. Rothhorn, Jamie Yeomans, Parents; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the November meeting were reviewed. One addition was made to suggest that at a future mall event another table in a different part of the mall be set up to answer questions about the event and the activity.

Beany Tomber asked members if they would be interested in serving as judges for the second and third rounds of the Reading Rainbow Writers contest for K-3 grades. The second round will pick the top six winners and the third round the final winners for each grade level. She will bring dates and times for the judging to the next meeting and ask for commitments then..

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Mark Buzzitta, CADL, will chair the events again this year. (Many thanks, Mark)

It was agreed that we would like to hold two events again next year at the Lansing and Meridian Malls respectively. We would like them to be two Saturdays in a row in October. We should avoid the first week in October for the Lansing Mall because of the start of the MSRP programs in Eaton County. Tomber and Buzzitta will check out date availability and the MSU football schedule to see what dates are possible and report at the February meeting.

Buzzittz will approach the Malls and the bookstores for possible funding. Tomber will talk with the Library of Michigan Foundation about a grant for 2008.

It was also agree that last year’s theme “Everyday Moments Are Learning Moments” was an excellent one and we should use it again.

Great Start Collaborative Action Plan

Michelle Nicholson led a discussion on the role of the Coalition in implementing the Family Support and Parent Education section of the plan. Members looked at the strategies and objectives.. These were decided on as a result of the many community conversations held throughout the area and the Collaborative members input. Members agreed to the following priorities for Coalition involvement:

1. Monthly GSC articles – Public Awareness work group should be the lead group for this. The Coalition role would be to act as a distributor with articles on display at the libraries; they could also give information to all baby time leaders to use at their sessions;

2. They could have the MIGreat Parent web site and the CAC Voices Birth to Five site easily accessible on library computers for patrons and take some leadership role on this item.

4. Promote and Assist with Community Events – Coalition will take the lead position on this priority.

Coalition members also agreed to look at working on various objectives under this goal and see how they could be involved in doing activities that can be replicated across counties, rather than just as single events. Perhaps we might plan a parent training with JumpStart and the Collaborative Parent Coalition in late spring as a start.

Rhonda Rucker, Eaton County ISD, shared copies of the report from their Collaborative and expressed interest in working across county lines .

The Speaker’s Bureau form was distributed and members were asked to fill out and return to MSU where the information is being collected.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:25 a.m.

Next Meeting February 19, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, January 15, 2008

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions

Announcements

II. Review of November 2007 Minutes

III Literacy Weeks for 2008

                  Dates
                  Funding Ideas
                  Theme

IV. Great Start Collaborative Action Plan (Check web site)

Role for Early Childhood Literacy Coalition
Priorities for Coalition for Implementation

V. Ingham County Early Childhood Education Speakers Bureau

VI. Other

VII. Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library

Next meeting dates
February 19, March 18, April 15

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition Mtg Announcement

The next meeting of the Early Childhood Literacy Coalition will be Tuesday, January 15, 8:45-11:30 at the East Lansing Library. Please enter through the doors at the south side of the building near the book deposit slot.

Beany Tomber
Ready to Learn Coordinator WKAR
283 Communication Arts Building, MSU
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
Phone 517-432-3120 Ext 406
Fax 517-353-4359

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Minutes November 6, 2007

Room 284 Comm. Arts Bldg., MSU

Members Present: Mark Buzzitta, CADL; Deb Hill, Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County Health Dept/Jump Start; Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Ken Sperber, Birth to Five Subcommittee; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the September meeting were reviewed. There were no minutes of the brief October meeting held at the Lansing Mall.

Evaluation of Literacy Week Events – What worked, what didn’t?

The following are comments made by members on the different agenda items. Also included are some comments that were sent by email from members who could not attend the meeting. There was consensus that the mall events had been very successful and we should plan to do similar events again next year. It was felt that many saw this more as a “show” than as an “event” and we need to have more balance between the performers and the literacy activities. I have tried to pick out the ideas/comments that members had for things that needed to be changed and bolded them. If I have missed some comments, please add them.

Mall Events

Arrangements –Mark Buzzitta did a wonderful job working with both malls for where we would be set up, where the characters would dress, how many tables we needed, provision of chairs and stage and back drop. Mark and his partner provided the sound system for both malls for the performers. Members preferred the table arrangement at the Lansing Mall because it gave us more space and we were also enclosed as a unit. We had more space generally at the Lansing Mall. (The malls decided where we would be placed.) We were wedged in between kiosks at Meridian and rather crowded. There also seemed to be more noise at Meridian which made it difficult to talk to parents stopping by the tables for information. We had no designated starting place for the activity and no clear description of who we were. A banner identifying the Coalition would have been good.

Promotion

We distributed:\the following print materials before the events:

6000 brochures with all information and schedule on Literacy week events through member agencies;

1540 81/2x11 flyers for mall events – Head Start;

3000 postcards for mall events – all other member agencies and Lansing School District;

We had posters (four at each mall) and table tents in the food courts at each mall; (The posters were donated by Art Craft due to a misunderstanding about the cost. Head Start will send them an in-kind donation form so they can use this as a tax deduction.)

; Lansing Noise carried information

CADL had the full schedule on their web site and other agencies linked to that site

Early Childhood Connections ran an ad in their local community newspaper;

East Lansing Library sent a press release as did many other r agencies including WKAR (we had an article in the Towne Courier);

Email was sent to the Great Start Collaborative list serve;

Head Start newsletter to all parents carried information about events;

WKAR had articles in their program guide which went to 15,000 members and in their enews.

Other Media

WKAR ran spots on air for mall events starting two weeks before the first mall event;

Channels 10 &47 covered the Lansing Mall event and Channels 6, 10 and 47 the Meridian Mall;

There was an interview the Friday before on the Dan Mulhern radio program.

It was suggested that we might try doing some sort of poll/survey to find out where people learned about the events.

Performances and Characters

The surprise was that parents and children came and stayed through the entire performance not just stopping to listen for a few minutes. It was suggested that we have a break between performances so that parents can come to tables and really hear what’s being offered.

The Cat and the Hat(Jean Bolley), both as storyteller and MC, was very effective. Kids really listened even though it was noisy and difficult to hear.

Nate the Great was very loud but children seemed to respond to him and he did introduce some literacy content to his performance.

Tim Salisbury the juggler was good but didn’t have much connection to literacy, it was a real stretch when he told the audience that everything he did was due to learning to read. We should try to have performers more closely tied to literacy.

Mr. McFeely was a tremendous hit at the Meridian Mall and talked to all parents and children afterwards. We heard good comments from parents at how personal he made his contact with each child. It was felt we should have a personality at both malls next time.

Super Why was very popular, there was instant recognition for the series and we had a young man wearing the costume who did an excellent job at both malls at interacting with the children. Many parents commented that they thought the series was helping their children with reading, especially mentioning sounding out words. We also had Purple Panda from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The volunteer wearing this costume needed to have some training on how to respond to children and the performance.

Attendance

Malls

It was very difficult to estimate how many people we actually had at the mall events, the traffic was so constant. We have a count (see below) on various materials handed out by agencies and on the number at the performances at different time intervals. We thought it was realistic to take the handout numbers and multiply by two since each child was accompanied by at least one parent/adult. Using that method we estimated we had between 500-600 at each mall. The highest number at the performances was 175 at the Lansing Mall at 1:20 and 190 at the Meridian Mall at 1:40. The numbers for the second set of performances were lower. It was agreed that the time next year should be earlier, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., since people were arriving at noon as we were setting up and traffic had fallen off by 3. It was suggested that one way to get a more accurate count was to give each person stopping a sticker. The breakout numbers from several agencies distributing materials at both mall events are below.

Early Childhood Connections – total books -579
Great Parents – bags-378, calendars – 400
Teen Parent Network – total of 485 pieces
WKAR – 550 Super Why Interactive Coloring Books/bookmarks and sheets of stickers

Activity – Literacy Lotto

Everyone was very happy with the activity and we received positive feedback from participants. One comment made was “it made shopping so much more enjoyable.” 75% completed the whole lotto piece. There are a number of things we would do differently, though, next year. We need to have our volunteers trained to help those who are hesitant about trying, (we need to have more training for all jobs for our volunteers.) We need to have an obvious central starting place for the activity and we need to have some information on the back of the sheet explaining how doing this ties into building literacy skills. We missed the boat here.

Budget – actual out of pocket cash

Library of Michigan Foundation grant - $2500
Super Why grant - $4000
I ISD - $500
Lansing Mall tables and characters– CADL, Delta Township Library, Head Start - $300 (?)
Early Childhood Connections - $325 – extra printing of flyers
Head Start - $200 copying of Literacy Lotto forms
This does not count any of the in-kind costs for preparation of the toolkit, web, on air spots, donated books, and others from member agencies.

Individual Agency Events

Attendance varied a great deal this year. Head Start had their best year yet and attendance at the CADL branches was way down. We don’t really know why. The actual figures we have received for attendance are below:

CADL – all branches – 346
Delta Township library - 30
Early Childhood Connections – 401 children, 229 families
Head Start – 1548, 866 children, 682 adults, 152 non Head Start families

Goals

It was agreed we met our goals, some better than others. We plan to do more in the future to highlight literacy and increase literacy in homes. We helped families have fun with literacy activities and we promoted collaboration between libraries, childcare providers and educators, public broadcasting and other agencies.

Where do we go next?

We need to begin to look for funding for next year very soon. We need to find out the possibility of a grant for next year from the Library of Michigan foundation. We should begin to talk to bookstores at the malls as perspective underwriters and the malls themselves, since we generated a great deal of new traffic for them. These will be agenda items for next meetings in the coming months.

Next meeting - January 15, 2008
The meeting was adjourned at 10:30. a.m.

No December Meeting

Next Meeting January 15, 2008

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

AGENDA - Wednesday, November 6, 2007

Communication Arts Bldg., MSU Room 284

I. Welcome and Introductions Announcements

II. Review of September Minutes

III Evaluation of Literacy Week events – all

                  Mall Events
                              Arrangements
                              Promotion
                              Performances, character
                              Times
                              Activity/theme- Literacy Lotto
                              Attendance/traffic
                  Partner Events
                              Numbers
                              Characters
                  Other
                  Did we meet our goals? Goals for the event(s) were agreed to as follows:
To create awareness of early childhood literacy and what it is;
To promote collaboration between, libraries, schools, other agencies, and early childhood care and education providers;
To have fun with literacy activities.
The long-term goal is to increase literacy in homes of 0-5 year olds by giving them the tools needed to accomplish this.

Questions for Super Why grant

IV Where do we go next?

V. Other

VI. Meetings third Tuesday of each month, 8:45-10:30 a.m. East Lansing Library

Next meeting dates

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition Mtg Announcement

Just a reminder about our next ECLC Meeting Tues Oct 16 - we will meet at the Lansing Mall in the center court area just outside of JC Penny's at 8:45 am. A rep from the mall is planning to attend to answer any last minute questions we have and to show us how the area will be arranged.

I don't think this meeting will last more than 30-45 minutes and unless someone else has other business to talk about we can just keep this one short. Since not everyone is having a table at this mall, I don't know that it's necessary for everyone to attend but of course you are all welcome!

I will be out of the office on Fri and Mon but I will be checking email late on Monday. I will have my cell turned on Tues morning if you need anything (517) 449-5940.

Only 10 days to go...!

Mark Buzzitta, Library Assistant
Main Library, Capital Area District Library
Phone(517)367-6327 Fax(517)367-6333
Buzzittam@cadl.org

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

MINUTES September 18, 2007

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, CADL; Karen Woodman, CACS Head Start; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County Health Dept/Jump Start; Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Julie Pierce, Mary Jo Gallagher East Lansing Public Library; Jill Lawler, OYC; Ken Sperber, Birth to Five Subcommittee; Michelle Nicolson, IISD; Keri Keck, Teen Parent Network; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the August meeting were reviewed. Members were reminded that they could order a shirt with a Coalition logo at cafepress.com/eclc.

Members were reminded that each agency is responsible for transporting the characters to the next agency on the schedule for that particular character. A contact sheet for whom to call if you have any problems with receiving or delivering will be sent electronically after this meeting. (It’s been sent.)

Final Arrangements for Mall Events

Those requesting tables are at the
Lansing Mall Meridian Mall

CADL                                                                        CADL
CACS Head Start                                                       Coalition/Activity
DeWitt Public Library                                                 Coalition/Activity
Delta Township District Library                                  East Lansing Library
Early Childhood Connections                                     IISD/Great Parents
IISD Great Parents Great Start                                  IISD/Early On
IISD/Early On                                                             Jump Start
Jump Start                                                                 OYC
OYC/DeWitt Public Library                                          Teen Parent Network
WKAR                                                                        WKAR

The Meridian Mall tables will be skirted. We’re not sure about those at the Lansing Mall. Mark Buzzitta is trying to make an arrangement with Best Buy to provide a large screen DVD player to show the Super Why series and play the music.

Mark Buzzitta and Beany Tomber will figure out which tables can be paid for from the Super Why grant.

All agencies should be set up by noon. The volunteers will be asked to be there by noon. Jill Lawler will try to recruit 10 of her Girl Scouts for each mall. Beth Revers has recruited a male to wear the SW costume at both malls. We will plan to have an escort for Super Why and also for Purple Panda at the Meridian Mall. As soon as we know where we will be located at each mall, Mark Buzzitta will email every one.

Head Start will produce 500 copies of the Literacy Lotto sheet for each mall. They will also bring pencils for children to use to fill out the game sheet. The Birth to Five Great Parents Collaborative has 1000 bags that they will donate to be used at the malls. Early Childhood Connections is donating 1,000 Cat in the Hat books for each mall. East Lansing Public Library showed a take home rhyming activity that they will be distributing at the malls. Everyone liked it very much and thanked them.

Promotion

A big thank you to Val G. from the Ingham Intermediate School District for the outstanding job she did on layout for all the various print pieces!

Flyers and postcards promoting the mall events and brochures with details of all the special agency events during the two literacy weeks were distributed. Click here to view full brochure of events (in pdf format)

Head Start will see that the Lansing School District, Bev Phillips, receives 1200 postcards for early elementary grades. .ISSD is contributing $500 toward the printing of these items. The total cost was $748. The Coalition will pay for the remaining $248 out of our Super Why grant. If we have enough money left in the grant after we pay for mall expenses we will also print posters for each mall to direct traffic toward our activities and table tents for the Food Court.

The public relations staff person (Erin) from CADL has contacted Michigan Moms (old Parent insert) from the LSJ and they will try to do an article and send a photographer to one of the events. Mark Buzzitta has sent information about our events to a new publication the library is receiving called Kids World News. It’s for elementary school children and is published once a month. (Web address is production@kidsworldnews.net.)

Mark Buzzitta will try to make an appearance on local radio on the First Gentleman’s (Dan Mulhern) show on WJIM-AM. WKAR will start running on air spots promoting the two mall events Oct. 6 and will have an article in their Oct. program guide.

We will ask the malls to put information about our events on their web sites and at their information desks.

Performers

Show times for the live performers will be 1-2 and 2:30-3:30. Our storyteller Jean Bolley, the Cat in the Hat, will also act as MC for the stage shows.

David Newell, Mr. McFeeley, will arrive Thursday, Oct. 25 and go up to Mt. Pleasant to do an event at WCMU. They will share the cost of his plane fare. He may also go to WGVU in Grand Rapids after our event on Oct. 27.

We sang Happy Birthday to Michelle Nicholson and shared birthday cake provided by Ken Sperber.
Next meetings are Oct. 16, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18.
Beany Tomber, Chairperson, adjourned the meeting at 10:30.

Next meeting October 16, 8:45-10:30, Lansing Mall

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

AGENDA Tuesday, September 18, 2007

East Lansing Public Library

I. Welcome and Introductions Announcements

II. Review of August Minutes

III Final arrangements for Mall events

Literacy Lotto

Tool Kits

Flyers/Postcards/Brochures

Promotion – LSJ (community newspapers, parent insert), radio

Volunteers – Super Why and Purple Panda

Other

IV Family Literacy Workshops

V Other

Next Meetings

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes - August 21, 2007

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, CADL; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County Health Dept/Jump Start; Mary Rzepczynski, Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Jill Lawler, OYC; Michele Strasz, Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health ; Ken Sperber,Birth to Five Subcommittee; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. We welcomed Keri Keck from the Teen Parent Network as a new Coalition member. The minutes of the July meeting were corrected to show that Ken Sperber represents the Birth to Five Subcommittee, East Lansing Library would like 250 copies of the brochure with schedule, and Delta Township would like 100.

Update on Mall Events

The brochure giving the complete schedule for all Literacy Week events is being worked on. The final schedule will be finished Friday. We will also have flyers and postcards promoting the mall events only. We hope to have all print materials available in the next few weeks. The information will be on the CADL web site after Labor Day. Julie Pierce distributed the Meridian Mall version of the Literacy Lotto activity. We will run it by Head Start to make sure it is compatible with the one done for Lansing Mall.

Characters

Contracts are back for the characters that will be appearing at the individual sites. Mark Buzzitta needs checks from those who are paying for them to return with the contracts. $120 pays for both the character and shipping costs. Those who volunteered to sponsor a character are East Lansing, Delta Township and CADL Libraries, and Head Start. Please send checks in that amount made out to CADL to Mark Buzzitta as soon as possible. We will ask Head Start to have the tool kits for agency events for the Sept. meeting.

Volunteers

Jill Lawler will have eight volunteers from her middle/high school girl scout troop at each mall to help with activities, directions, and just generally as needed. Rhonda Rucker will provide Cat in the Hat hats for the volunteers. Beth Revers will do name tags with the Coalition stickers on them for all members.

We need a male 5’6”-5’8” to wear the Super Why character at both malls. We also need someone to wear the Purple Panda suit at the Meridian Mall with Mr. McFeely.

Promotion

We will try for an article in the parent insert of the LSJ. The contact person is stephanieangel@lsj.com. She may also be the contact for all the community newspapers owned by Gannett. Julie Pierce and Michele Strasz will use their contacts with the community newspapers also. Rhonda Rucker will take care of all Eaton County print. All members received a sample press release from WKAR.

Mark Buzzitta will try to make an appearance on local radio through the Michigan Radio Network. WKAR will do on air spots promoting the two mall events starting two weeks before Oct. 20.

We will investigate buying bags with the Coalition logo to use at the malls and in the future. There are several ways we could go, either with BRD with 1,000 or another vender through Delta Township for 5,000 bags for $750. We would also like to have posters made for use at the malls which would cost us approximately $45 per posters. The decisions on how to go with these items depends on how far the $500 allocated by the IISD goes to cover our printing costs and whether they have any additional money to help pay for posters and bags or whether this would come out of the Super Why grant. Mark, Mary and Beany will make final decisions on what to do about buying posters and bags.

We will ask the malls to put information about our events on their web sites and at their information desks as well as on their marquees.

Reach Out and Read

Michele Strasz presented information about Reach Out and Read. (ROR) It is a pediatric literacy program started in 1989 in Boston. Doctors provide information to parents about child development using books as a tool. The child receives a book at each well child visit up to age five. Parents are given information about the importance of reading to their children. The waiting rooms have a literacy rich environment with books for parents to use as they wait there and in the exam rooms. The program has been used in Michigan for 15 years. The Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health (Michele’s agency) has a contract to expand the program in the state. Doctors and nurses receive training on how to use books as a developmental screening tool. They are encouraged to have volunteers in the waiting room to read to children. There are currently 73 sites in Michigan with 4 in our area. (Laingsburg, Perry and the Ingham County Health Dept.Clinic. One is starting at the MSU Clinic.)

The program has federal funding. Scholastic is the primary source for books. ROR is currently working with a number of ISD’s in the state. There is no state funding now for Imagination Libraries. As we go forward in exploring the Imagination Library, we should be aware that another resource exists in the community to get information to parents and collaborate with. ROR could become a site to take remainder books that are not delivered.

Community Conversations

Ken Sperber and Judy--- from IISD led a discussion on the Birth to Five/Great Start collaborative Status of Young Children report. After a presentation of the data collected, members were asked to give their comments and suggestions on priority areas for action. The full report on responses from the 25 community conversations being held will be available on the Great Start web site.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30.

Don’t forget to order your shirt with the Coalition logo online at cafepress.com/eclc.

Next meeting September 18, 8:45-10:30, East Lansing Public Library

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

East Lansing Public Library

AGENDA - Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I. Welcome and Introductions Announcements

II. Review of July19 Minutes

III Updates on Mall and Agency event -Buzzitta and Rzepczynski

Mall arrangements

Super Why character – who will wear?

Promotion

Volunteers

Other

IV Community conversations – Reactions to Community Report - Nicholson

Family Place Libraries – Nicholson & Welz

V. Birth to Five Imagination Library and Reach Out and Read – Nicholson and

Strasz - How can we work together?

VI. Literacy Workshops

Plans for next year

Next meeting – September 18, 2007

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes July 17, 2007

Members present: Deb Hill, CACS Head Start; Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Di Clark, Capital Area Literacy Coalition; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County Health Dept/Jump Start; Mary Rzepczynski, Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Kim Thelan, Early Childhood Connections;; Mary Jo Gallagher, Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Ken Sperber, Ingham Great Start Collaborative; Beany Tomber and Mariel Moorer, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves. The minutes of the June 19 meeting were corrected to show that Deb Hill was present.

Imagination Library

We did not get the grant we applied for from the Granger Foundation. We will not hear about the grant from the Capital Region Community Foundation until October. Beany Tomber will set up a meeting between Michelle Nicholson and Michele Strasz to talk about working with the Reach Out and Read program and then bring recommendations to the Coalition.

Update on Mall Events and Budget

CADL has signed the agreements with the malls and officially registered the Coalition for our events. We won’t know until two weeks before which part of the mall we will be in. A video of a previous event held by CADL at the Lansing mall was played to give members an idea of how we will be positioned. The theme for all events will be “Everyday Moments are Learning Moments.” Times at both malls will be 1-4 p.m.

We received a $4,000 grant from the SUPER WHY series that will pay for all the performers at the malls except Mr. McFeely. (He will be paid with the Library of Michigan Foundation grant of $2,500. This will cover his fee and expenses for appearances at Meridian Mall.) Invoices for the performers to be paid out of the SW grant should be presented to WKAR with name, address, dates, etc. for payment. A clip from the SW program The Three Little Pigs was shown introducing the main characters. There are four. We will request SUPER WHY but don’t know yet which one we will get for our events and the WKAR Kids Club Party. Beany Tomber passed around handouts for the SW series. She will send electronically so anyone who wishes to use them can download and copy. WKAR will be distributing the Interactive Coloring Book at both mall events.

The following performers will be at the malls:

Cat in the Hat – Jean Bolley- both events - $400

Tim Salisbury, juggler- both events - $650

Nate the Great – both events - $600

Mr. McFeely – Meridian - $1700 plus expenses

Mark Buzzitta will work out a schedule for performers of 20 minutes each twice during the afternoon. We will plan to have a continuing schedule of the three (four) performers. SW character will roam. We will ask Jean Bolley to serve as the MC between acts of all performers.

Mall Expenses

Meridian – provides stage, tables, chairs free

Lansing Mall – tables $50 each, stage rental $174, set-up and take down

Sound System – Mark Buzzitta will do at both Malls for free.

CADL, Head Start, DeWitt Library, WKAR will have tables at both events. East Lansing Library will be at Meridian Mall, Delta Township Library and Early Childhood connections at Lansing Mall. There will be a Coalition table and an activity table at both malls. Agencies not present may put information at the Coalition table. Agencies agreed to pay the fee of $50 for their table at the Lansing Mall.

Head Start will print the literacy lotto cards and provide crayons to mark them with. We will investigate the possibility of getting a large screen to play the SUPER WHY program and a banner with the Coalition logo for the stage. Also look at buying bags with Coalition logo (1000 for $330.)

Promotion

We will ask the malls to promote on their marquees and to place posters (22x28) around the mall. We can get four posters made for $100 and display them back to back. Lansing Mall will do a press release and put on their web site and at their Service Center.

We will work with Val G. at the IISD again this year to design a flyer for the mall events that can be personalized by each agency along with a brochure that will have the schedule and characters for all events. Mark Buzzitta will coordinate the flyers and brochures. (God Bless Mark.)

The following are the number of brochures and flyers that members estimated they would need:

Head Start – 1600

Early Childhood Connections – 1000

CADL - 500

East Lansing Library – 25-

DeWitt Library – 250

Jump Start - 500

Delta Township Library – 500

.If we have your number wrong or if you are not listed, please let us know the number you want. We hope to have flyers and brochures ready by August 21

We will ask Jeanie Croope, WKAR, to do a press release that can be adapted by each agency.

We will try for articles in the LSJ Parent insert and Noise as well as all the community newspapers and City Pulse.

Volunteers

We need to check with Jill Lawler on whether her senior scout troop will help with traffic, activities, SUPER WHY costume and Purple Panda costume (Meridian Mall).

Time permitting, we will add Birth to Five Community Conversation to the August meeting led by Michelle Nicholson. Nicholson and Nichole Welz are attending a one day conference in New York about Family Friendly Libraries. They will tell us all about it at the next meeting. (Jill, are we okay with your troop?)

Members were reminded they can purchase a shirt with a Coalition logo online at cafepress.com/eclc. The shirts are white with the logo in full color. Everyone is encouraged to buy a shirt and wear it to our events.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:40 a.m.

Next meeting August 21, 8:45-10:30, East Lansing Public Library

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

East Lansing Public Library

AGENDA - Tuesday, July 17, 2007

I. Welcome and Introductions Announcements

II. Review of June 19 Minutes

III Updates on Mall and Agency event -Buzzitta and Rzepczynski

Final wording for theme

Final budgets and mall arrangements

SUPER WHY and mall videos

Packets and Activities

Promotion

Volunteers

Other

IV Birth to Five Imagination Library and Reach Out and Read – Nicholson and

Strasz

How can we work together?

V. Literacy Workshops

Current and next year

Next meeting – August 21

Adjournment

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes - June 19, 2007

Members present: Mark Buzzitta, Nichole Welz, CADL; Di Clark, Capital Area Literacy Coalition; Beth Revers, DeWitt Public Library; Lisa Chambers, Ingham County. Health Dept/Jump Start; Mary Rzepczynski, Becky Le Boeuf, Delta Township District Library; Rhonda Rucker, Early Childhood Connections; Lucy McClintic, CACS Head Start; Mary Jo Gallagher, Julie Pierce, East Lansing Public Library; Judy Goth-Owens, LCC; Jill Lawler, OYC; Beany Tomber, WKAR.

Members introduced themselves and welcomed back Di Clark and Beth Revers. The minutes of the May 29 meeting were corrected as follows. The performer/juggler that we are planning to contract with at the malls is Tim Salisbury, not Gallagher.

Update on Mall Events and Budget

CADL will sign the agreements with the malls and be responsible for insurance coverage for all members participating in the events. Individual agencies will not need to sign releases.

We have a grant from the Library of Michigan foundation for $2500. Beany Tomber has applied for a grant for $4000 to promote a new PBS series, SUPER WHY, on literacy airing Sept. 3. The Coalition and our events were part of the grant proposal. If we receive this money it will help us pay for expenses at the Malls. We will know by June 27. (We received this grant.)

Performers

Cat in the Hat – Jean Bolley both events - $400

Tim Salisbury, juggler- both events - $650

Nate the Great – both events - $600

Mr. McFeely – Meridian - $1700 plus expenses

The Head Start Miles for Smiles Tooth character will be available if needed for appearances. CADL’s character would also be available. (Both free)

Mall Expenses

Meridian – provides stage, tables, chairs

Lansing Mall – tables $50 each, stage rental $150, set-up and take down

Sound System – Mark Buzzitta will do at both Malls

It would be very useful to have a large screen to play a DVD of SUPER WHY if we receive that grant. Mary Rzepczynski, Michelle Nicolson, Rhonda Rucker, and Beany Tomber offered to help with expenses for events and characters as needed.

The theme for both mall events and the weeks following will be “Literacy is an Everyday Event” or “Everyday Moments are Learning Moments.” We’re still working on the wording. Deb Hill and Karen Woodman made a site visit to Lansing Mall and presented a game of Literacy Lotto to use as the mall activity. Those completing the activity (filling five slots on the card) will receive a free Cat in the Hat book Julie Pierce and Mary Jo Gallagher will create the same format for Meridian Mall. They will work with Head Start on the final version for each mall. East Lansing will have a take home activity that is appropriate for all ages. CALC will provide material from their “Mouse” activity sheet.

Volunteers

We will need volunteers to help direct traffic. Jill Lawler has an older Girl Scout troop who might be interested in doing this for a community service activity. They could wear Cat in the Hat hats to make them easily recognizable

Head Start, Early Childhood Connections, and Delta Township Library will at the Lansing Mall and the East Lansing Library at the Meridian Mall. The rest of us will be at both Malls.

Individual Events

Due to availability of the costume characters, the literacy weeks at individual agencies will be from Oct. 11-29. Nichole Welz and Rhonda Rucker will send a scheduling form out to be completed and returned by July 30.

Packets for agency use (and at malls)

Members were

Capital Area Community Voices

Sections

Personal tools

Document Actions

Workgroup: Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes – September 23, 2008

Barnes & Noble

Volunteers

Update:

Costumed Characters

Gordon

Publicity

Budget

Banner/Sound System

Toolkits

Other

AGENDA - September 23, 2008

Minutes - August 19, 2008

Mall Events

Barnes & Noble

Publicity

Volunteers

AGENDA - August 19, 2008

MINUTES - Tuesday, July 15, 2008

More Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Coalition Brochure

AGENDA - Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Minutes June 17, 2008

Barnes & Noble Book Fair Oct. 18 at Lansing Mall

More Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

AGENDA Tuesday, June 17 2008

Minutes May 20, 2008

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Funding

Mall Events

Scheduling

Promotion

Volunteers

AGENDA Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Minutes April 15, 2008

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

CRCF/CAUW (the Funders) RFP for Funding Great Start Collaborative Action Plan

AGENDA – April 15, 2008

MINUTES – March 18, 2007

Fall Literacy Events

Book Donations

Costumed Characters

Other Fall Events Discussions

Other

NEXT MEETING:

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 8:45 AM, EAST LANSING PUBLIC LIBRARY

Minutes February 19, 2008

Plans for 2008 Literacy Weeks and Events

Great Start Collaborative Action Plan

AGENDA Tuesday, February 19, 2008

January 15, 2008 MINUTES

MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition Mtg Announcement

Minutes November 6, 2007

Evaluation of Literacy Week Events – What worked, what didn’t?

Mall Events

Promotion

Other Media

Performances and Characters

Attendance

Activity – Literacy Lotto

Budget – actual out of pocket cash

Individual Agency Events

Goals

Where do we go next?

AGENDA - Wednesday, November 6, 2007

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition Mtg Announcement

MINUTES September 18, 2007

EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY COALITION MEETING

AGENDA Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Early Childhood Literacy Coalition

Minutes - August 21, 2007

AGENDA - Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Minutes July 17, 2007

AGENDA - Tuesday, July 17, 2007