Youth Services Critical Conversations Club (YS3C)

Supported by funding provided by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

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Thursday, September 9th: 10:00-11:00 a.m.:

Storytime in the Time of Covid

Facilitator: Sara White, Youth Services Consultant at the Washington State Library



Now that we've been living through Covid for the last year and a half, many of us have found ways to adapt our storytime and early learning programming to this new world. Today's YS3C meeting will be an anything goes interactive storytime sharing session! 

Attendees should come ready to share particularly successful virtual storytime strategies, tips for outdoor/masked/distanced storytimes, tech tips, creative uses of video, and more. Come with ideas to share, or just come to listen and play along and learn -- all pandemic storytime experience levels are welcome.

Participants will have the ability to screen-share, so if there is a particular activity you'd like to lead or an online tool you'd like to show off, the floor will be yours.

Discussion Questions to consider:

1. How do you make sure your virtual or distanced/masked storytimes are accessible and inclusive of all participants?

2. How do you get the word out about your pandemic early learning programming?

3. What are your hopes and dreams for storytime and early learning programming as we move into an uncertain future?

4. How do you set up participants in pandemic storytimes for success?