Early Literacy Training

The Power of Play:
Its Impact on Early Literacy and Learning

Family Place Libraries National Symposium 2008

Featuring Guest Speaker, Vicki Hawley

Held at the Minneapolis Public Library

Wednesday, March 26, 2007

8:45 AM - 12:00 PM

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Family Place Libraries invites you to learn more about what public libraries can do to foster early literacy within their own libraries and communities. This free bi-annual symposium brings together public librarians from around the nation to hear presentations from specialists in children's literature, early literacy, childhood development, and family support, and provides a forum for librarians to network and learn from one another.

The Symposium is free of charge. Register early; space is limited. Registrants will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

Click here to register online, or click here to download a brochure.

For more information please contact Caitlin Maloney at cmaloney@lff.org.

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This year's guest speaker, Vicki Hawley, is the coordinator of professional development in early literacy for the Center for Early Education and Development at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Hawley has a varied child and family teaching background, which includes Minnesota's Early Childhood and Family Education, and Parents as Teachers Projects. She has served as the training coordinator for the Minnesota Early Literacy Project as well as statewide child care training and parent education programs in North Dakota, the literacy home visiting component of the Words Work! initiative in St. Paul and a statewide Head Start/Americorps early literacy initiative in Minnesota. Due to her great curiosity about the process of learning and change in adults, particularly those that work with children, Ms. Hawley views her work both as a vocation and a avocation.