Learning at Home Resources
Leah Langby
August 28, 2020
Keeping Up With Kids

Thanks to the IFLS Youth Services librarians who have worked hard to crowd-source two documents, one for families switching to homeschooling (private, home-baseed education), another for families who are switching to virtual public school due to the pandemic.  These are organic, slightly messy resources that are designed for librarians to use to help answer reference questions, create smaller resource lists, and so on.  They are editable Google Documents, so I’m not going to link to them here, but let me know if you want access to them (and then you can bookmark them).

TeachingBooks, available to all Wisconsin residents thanks to Badgerlink, has many offerings that might help teachers/parents and the librarians who support them.  Check out a few:

 

 

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