Transforming: Teaching & Learning

Program: Partnering for Success- How the Chesapeake Public Library and Chesapeake Public Schools partnered to provide services, continuing education and library cards to all 40,000 Chesapeake Public School students.

Bonds for Learning- Creating Successful Library/School Partnerships

Monday, June 27, 2022

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Location: Washington Convention Center, 145A

In 2019 the Chesapeake Public Library and the Chesapeake Public School System engaged in a partnership to provide services to all 40,000 public school students via a student library card. The following year, the partnership expanded to include a robust series of virtual visits to students across the system as they engaged in distance learning, including access to online and in-person tutoring in partnership with Old Dominion University's School of Library Science and School of Education. A School/Library Cooperative Committee was established to provide a mechanism for problem-solving the unique challenges faced by the students in the Chesapeake community, and further enhance resource referral across both organizations, as well as a highly successful teacher in-service to kick-off the 2021 school year, including a "tech petting zoo" and community resource fair. Join the CPL and the CPS as we discuss our plans for 2022 and how to develop a successful partnership of your own.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to identify ways to provide library cards to school students without the need for traditional library card sign-up methods.
Upon completion, libraries will be able to identify best practices for hosting teacher in-service programs and virtual classroom visits.
Upon completion, schools and libraries will be able to identify ideas to engage in meaningful partnerships between schools and public libraries.

Main Contact(s)

Amanda B. Jackson

Director
Chesapeake Public Library

Speaker(s)

Amanda B. Jackson

Director
Chesapeake Public Library

Moderator(s)

Amanda B. Jackson

Director
Chesapeake Public Library

Speaker(s)

AS

Amie Seigle

Supervisor of Media Services
Chesapeake Public Schools
Heather Simpson

Manager
North East Library