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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ARSL_Membership [mailto:ARSL_MEMBERSHIP@LISTSERV.AMRMS.COM]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hanks, Susan@CSL<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 01, 2015 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ARSL_MEMBERSHIP@LISTSERV.AMRMS.COM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ARSL_LISTSERV] FYI: Too Small to Fail Campaign - How Libraries Can Get Involved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>Please share with others<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear California Library Staff,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Too Small to Fail</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, a joint initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, aims to help parents, communities and businesses take meaningful actions to improve the health and well-being of children ages zero to five, so that more of America’s children are prepared to succeed in the 21st century.
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Too Small to Fail</span></em> is focusing its work on closing the “word gap.” Studies have found that by age four, children in middle and upper income families hear 30 million more words than their lower-income
peers. This disparity in hearing words from parents and caregivers translates directly into a disparity in learning words. And that puts our children born with the fewest advantages even further behind.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Too Small to Fail</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> has released a new “Talking is Teaching Community
Campaign Guide,” a how-to roadmap for local leaders (including libraries) across the country to initiate and enhance on-the-ground efforts to help close the word gap and boost young children’s early brain development. The guide and corresponding
<b>free downloadable brand assets and other resource materials</b> can now be found on
<a href="http://www.toosmall.org/community">www.toosmall.org/community</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Community Campaign Guide builds off the success and lessons learned from
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Too Small to Fail</span></em>’s local campaign efforts in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Oakland, California. The local campaign, titled “Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing,” launched in these communities in 2014.
Since then, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Too Small to Fail</span></em> has worked within these communities to engage trusted messengers — such as pediatricians, faith-based leaders, child care providers and librarians — to educate parents
and deliver high-quality tools that can help them engage in meaningful interactions with their young children starting at birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The guide offers adaptive “Talking is Teaching” creative content and resources that: 1) encourage parents to talk, read, and sing with their children
during every-day routines — from waiting for the bus, to making dinner to giving a bath; 2) offer ideas for engaging the business community and other allies to raise awareness; and 3) provide suggestions about elevating community messages through local media.
The free multimedia assets can be easily tailored to respond to the individual needs of a community or library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since libraries are already actively engaged in delivering high-quality services to their youngest users, their families and caregivers, the State Library hopes this collaborative partnership with
<i>Too Small to Fail</i> and their additional resources will only help enhance the great work libraries are doing every day!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Fwd’d from Suzanne Flint – California State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This message has been forwarded by:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Susan Hanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Library Programs Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">California State Library/Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PO Box 942837<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sacramento, CA 94237-0001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards, Suzanne<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Edwardian Script ITC";color:#E36C0A">Suzanne Flint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Suzanne Flint </span><span style="color:#E36C0A">|</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> Library Programs Consultant
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