Yesterday Robin and I finished our first year leading the Actively Anti-Racist Service to Readers class for Learn With NoveList. Click here for details on what that class offered. [And click here for the page with all of the ways you can hire Robin and I to train your staff or library system on this topic. ]
We have learned a lot over the last year working with those taking this course. In fact, we have learned so much that Robin, I, and NoveList's Yaika Sabat will be presenting "Anti-Racist Reader Services: Beyond the Basics" a PLA in April 2024. If you are coming to Columbus, we will see you there.
Also, if you are attending NELA in Springfield, MA this October, NoveList and LibraryReads are sponsoring Robin and I as we present our ActivelyAnti-Racist Service to Leisure Readers in 2 sessions (the first, a lecture, the second, all Q and A. PLus we each have a genre session).
I will also be presenting a brand new keynote for ARRTCon in Naperville, IL on 11/30/23, with my appearance sponsored by LibraryReads focused on countering the most popular excuses Robin and I hear as to why people who claim they want to do the work to be actively anti-racist cannot actually do it.
[Here is that 60 min keynote in 1 sentence... Stop with the excuses and do the work!]
Speaking of all of these sponsorships, Robin and I actively help you to secure funding to have us train you. We know this training is important, but we cannot offer it for free because we need to paid for our work. But I also wanted to note that we have kept our prices the same for 3 years; however, beginning with all parties who contact us 1/1/24 and after, prices will be going up. Again, go to our Anti-Racist training landing page for current pricing and program details.
Which brings us back to the Learn With NoveList class. It was the best and most cost effective way to have us offer our Actively Anti-Racist Service to Readers training in 2023. You got the full recorded training programs with exercises, padlets to work on issues together and share knowledge, AND 4 chances to meet with us live. Yes it is over, but I am happy to report that there will be a 2024 version. We have recorded he lessons. Stay-tuned for details.
In the meantime, Learn with NoveList has another class you can sign up for in the meantime, a while you wait for Robin and Becky 2024 option-- No More Neutral: How to Champion the Right to Read.
Angela Hursh is offering the class and she wrote this blog post with more details. I would highly suggest you sign-up for this. And if you do, let them know that you also want to sign up for the 2024 Anti-Racist class with Robina and I and they will work out a deal for you. Contact me if you want me to help you start the conversation.
One thing we have all learned from the class Robin and I offered over the course of 2023, the live meeting option was a HUGE success. Learn With NoveList plans to offer live components to ALL of their classes going forward. If you click through to the page for No More Neutral: How to Champion the Right to Read, you will see those dates listed, four sessions where you can meet with your fellow learners and ask questions.
I wish both topics were not so crucial to our day-o-day work, but they are. I am proud to be a part of possible solutions though.
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