I am hoping to start a research project on the effects of MGOL, and would like to get some feedback about the use of the trainings after some time has passed.

Here is a link to a very short online survey. If you have attended a training within the past 10 years, I would be most grateful if you could fill out the survey at the link below.

The link is http://goo.gl/forms/pgO2I4gZrE

Once you are finished filling it out, please feel free to pass it on to other workshop  participants.

Thank you again for bringing MGOL into your community!

At the ALSC Conference in Oakland, I met Beth Wren, a lecturer at San Jose State Univeristy iSchool.  She had such wonderful things to say about MGOL that I asked if she would feel comfortable sending me an email which I could post on the blog, and she agreed. Here it is:

I personally was touched by how beautiful and simple the MGOL was when I was just starting out as a children’s librarian a few years back now. My mentor introduced me to it and said, “You might want to look at this as a way to really touch the little ones and the grown ups who bring them with the ideas and techniques Dr. Diamant-Cohen gives.”

I did, and even though I am now teaching in an iSchool I still pass along to all of my youth services students (especially those going into children’s services) this gift that I think the MGOL is.

Thanks Betsy and all the others who continue to use these key ideas and techniques and touch children’s lives in so many ways through story times and other programming. 

Beth Wrenn-Estes, Lecturer, iSchool at San Jose State University

Thank you Beth, for such wonderful, positive feedback!

Have you been running Mother Goose on the Loose programs for parents with babies and toddlers for more than one year, two years, three years….?

*Are you looking for new material to use?
*Would you like to share some successful activities with other MGOL facilitators?
*Do you have a question about early literacy programs in the library that you would like to discuss with your colleagues in a non-judgmental atmosphere?
*Would you welcome the opportunity to brainstorm new ideas with your colleagues?
*Do you have a heart warming story about MGOL to share?

If so, please come to the MGOL unconference!

Monday, October 20 2014, 9am-3pm, at the Kent Island Public Library in Maryland

For more details, contact Sam Eddington, Training Coordinator,
Eastern Shore Regional Library, sam (at) esrl . org, Tel: 410.742.1537

It’s been a busy season for Mother Goose on the Loose. Following two MGOL workshops in Virginia, two Mother Goose on the Loose trainings were presented at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore. One was the traditional training workshop; the other was for seasoned facilitators who wanted a refresher with new material and time to discuss programs.  (An unconference of the same nature, via the Eastern Shore Regional Library System will be taking place in Maryland on October 20.) At the end of the week, there was a fun training in Pennsylvania for Youth Leaders around the state.

Tomorrow, I fly to San Francisco where I will be presenting a Mother Goose on the Loose training one afternoon and a Transforming Preschool Storytime the next afternoon. Then, off to the ALSC Institute in Oakland while I will be part of a panel with some wonderful friends and colleagues called “Inspired Collaboration: Early Childhood Partnerships”.

Meanwhile, my son, Alon is back in Baltimore and he is the new Mother Goose on the Loose Workshop Coordinator. Working with him has been a great experience so far, and I am sure it is going to continue to be fabulous.So, if you are interested in booking a training, please contact him via the contact page on this Website!

School Library Journal just published an article called “Why Music Matters.”  Three paragraphs are devoted to Mother Goose on the Loose! Check it out by clicking on the article title or on the link below:

http://www.slj.com/2014/07/standards/early-learning/why-music-matters-library-music-programs-are-fun-and-support-early-learning/