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How do you unplan and recreate a traditional summer learning program in the midst of a pandemic?

When COVID-19 hit and San Francisco went into shelter-in-place, San Francisco Public Library had to unplan more than 1,000 public summer programs and contend with the challenge of losing most of its front-line library staff to disaster service work. A quickly re-envisioned, streamlined and smaller program was created that included mailing out 60,000 reading trackers to every public school student as a complement to an online tracking platform. Now, in 2021, with the reopening of our libraries still uncertain, Michelle Jeffers, Chief, Community Programs & Partnerships at SFPL, and her team, will pivot one more time to take the best practices of 2020 and refocus the library’s outreach, look deeper at summer learning with a racial digital equity lens and will focus on engagement and programs that support reading skills.

Also experiencing the uncertainty of the pandemic, St. Louis Public Library was scrambling to find ways to reach its customers and promote summer learning. Serving a city with deep inequity in internet access, the library balanced virtual engagement with “offline” methods for reaching young people. This included virtual summer camps, virtual storytimes, distributing “Summer Challenge Starter Kits” and using mailed postcards. Learn from St. Louis Public Library’s Manager of Youth Services, Joe Monahan, about these efforts, including lessons learned and plans for Summer 2021.

On Tuesday, March 30 at 1 p.m. ET, hear from leaders at San Francisco Public Library and St. Louis Public Library about how they recreated summer learning plans to engage their community, captured data to inform their programming and maintained and developed partnerships to ensure they are reaching those suffering the most inequity during the pandemic.

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