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Winter Learning Challenge: Warm Up with Learning Keeping the "learning faucet from freezing" during winter break. So the pipeline to learning doesn't freeze in winter, the Children and Young Adult Services staff at the Chicago Public Library created the Winter Learning Program, Warm Up with Learning. Warm Up with Learning tested the new summer model and applied research from the National Summer Learning Association known as ‘faucet theory'. This theory states that learning is turned on like a faucet when kids are in school, and turns back off during all out-of-school time. The goal was to develop a learning program to encourage children to continue learning during the winter break and, keep the ‘learning faucet' on. The result: 2,300 children joined Warm Up with Learning. Children from across the city logged minutes read, online discoveries, science projects and writing or art projects they created about winter, weather and snowflakes. The Chicago Public Library Foundation donated three Kindle Fires as an added incentive to encourage participation in the program. The Kindles were raffled off among program participants. Congratulations to the 2,300 children who kept the "learning faucet from freezing" and their parents/caregivers who made Warm Up with Learning a priority. Many thanks to the Children and Young Adult Services staff for continuing to develop creative and innovative programs that promote reading, learning and discovery! |
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