{"id":9292,"date":"2024-10-08T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:26:01","slug":"live-panel-supporting-english-language-learners-at-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2024\/10\/08\/live-panel-supporting-english-language-learners-at-your-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Panel: Supporting English Language Learners at Your Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: the panel discussion event has passed. We had a blast. The panel shared tons of great tips you definitely don&#8217;t want to miss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/home.transparent.com\/supporting-english-language-learners-at-your-library-panel-recording\">Watch the recording here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Libraries are on the front lines of supporting immigrants and refugees in their communities. That means building literacy of all kinds: digital, financial, and of course English.<\/p>\n<p>Easier said than done when you&#8217;re up against tight budget, limited resources, and language barriers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So we asked 100 public librarians about their biggest struggle supporting English Language Learners in their communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9319\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4-350x263.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most answers fell into three categories:<br \/>\n?\ufe0f52% struggle with outreach &amp; marketing across language barriers<br \/>\n?17% lack of materials or don&#8217;t know which materials to provide<br \/>\n?\u200d?13% don&#8217;t have enough staff or volunteers to launch\/scale programs<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot to overcome! So we found three librarians running impressive ELL programs to share how they&#8217;ve done it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us October 16th at 1pm for a live panel discussion about how to support ELLs at your library. <\/strong>Come get advance. Ask questions. And be well on your way to support the ELLs in your community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Library Supporting ELLs Panel Invite\" width=\"496\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/ELL-Live-Panel-Invite-5.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Need some light reading on the subject in the meantime? We work with many incredible libraries meeting those needs. We interviewed a dozen of them about the ELL services. Their insights are now available in a free guide about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/white-papers\/library-esl-programs-guide\">How to Support ELLs at Your Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4-350x263.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4-350x263.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/Pie-Chart-Data-Infographic-Graph-4.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Update: the panel discussion event has passed. We had a blast. The panel shared tons of great tips you definitely don&#8217;t want to miss. Watch the recording here. Libraries are on the front lines of supporting immigrants and refugees in their communities. That means building literacy of all kinds: digital, financial, and of course English&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2024\/10\/08\/live-panel-supporting-english-language-learners-at-your-library\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":9319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[238805,543990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news","category-for-libraries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}