Connections: A Podcast of the James L. Hamner Public Library

Connections: A Podcast of the James L. Hamner Public Library

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Connections: A Podcast of the James L. Hamner Public Library episodes

  • A Teacher Who Teaches Reading

    Valerie Robnolt, Ph. D. talks with Jill about teaching people how to teach people to read.

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    Featured Resource: Acorn TV

    Other Resources:

    • Connections Episode #48: "Good People Read"
    • Connections Episode #74: "I'm Intelligent, But Reading is Hard"
    • Connections Episode #127: "It's a Different Way of Processing Information"
    • Gail Gibbons - Children's Non-Fiction Author
    • "The Power of Literacy" Video
    • Seymour Simon - Children's Non-Fiction Author
    • "Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science" by Louisa Moats



    40 min
  • Victor Haskins Says, "Do Something"

    Mr. Victor Haskins, a Richmond-area artist, talks with Jill about themes in his presentation The American Way.

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    Featured Resource: The Friends of the James L. Hamner Public Library

    Other Resources:

    • Connections Episode #38: Music to See
    • Video Interview of This Episode
    31 min
  • Racial Equity Education: Post-Reflection

    The Library of Virginia offered a racial equity educational challenge to librarians in Virginia. In this episode, Jill and a librarian from another library record their conversation as they think about racial equity after completing the challenge.

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    Featured Resource: A to Z World Food

    Other Resources: 

    • The 1619 Project
    • America and Moore  21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
    • "America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made it One"(Part of The 1619 Project): Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Connections Episode #123: Racial Equity: Pre-Reflection
    • Crucial Conversations: Kerry Patterson, et al.
    • How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X.  Kendi
    • I Holla Back.org
    • "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack": Peggy McIntosh
    53 min
  • Human Trafficking

    Detective Chris Lee and Detective Joanna Hartsook from the Chesterfield County Police Department talk with Jill about human trafficking.

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    Featured Resource: Libby

    Other Resources:

    • National Human Trafficking Hotline
    • Richmond Justice Initiative
    • Virginia Department of Social Services Sex Trafficking Training
    36 min
  • "It's a Different Way of Processing Information"

    Artist and dyslexia advocate Rebecca Warner talks with Jill about ways to identify and help students with dyslexia.

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    Featured Resource: Acorn TV

    Other Resources:

    • Code of Virginia: Child Find
    • Connections Episode 74: "I'm Intelligent, But Reading is Hard"
    • Decoding Dyslexia: Virginia
    • Dyslexia Friendly Library Challenge
    • Learning Ally
    • International Dyslexia Association
    • National Center for Learning Disabilities
    • Pqbd
    • Understood
    • Virginia Association of School Librarians
    • VA Department of Education: Dyslexia


    36 min
  • Autumn Thoughts

    Jill talks about the words associated with autumn and after failing to find a book that represents the season, reads an excerpt from Lindsey Stoddard's Just Like Jackie. 

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    Featured Resource: Acorn TV


    12 min
  • Racial Equity Education: Pre-Reflection

    The Library of Virginia offered a racial equity educational challenge to librarians in Virginia. In this episode, Jill and a librarian from another library record their conversation as they think about racial equity before starting the challenge.

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    Featured Resource: A to Z World Food

    1 hr 2 min

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If you want book reviews, don't listen here. The mission of the James L. Hamner Public Library is to facilitate connections that provide free learning opportunities. That means almost anything is…