Embracing Literacy 2025 Events

Introduction
Scaling an effective intervention requires more than enthusiasm—it requires intentional design, strong leadership, and system-wide alignment. This session draws on insights from statewide initiatives to explore what it takes to expand successful educational practices across schools and districts. Participants will examine common barriers and enablers to scale, explore models of statewide implementation, and discuss strategies for adapting interventions while maintaining fidelity. Whether you're expanding a literacy initiative, instructional framework, or professional learning model, this session offers practical guidance for scaling with integrity and impact.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze key factors that influence the successful scale-up of educational interventions across school and district contexts.
2. Examine lessons learned from statewide initiatives to identify common challenges and solutions in expanding effective practices.
3. Design actionable strategies to adapt, scale, and sustain high-impact interventions while preserving core components and fidelity of implementation.

Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

Introduction:

In the world of education, bold leaders can be found at all levels, from district and building administrators to instructional coaches to classroom teachers and paraprofessionals. They are leaders who understand deeply what children need to thrive in our complex, interconnected world. They understand that literacy is the gateway, not only to students’ academic success, but to their ability to thrive and flourish in school and beyond. They understand that literacy is a human right that can—and should-- be guaranteed to ALL our students. They lead with a relentless focus on literacy for all, and know that if we don’t get literacy right, we don’t get anything right.

These are transformational literacy leaders who are courageously blazing the path to help others understand how to bring the research into action, and to share a bold and common vision for the future: to ensure that all children have the opportunities to reach their full potential.

Objectives:
• What it means to be a transformational literacy leader by cultivating a vision and setting a culture for collective problem-solving;
• What the Implementation Science teaches us about key factors in an effective implementation;
• The phases of implementation from exploration through sustainability and the bold leader moves throughout those phases;
• The courageous conversations that leaders must have in order to lead through a literacy transformation.

Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

Introduction
Scaling an effective intervention requires more than enthusiasm—it requires intentional design, strong leadership, and system-wide alignment. This session draws on insights from statewide initiatives to explore what it takes to expand successful educational practices across schools and districts. Participants will examine common barriers and enablers to scale, explore models of statewide implementation, and discuss strategies for adapting interventions while maintaining fidelity. Whether you're expanding a literacy initiative, instructional framework, or professional learning model, this session offers practical guidance for scaling with integrity and impact.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze key factors that influence the successful scale-up of educational interventions across school and district contexts.
2. Examine lessons learned from statewide initiatives to identify common challenges and solutions in expanding effective practices.
3. Design actionable strategies to adapt, scale, and sustain high-impact interventions while preserving core components and fidelity of implementation.

Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

Introduction


Session Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?