Embracing Literacy 2025 Events

Introduction

Sustainable literacy improvement doesn’t happen by chance—it happens by design. This session explores how leaders at the state, district, and school levels can build and sustain evidence-based literacy systems that lead to lasting change. Participants will examine the structures, processes, and leadership practices that create coherence across initiatives, align resources to needs, and ensure all students have access to high-quality instruction. Whether you're shaping policy or leading building-level implementation, this session offers a blueprint for designing systems that support literacy success at scale.

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

1. Analyze the core components of evidence-based literacy systems at the state, district, and school levels.
2. Evaluate leadership practices that promote coherence, sustainability, and alignment in literacy initiatives.
3. Design next steps for building or strengthening systems that support effective implementation of high-quality literacy instruction across levels of the system.

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?

Introduction
Sustainable literacy improvement doesn’t happen by chance—it happens by design. This session explores how leaders at the state, district, and school levels can build and sustain evidence-based literacy systems that lead to lasting change. Participants will examine the structures, processes, and leadership practices that create coherence across initiatives, align resources to needs, and ensure all students have access to high-quality instruction. Whether you're shaping policy or leading building-level implementation, this session offers a blueprint for designing systems that support literacy success at scale.

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

1. Analyze the core components of evidence-based literacy systems at the state, district, and school levels.
2. Evaluate leadership practices that promote coherence, sustainability, and alignment in literacy initiatives.
3. Design next steps for building or strengthening systems that support effective implementation of high-quality literacy instruction across levels of the system.

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?