“We invite our business leaders, organizations and city leaders to come together to celebrate a love of reading. We really want to hone in on the importance of where kids are learning and that there’s a role for everyone across our community to play and help support that learning.” – Barb Lito In this Crucible […]
“True partnerships are intentional in listening to the partner’s needs and what would work best for them. There will be a trust to sustain relationships that create success. A supportive community would do the work and collaboration, and ensure work is data driven. When there’s unified collaboration in the community, they are likely to be […]
“We know that educators cannot do this work by themselves, and so it is imperative for all of us as a community to be able to support our children in closing that gap.” – Maya Dorsey, Learn to Earn Dayton This session featured leaders from the early grade literacy coalition initiative with Learn to Earn […]
“We are getting books into the hands of children and families in Detroit. This isn’t something that we’re doing without community and without other organizations. It’s a partnership and it’s all of us working together to improve some of the outcomes here in our city that we love so very much.” – Alyce Hartman, Birdie’s […]
June CGLR Community of Practice
In our GLR Week session specially designed to unite CGLR community coalitions, community and state leads, partners and funders, we hosted a robust conversation with local field experts and practitioners about strategies and tools that have proven results. We engaged with and learned from CGLR community and state leads who are directly addressing equitable learning […]
This Crucible of Practice Salon explored a recently released brief developed by Philadelphia leaders, Philadelphia as a Literacy-Rich Environment: Unlocking Potential and Creating Change. Participants engaged with these leaders, along with CGLR community representatives from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Charlotte, North Carolina, about city- and county-wide efforts to create literacy-rich environments in the everyday places and spaces […]
Moderated by Barbara Hammond and Liz Woody-Remington from The Learning Alliance, this session explored how leaders with Moonshot Moment, the CGLR community in Indian River County, Florida, have integrated a systems-thinking approach with implementation science to make meaningful gains in grade-level reading across their community. The webinar began with Hammond and Woody-Remington, co-founders for the coalition's backbone organization, providing an […]
