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...
In May 11, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, panelists shared the valuable and often unheralded work of “America’s best kept secret”: Family Resource Centers (FRCs). More than 3,000 community-based and school-based FRCs support families in urban and rural...
In this April 20, 2021 Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar moderated by Rhonda H. Lauer, President and CEO of Foundations, Inc., attendees heard Kylie Wheeler, Project Manager of Children’s Funding Project, and Terry K. Peterson, Senior Fellow of Furman...
“If we don't increase access to rich books that speak to children in a way that really honors their own identity, their community, but also expand the minds of even children who are already represented in the literature. If we don't do that, then we're actually not...
June CGLR Community of Practice
“Something I've learned is that this work falls on a continuum. A literacy-rich environment can be as simple as paint and chalk on a sidewalk or can look like a much more expensive play structure. But I think the amazing thing with this work is that both of those...
GLR Week 2022 launched with a session celebrating public libraries as a mainstay of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading since its inception. Public libraries serve as trusted centers of communities in the unique position to attract potential partners and provide...
Campaign for Grade-Level ReadingPublic libraries are an essential partner to the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. They provide critical resources, foster a love of reading, and provide resources and support for parents and caregivers to help them promote literacy at...
“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...
“It's our mission to be that platform and place for educators, elevate practices, and grow professionally as they support students preschool through age 5 in our state. We do this because we truly believe that when schools and communities are well prepared to deliver...
Join us again on November 14 from 12:30-2pm ET for our next Crucible of Practice session!“We believe that it is critical that each of these everyday places and spaces should and could be a learning-rich environment for children.” –Siobhan O’Loughlin Reardon This...
“We are gratified by the absence of fatigue and the willingness and encouragement of communities to stay the course during the pandemic. As the pandemic appears in the rearview mirror, we are inspired by the resolve, resilience and the commitment of these communities...
"It is midnight in our world today and the media landscape is cluttered with divisive, uninspiring content. Much the same as it was more than 60 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first gave his Knock at Midnight sermon and the late great Newton Minnow gave...