Congrats to @toyota on announcing this incredible investment in North Carolina children and families! @NCFL is thrilled to partnering alongside you. 📚🧪
In NC with new partners shift_ed https://t.co/Y5F5wFuk6M & @Toyota launching work to support children & families in communities! This will help braid resources from the @NCFL NC SFEC to enhance family engagement statewide-Let’s Go! #familieslearning#STEMeducation@SheaCoughlin
Check out this inspirational article by @DrSPruitt and @DrFCSmith about how participation in @NCFL programming opened doors not only for her but for her children and extended family, as well. #FamilyLiteracy#LongitudinalLiteracy
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Join us in November for some bluegrass hospitality and bring your work to a national audience in the process by presenting at #NCFL24. Submissions due April 15. 🎙️
Did someone say SXSW? I’ll be there! My @ALLINLiteracy colleagues (@PriyankaTweets2 and @BarbaraBushFdn’s Sarah Cacicio) are presenting, "ALL IN: Activating Human Potential via Multiple Literacies" on 3/5 -
Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/pB8Rc62SxS
“Empathy is a political practice, not a trait.” Zoe Jenkins, college junior, on empathy being a skill to be developed, urging classrooms to teach it. Students are frustrated by cancel culture & want to engage in difficult convos but most of us are ill equipped. @SouthernEdFound
Louisiana @LA_Regents Commissioner @KimHunterReed on encouraging state leaders to support higher ed: “Who’s thriving? Who’s not? What does the data tell us?… This is about talent development. We have no individual to waste.” #milestogo2023
Thanks for the hospitality, Omaha! You were great to us! Special thanks to our local buddies @NE_Children @NDEFamComEngage for making #NCFL23 a success!✌🏼
Our morning at #NCFL23 was better than yours! We got to hear from the most impressive human, Colonel Nicole Mann. Blown away by her intelligence and she is surprisingly down to Earth. 😂 👩🏼🚀 🌍
The digital equity panelists are bringing great insights to us at #NCFL23. Regarding how we should leverage and use AI, Dr. Vikki Katz says to her students: “We are inundated with information. Knowledge is in short supply.” Let’s use tech to elevate not replace. 🔥
Dr. Ivory Toldson is a brilliant, fascinating, and hilarious keynote speaker at #NCFL23. He encourages us to look at data as being important but relative. Here’s what that can look like in practice:
NE Dept. Ed. Commissioner Dr. Maher welcomes us to #NCFL23. Referring to education challenges in the pandemic, “We were all in the same storm, but not the same boat.” We can do better and it needs to include meaningfully engaging and supporting families. @NDEFamComEngage
Attending #NCFL23? Join @DAndreWeaver's Lunch & Learn, A Path to Digital Equity, on Oct. 23 at 12:30 p.m., to hear panelists' insights on creating protective digital communities for children and families, particularly those furthest from opportunity. https://t.co/8i2iMyjyUM
As we gear up to begin #NCFL23 today, check out @DrFCSmith’s newest article in @EdReimagined’s Voyager magazine. “There can be no solution to [our educational challenges] that isn’t multigenerational and community based.” 🫶🏻https://t.co/vfIJKbTLBj
@BuffettECI’s Dr. Gilliam kicking off the #NCFL23 precon with great info about early learning and how we can improve the conditions for teachers and learners. One practical idea? Open the K-12 sub pool for this age to support staffing needs.