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Get Ready to Ignite, Engage, Apply at the Second Annual Literacy Conference
What is so difficult about teaching kids to read that we seem to struggle with it constantly? Is there any evidence that the class time we are sacrificing for Achieve 3000 work is actually improving our students’ achievement levels?
These questions and more will be answered at the Second Annual FWISD Literacy Conference: Engineering the Love of Learning Through Literacy. The conference will take place Saturday, February 24 at Southwest High School, 4100 Alta Mesa Blvd., and is open to all Fort Worth ISD teachers and administrators. Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m., and the conference begins at 8:30 a.m.
Superintendent Kent P. Scribner will give opening remarks at the event, which aims to equip FWISD educators with literacy strategies they can take back to the classroom to use in fostering a love of learning among students through reading. Author Frank Serafini will deliver the conference keynote address.
The Literacy Conference complements Fort Worth ISD’s 100 X 25 FWTX initiative efforts, which has set a goal of ensuring that 100 percent of third-graders are reading on grade level or above by 2025. Dr. Scribner is partnering with Mayor Betsy Price and BNSF Executive Chairman Matt Rose to lead the community-wide Read Fort Worth initiative. This collective impact strategy engages parents, grandparents, and caregivers as well as volunteers from the city’s business sector, higher education, non-profit organizations, and the faith-based community.
“The Literacy Conference is an opportunity for all content to come together and recognize how interwoven literacy is across all areas of curriculum,” said Cherron Ukpaka, elementary literacy director.
Participants can earn trade-off credit for attending.
Click here to register for this year’s Literacy Conference. For more details, contact Sharolyn Chitwood, Professional Learning and Innovation specialist, at 817-814-3417.
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