Welcome!
Literacy Academy Collective
LAC designs & supports NYC Public Schools to bring evidence-based literacy instruction into classrooms.
Welcome!
We are thrilled?to have you join us here at Literacy Academy Collective,
And?there is a lot to be excited about...
We Are On a Mission
LAC has incorporated and we are on our way to forming a non-profit 501(c)3. Check out our website?LiteracyAcademyCollective.org.
Our goal is to design?and support?New York City DOE Public Schools to bring evidence-based literacy instruction into the classroom.
We partner with schools, families, community-based organizations, and institutes of higher education to bring culturally relevant, structured literacy to the most marginalized students at the intersection of race, income, and disability. Our aim is to empower students to alter their life outcomes by giving them access to learning through literacy.?
We intend to accomplish this mission through:
"There can be no equity, no social justice without literacy!"?—?Kareem Weaver, NAACP Oakland
Calling All Teachers!
Do you have structured literacy training? An OG background??
LAC is starting conversations with?New York State elementary school special educators interested in co-teaching students with language-based learning disabilities in the Bronx for the Fall 2022 school year with professional development opportunities starting this summer!
Know a teacher who might be right??Send them?this flier!
Interested candidates should email a cover letter and resume to:?[email protected]
Round Table
Thank you to all those who were able to join us for our Community Round Table event?"Learning to Read is a Civil Right: How We Drive Change"?with LAC Co-Founder, Naomi Pe?a;?Universal Literacy coach Carissa Berliner;?and Kareem Weaver of the NAACP and?FULCRUM.?
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If you missed it, feel free to take a moment to?watch it here!??(Passcode: y0X$c=+#)
Did You Know...
...there is a free website with phonics materials for teachers, tutors, and families?
Founded by a mom (of course!) with a daughter who struggled to read,?Open Source Phonics?provides materials?that are similar to commercial sequential phonics programs that have existed for decades. Commercial programs designed for struggling readers are hundreds of pages long and expensive. Thus, they are not shared with all the teachers, students, and families who could use them. But this website is free, easy to use, and given the stamp of approval from experts like Louisa Moats.
Learning to read is a Civil Right
Access to information is key! If you have advice or tips to share send them our way and we will be sure to pass them along.
If this was forwarded to you, email?l[email protected]?to join the list.
Yours in literacy,
The LAC Team
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Founding members
Akeela Azcuy
Ruth Genn
Emily Hellstrom
Jeannine Kiely
Naomi Pe?a
Freya Sakamoto
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” — James Baldwin