Get ready for Literacy Academy Live 2022 | Ohio Department of Education

Join the Department for Literacy Academy Live 2022. The Literacy Academy will provide professional learning to support the use of evidence-based language and literacy practices and assist districts, schools and early childhood education programs working toward raising literacy achievement.

Literacy Academy Live 2022 will include four livestream keynotes this January and February. Each keynote will feature a conversation between national experts, bringing the lens of both research and practice to important topics regarding evidence-based language and literacy instruction for students from birth through grade 12.

Keynote sessions will take place from 1-2 p.m. as follows:

• “Debunking Myths about Dyslexia and Brain-based Teaching: Implications for System Change,” with Dr. Nadine Gaab and Dr. Tracy Weeden on Jan. 14, 2022.

• “The Science of Reading and English Learners: Instruction that Makes a Difference,” with Dr. Elsa Cardenas Hagan and Dr. Claude Goldenberg on Jan. 21, 2022.

• “Meaningful Language: Intentional Conversation and Play in Early Care and Education,” with Dr. Susan Neuman and Dr. Lucy Hart Paulson on Jan. 28, 2022.

• “Leading Literacy, Growing Equity: How School Leaders Can Improve Reading Instruction for All Students,” with Dr. Doug Fisher and Kareem Weaver on Feb. 4, 2022.

Registration is not required. Simply visit the Literacy Academy Live 2022 webpage to access each livestream keynote at its scheduled date and time. All keynote conversations and resources will be available on demand on the Literacy Academy Live webpage after the livestream. The Department encourages all districts, schools and early childhood education programs to use these resources as a part of a comprehensive professional learning plan that is data driven, sustained, intensive, collaborative, job embedded and instructionally focused.

Direct questions about Literacy Academy Live 2022 to ComprehensiveLiteracy@education.ohio.gov.