Reading Resources

2022 Leadership Summit

In support of Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Region 16 Comprehensive Center hosted a Leadership Summit for several different education groups, and representatives from large, medium, and small school districts to discuss reading in Alaska on November 16^th and 17^th. This group will meet quarterly.

Participants included:

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Alaska State Board of Education
National Education Association, Alaska
Alaska School Development Network
Alaska Association of School Boards
University of Alaska and PACE
Early Childhood and Head Start
Alaska Council of School Administrators
Southeast Region Resource Center
Region 16 Comprehensive Center
- Large, medium, small district representation
- Curriculum specialists
- Superintendents
- Immersion Programs
- Early Childhood Programs

At the Leadership Summit, the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development’s Strategic Reading Plan and Alaska Reads Act elements were shared. Participants engaged in collaborative sharing of individual organization efforts to support Priority #1 of Alaska Education Challenge: all students will read at grade level by the end of grade three. The summit also included planning to support statewide professional learning alignment and implementation around reading achievement. Overall, the hope is to create a guiding coalition within the state that will create transformational change at all levels by aligning efforts and support. We look forward to further work together.

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