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Adolescent Literacy Summit

The Adolescent Literacy Summit will bring together secondary educators and administrators to build awareness, community, and capacity to engage the major challenges and opportunities for supporting literacy development in middle and high school.

Four featured speakers illustrate complexity with clarity to collectively connect, advocate, resist, and build toward liberatory learning opportunities. Together, we confront racism and ableism in reading instruction, recalibrate our focus on outcomes, re-envision remediation and support, and reconsider what counts as foundational for adolescent literacy development.

Our featured speakers will be joined by student panelists from the Manchester Youth Commission and special guest, UConn freshman, Aleysha Ortiz.

Speakers