🔊 If you’re not planning to be in Omaha with @ncfl and friends next month, what are you even doing with your life? 🎉

⏰ ⏰ Flash sale this week! #ncfl23

Cultural proficiency and asset-based thinking are essential to building relationships w/families and practicing effective #FamilyEngagement. Check out this upcoming #Webinar series from Southern Education Foundation ⬇️

Attending #NCFL23? Join D'Andre J. Weaver, Ph.D's Lunch & Learn, A Path to Digital Equity, on Oct. 23 at 12:30 p.m., to hear panelists' insights on creating protective digital communities for children and families, particularly those furthest from opportunity. conference.familieslearning.org

Excited to gather with existing and new SFEC partners in Omaha next week at #NCFL23! Nebraska Children NDE_FamComEngage Book Harvest UNCG

As we gear up to begin #NCFL23 today, check out Felicia Smith’s newest article in Education Reimagined’s Voyager magazine. “There can be no solution to [our educational challenges] that isn’t multigenerational and community based.” 🫶🏻education-reimagined.org/rethinking-inf…

NE Dept. Ed. Commissioner Dr. Maher welcomes us to #NCFL23. Referring to education challenges in the pandemic, “We were all in the same storm, but not the same boat.” We can do better and it needs to include meaningfully engaging and supporting families. NDE_FamComEngage

Dr. Ivory Toldson is a brilliant, fascinating, and hilarious keynote speaker at #NCFL23. He encourages us to look at data as being important but relative. Here’s what that can look like in practice:

The VR booth is a must at #NCFL23!

The digital equity panelists are bringing great insights to us at #NCFL23. Regarding how we should leverage and use AI, Dr. Vikki Katz says to her students: “We are inundated with information. Knowledge is in short supply.” Let’s use tech to elevate not replace. 🔥

Rematch! 😂

Our morning at #NCFL23 was better than yours! We got to hear from the most impressive human, Colonel Nicole Mann. Blown away by her intelligence and she is surprisingly down to Earth. 😂 👩🏼‍🚀 🌍

Thanks for the hospitality, Omaha! You were great to us! Special thanks to our local buddies Nebraska Children NDE_FamComEngage for making #NCFL23 a success!✌🏼

Hit up the NCFL team in Charlotte next week! Looking forward to being with the brilliant folks of Southern Education Foundation.

Louisiana Louisiana Board of Regents Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed on encouraging state leaders to support higher ed: “Who’s thriving? Who’s not? What does the data tell us?… This is about talent development. We have no individual to waste.” #milestogo2023

“Empathy is a political practice, not a trait.” Zoe Jenkins, college junior, on empathy being a skill to be developed, urging classrooms to teach it. Students are frustrated by cancel culture & want to engage in difficult convos but most of us are ill equipped. Southern Education Foundation

If you’re in Austin, you have about 24 hours to make your plan for attending the @allinliteracy session featuring NCFL’s Felicia Smith #sxsw2024! 🤠

Join us in November for some bluegrass hospitality and bring your work to a national audience in the process by presenting at #NCFL24. Submissions due April 15. 🎙️

Check out this inspirational article by Stephen Pruitt and Felicia Smith about how participation in NCFL programming opened doors not only for her but for her children and extended family, as well. #FamilyLiteracy #LongitudinalLiteracy ow.ly/5If250QQ7ms

Congrats to @toyota on announcing this incredible investment in North Carolina children and families! NCFL is thrilled to partnering alongside you. 📚🧪