2024 Schedule Deep Dive: Exploring Literacy’s Impact

Proficient literacy skills are a stepping stone to knowledge, critical thinking, curiosity, and lifelong learning. Beyond conventional reading and writing, literacy is a focal point for many discussions at SXSW EDU, calling attention to current challenges and crises along with highlighting the latest emerging technologies and the best strategies for promoting literacy skills for students.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), average scores in reading for 13-year-olds have declined 4 points in the 2022-2023 school year when compared to the 2019-2020 school year.

In March, these conversations will continue to dive into the multifaceted aspects of literacy, from reading, to AI, media and more. Check out what’s new in literacy content for 2024.

Save These Sessions to Your Schedule:

Join parent advocates from across the country in the Panel Empowering Parent Advocacy in the Literary Movement, as they discuss the power of parent advocacy to ensure every student receives evidence-based literacy instruction.

In the Meet Up Beyond the Reading Wars: Bridging the Gap for Older Students, dive into discussions about how older students are being forgotten in today’s Reading Wars, what steps districts are taking to support older readers, and if we are doing enough.

Learn how Colorado leveraged professional learning based on evidence-based instruction to provide literacy learning to children through the READ Act in the Panel, Policy to Practice: Literacy Equity Through the CO READ Act.

Explore more Literacy Sessions:

• ALL IN: Activating Human Potential via Multiple Literacies
• Building the Bridge: Aligning Birth to 3rd Grade Learning
• Conversations Count: Innovating Early in the Deep South
• Fact or Fiction? Media Literacy in the Digital Age
• How to Be a Freedom Fighter
• How to Wow K-5 Through Podcasts & Storytelling
• The Future of Mental Health Education

Be sure to check out the SXSW EDU Bookstore and browse exciting reads authored by this year’s conference participants.

Browse the full program and start adding your favorites to your personal schedule.

Explore the Full Schedule

Don’t Miss Out On SXSW EDU 2024

Register and book your hotel today to celebrate education through compelling sessions, in-depth workshops, mentorship, film screenings, future-focused competitions, an expo, networking opportunities, and so much more at SXSW EDU from March 4-7, 2024.

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