literacy

Oct 26, 2022

Education Week: Third Grade Reading Retention Is Back. Should It Be?

Friday Institute Executive Director and Professor Emerita Hiller Spires discusses ways to make reading retention more effective.

Sep 30, 2022

Fall 2022 Online Professional Learning Courses Now Open

The Friday Institute is opening four free courses that cover a variety of topics including social and emotional learning, literacy, learning differences and coaching.

Aug 29, 2022

Utilizing Phoneme Videos for Phonemic Awareness Practice

The New Literacies Collaborative at the Friday Institute created a series of English phoneme videos that can be utilized by educators and caregivers to cultivate learners’ phonemic awareness.

May 25, 2022

Symposium Organized by Assistant Professor Crystal Chen Lee Encourages ‘Teaching and Telling Asian American Stories’ in the Classroom

Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States. Despite this population growth, Asian American stories are often absent from school curricula and Asian American histories rarely appear in state standards for K-12 education. Assistant Professor Crystal Chen Lee decided to organize the “Teaching and Telling Asian American Stories Virtual Symposium” to share these often invisible stories of Asian Americans.

May 25, 2022

New Children’s Book Series Inspired by William and Ida Friday’s Passion for Education

The Friday Institute hosted a luncheon May 19 to introduce educators and NC State fans to a new children's book that was partially inspired by Dr. William Friday and Ida Friday’s leadership and advocacy to advance K-12 education in North Carolina. 

Apr 18, 2022

Literacy and Community Initiative’s 2022 Reading Celebration Will Highlight Excerpts From Three New Publications

Youth from Refugee Hope Partners, Bull City YouthBuild and CORRAL Riding Academy will read their written narratives from three newly released books and answer questions on their personal journeys during the Literacy and Community Initiative’s 2022 Reading Celebration May 3.

Jan 24, 2022

Educators Come Together for Powerful NC PreK-12 Literacy and Equity Summit

834 educators and other stakeholders from across the state joined the NC PreK-12 Literacy and Equity Summit virtually on January 19 to attend keynote and breakout sessions that discussed how to get NC students to read on grade level.

Jan 14, 2022

EducationNC: If You Care about Childhood Literacy, Here’s an Invitation to a Conversation You Won’t Want to Miss

Sep 7, 2021

Fall 2021 Online Professional Learning Now Open for Registration

Free high-quality online professional learning courses for educators launch Oct. 4. Registration is now open.

Jun 16, 2021

EdNC: Perspective | Quality Remote Learning, Without the Internet?

Friday Institute Research Associate Marie Himes shares the background behind the creation of the Classroom Connection program and three ways its programming and extension activities can be used to review and extend literacy and mathematics learning this summer.