Literacy Leadership: Implementation and Support

A Professional Learning Event for Oregon Literacy Leaders

Webinar

March 14, 2024 at 1:00pm  PST

As a leader in Oregon, you have the unique challenge to ensure that evidence-based literacy instruction is implemented effectively to transform and improve student learning!

In this exclusive webinar, Dr. Lymaris Santana and Dr. Mikkaka Overstreet will share practical strategies and tools―such as Framework for Literacy Leadership, Literacy Implementation Continuum and Literacy Observation and Feedback Tool―to help leaders transform literacy instruction for all students.

Participants will engage in peer-guided discourse around effective literacy leadership aligned to the Oregon Early Literacy Framework and explore context specific strategies to engage with the school community and transform student learning.

Dr.  Lymaris  Santana

Lymaris is a principal consultant for equity and systems improvement at Education Northwest. She has more than 20 years of experience as an educational leader at the school, district, and state levels, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating literacy and equity initiatives. She is a graduate faculty scholar for the University of Central Florida. 

Dr. Mikkaka Overstreet

Mikkaka is a principal consultant for equity and systems improvement at Education Northwest. She has been in education for 20 years, first as a teacher, then a literacy consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education. She was a literacy professor at the University of Louisville & East Carolina University, before joining Education Northwest.