We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming virtual webinar, Building Blocks of Literacy facilitated by OLC Member Words in the Wild, open to all literacy enthusiasts and educators looking to broaden their knowledge on morphological awareness.   Date: May 7, 2025 Time: 10 AM - 11:30 PM Location: Zoom - Register Here Together, we’ll explore how to make morphology accessible to younger children—and how to make grapheme-phoneme inclusive to […]

Join us for our first in-person Member Network meeting of the year, hosted at Girls Inc.'s office! This event will strengthen connections within our member community, celebrate progress and successes from the fall, leverage our collective expertise, share resources, and provide insights into the California education p olicy landscape with guest speakers from EdVoice. Contact membership@oaklandliteracycoalition.org to […]

Join our Dec. 3 learning session to learn how librarians are literacy leaders and community connectors. Featuring insights from Sarah Sugarman & Charley Brooks of @leadbylearning_ and @WCCUSD Librarian John Evans. 12/3 from 9:30-11:30 on Zoom: bit.ly/leadbylearning

Join the Oakland Literacy Coalition for a Sunday Fund-ay of bowling, football, food & drinks, and chances to win prize giveaways!

Join us for Chapters of Change, a celebration of the change we create and the future we shape through the transformative power of literacy. Enjoy delicious cocktails & hours d'oeuvres See live entertainment Hear inspiring stories of how the Oakland Literacy Coalition is making a difference We look forward to you joining us in creating […]

Bring your favorite book and support the OLC over a beverage at Roses' Taproom. You can choose to chat about your favorite read or immerse yourself quietly in prose. Roses' Taproom will be generously donating 10 percent of all purchases during the event to the OLC.   RSVP: bit.ly/PoursAndProse  

In partnership with the National Center on Improving Literacy, the OLC Presents: "Bridging Literacy: From Knowledge to Practice in Reading Instruction." In this webinar, participants will see the integration of theory and practice resulting in a better understanding of how the critical concepts of the Science of Reading (SoR) namely, direct, explicit, systematic, and cumulative […]

In early December, researchers at Stanford University released a working paper titled The Achievement Effects of Scaling Early Literacy Reforms, co-authored by Sarah Novicoff and Thomas S. Dee. The researchers found that, as part of a $53 million settlement, targeted literacy programs in CA's 75 lowest-performing schools helped raise reading scores. Join us for this […]