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Nov 20, 2023 I
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Integrating Digital Literacy into Family Literacy Programming

Editor’s note: In celebration of National Family Literacy Month®, NCFL Director of Family Literacy, Dr. Anna Kaiper-Marquez, joined with World Education Director of Digital Learning and Research, ...  Read more »

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Nov 17, 2023 I
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NCFL to host webinar on findings from a four-year family literacy evaluation

Join NCFL, the William Penn Foundation, and the Goodling Institute at Penn State on Monday, November 27 at 3 p.m. ET for a discussion on the findings from a four-year family literacy ...  Read more »

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Nov 15, 2023 I
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Unlocking Success: The Parent-Teacher Partnership that Powers Progress

Editor’s Note: In celebration of Kentucky Family Engagement Week, NCFL invited 2020 Toyota Family Teacher of the Year Leila Kubesch to share her perspective on the importance of the teacher/parent ...  Read more »

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Oct 30, 2023 I
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At the Heart of Family Learning: The Power of Learning Together

Learning redesigned. Communities transformed. That was the tagline for NCFL’s 2023 Families Learning Conference, which just wrapped up in Omaha, Nebraska last week. I was so energized by the ...  Read more »

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Oct 25, 2023 I
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California teacher’s family engagement efforts earn national honor

Sergio de Alba of Los Banos, California has long recognized the power of family engagement to create stronger families and stronger communities. For twenty-two years, he’s been committed to helping ...  Read more »

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Oct 18, 2023 I
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NCFL highlights its deep experience with family literacy in new brief

Throughout its 30-year history, the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) has been a pioneer in family literacy. NCFL’s four-component model of family literacy, developed in 1985 and ...  Read more »

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Oct 13, 2023 I
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Astronaut Nicole Mann to speak at the 2023 Families Learning Conference

We’re just 10 days away from the start of the 2023 Families Learning Conference, which brings together educators, literacy practitioners, parent leaders, policymakers, researchers, and funders to ...  Read more »

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Oct 10, 2023 I
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NCFL publishes new brief on Family Leadership

The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) is pleased to announce the publication of Activating Parent Voice and Agency: A Brief on Family Leadership. This brief is the third in a series ...  Read more »

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Sep 29, 2023 I
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Families as Partners in Learning: Family engagement brief released

The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) is excited to announce the publication of Families as Partners in Learning: A Family Engagement Brief. The brief provides an overview of NCFL’s ...  Read more »

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Sep 22, 2023 I
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At the Heart of Family Learning: The Opportunity of Adult and Family Learning

This week is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Sponsored by the National Coalition for Literacy, the week is meant to call attention to the ways that adult education transforms lives ...  Read more »

NCFL Partners

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Toyota

Toyota, one of the nation's most successful corporations, began a partnership with NCFL in 1991. In addition to a commitment of more than $50 million, Toyota has also contributed a wealth of in-kind support — including advertising, planning and management expertise — to form one of the most progressive corporate/nonprofit partnerships in the nation.

Three major programs have been developed through the Toyota partnership based on the family literacy model of parents and children learning together. These models have influenced federal and state legislation, leveraged local dollars to support family literacy and led to successful programs being replicated across the country.

Read more about Toyota's commitment to communities

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

NCFL received its very first donation in 1989 from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust to promote and implement family literacy programming, first in Kentucky and North Carolina and later nationwide. The Kenan Family Literacy Model in part laid the groundwork for 30 years of subsequent family literacy and family learning programming developed by NCFL.

Kenan has continued to support NCFL’s place-based family literacy programs since our inception. Most recently, it has invested in our organization’s Sharon Darling Innovation Fund, which will launch emerging ideas and programmatic evolutions in the multigenerational learning space.

Learn more about the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation began partnering with NCFL in 2006. A signature effort of this partnership is the National Literacy Directory, a resource that launched in 2010 and strives to guide potential students and volunteers to literacy services, community education programs, and testing centers in their communities.

The National Literacy Directory contains over 10,000 educational agencies located across the United States and has a dedicated toll-free number to help support those wanting to pursue educational opportunities in their communities.

Dollar General also provides support for development of NCFL’s innovative family learning resources centered on financial literacy and Parent and Child Together (PACT) Time®.

Learn more about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation

PNC Grow Up Great

PNC Grow Up Great believes deeply in the power of high-quality early childhood education and provides innovative opportunities that assist families, educators and community organizations to enhance children's learning and development.

PNC Grow Up Great has partnered with NCFL since 1994, most recently in Louisville, Kentucky, to support Say & Play with Words, our pre-Kindergarten vocabulary-building initiative.

NCFL's work is also featured on the PNC Grow Up Great Lesson Center website. The Lesson Center includes over 100 free, high-quality preschool lesson plans and research-based instructional techniques and strategies. All lesson plans contain Home/School Connections printouts, in English and Spanish, to help families extend and reinforce the learning at home.

Learn more about PNC Grow Up Great

U.S. Department of Education

Initiated through the U.S. Department of Education in 2018, the Statewide Family Engagement Centers (SFEC) program provides 12 grantees and 13 states with five-year, $5 million grants to promote and implement systemic evidenced-based family engagement strategies. NCFL was selected to lead SFECs in two states, Arizona and Nebraska, and is a primary partner for two other SFECs in Kentucky and Maryland/Pennsylvania. 

The SFECs work to support family engagement through state- and local-level agencies while providing both professional development to school districts and direct services to families related to children’s academic outcomes and overall well-being.

Learn more about the U.S. Department of Education

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

NCFL was named a recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s "Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge," which seeks to elevate diverse voices in order to broaden the conversation about the issues inhibiting economic mobility and generate deeper awareness along with actionable understanding. NCFL will develop and launch a podcast series that will highlight the remarkable stories of low-income, diverse families across the U.S. who have improved their communities through Family Service Learning.

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