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Center for Literacy and Learning highlights Louisiana Reads app and family toolkit

Parent and Family Engagement Task Force · September 24, 2025
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The Center for Literacy and Learning described the Louisiana Reads initiative and a statewide family engagement center that offers toolkits, workshops, an app and a text tips service; presenters emphasized research-based frameworks for family–school collaboration.

Clark Jackson, president of the Center for Literacy and Learning, presented Louisiana Reads as a family‑facing initiative that aims "to empower families to play that active role in their child's learning," linking classroom science-of-reading work to at-home practices. He described signature programs (Growing Reading Brains workshops for caregivers), a family engagement toolkit for schools, a…

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