May 6, 9am GMT

Back to basics does not mean doing less. It means returning to the conditions that actually make reading work.

In many schools, there is no shortage of literacy initiatives. Displays are created. Reading programs are launched.

New strategies are introduced. And yet, despite all of that effort, reading engagement often remains inconsistent, and deeper thinking is not always happening.

This session asks a different question:

What are the foundational conditions that allow reading to become embedded, sustained, visible, and genuinely owned by students?

Because strong reading cultures are not built through isolated programs. They are shaped by the strength of a school’s literacy ecosystem.

In this webinar, Gabrielle Mace introduces the Literacy Ecosystem Framework and explores four key lenses that help schools understand where reading culture is being strengthened, and where it may be fragmented:

• Strategic Leadership & Curation
• Inquiry, Engagement & Purposeful Reading
• Home, Community & Culture
• Reader Identity, Agency & Ownership
• Rather than asking schools to do more, this session helps teacher librarians and school leaders step back, identify where their greatest opportunity for impact sits, and refocus effort where it matters most.

Because sustainable reading culture is not built through more activity. It is built through stronger conditions and better alignment.

Presenter:

Gabrielle Mace