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Reminder - No Sessions

• Feb 17-21 - February Recess

EC Hub Training

70 Franklin St, Boston

2/19, 11 AM - 2 PM

Please bring a laptop or tablet and your session notes for practice. Registration is required to be added to the security list for building access.

Register Here

Experience Corps Workshop: The Power and Importance of Inclusion and Belonging

Online

2/19, 4 PM

Join Gerri Madrid-Davis from the AARP Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to explore how inclusion and belonging build collaboration and respect across all ages and backgrounds.

Register Here



Virtual Coffee Hour: Brain Olympics

Online

2/21 11am-12pm

Rev up your mind with brain teasers, riddles, word puzzles, trivia, and more! No need to prepare...just bring an open mind and a sense of humor.

• Register here

District Calendars

• Boston Public Schools
• Framingham Public Schools

NOTE: Attending live events should be tracked in the HUB under Training. Watching a recording should be logged under Prep.

🎉 Save the Date! 🎉

We’re celebrating YOU, our amazing volunteers! Join us for good food, great company, and a big thank-you for all you do! Same fantastic locations as last time! More details to come, but for now—mark your calendars and get ready to celebrate! 🎊💙

📍 Framingham Volunteers: Lunch on Thursday, April 10 at Jack’s Abby

📍 Boston Volunteers: Brunch on Friday, April 11 at Florian Hall

Volunteers Facebook Group!

Looking to connect with fellow volunteers, share tips, and celebrate successes? Our new Literations Volunteers Facebook Group is the perfect space to build community and stay inspired. Whether you’re seeking advice, sharing resources, or just want to join the conversation, we’d love to have you!

Training Videos

• Virtual Volunteer Retreat recording
• EC Hub: A recording of our Refresher training can be found on the LINK .
• Emergent Reader Program Town Hall: watch the recording

Important Safety Updates

Please review the email sent 1/31 posted on The Link for important safety updates from Literations and our program partners.

Midyear Check-in Survey

Every year we ask coaches to complete a brief check-in to give us feedback on your experience with Literations so far. Please complete by Monday, Feb 24.

• Coaches Check-in here
• Site Team Leaders watch your inbox for a version aimed at you

Tell Us Your Stories

We know our literacy coaches have incredible stories to tell about the impact they're making in students' lives. We want to hear from you! Submit your story through our quick survey and help us highlight the amazing work happening in our community. Click here to share your story today!

Black History Month

We're excited to celebrate Black History Month by checking out some amazing events and resources around town! Opportunities include:



• A list of Community Events In Boston
• A guide to the Framingham History Center’s collections on Black and Indigenous lives
• The Trustees of Reservations resources
• An exhibition of John Wilson’s work, highlighting his vision of racial and social justice.
• An Afrobeats 101: Beginner Dance Workshop
• And more

Coaching Quick Tips

As you all have seen by now, with the arrival of 20 new fluency titles in January (hooray!), we took the time to reorganize our RAZ Fluency Library using the Lexile Framework. Lexile Measures, which range from 0L to 1700L, provide a more accurate way of matching students to appropriate texts. A Lexile Measure is determined using such criteria as sentence length, word count, vocabulary, and syntax to indicate a text's complexity.

• Lexile is more closely aligned with the research from the Science of Reading. 
• Both of our school district partners use standardized literacy assessment tools to determine their students' reading abilities. Both of those assessments provide parents and teachers a Lexile range in which a student is reading.
• Keep in mind that when working to find the next books for your student, you should review books around the Lexile range offered on the Fluency Booklists as well as topics that are of interest to your student. 

During this transition time, when first choosing your next fluency book for your student, make sure you:

• Review Just Right Fluency Book Selection to determine if the book you just finished with your student was a “just right book”.
• Find the title you just finished in the library lists to determine its Lexile.
• Select a few new titles in and around that Lexile to offer as options to your student.
• Pay close attention to ensure this book complexity is "just right" for your student (ex. if the student is making multiple errors on a page, is reading dis-fluently, is reading very slowly, and/or loses their place frequently, the complexity is too hard - choose a lower Lexile).

Note: We are hearing that some people are having trouble finding new RAZ titles in the Hub. We wanted to share some best practices:

• Double-check entering the correct book titles, some may be phrased slightly differently in the system. 
• Searching by reading level could also help locate the books more easily.
• Still having trouble locating a book? Email programsupport@literations.org and we can provide the exact naming conventions used in the system.