Our Next MCAN Meeting is Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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Dear MCAN Friends - We wish you well!
Our next MCAN meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30, from 9:30 am - 11:00 am.
Tune in at 9:15 am for some informal virtual networking before we get started.
We look forward to ZOOMING with each of you!
In this next MCAN meeting, we will enjoy networking and professional development to include:
- Networking and sharing stories of resilience
- MCAN News and Recap - as we continue to strive for a community where children are ready for kindergarten and 90% are reading on grade level by the end of third grade
- Learn how we can be strong MCAN ambassadors by understanding how we "build a reading brain"
*We invite you to please tune in at 9:15 am for informal Zoom networking prior to the 9:30 am meeting start time.
*Please share this invitation with your colleagues/friends who are interested in our professional development and networking opportunities, working together to transform lives through literacy!
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Moonshot Resources and Opportunities
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Excerpt from the article:
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 3, 2020) – The ability to read by third grade is viewed as critical to college readiness. Through third grade, students learn to read, the saying goes, and after third grade they read to learn.
So in a Zoom webinar hosted by Higher Ed Works, we asked our panelists why third-grade reading is important. [View the entire webinar here.]
"“It’s not only about college readiness,” he said. “It’s about life.”"
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This article featured on the HigherEdWorks.org website explains why it is important to invest in early literacy, the impact of pre-K, the impact on college readiness, and the persistent gaps we are working to close.
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The Florida Gap Map - the first of its kind in the nation - helps visualize the intersection of third-grade reading scores for every public school in Florida with childhood poverty rates.
Equity gaps exist in Florida and Florida’s global competitiveness depends on a quality education system.
Visit www.TheFloridaGapMap.org and share this interactive tool with businesses, educators, media, and policymakers today to better understand the academic performance gaps in your community so we can work to bridge them.
“We developed this interactive tool as the one source in Florida to show the correlations between school reading scores and poverty. The Florida Gap Map will help guide business leaders, non-profits, governments and philanthropists who are interested in helping improve
Florida’s public schools.”
--Dr. Jerry Parrish, Chief Economist, Florida Chamber Foundation
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Please join us for the annual "Moonshot BIG READ" in conjunction with JumpStart "Read for the Record" on October 29, 2020!
Contact Marie O'Brien to receive a copy of the book, and share your plans to read this together (virtually or with social distancing in place) for our annual "Moonshot Big Read."
This year's lovely featured story is "Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away" by Meg Medina with illustrations by Sonia Sanchez.
Please promote and share your participation as a member of the Moonshot Community Action Network (MCAN) with #MoonshotBigRead.
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Join us for Lights On Afterschool! - October 22, 2020
Join more than 8,000 communities and 1 million Americans in celebrating afterschool programs for this year's Lights On Afterschool!
This nationwide event, organized by the Afterschool Alliance, calls attention to the importance of afterschool programs and the resources required to keep the lights on and the doors open.
MCAN is proud to be a Lights On Afterschool partner.
We encourage you to hold a Lights On Afterschool celebration to showcase the great things happening in your program, and help call attention to this important issue.
To learn more about Lights On Afterschool, register an event, access event planning tools, or to find out what’s going on in your area, visit afterschoolalliance.org.
Lights On Afterschool is a project of the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all children have access to afterschool programs.
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