• Grab coffee, tea, juice, water and breakfast. Gluten free options are available.
• Meet someone new or catch up with other community members you already know

• Welcome and introduction to Together for Literacy
• Explore Brown County’s early literacy data including updated Forward Exam data
• Hear from a panel about what the data looks like in real life, across different parts of our community
• Build a shared understanding of where we are and why literacy takes all of us

• Grab your passport and explore updates from forWORDS Action Teams
• Beverages and snacks with gluten free options available
• Connect with people and organizations working across Brown County.

Hear about Wisconsin’s statewide literacy work and new literacy roadmap from Kaylee Jackson who is the
Director of the Office of Literacy for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

• Enjoy soup, salad and breadsticks from Olive Garden. Help yourself to a variety of beverages or desserts
  • Gluten free and vegan options are available
• Connect with people and organizations working across Brown County.
• Pull your passport out again and continue to explore updates from forWORDS Action Teams across
  various tables.

Select one of three interactive sessions where you’ll dig deeper into a literacy topic, learn from others and begin identifying ways we can move the work forward together.
Participants will choose their specific workshop during registration.

• Breakout A: Built Literacy Environments: Meeting Kids & Families Where They Are – Learn how Action Team members brought literacy opportunities to parks, laundromats, businesses and other public spaces across Brown County. Hear what worked and share input on current design challenges.
• Breakout B: Kindergarten Readiness: Birth-4 and Early Literacy – Explore six months of progress from the Early Literacy Asset Mapping, Developmental Screener and Kindergarten Readiness Action Teams. Hear what they have learned and share input on current design challenges.
• Breakout C: Digging into Data: Our Early Literacy Dashboard – Join Atithi Ghimire, Achieve Brown County’s Data Manager, to explore insights from the Early Literacy Dashboard, get technical support for using the data to advance your work, or discuss the process for adding your data to the dashboard. We will also be beta testing an AI Data Chatbot that has been trained in the Forwards Exam and Chronic Absenteeism data from the dashboard.

• Beverages and snacks with gluten free options available
• Connect with people and organizations working across Brown County.
• Last chance: get your Passport out a final time to explore updates from forWORDS Action Teams
  across various tables.
  • Turn in your completed Passport for a giveaway item.