Network Meetings provide professional development and networking opportunities for organizations and individuals providing literacy services.

OKCMLC Network Meeting

Download PDF presentation from the Network Meeting – Oklahoma City Public Schools Community-Wide Reading
on myON

Download PDF presentation from the Network Meeting – The Great Commitment: Working Together as One for All Kids

myonNetwork Meeting: myON
March 10, 2016
11:30-1:00 pm
United Way of Central Oklahoma
1444 NW 28th St.
Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma City Public Schools is rolling out myON, a community-wide literacy initiative! myON provides students anytime, anywhere access to a library of more than 10,000 enhanced digital books with multi-media supports, real time assessments, and reading tools.

Come learn what Oklahoma City Public Schools is doing to get more books in the classrooms and homes of their students and how the entire literacy community can be a part of this initiative! This event is for organizations, professionals, and volunteers providing literacy services to children and adults, community-based programs, ESL, after school programs, education ministries, reading tutor volunteer programs, and anyone committed to making OKC a fully literate community!

Lynn Barnes, Senior Director of Curriculum and Federal Programs for OKCPS, and Gina Stanley, the myON project manager for OKCPS, will both speak about this literacy initiative and how myON can increase literacy in OKC.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP no later than March 7 by emailing .


 

Community Volunteerism
March 5, 2015
First Christian Church at NW 36th and Walker Ave
11:30 -1:00 lunch provided

If you are a volunteer, a coordinator of volunteers, or pondering the possibility of volunteering, this is the network meeting for you. The topic of volunteerism includes how agencies recruit, retain and coordinate those passionate individuals giving time and energy to a community need. How do volunteers find their niche and make decisions about the cause they will assist.

Agenda

•    Beth Patterson, Executive Director of Retired Senior Volunteers
•    Charla Rhodes, United Way Volunteer Center Director
•    Roundtable Discussion includes long time volunteers from a variety of local agencies

Please RSVP by March 4 for a lunch count.
•    405-830-2790 (please leave a message)
•    405-250-8641 (please leave a message)
•    RSVP by email

 

OKCMLC Network Meeting

MAKING WORDS COUNT II

October 21, 2014

Documents from the Oct. 21, 2014 Network Meeting

PowerPoint Slides: “A Basic Course in Writing on Low Health Literacy”

RESOURCE MANUAL2 Literacy Health-1-3

Advocacy Health Literacy Letter

Report on Network mtg 10212014

Mary Erin NW Mtg October 2014    October NW Mtg 2104     photo 1     photo 4

Future topics:

  • Community Schools
  • TEFL and TESOL Panels
  • Tutor Training and Scholarship Support
  • GED Program Update

Previous topics:

  • Vision and Literacy
  • Financial Literacy
  • Social Media
  • Community Collaborations
  • Advocacy
  • English as a Second Language (ESL)
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Community Literacy
  • Volunteer Engagement