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National Literacy Action Week

How Can We Become an NLAW Participating Campus?

To become an NLAW Participating Campus, you will need to plan a program on your campus that will help raise awareness or make change in your community. This could take many forms, and we outline just some of them below.

To raise awareness, your campus program might:

  • Help people understand the need for literacy services locally or nationally.
  • Inform your community about the importance of having adequate literacy skills, and what it means for those who do not.
  • Raise awareness about your program’s activities and the essential work you do.
  • Make connections between literacy and other social justice issues by demonstrating the very real relationships operating in society (e.g.,literacy and racism, poverty, sexism, immigration, health needs).

To make change, your campus program might:

  • Address a social justice issue in your local community or on campus.
  • Advocate for changes in a local school.
  • Lobby local, state or national elected officials to commit more resources for literacy initiatives.
  • Pressure decision-makers in education (or other human service areas) to embrace policies and practices that benefit learners most and lead to greater justice and equality.

For more information about how to become an NLAW participating campus, check out the resources below:

Organizing Your Campus for an NLAW Program

Making It Work: Planning, Implementing, and Facilitating NLAW on Your Campus

Finally, if you would like some assistance with planning activist events, please call the SCALE office at (919) 962-1542 or scale@unc.edu. SCALE is committed to building a movement for an empowered and socially just society, and the SCALE staff wants to help you become a part of that movement. Let us know what you’re doing, because we plan to spread the word about our collective accomplishments as part of a larger movement for literacy education and social justice. Most of all, use SCALE— we would be delighted to talk with you about your ideas and help in any way we can.

What is NLAW

How Can We Apply for an NLAW Mini-Grant?