The Wisconsin State Reading Association provides leadership, advocacy, and professional learning for the implementation of effective literacy practices, recognizing the complex nature of literacy and engaging students to apply their literacies in meaningful ways in a changing world.
Beliefs
Expertise Matters!
Research Grounds Us!
Literacy is a complex process requiring a comprehensive approach and a mindset shift.
Goals
Professional Development: Promote professional growth opportunities for educators, administrators, families, and community members.
Communication: Provide leadership in addressing issues and trends in reading and communication arts to inform educators, administrators, families, and community members.
Partnership: Create partnerships that foster literacy in the home, school, community, and workplace.
Membership: Develop and strengthen an active and diverse membership.
Advocacy: Develop tools, strategies and interest to motivate WSRA members to engage in advocacy efforts to improve research, policy and practices for literacy programs that best serve students, families and educators.
Research: Promote and disseminate research findings that will strengthen and support the best practices for instruction and assessment in reading and the communication arts.
Reading Councils are getting their programs set for the year! Check out the WSRA Calendar.
