Center for Literacy Education to host inaugural conference

The Center for Literacy Education is hosting its first annual Visiting Scholars Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference on Monday, March 24, from 4-8 p.m. in Farrell Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

The conference’s theme is “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.” Speakers will discuss gun violence prevention strategies, with a specific focus on our community’s youngest learners and connections to areas such as health literacy, information literacy, early literacy, and family literacy.

This event features William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James, a seven-time Emmy Award-winning writer for his work on Sesame Street and a current faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School. To learn more about Electric’s work visit: “How the Arts Can Help Children Think about Gun Violence” (NPR).

Register and learn more about the conference, including the agenda and invited panelist, by visiting https://go.wfu.edu/clecon25/.