
Program Updates
• Create traditions around literacy and learning
• Support families
• Influence organizations
• Influence Beloit
• Build traditions for literacy and learning
Possible suggestions for engagement
- Empower families for literacy & language
- “Talking is teaching” messaging
- “Reading to your kids” messaging
- Books in the hands of kids and families
- Environmental signs in stores and around the community to promote talking
- Community infrastructure – Playground talking structures, billboards, and bus stops
- Volunteer for literacy programs
- Sponsor one of Beloit’s Little Little Free Libraries
- Employee wellness programs for literacy and language development
For More Information:
Rachelle Elliott
Early Literacy Dir., SDB
relliott@sdb.k12.wi.us
(608) 361-2672
Tara Tinder
Executive Director of SCF
tara@statelinecf.com
(608) 362-4228
Bill Flanagan
Executive Advisor to the President Emeritus
Beloit College
flanagan@beloit.edu