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The 2023 Northwest Early Learning and Pyramid Model Summit drew hundreds of educators from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska earlier this month for in-depth learning and networking to promote young children's social emotional development and equity in early learning.

As the U.S. is facing another literacy crisis, particularly with the Science of Reading, Lakeya Afolalu has a solution. It’s to challenge schools and society to redefine literacy. “If we solely define literacy as reading and writing, then we omit the diverse ways that people communicate through multiple modalities,” she says. “We need to think more broadly about literacy, which will help schools and spaces create anti-racist, equitable and socioemotional approaches to literacy education.

Alumna Dr. Erin Riesland has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to complete a project at SayPro in South Africa that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within education. Dr. Riesland is one of more than 400 U.S. citizens who will share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program this year.

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in all aspects of society, there has been an increasing talent gap in AI machine learning, especially within data science in education.