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The Literacy Breakthrough: Turn Parents into Your Most Powerful Reading Partners
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Presented by Rebecca Honig, Chief Content and Curriculum Officer, ParentPowered, and Former Teacher; and Françoise Lartigue, Director of Content and Curriculum, ParentPowered, and Former Teacher
Sponsored by ParentPowered
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The latest research reveals a stark reality. Only one-third of fourth graders are reading at or above proficiency. While educators work tirelessly to address this crisis, the most underutilized resource in literacy development is often right at home: parents and caregivers.
This edLeader Panel equips PreK through elementary educators and administrators with evidence-based, strengths-based strategies to transform parents into confident, effective reading partners. When families understand HOW reading happens and receive practical tools aligned with classroom instruction, the impact on student literacy can be transformative. Viewers learn to:
- Connect family engagement to each pillar of the Science of Reading
- Orient parents around foundational skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Identify strengths-based entry points that honor what families already bring to literacy learning
- Support parents in building children’s attention, focus, and reading readiness
- Scaffold home reading routines by connecting families with books, literacy resources, and doable activities that can become home reading habits
- Partner with families around learning goals in ways that leverage a family’s unique insights and funds of knowledge
Walk away with actionable frameworks, dozens of activity ideas, and ready-made resources to share with families! Together, we can create a powerful home-school partnership that accelerates reading success for every child. This recorded edLeader Panel is of interest to PreK-5 teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders.
About the Presenters
Rebecca Honig is the Chief Content and Curriculum Officer at ParentPowered, where she leads the creation of family engagement supports that have reached families across the country. Rebecca has been working in the field of education with a focus on literacy for the past 20 years. As a writer and producer, she’s created dozens of segments for the Emmy Award-winning shows Sesame Street and The Electric Company. She’s authored over 20 early readers and contributed to literacy curricula for Scholastic, HITN, PBS, WGBH, and many others. As a classroom educator, Rebecca focused on building literacy skills through storytelling and the arts and has had the opportunity to lead literacy workshops across the country. Rebecca has a master’s degree in education from Bank Street and is trained in the Orton-based reading program PAF.
Françoise Lartigue has been working in the fields of education and family engagement for over two decades. She is the Director of Content and Curriculum at ParentPowered, where, in addition to designing and developing ParentPowered’s curricula and programs, Françoise also plays a key role in working directly with partners to identify, create, and vet resources to share with the families they serve. She began her career teaching kindergarten in the South Bronx through Teach For America and has extensive experience in developing and implementing STEAM-based curricula in the elementary years. She holds a master’s degree in early childhood education from Bank Street College.
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Research shows that families play a powerful role in fostering children’s development. ParentPowered is on a mission to help K–12 districts provide accessible, evidence-based family engagement curricula, without adding more to teachers’ plates. Our program—for PreK through grade 12—supports, inspires, and activates parents and caregivers with simple, strengths-based insights they can turn into everyday teachable moments. Learn more and request a demo at parentpowered.com.
