Building A Community-Wide Literacy Ecosystem Using Cross-Sector Collaboration & Human Centered Design
Sarah Beckman, Executive Director, Achieve Brown County
Eden Weller, Founder, Facilitator, Coach at WELLER Workshops, LLC
Achieve Brown County and WELLER Workshops will share how they have been building a community-wide literacy ecosystem through cross-sector collaboration and human-centered design over the past four years.
We will highlight several connected efforts, including:
• The forWORDS Literacy Initiative and its Collective Impact Approach
• The Launch of Built Literacy Environments across Brown County (bringing literacy into parks, laundromats, grocery stores, and other everyday spaces)
• Kindergarten Readiness work and cross-sector alignment
• How community voice and co-design have shaped these efforts
Attendees from this session will:
• Learn what this work looks like in Brown County
• Gain access to tools and resources to further explore both Collective Impact Approach and Human Centered Design
• Walk away with case examples of how small acts of change might be replicated in other communities across Wisconsin
