Northwest Territories Literacy Council

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Who we are / What we do

Who are we?

We are a territorial organization that promotes and supports literacy in all the official languages of the NWT.

What do we do?

  • We work with communities to help develop local literacy projects.
  • We provide resources to literacy practitioners and other community workers.
  • We develop teaching, learning and promotional materials for use by literacy practitioners, teachers, and other community workers.
  • We monitor and respond to territorial and federal literacy policies.
  • We research literacy issues affecting the NWT.
  • We encourage reading and writing at all ages.

How do we do that?

Training
  • We develop and deliver literacy workshops to practitioners and community workers.
  • We develop and deliver facilitator training for family literacy programs.
  • We develop and deliver plain language workshops.
  • We organize professional development training for literacy practitioners.
Public Awareness
  • We support communities to organize events during NWT Literacy Week and Family Literacy Day and host the PGI (Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy)
  • We provide information on literacy issues, programs, and events across the NWT.
  • We make presentations on literacy to government, business, labour and the public.
  • We hold conferences on literacy issues.
Resources
  • We have a resource library of program support materials and literacy research.
  • We write and publish four issues of Literacy Matters, our newsletter.
  • We develop a wide-range of family literacy resources for communities to use.
  • We have a web site with resources and information about literacy in the NWT.