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Alicia Levi

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Alicia Levi is the President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental. She has an impressive background in educational media with stints at Discovery Communications and PBS Education prior to assuming her current role at RIF in 2016.Alicia joins host Mike Palmer to talk about the challenge of getting every child to read. We hear the latest about the Rally to Read 100 Books by March 2nd while engaging in a wide-ranging conversation on literacy and literacy education. We talk about the critical importance of reading as a foundation to educational success. While it may not be as sexy as STEM or coding, reading is in fact fundamental to building those other skills. And Allison believes it should also be fun. We discuss the challenges of screen time and hear Alicia’s broad and platform-agnostic stance on the on engaging children in reading. And of course, there’s plenty of LeVar Burton talk along the way. We hope you enjoy!Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this.

Alicia Levi is the President and CEO of <a href="RIF.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reading Is Fundamental</a>. She has an impressive background in educational media with stints at Discovery Communications and PBS Education prior to assuming her current role at RIF in 2016.Alicia joins host Mike Palmer to talk about the challenge of getting every child to read. We hear the latest about the <a href="rallytoread.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rally to Read 100 Books</a> by March 2nd while engaging in a wide-ranging conversation on literacy and literacy education. We talk about the critical importance of reading as a foundation to educational success. While it may not be as sexy as STEM or coding, reading is in fact fundamental to building those other skills. And Allison believes it should also be fun. We discuss the challenges of screen time and hear Alicia’s broad and platform-agnostic stance on the on engaging children in reading. And of course, there’s plenty of LeVar Burton talk along the way. We hope you enjoy!Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at <a href="http://TrendinginEd.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TrendinginEd.com</a> for more great shows like this.

Rallying for Children's Literacy with Alicia Levi

Reading Rainbow ran on PBS for 23 years and as the host of the show our guest LeVar Burton developed an immense appreciation for the importance of access to literature for young children. While his initial entrepreneurial skills were developed as a working actor, leading him to land roles in shows like Star Trek and Roots, after Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006 he decided to buy its rights and made it his mission to leave an impact on future generations through reading.We sat down with LeVar and Alicia Levi, the CEO of Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a non-profit founded in 1966 that has 400,000 volunteers nationwide working to bring books and literacy resources to millions of people. We start by discussing how they think about risk taking and failure, and the best frame of mind to move past obstacles that paralyze you. LeVar tells us how Skybrary, the company he started in 2012, ultimately took off when the Kickstarter they launched raised their goal of $1 million in 11 hours instead of the planned 35 days.We also learn how their massive new partnership came about, starting from a chance PSA that LeVar did for the non-profit in Los Angeles, and why investing into building your relationships can have life changing consequences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reading Rainbow ran on PBS for 23 years and as the host of the show our guest LeVar Burton developed an immense appreciation for the importance of access to literature for young children. While his initial entrepreneurial skills were developed as a working actor, leading him to land roles in shows like Star Trek and Roots, after Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006 he decided to buy its rights and made it his mission to leave an impact on future generations through reading.We sat down with LeVar and Alicia Levi, the CEO of Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a non-profit founded in 1966 that has 400,000 volunteers nationwide working to bring books and literacy resources to millions of people. We start by discussing how they think about risk taking and failure, and the best frame of mind to move past obstacles that paralyze you. LeVar tells us how Skybrary, the company he started in 2012, ultimately took off when the Kickstarter they launched raised their goal of $1 million in 11 hours instead of the planned 35 days.We also learn how their massive new partnership came about, starting from a chance PSA that LeVar did for the non-profit in Los Angeles, and why investing into building your relationships can have life changing consequences. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

LeVar Burton and Alicia Levi - From Reading Rainbow to Partnering With RIF