Annual Governor’s Summit on Early Language and Literacy

Each year, the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center proudly sponsors the Governor’s Summit, a two-day early language and literacy initiative created to bring together content experts, educators, and other professionals from across the state. We honor Governor and Mrs. Deal’s commitment to advancing early education in Georgia through this forum for practitioners to share evidence-based research, best practices, collaborations, and outcomes. As part of each Summit, we also encourage ongoing conversations among participants that lead to better early childhood language and literacy outcomes in each and every community of Georgia. We hope you will attend our next Summit and carry on our tradition of working together to transform ideas to practice.

Past Summits

Supporting Emergent Literacy Development with Evidence-based Early Language and Literacy Practices for Young Children

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2023 Governor’s Summit

Amplifying Evidence-based Early Language and Literacy Practices to Accelerate Children’s Success

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2022 Governor’s Summit

2021 Governor’s Summit

Literacy Changes Lives: Advocate for Literacy Equity for Every Child in your Community and State

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Turn the Promise of Literacy into Practice and Policy

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2019 Governor’s Summit

Second Annual Governor’s Summit on Early Language and Literacy

2018 Governor’s Summit

2017 Governor’s Summit

Inaugural Governor’s Summit on Early Language and Literacy