NLP Annual Report FY24 - Report - Page 9
PARTNERSHIPS
Education partnerships
NLP partners with school districts, local
education associations and state departments
of education for the successful implementation
of our free resources, including the Checkology
virtual classroom.
In the past year, NLP established partnerships
with 10 state-level education agencies to
provide news literacy training webinars, and to
introduce educators, families and communities
to news literacy and NLP’s free resources.
Our partnerships include:
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Arizona Department of Education
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Boards of Cooperative Educational
Services of New York State
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California Department of Education
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Secured an of昀椀cial partnership as the primary
provider of news literacy education for older
adults with AARP, one of the nation’s largest
learning resources for people over age 50.
NLP conducted four events, hosted by AARP,
over a 昀椀ve-month period between December
2023 and May 2024. These events reached
65,681 AARP members.
Events included:
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AARP Tele-town Hall: Dementia,
health & vaccines
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How to be a critical news consumer
during an election
Colorado Department of Education
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Connecticut Association
of School Librarians
AARP Tele-town Hall: Scams &
misinformation
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Senior Planet OATS: Fact-checking
in the AI age
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Kansas Library Systems
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Nevada Department of Education
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Utah Education Network and their
State Board of Education
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Washington Department
of Education
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Other partnerships
Wisconsin Department
of Public Instruction
NLP also worked with the Delaware Department
of Education to align our resources with their
media literacy standards so NLP can be a
featured resource on their website.
Partnered with TIME for Kids magazine to
create “News Matters,” a three-week unit
plan for grades 3-6. Using TikTok content
designed by NLP staff, the lessons build
foundational news literacy skills and give
students the opportunity to apply these
skills with assessments throughout.
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