The National Literacy Conference or the NLC is one of the major programs of the Literacy Coordinating Council which aims to provide a venue for sharing and documentation of practices, issues, and challenges in implementing literacy programs and projects for community development.
In 2020, the Council cancelled the conduct of the National Literacy Conference and Awards due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the Department of Education, through the LCC has decided to resume the holding of the Conference virtually in conjunction with the celebration of the National Literacy Week as stipulated in Presidential Proclamation No. 239, s. 1993, “Declaring the Period from September 2-8 of every year as Literacy Week and in DepEd Memorandum No. 72, s. 2019 on the “Annual Celebration of the National Literacy Week.”
The theme for this year’s NLC is “Literacy Learning Innovations in the New Normal Towards Sustainable Development.” The 2021 NLC will be conducted on September 6-7, 2021 via Microsoft Teams and will be livestreamed via DepEd and LCC Facebook pages. The conference aims to a) present the current literacy situation in the country; b) share practices on addressing challenges and opportunities in literacy education; c) showcase researches on literacy education during the pandemic; and d) discuss policy recommendations on the achievement of SDG 4.
The target participants for the said event are the officials, teaching, and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education, local government officials and staff of LGUs actively implementing literacy programs, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including NGOs actively involved in literacy implementation, heads and members of partner academic institutions, other public and private partners, and researchers from public and private Higher Education Institutions.
All interested participants must register through this link: https://bit.ly/3k7ZEYN on or before August 31, 2021. For those who will receive the link to join the MS Teams meeting, it is mandatory to secure a Microsoft Teams account by signing up for free through www.office.com and installing its application prior to the conduct of the event. It is important to use the same registered email address in the registration form in signing up for the MS Teams to ensure that the participants’ credentials will be recognized by the system. In order to receive a Certificate of Participation, participants are required to accomplish the evaluation form to be posted by the LCC Secretariat after the conference within the given timeline. Please take note that distribution of certificates is targeted to be accomplished within two to three weeks from the date of the NLC closing program.
For more information, please visit the LCC website by clicking this link: www.lcc.deped.gov.ph/nlc-2021/ or you may visit the DepEd website to download a copy of DepEd Memorandum no. 054, s. 2021.
Jonnabel D. Escartin