Literacy Texas Newsletter, March 16, 2026
A Few Minutes = A Year
Dear literacy friends,
We’re preparing to serve up some great professional development opportunities in the upcoming academic year. Your insight is the most important ingredient we need to make sure our recipe for success turns out just right. That’s why we hope you’ll take a few minutes to complete the 2026 Literacy Texas Annual Survey.
Each year, your feedback helps us decide which workshops, training opportunities, and professional development programs to offer. When you share the challenges you’re facing, the skills you want to strengthen, and the topics most relevant to your organization, we use that information to cook up training opportunities that are practical, timely, and useful for your work with adult learners.
Many of the changes and decisions we’ve made in the last few years have been directly determined by feedback we’ve received in our annual survey results. Planning symposia for weekdays instead of weekends and deciding priority topics for featured presenters at our annual conference are just two examples of decisions we made based on feedback received from the annual survey results. The insights you provide guide our planning, inform our priorities, and help us better serve the adult literacy community across the state.
Simply put, the survey helps us get the recipe right. Your responses ensure that Literacy Texas is developing programs that truly support educators, volunteers, and program leaders across the state. It also allows us to see trends so that we can pivot to meet the ever-changing needs of the field.
The survey only takes a few minutes to complete, but the results shape our work for the entire year. We hope you’ll take a moment to share your perspective as we create training that is thoughtful, relevant, and designed with your needs in mind.
QUICK POLL!
Thank you for being on Team Literacy,

Dr. Jenny McCormack Walker
Executive Director, Literacy Texas
P.S. We hope to see representation from every region in our annual survey responses. Don’t let people across the state speak for you! Completing the survey is a great way to ensure you’re advocating for the professional development needs of your region.
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Checked/updated: 3/16/2026