Training & Resources for Educators
Non-Profit Organizations
Strategic Communications & Events
Family Storytelling
Public Policy for Literacy Intiatives
United Nations
Family Literacy Project
Education
Our work with educators on teaching family literacy is the historical and methodological foundation of our programming. By helping students understand the complex roles that family literacy plays in both history and contemporary affairs, educators can train students to be active participants in creating literacy programs in humanitarian contexts,
Family Literacy Project
Storytelling
Telling stories is one of the most powerful means that leaders have to influence, teach, and inspire. What makes storytelling so effective for learning? For starters, storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people. When it comes to our countries, our communities, and our families, we understand intuitively that the stories we hold in common are an important part of the ties that bind.
Humanitarian Action
Humanitarian organizations frequently engage with family-focused actors and institutions who are experts in literacy. Despite this, the field as a whole pays insufficient attention to how the family functions in the diverse contexts where action is needed to respond to humanitarian crises. When the focus is on supporting the implementation of the local humanitarian leadership agenda, what kind of knowledge is most useful? We seek to partner with humanitarian aid professionals to enhance the family literacy in order to facilitate their delivery of high quality, principled humanitarian assistance to those in need.
Our Impact
Failure to understand literacy has negative consequences across all sectors and endeavors, from local to international levels. Skyline Research Institute (SRI) seeks to prepare visionary leaders to confront these consequences through training in education, policy, law, strategic communication, events, messaging and masterful storytelling.
We measure our success by how well we are able to advance the public understanding of family literacy across multiple sectors, creating new opportunities and resources for students, educators, government officials, professionals and life-long learners.