Friday, October 10, 2025
9-10am
Literacy is the key to student achievement, a strong workforce, and Arizona’s future.
Arizona Literacy Plan 2030 is the product of over a yearlong process of gathering input from partners and stakeholders from across the state and is endorsed with their commitments to take meaningful steps in support of it.
Learn more about the plan and how it outlines the key drivers, proven strategies, and actions required to improve school readiness and third-grade reading outcomes.
Our Speaker: Lori Masseur,
Early Learning Director at Read On Arizona
Lori’s Bio: As director of early learning, Lori Masseur guides Read On Arizona’s collaborative work on several strategic priorities related to improving school readiness, early literacy, and systems-building efforts in our state, including data integration, expanding effective literacy practices, and building educator capacity for early learning professionals.
Lori has more than 20 years of experience in early childhood education, most recently as part of the Arizona Department of Education’s early childhood education team, supporting the work of teachers and administrators in providing high-quality educational opportunities for children from birth to age 8. She served in various capacities over her eight years at ADE, including deputy associate superintendent of early childhood education and director of the Arizona Head Start State Collaboration Office.
Her experience includes overseeing the revision of Arizona’s Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines as well as Arizona’s Early Learning Standards and early childhood funding manual. Lori also helped develop Arizona’s successful Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant application and served on the advisory committee for Child Care in 35 States: What We Know and Don’t Know from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Lori has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Arizona and a master’s in reading and curriculum instruction from Grand Canyon University.
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