National Association for Media Literacy Education
Project Title
For project support to build the foundation for scalable, cross-curricular integration of media literacy
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Today’s students must navigate a complex information ecosystem saturated with polarization, misinformation, and AI-generated content, which demands critical thinking skills for effective civic participation. However, media literacy education is unevenly taught in K-12 schools, largely due to significant barriers for teachers, including a lack of clear standards-aligned guidance, limited professional development, and scattered hard to navigate resources, which prevents its effective integration across subject areas. Founded in 1997, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is the nation’s leading voice for advancing media literacy as an essential life skill, supported by a robust network of 9,000 individual educator members and 67+ Organizational Partners. This proposed grant will leverage that network to spearhead a multi-year initiative to deeply embed media literacy into K-12 education by producing a suite of scalable resources, like guides for teaching media literacy in English and social studies and offer training for educators across the country.