Literacy Design Collaborative
Project Title
To support the improvement and expansion of an evidence-based national model of instructional systems’ success
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Across the field, we continue to see core instructional processes and components, such as curriculum, assessment, and educator professional learning, remain siloed. The resulting, fragmented instructional approaches cannot meet the needs of all students. Literacy Design Collaborative’s (LDC) mission is to develop skilled educators equipped to support all learners, through using a continuous improvement systems change approach that guarantees rigorous, student-centered learning experiences for all students. Their approach was designed, classroom tested, and independently confirmed through rigorous research to reduce the racial and socio-economic performance gaps of students in 100+ schools. Funding from the Corporation will support the scalability of LDC’s approach by growing their capacity related to technology, resources, processes, and real-time data collection from both students and teachers.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
A decade ago, as states adopted more rigorous college and career ready standards, significant implementation challenges surfaced. For students to master these new expectations, teachers needed to understand these expectations deeply and as realized in practice by students in classrooms. The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) was launched in 2013 to drive effective implementation of these standards through a tech-enabled approach and online architecture for building the capacity of teachers and administrator-supported school instructional systems to move all students towards mastery. Teachers learn together in common planning time; implement student writing performance tasks for science, social studies, and English language arts; and learn from formative data. LDC’s strong research basis led in 2014 to the award of a USDOE Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to train thousands of teachers in NYC and LAUSD. Independently verified data from LDC’s federal grant found statistically-significant impact in improving student outcomes, amounting to 7.1-9.4 months of additional learning over matched pair students, even after only one year of LDC implementation. This grant is for general support.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Moving higher standards into effective implementation in the classroom centers on three core instructional processes that result in improvements in schools’ success with students: curriculum, assessment, and educator professional learning. The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) has been driving effective implementation for nearly a decade by designing with educators and continuously improving the tools, resources, and instructional processes necessary for teachers to guarantee rigorous, student-centered learning experiences for all students. The LDC partner network includes classroom teachers, school administrators, disciplinary literacy coaches and experts, teacher training organizations, district and state education staff. LDC’s strong research basis led in 2014 to the award of a United States Department of Education (USDOE) Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to train thousands of teachers in New York City and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The first set of data from this grant (released April 2019) confirmed LDC’s statistically-significant impact in improving student outcomes, amounting to five months of additional learning over matched students, even after only one year of LDC implementation. This grant supports LDC’s continuing efforts to codify scalable and measurable mechanisms for implementation of their instructional improvement approach.