Featured Professional Learning Opportunities
Day 3: February 12, 2026
Power Up Evidence-Based Reading Intervention with LLI
K-8Strengthen students’ reading and writing competencies with Leveled Literacy Intervention (Levels A–W: Orange, Green, Blue, Red, Gold, Purple)
Linking Assessment to Teaching: Reading, Writing & Word Study
K-8In this 8-week online course, you’ll develop the skills to systematically observe and analyze students’ reading, writing, and word-solving behaviors.
Acquiring Coaching and Teacher Leadership Expertise
PreK-8Learn how to develop your facilitation skills and use of language to support the literacy instruction of colleagues.
Over 35 Years of Academic Excellence in Literacy Learning
The Center for Literacy Teaching & Instructional Leadership at Lesley University has been engaged in thirty-five years of innovative, research-based, system-wide educational improvement efforts. We are focused on a single mission—to ensure that every child has the opportunity to live a literate life.
We have been working with educators in school systems to improve children’s literacy.
35 Years
of experience improving
childhood literacy
50,000+
educators served from
across the nation and
around the world
Millions
of children’s lives
improved through literacy
Featured Blog Posts
Igniting a Year of Learning: Building Momentum as a Literacy Coach
For literacy coaches, this is a powerful moment – the chance to move from introductions and early connections into purposeful collaboration that will carry the year forward.
Spelling: Harnessing the Power of Word Knowledge
Becoming a strong speller requires much more than memorizing words. Good spelling is a result of good teaching.
Reading to Learn While Learning to Read
Is it reading to learn or learning to read? In reality, these two processes develop together, not one after the other. As children are learning how print works, they are also learning from what they read. They are making sense of language.