Everyone is empowered through literacy!

The Center for Literacy & Learning is the Louisiana Children’s Research Center for Development and Learning, or CDL.

For over 30 years, Louisiana-based national nonprofit, The Center for Literacy & Learning, has worked with educators across the country toward closing the achievement gap. We provide wrap-around literacy services that empower educators in recognizing, assessing, and responding to the needs of all learners to improve life outcomes for all.

We advance public education reform by providing educators who teach our most at-risk children with professional learning that is specific and targeted to the needs of those students and their fellow teachers. With an in-the-trenches approach, we tackle real-time issues such as ways to remediate struggling readers, differentiate instruction for diverse learners, and build and sustain collective capacity.