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KCLC "Striving to be Our Best" Conference A Success
U.S. Department of Education Senior Advisor, Kentucky Commissioner of Education, Kentucky First Lady Praises Educators for Nationally Recognized Collaboration to Boost Learning for All Students.
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Kentucky Content Literacy Consortium to Host Second Annual Adolescent Literacy Conference, “Striving to be Our Best”
U.S. Department of Education Advisor, Kentucky Commissioner of Education, Kentucky First Lady to Join Teachers, Administrators, Policy-Makers at Second Annual Adolescent Literacy Conference, “Striving to be Our Best.”
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Re-Conceptualizing English Language Arts Instruction
CTL is pleased to offer to middle and high school language arts teachers an opportunity to re-conceptualize the language arts program in their school and build a responsive system for reading and writing improvement.
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Free Webinar Explores a Fresh Approach to Reading for Primary and Intermediate Students
Are you looking for a new approach to reading? Could your reading program use a "shot in the arm" to engage students through multiple disciplines? If so, take some time and join the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for a professional development overview of CTL's Artful Reading model.
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Free Adolescent Literacy Services from CTL
CTL is pleased to sponsor free awareness sessions designed to assist schools and districts with making more informed and targeted applications under federal or state education stimulus funding categories.
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CTL Adolescent Literacy Model
CTL’s Adolescent Literacy Model is a school-wide comprehensive professional development model for middle and high schools. It provides training, coaching, strategies, tools, and processes to address the global and specific literacy improvement needs in schools today.
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CTL Launches New Blog: Co-Creating Solutions
CTL is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog: Co-Creating Solutions. The blog is designed to encourage and support professional conversation about teaching and learning and will provide an online platform for current and timely discussions on a variety of subjects and topics.
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ASCD Publishes CTL
ASCD recently published two articles by CTL staff members Deborah Walker and Catherine Rubin. Following are links to both articles located on the ASCD website.
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CTL and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
CTL has designed an innovative new approach to adolescent literacy now being tested by the US Department of Education. CTL’s Adolescent Literacy model has been successfully replicated in middle and high schools and on college campuses in...
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CTL Coordinates Literacy for Learning and Life Conference in Lexington
The Kentucky Content Literacy Consortium (KCLC), kicked off its fourth year of work under a federal Striving Readers grant with a literacy conference for almost 700 Kentucky teachers and school and district administrators...
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CTL Coordinates 2009 Institute for a College-Going Culture
On March 4, 2009, more than 300 educators from across Kentucky gathered in Louisville for the second annual GEAR UP Alliance Institute for a College-Going Culture: Transition and the GEAR UP Student.
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Kentucky’s work in adolescent literacy cited in new IES report
This report describes efforts by five states—Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—to improve adolescent literacy. Highlighting common challenges and lessons, the report examines how each state has engaged key stakeholders...
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Federal Striving Readers Adolescent Literacy Work Helps Kentucky Teachers Address Student Skills
CTL Training 800+ Kentucky middle and high school teachers as part of national effort to improve adolescent literacy.
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Transforming Practice: The Middle Grades
Transforming Practice: The Middle Grades provides an overview and video examples of exemplary middle school practice.
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Mr. Smith goes to China
Comparing Washington County to Beijing, China may be tough to comprehend, but when it comes to education, each country has something to learn from each other.
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Content literacy in higher education
CTL is completing a two-year project to implement its original Content Literacy Model in higher education on four community college campuses in Kentucky.
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CTL logo and website receive awards
CTL's new logo and website design were recognized by the Louisville Graphic Design Association at its 2008 annual show in Louisville on December 11.
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CTL will co-sponsor the 2008 China Top High School International Education Forum
CTL will co-sponsor the 2008 China Top High School International Education Forum in Beijing, China, December 14 and 15. Principals of China's 400 top performing high schools are expected to attend.
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CTL launches new brand; new logo recognized in graphic design competition
CTL has introduced a new brand concept as the organization positions itself as a local, national and international provider of customized professional development for educators in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 16 and beyond...
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CTL leads two-year mathematics and science partnership
CTL is the recipient of a two-year Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) grant aimed at improving the performance of teachers, administrators and students in the areas of mathematics and science.
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CTL leads planning for statewide institute: Creating a College-Going Culture in Kentucky Middle and High Schools
CTL will lead planning with GEAR UP Kentucky and the GEAR UP Alliance for an annual statewide institute for educators on creating a college-going culture for middle and high school students.
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CTL leads two-year Kentucky content literacy initiative
CTL is the recipient of a two-year Kentucky Content Literacy Initiative grant from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) aimed at improving adolescent literacy instruction across all content areas.
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CTL evaluates new Kentucky elementary school arts accountability model
For many schools, the idea of building a comprehensive arts education program is somewhat daunting. Many do not have the staff expertise needed to lead this development, and where to even begin is, in itself, a challenge...
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DVD Teaching the Writer: What Students Need now accessible online at no charge
Now anyone with an Internet connection can access a copy of Teaching the Writer: What Students Need, a wonderful instructional tool for teaching writing in grades K-12, free of charge! Until now, the DVD has only been available through CTL or the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) in disc form. That's been changed...
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New DVD shows "write" ways for every teacher to teach writing
Article about the DVD "Teaching the Writer: What Students Need" published in the April 2008 edition of Kentucky Teacher (Kentucky Department of Education)...
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KDE and CTL launch new state writing resource: Teaching the Writer: What Students Need
CTL is launching a new writing resource data DVD with Writing Cluster Leaders throughout the commonwealth. CTL, which manages the CATS Writing Portfolio, developed the DVD, called Teaching the Writer: What Students Need, on behalf of...
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CTL receives Lumina Foundation grant extension to expand its Kentucky community college literacy work
CTL has received an extension of a grant from the Lumina Foundation of Indianapolis to expand its work with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) to boost the literacy skills of community college students.
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CTL provides leadership training and teacher coaching for GEAR UP Kentucky
CTL will provide leadership training and teacher coaching for GEAR UP Kentucky, part of a national initiative administered in Kentucky by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) to prepare underserved students for college...
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Rejuvenating the Classroom: The Community College Content Literacy Program has some serious fans
Article in the May 21, 2007 edition of Inside Higher Ed., about CTL's work with content literacy in Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges
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CTL consults AEI on new and expanded arts education program offerings
Lourdes Karas, executive director of the Appalachian Education Initiative (AEI) in Morgantown West Virginia, approached CTL about assisting her organization with arts education program planning...
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CTL returns to Tanzania
CTL has returned to Tanzania for a second time to work with faculty and leaders at the School of St. Jude.
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Community College's New View
Article from the May 7, 2007 edition of The Courier-Journal about CTL's work with content literacy in Kentucky community and technical colleges.
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CTL included in national policy brief on arts education
Before any program can advance toward improvement, it is critical to know first where it stands. This was the motivation behind a 2005 survey conducted by CTL and funded by the Kentucky Arts Counctil to gauge the status of arts education programs in Kentucky’s 176 county and independent school districts.
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CTL invited to participate in international education conference in Beijing
CTL has been invited to present papers on its work in adolescent literacy professional development and a new approach to teacher preparation at the 2007 China-US International Conference on Educational Leadership and Literacy at the University of Beijing, July 22 through August 13, 2007.
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Schools Try New Approach to Boost Student Literacy
Article from the December 26, 2006 edition of The Courier-Journal about the Striving Readers project.
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Hard work pays off for CTL with new local and national contracts
Hard work at the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning over the past several years has resulted in significant new local and national contracts. The categories of new work include...
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CTL a partner in $17+ million federal Striving Readers grant
CTL is a major partner in an initial $17+ million, five-year Striving Readers grant through the United States Department of Education. One of only eight such grants awarded nationwide, and the only one to focus on a consortium of rural schools, the funds will enable...
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Kentucky Department of Education to pilot CTL's new closing the achievement gap model
CTL has entered into a partnership agreement with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to make “Closing the Gap,” a professional development resource, available to KDE staff to use in seven low performing schools over a one-year period.
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CTL to conduct first ever statewide survey on the status of arts education in Kentucky public schools
Before any program can advance toward improvement, it is critical to know first where it stands. This is the motivation behind a survey to be designed and conducted by CTL, and funded by the Kentucky Arts Council (KAC), to determine the status of arts education programs in Kentucky’s 176 county and independent school districts.
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Phi Delta Kappa International to publish CTL's Teaching for Results: Strategies for Improving Student Results
In late February 2005, Phi Delta Kappa International will release the new book written by CTL senior vice president Dr. Deborah Walker, Teaching for Results: Improving Student Performance, which offers teachers useful strategies to meet the achievement goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate.
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CTL receives contract to develop training modules for IBM's Reinventing Education Change Toolkit website
CTL has been awarded a contract by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in Washington, D.C. to develop a series of training modules for educators on use of the IBM Change Toolkit web site, part of IBM’s Reinventing Education initiative designed to...
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i3 Adolescent Literacy Validation Study Proposal
CTL’s Adolescent Literacy Model is a comprehensive literacy program. Through professional development, on-site and distance coaching, and process, strategy and tool implementation, the model supports middle and high schools in addressing literacy program and instructional needs at all levels of implementation.
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