Current Work
Adolescent Literacy: Striving Readers
CTL is a primary partner in a United States Department of Education $17+ million, five-year Striving Readers grant to improve adolescent literacy, one of only eight such grants in the nation and the only one involving a consortium of rural schools. Learn more >
Content Literacy in Higher Education
CTL is working with the Bay de Noc Community College in Michigan and Martin Community College in North Carolina to develop and implement instructional strategies to boost the literacy skills of community college students. Learn more >
Content Literacy in High School
CTL is working with Our Lady of Providence High School in Clarksville, Indiana (Archdiocese of Indianapolis) on a two-year full faculty content literacy project with an emphasis on writing the first year and reading the second. (For more information, contact Deborah Walker)
GEAR UP Kentucky: College Readiness
CTL is working with GEAR UP Kentucky to develop the capacity of more than 100 participating schools in creating a college-going culture and improving the rigor of classroom instruction. Learn more >
GEAR UP Kentucky: Math Mentoring and Coaching Project
CTL has launched a mathematics mentoring and coaching effort with two Kentucky school districts to build capacity for increased mathematics instruction at the middle and high school levels, and to codify for GEAR UP Kentucky an external coaching model that could be replicated in other schools. Learn more >
Hybrid Algebra I Research Project, Regional Education Laboratory (REL)-Appalachia
CTL is a partner with the Regional Education Laboratory (REL)-Appalachia, funded by the United States Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES), serving a four-state region and focusing on research to improve instruction, including in mathematics. Learn more >
Kentucky Content Literacy Initiative
Through a two-year grant from the Kentucky Department of Education, CTL is a partner with the Western Kentucky Educational Cooperative, Murray State University and Paducah Independent Schools in a two-year, Kentucky Content Literacy Initiative grant. Learn more >
Kentucky Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP)
Through a two-year grant from the Kentucky Department of Education and in partnership with Morehead State University and Knott County Schools in Kentucky, CTL is leading professional development to improve teacher content knowledge and instructional practice in mathematics and science in a high-need rural Kentucky school district. (For more information, contact Deborah Walker.)
Status of Arts Education in West Virginia Public Schools
CTL is conducting a survey of the status of arts education in the West Virginia Public Schools, on behalf of the Appalachian Education Initiative (AEI). CTL will analyze and report findings to AEI to inform planning and implementation of arts education in public schools throughout the state. Learn more >