The Center for Literacy Educators and Leaders is the first choice of teachers and school leaders who want to improve literacy learning. Our internationally recognized faculty and staff offer professional development, consultation and graduate programs to improve PK-12 students’ reading, writing, speaking, listening and interpreting of media.

Areas of Focus

Enhance your knowledge and skills

• Ensure that all your students have the literacies necessary for success in school, workplace and community.
• Enhance your ability as an administrator to lead instructional programs that provide strong support for student literacy.
• Help drive the economic security of Wisconsin’s communities by enhancing the success of your students.
• Sustain equitable communities by enhancing the literacy development of all PK-12 students regardless of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, prior experiences, languages spoken, disability, giftedness, or other criteria by which some students have historically been separated from those who are successful literate learners.