Grantees

AIM Institute for Learning and Research

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• The AIM Institute partners with teachers, education leaders, state education departments, and universities to bring the science of reading into practice. This grant supports AIM’s Early Reading Success Schools initiative. The Early Reading Success Schools initiative provides a diverse cohort of elementary schools across the country with tailored professional learning, leadership and teacher coaching, and comprehensive resources to implement evidence-aligned literacy instruction in Grades K-3. This grant supports AIM in developing a professional learning course specific to Grades 2-3, developing a Multi-Tiered System of Support Skill Builder for leaders, and continuing to support teachers, coaches, and school leaders in the program. 

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CORE Learning

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• CORE Learning is a provider of structured literacy professional learning for educators. This grant supports its design, facilitation, and provision of professional learning sessions, virtual and in-person coaching sessions, and project management to the Maryland State Department of Education in support of MSDE’s Academic Excellence Program Pilot. The Pilot will deploy state instructional coaches in elementary schools within Maryland’s Prince George’s County to provide job-embedded support aligned with the science of reading, establish sustainable coaching and professional learning structures, and strengthen educator and teacher-leader efficacy, with the goal of ultimately increasing K-3 literacy proficiency rates.    

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The Education Trust

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• The Education Trust is committed to ensuring that every student has the right to access a high-quality education that will allow them to live the life of their choosing, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, or identity. 

  This two-year (2025–2026) grant supports the New York Campaign for Early Literacy. This initiative promotes science-driven professional development for educators, enhanced transparency in district reading curricula, increased state funding for curricula and high-impact tutoring based on the science of reading, and a public awareness campaign focused on early literacy. 

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The Reading League

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• The Reading League advances awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-aligned reading instruction. This two-year grant (2025–2026) provides general operating funds to continue the organization’s professional learning opportunities and strategic support to state education leaders, superintendents, principals, teachers, and researchers.  

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AIM Institute for Learning & Research

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• The AIM Institute for Learning and Research helps teachers better serve children who are struggling to learn to read. This two-year (2024–2025) grant supports AIM’s efforts to develop an implementation strategy for its products and services that translates the sciences of literacy, implementation, and organizational change management into a scalable and sustainable process to impact student outcomes. Our funds will help AIM develop its first recurring revenue model that includes personalized coaching for teachers, in-person and digital offerings, and advisory and consulting services. 

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DC Public Education Fund

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• Our grant provides funding for one DC Reading Clinic coach and teacher training stipends during the 2025-2026 academic year, helping ensure that every kindergarten student in District of Columbia Public Schools receives high-quality literacy instruction.

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Educate Maine

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• Educate Maine advances education policies and practices that prepare Maine students to be the next generation of productive, engaged citizens. This one-year grant supports its work to develop and publish an early literacy landscape report of Maine’s elementary schools. Having a clearer understanding of how our youngest readers are being taught will inform work to improve early literacy proficiency in Maine. 

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ExcelinEd

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• ExcelinEd supports state leaders in transforming education to equip all students for success. This grant supports ExcelinEd’s work to train state leaders of literacy coaching programs from 32 states in its Early Literacy Coaching Modules at an in-person, Train the Trainer convening. State leaders will then use the modules to train literacy coaches in their states. This grant also supports ExcelinEd’s work to survey Train the Trainer participants to qualitatively assess impact of the convening, to build an online Literacy Coaching Community comprised of past Train the Trainer participants, and to build a costing model for states to use to determine literacy coaching costs.

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Minnesota Public Radio

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• This two-year (2024–2025) grant to Minnesota Public Radio supports its “Sold a Story” podcast and its continuing coverage of teaching and learning in the United States, with a focus on reading instruction, teacher preparation, K-12 education policy, and curriculum. The goal is to help its audiences better understand our nation’s complex education system while also shining a light on the root causes of racial and economic gaps in reading outcomes. 

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National Council on Teacher Quality

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• The National Council on Teacher Quality prioritizes improving student reading outcomes through evidence-based, high-quality teacher preparation and support. This two-year (2024–2025) grant supports the National Council on Teacher Quality’s efforts to ensure implementation of policies that advance scientifically based reading instruction as well as to develop its Teacher Preparation Instructional Materials Database as a unique, valuable resource to support effective teacher preparation. The goal is to make sure that teachers are well-prepared and supported in scientifically based reading instruction to advance student outcomes.  

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Relay Graduate School of Education

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• Relay Graduate School of Education provides comprehensive professional development designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills needed to lead all children to outstanding experiences and outcomes in school.  

  A one-year grant supports Relay’s coaching, training, and support of teachers at New York City’s District 18 elementary schools in their implementation of the Wit and Wisdom language comprehension curriculum. The Wit and Wisdom curriculum builds students’ knowledge, vocabulary, and written and oral language skills.  

  A second one-year grant supports Relay’s coaching, training, and support of teachers at Friendship Public Charter Schools’ Southeast elementary schools in their implementation of a phonics and phonemic awareness curriculum. The coaching Relay will provide teachers and leaders will help ensure that children at Friendship receive the highest quality reading instruction possible. 

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ROAR

Stanford University

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• The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is an open-access assessment platform grounded in ongoing research by the Stanford Reading and Dyslexia Research Program. This grant supports ROAR’s expanded capacity across states, its development of morphology assessment components, and its continued alignment of assessment resources across early elementary school, upper elementary school, and secondary school grades. 

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The Education Trust

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• The Education Trust is committed to ensuring that every student has the right to access a high-quality education that will allow them to live the life of their choosing, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, or identity. 

  This two-year (2025–2026) grant supports the New York Campaign for Early Literacy. This initiative promotes science-driven professional development for educators, enhanced transparency in district reading curricula, increased state funding for curricula and high-impact tutoring based on the science of reading, and a public awareness campaign focused on early literacy. 

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The Reading League

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• The Reading League advances awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-aligned reading instruction.  

  A two-year (2024–2025) grant supports The Reading League’s work to evaluate and report on widely used school curricula as well as to provide a reliable tool for educators and decision-makers to choose evidence-aligned curricula, ultimately improving education nationwide. 

  A second two-year grant (2025–2026) provides general operating funds to continue the organization’s professional learning opportunities and strategic support to state education leaders, superintendents, principals, teachers, and researchers.  

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