Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to improve early literacy instruction, announced the findings from Children’s Literacy Initiative’s Blueprint for Early Literacy: An evaluation of implementation and impact on teacher and child outcomes. This report showed that the implementation of CLI’s pre-kindergarten (pre-K) curriculum, Blueprint for Early Literacy (Blueprint), had a substantial impact on students’ vocabulary …
Stories From Our CommunityInspiring a Love of Literacy “I have been building relationships with my teachers, school leaders, and the students in these classrooms, using a range of transformational coaching tools,” shared Carell, one of CLI’s Early Literacy Specialists. She is a former teacher and is now working with eight different centers and public schools coaching 3 and 4 year-old …
PHILADELPHIA Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to improve early literacy instruction, was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Education’s Early-Phase Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant. The highly competitive grant, totaling nearly $4 million, will allow CLI to combine its teacher coaching success and curriculum development expertise to create the necessary, transformative approach to pre-kindergarten …
ELIZABETH, N.J. MARCH 12, 2018 The national non-profit organization Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) and Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery, in Linden, N.J., are helping local four-year-olds learn to read by bringing high-quality early literacy instruction and rich children’s book collections to eight Elizabeth Public Schools’ prekindergarten (Pre-K) classrooms. Advised by Bayway Refinery managers, Phillips 66 recently donated $35,000 to deliver CLI’s …
Philadelphia, May 4 — Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI), a Philadelphia-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working with educators locally and nationally to get more children reading proficiently by 3rd grade, announces that it has been awarded a grant by The Pew Charitable Trusts to increase the number of Philadelphia-area pre-kindergarten classrooms offering quality early literacy instruction. The grant, totaling $186,000 over three years, …
ProjectsCLI affects systemic change that is visible at the classroom, school, district, state, and federal levels.0Students Served0Classrooms Served0Educators Served0Schools ServedOur work has been validated by prestigious independent organizations and has garnered national attention for its ability to raise student academic scores while building schools’ internal capacities for teacher professional development.RFA’s Evaluation of Blueprint for Early LiteracyAmerican Institute for Research Results …
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Our case for supportHelp us provide Black and Latinx children the high-quality & culturally sustaining literacy instruction they deserve.From Literacy to Liberation.For Black and Latinx children, learning to read is more than skill development – it is an act of liberation. Racial inequity deepens when we fail to teach Black and Latinx children to read. CLI is part of a …
Looking Toward A New DecadeFrom the CEO – Joel Zarrow, Ph.D.Hello, 2020! All of us at CLI are proud of what we’ve achieved in the last decade, but we’re really looking forward to what’s to come. This year, we’re building on our success in Pre-K by launching a new, comprehensive curriculum called Blueprint for Early Learning. Students in classrooms using …
EAST REGIONBroward County Public SchoolsTransforming Early EducationIn 2015, Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) leveraged a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up grant to partner with Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in seven of the district’s highest-needs schools. The results: CLI-served schools accelerated more students to grade-level (as measured by the FSA) than the district’s average. Five of the …