Language and Literacy Research Center (LLRC)

The purpose of Project CALI is to develop and test a middle school co-teaching and literacy professional development model that is designed to improve collaboration between general (content-area) and special education teachers and, ultimately, enhance reading achievement and content-area knowledge of students with disabilities. Specifically, Project CALI supports teachers’ use of evidence-based strategies that promote adolescent literacy by building students’ background knowledge, delivering explicit vocabulary and comprehension instruction, and providing students with differentiated support. During the current school year (2017-2018; year 3 of the project), we are conducting a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of Project CALI professional development developed in years 1 and 2 of the project. 

For more information, visit the Project CALI website.