The Goals

Across audiences, the goals of The Partnership for Reading include the following.

• Develop awareness of the resources available through The Partnership for Reading to strengthen reading instruction.

• Encourage educators, policy-makers, and parents to acknowledge the growing body of evidence-based reading research, learn more about the research findings, and work to actively implement them in their schools and homes.

• Encourage both experienced and novice teachers to habitually reflect on their practice, explore the findings of the research, and make instructional and curricular changes where necessary.

• Assist schools in building support systems - through teamwork, staff development, and clear policies and guidelines - to build professional cultures that value evidence-based research and work actively to reflect the research in practice.

• Work with state, district, and local policy-makers and administrators to recognize how evidence-based research can move schools toward their standards and accountability goals and to rethink budgetary, policy, staffing, and curricular policies and practices to support evidence-based teaching.

• Offer ideas for parents to help them build reading cultures at home, reinforce the evidence-based reading instruction their children receive at school, become stronger partners with their children's teachers, and advocate for the use of evidence-based instruction in schools.

• Work with early childhood education and child care workforces to enrich literacy learning and experiences through the infusion of evidence-based research.

• Work with adult and family literacy teachers, administrators, and policymakers to improve the literacy abilities of parents and foster the intergenerational transfer of literacy, and the literacy level of adults generally.

• Work with adult literacy researchers and practitioners to evaluate and synthesize existing adult reading instruction research, develop a set of evidence-based principles and practices from the research synthesis, apply relevant findings from the K-12 research base to adult reading instruction, build the use of these practices in adult and family literacy programs, and develop a stronger adult reading instruction research base.