Language, Literacy, and Learning is a comprehensive suite of professional learning and technical assistance services that build educator and leadership capacity to deliver high-quality literacy instruction that strengthens opportunities for improved outcomes for all students. Grounded in research and aligned with state policy, our work integrates foundational skills, language development, and comprehension to support all learners across the system for maximum impact and sustainability.
How We Help
Language, Literacy, and Learning supports districts in building coherent, sustainable literacy systems that integrate foundational skills, language development, and comprehension. Through a variety of professional learning offerings, educators and leaders deepen their understanding of how reading skills develop and how to design instruction that connects decoding, language, and meaning-making.
Participants engage in active, collaborative learning grounded in classroom practice, developing concrete instructional routines and tools that can be implemented immediately. Our services build from classroom instruction to system-level leadership, ensuring alignment across professional learning, coaching, and instructional expectations.
Designed with the needs of Multilingual Learners and striving readers at the center of our approach to provide rigorous, language-rich instruction, districts gain instructional practices and the leadership capacity to sustain improved outcomes.
Our specific services offerings include:
- Literacy Needs Assessment
- Literacy Plan Development
- K-5 Virtual Certification Series
- Reading and Oral Language Learning
- Coaching Institutes
- Classroom-Based Coaching
- Leadership Services
Who Will Benefit
- TK–5 classroom teachers
- Instructional coaches and literacy specialists
- Interventionists
- School and district leaders (principals, assistant principals, district administrators)

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WestEd provided student-centered, engaging, thought-provoking professional development that led us to dig deep into our data and decision-making discussions.
— Dr. Kathy Ruggeberg
Assistant Superintendent for Teaching & Learning, Rock Island – Milan
School District #41
Featured Experts
Menya Cole
Misty Sailors
Elizabeth Zagata
Connecting Research With Practice
Language, Literacy, and Learning is grounded in a robust body of research on literacy development and educator learning. The work draws on established frameworks such as the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Rope, alongside more recent research including the Active View of Reading and Translanguaging. Instructional design reflects evidence-based practices in foundational skills, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing, while integrating insights from sociocultural theory and implementation science. Aligned with important state standards, frameworks, and guidelines, the series ensures that research is translated into coherent, actionable practices that support all learners, particularly multilingual students and striving readers.




