LDC began as a community of educators determined to eliminate achievement gaps by providing all students with the same rigorous writing assignments that privileged kids already receive. Today, LDC creates assignments for most K-12 major content areas. LDC also provides professional support to help teachers adapt their practices and inject more rigor in their everyday classroom instruction. As a result, students who complete LDC assignments are up to 9 months ahead in their learning compared to students who do not have access to LDC Real Works Modules.
The CCRS mandates rigor in instruction and LDC assignments show teachers and students just what that rigor looks and sounds like in reading and writing.
LDC professional learning enables teachers to learn while doing their work–planning, teaching, and evaluating the efficacy of their instruction.
LDC assignments demand that students think, read, and write in the ways experts and professionals do.
LDC believes in students and finds that with the right support, all students can rise to the occasion.
LDC is a community of educators that fosters educational equity by expanding access to culturally-responsive, standards-aligned, rigorous assignments and instruction. The American public education system was designed to neglect many historically oppressed communities, resulting in disproportionately poor outcomes for marginalized groups. Furthermore, we acknowledge that – despite our organization’s mission and intent – we need to continuously improve the way we do our work and continuously measure our impact to ensure that we are not contributing to such unacceptable outcomes.
Accordingly, to ensure that our work even more meaningfully addresses the opportunity gap in student learning and achievement, we strive every day to center diverse perspectives that prioritize an intentional integration of voices, representation, and equity in our curriculum, teacher professional learning experiences, and in the work of LDC in general.
User-centered design that includes previously marginalized student and teacher representation means actively integrating those students and teachers into our instructional design process (which heretofore we’ve done with varying degrees of success). We aspire to achieve this vision through implementation of these measurable goals:
Are you passionate about helping teachers prepare students for success in college and in their careers? Do you want to play a key part in this important work? To apply for a job at Literacy Design Collaborative, send a cover letter and your résumé to the email address listed in the job posting. Candidates who closely fit the qualifications will be contacted for an interview.
