TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.BOARD OF TRUSTEESGlenny Lee Buquet, Vice-Chairman Education Activist

Joan CoulterCommunity Activist

Barbara Johnson, SecretaryPrincipal, The Johnson Group

Kevin KanePresident, Pelican Institute for Public Policy

Charles Lacoste Management Consultant

Joseph P. Lopinto, IIILouisiana State RepresentativeAttorney

Cynthia Hedge Morrell Community Activist

Gregory N. Rattler, Sr., TreasurerVice President, JPMorgan Chase

Kathleen Riedlinger CEO, Lusher Charter Schools

Holly Sharp, CPA, CFE, CFF, ChairmanShareholder and Director, LaPorte

Sidney Eshleman Thornton Community Activist

Arlinda WestbrookDeputy Superintendent of the New Orleans Police DepartmentDirector of the Public Integrity Bureau

Frank Williams, Past Chairman Executive DirectorGreater New Orleans Education Foundation

COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCILHerschel L. Abbott, Jr. Jones Walker Law Firm

Kelvin Adams, Ph.D. Superintendent St. Louis Public Schools

improving teaching. increasing learning.

CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING

Marian Arrowsmith, M.Ed. Supervisor, Elementary Education (Ret.)St. Tammany Parish Schools

Gerard Ballanco, M.D., FAAP Pediatrician (Ret.)

Gordon Blundell, Jr., M.D. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Jack Donahue Louisiana State Senator President, Donahue Favret Contractors

Vaughan Fitzpatrick Community Activist

The Honorable John W. Greene Judge, 22nd Judicial District (Ret.)

Stephen Hales, M.D. Hales Pediatrics

Ruby Bridges Hall President, Ruby Bridges Foundation

Mary Lou Ochsner Community Leader

Robert D. Reily Chairman, The Standard Companies

PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY BOARDRobert Brooks, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Clinical Psychologist

G. Emerson Dickman, III, J.D. Attorney at LawImmediate Past President, International Dyslexia Association

Michael Fullan, OC Dean Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry University of Utah School of Medicine

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. Child & Adult Psychiatrist; Senior Lecturer Harvard Medical School; Director, Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health

Michael Kamil, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, School of Education Stanford University

G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Southern Methodist University; Distinguished Scientist, Center for Brain Health, University of Texas - Dallas

Louisa Moats, Ed.D. Literacy Research & Professional Development Advisor, Sopris West Educational Services

Joanne Quinn, MBAQuinn Consultants, Inc., Toronto Craig T. Ramey, Ph.D. Professor and Distinguished Scholar Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Tech

Mel Riddile, Ed.D. Associate Director for High School Services National Association of Secondary School Principals

Carol Rolheiser, Ph.D. Director, Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Toronto

Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor EmeritusUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Dennis Sparks, Ph.D. Executive Director EmeritusNational Staff Development Council

Robert Sternberg, Ph.D. Professor of Human Development, College of Human EcologyCornell University

PRESIDENT & CEO Alice Thomas, M.Ed.

TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.

WHO WE AREFounded in 1992, the Center for Development and Learning (CDL) is a results-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. CDL’s purpose is to achieve equity in education and close the opportunity gap for high-risk youth. CDL’s mission is to improve the life chances of all children, especially those at high risk, by increasing school success. Our goal is to help all children learn to higher levels and apply their knowledge toward good ends.

We believe that all children, regardless of how they look, where they come from, or how they learn, can and will achieve school success when provided with highly effective teachers and positive, supportive learning environments.

ISSUES WE ADDRESS CDL’s work is focused on closing the achievement gap by increasing teacher effectiveness.

Standards set the course, and assessments provide the benchmarks, but it is highly effective teaching that makes substantial, sustained gains in student learning. This means that our most disadvantaged children must have the most effective teachers.

We advance public education reform by providing educators who teach our most at-risk children with professional learning that is specific and relevant to the needs of students and teachers. With an on-the-ground, in-the-trenches approach, we tackle real-time issues such as ways to remediate struggling readers, differentiate instruction, and build and sustain collective capacity.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE CDL is directed by a volunteer Board of Trustees comprised of business, educational and civic leaders. CDL benefits from a Community Advisory Council and a Professional Advisory Board comprised of national and international experts. We employ professionals from the fields of education, psychology and business.

CDL’s annual audits consistently show approximately 90% of every dollar going directly to programs and services.

TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.

“ CDL is one of the few organizations worldwide working to connect knowledge from the medical, psychological, educational, and judicial fields to multiply the benefits to children.”

— Michael Fullan, OC, Dean Emeritus, Onatrio Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

WHAT WE DOCDL’s services fall into three silos:

1. Evidence-based professional learning for teachers, principals, teacher leaders, leadership teams, instructional specialists, paraprofessionals, parents and caregivers

2. Direct services to students 3. Public engagement of stakeholders at all levels

Our professional learning services comprise approximately 85% of our work, and are founded on evidence-based research.

CDL has special expertise in learning differences, literacy, teaching strategies and tactics, building the capacity of school leadership, and building the capacity of teachers. Current professional learning initiatives include (1) Language and Learning – Right from Birth, which provides child care providers and parents of children ages birth to three years with the information, skills and support they need to help their children grow emotionally, physically and cognitively so they will be ready to learn when they enter school; (2) Step It Up for Literacy, which builds educators’ capacity to provide explicit and effective literacy instruction across the disciplines to all students, and targeted intervention for students experiencing difficulties; (3) Learning 4.0: How Students Learn and How Teachers Should Teach, which helps teachers to identify and remediate learning problems with scaffolding and interventions that address individual students’ needs (a diagnose/prescribe approach); (4) Plain Talk about Literacy and Learning, a three-day institute that focuses on evidence-based research, strategies and tactics for educators who serve children ages birth – grade 12; and (5) Leading for Learning, which builds leadership and talent management capacity.

Our current direct service program, Teens & Tots, (1) develops the parenting skills of teen parents to increase the likelihood that their young children are entering kindergarten mentally and physically healthy and ready to learn; and (2) increases the literacy skills of teen parents and thus the likelihood of their graduating from high school and being prepared for college and/or career.

CDL’s public engagement work provides parents, community, and teachers with information on key education issues. Our goal is to bridge the gap between research and practice, and to address widespread education issues in Louisiana through research and information gathering and dissemination. A variety of communication methods are used, including print and social media, focus groups, and other community relations efforts.

WHO WE SERVECDL serves public school teachers, students and their families in Louisiana. We also work with schools and districts throughout the United States.

PRIMARY FOCUSFor over 20 years, CDL has been a trusted source of specialized professional learning services for educators – teachers, principals, teacher leaders, related specialists, paraprofessionals, and parents. CDL professional learning is designed, facilitated, evaluated, and adjusted to meet the needs of the learners. In collaboration with school and district leadership and teachers, we examine student and teacher data and build professional learning in response to student and teacher performance. We evaluate progress frequently and adjust accordingly.

Working side-by-side with both new and experienced teachers, CDL professionals provide coaching and modeling in the classroom as well as customized, interactive learning sessions and study groups.

The combination of both group and individual professional learning increases collective internal accountability. Knowledge, strategies and tactics can be efficiently introduced through interactive sessions and institutes. Continuous instructional improvement can be guided by observations with constructive feedback, coaching, study groups and lesson modeling in classrooms.

WHERE WE ARE GOINGTHE NEW ORLEANS LITERACY AND LEARNING INSTITUTEWe intend to establish a literacy and learning institute that will provide year-round services to the Greater New Orleans community. We seek strong, results-focused partners. The institute will aim to organize, integrate, and embed high-yield, evidence-based practices in targeted services, including:

• Establishing multiple outreach centers that provide services in underserved areas that are specific to community needs, such as financial literacy and adult literacy programs; • Providing and promoting high-yield literacy programs for juveniles in detention centers;• Expanding and supporting rigorous literacy and parenting programs for teen parents;• Developing parent capacity to support and increase literacy skills in their children;• Developing and supporting literacy leaders in Greater New Orleans schools; and• Influencing (a) increased intensity of teacher literacy preparation in area universities, and (b) higher literacy skill requirements for teacher licensure.

WHAT YOU CAN DOCALL US FOR WAYS TO HELPCenter for Development and LearningOne Galleria Blvd., Suite 903, Metairie, LA 70001Phone: (504) 840-9786Email: learn@cdl.orgInternet: www.cdl.org

TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.

WHO WE AREFounded in 1992, the Center for Development and Learning (CDL) is a results-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. CDL’s purpose is to achieve equity in education and close the opportunity gap for high-risk youth. CDL’s mission is to improve the life chances of all children, especially those at high risk, by increasing school success. Our goal is to help all children learn to higher levels and apply their knowledge toward good ends.

We believe that all children, regardless of how they look, where they come from, or how they learn, can and will achieve school success when provided with highly effective teachers and positive, supportive learning environments.

ISSUES WE ADDRESS CDL’s work is focused on closing the achievement gap by increasing teacher effectiveness.

Standards set the course, and assessments provide the benchmarks, but it is highly effective teaching that makes substantial, sustained gains in student learning. This means that our most disadvantaged children must have the most effective teachers.

We advance public education reform by providing educators who teach our most at-risk children with professional learning that is specific and relevant to the needs of students and teachers. With an on-the-ground, in-the-trenches approach, we tackle real-time issues such as ways to remediate struggling readers, differentiate instruction, and build and sustain collective capacity.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE CDL is directed by a volunteer Board of Trustees comprised of business, educational and civic leaders. CDL benefits from a Community Advisory Council and a Professional Advisory Board comprised of national and international experts. We employ professionals from the fields of education, psychology and business.

CDL’s annual audits consistently show approximately 90% of every dollar going directly to programs and services.

TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.

“ CDL is one of the few organizations worldwide working to connect knowledge from the medical, psychological, educational, and judicial fields to multiply the benefits to children.”

— Michael Fullan, OC, Dean Emeritus, Onatrio Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

WHAT WE DOCDL’s services fall into three silos:

1. Evidence-based professional learning for teachers, principals, teacher leaders, leadership teams, instructional specialists, paraprofessionals, parents and caregivers

2. Direct services to students 3. Public engagement of stakeholders at all levels

Our professional learning services comprise approximately 85% of our work, and are founded on evidence-based research.

CDL has special expertise in learning differences, literacy, teaching strategies and tactics, building the capacity of school leadership, and building the capacity of teachers. Current professional learning initiatives include (1) Language and Learning – Right from Birth, which provides child care providers and parents of children ages birth to three years with the information, skills and support they need to help their children grow emotionally, physically and cognitively so they will be ready to learn when they enter school; (2) Step It Up for Literacy, which builds educators’ capacity to provide explicit and effective literacy instruction across the disciplines to all students, and targeted intervention for students experiencing difficulties; (3) Learning 4.0: How Students Learn and How Teachers Should Teach, which helps teachers to identify and remediate learning problems with scaffolding and interventions that address individual students’ needs (a diagnose/prescribe approach); (4) Plain Talk about Literacy and Learning, a three-day institute that focuses on evidence-based research, strategies and tactics for educators who serve children ages birth – grade 12; and (5) Leading for Learning, which builds leadership and talent management capacity.

Our current direct service program, Teens & Tots, (1) develops the parenting skills of teen parents to increase the likelihood that their young children are entering kindergarten mentally and physically healthy and ready to learn; and (2) increases the literacy skills of teen parents and thus the likelihood of their graduating from high school and being prepared for college and/or career.

CDL’s public engagement work provides parents, community, and teachers with information on key education issues. Our goal is to bridge the gap between research and practice, and to address widespread education issues in Louisiana through research and information gathering and dissemination. A variety of communication methods are used, including print and social media, focus groups, and other community relations efforts.

WHO WE SERVECDL serves public school teachers, students and their families in Louisiana. We also work with schools and districts throughout the United States.

PRIMARY FOCUSFor over 20 years, CDL has been a trusted source of specialized professional learning services for educators – teachers, principals, teacher leaders, related specialists, paraprofessionals, and parents. CDL professional learning is designed, facilitated, evaluated, and adjusted to meet the needs of the learners. In collaboration with school and district leadership and teachers, we examine student and teacher data and build professional learning in response to student and teacher performance. We evaluate progress frequently and adjust accordingly.

Working side-by-side with both new and experienced teachers, CDL professionals provide coaching and modeling in the classroom as well as customized, interactive learning sessions and study groups.

The combination of both group and individual professional learning increases collective internal accountability. Knowledge, strategies and tactics can be efficiently introduced through interactive sessions and institutes. Continuous instructional improvement can be guided by observations with constructive feedback, coaching, study groups and lesson modeling in classrooms.

WHERE WE ARE GOINGTHE NEW ORLEANS LITERACY AND LEARNING INSTITUTEWe intend to establish a literacy and learning institute that will provide year-round services to the Greater New Orleans community. We seek strong, results-focused partners. The institute will aim to organize, integrate, and embed high-yield, evidence-based practices in targeted services, including:

• Establishing multiple outreach centers that provide services in underserved areas that are specific to community needs, such as financial literacy and adult literacy programs; • Providing and promoting high-yield literacy programs for juveniles in detention centers;• Expanding and supporting rigorous literacy and parenting programs for teen parents;• Developing parent capacity to support and increase literacy skills in their children;• Developing and supporting literacy leaders in Greater New Orleans schools; and• Influencing (a) increased intensity of teacher literacy preparation in area universities, and (b) higher literacy skill requirements for teacher licensure.

WHAT YOU CAN DOCALL US FOR WAYS TO HELPCenter for Development and LearningOne Galleria Blvd., Suite 903, Metairie, LA 70001Phone: (504) 840-9786Email: learn@cdl.orgInternet: www.cdl.org

TEACH. LEARN. EXCEL.BOARD OF TRUSTEESGlenny Lee Buquet, Vice-Chairman Education Activist

Joan CoulterCommunity Activist

Barbara Johnson, SecretaryPrincipal, The Johnson Group

Kevin KanePresident, Pelican Institute for Public Policy

Charles Lacoste Management Consultant

Joseph P. Lopinto, IIILouisiana State RepresentativeAttorney

Cynthia Hedge Morrell Community Activist

Gregory N. Rattler, Sr., TreasurerVice President, JPMorgan Chase

Kathleen Riedlinger CEO, Lusher Charter Schools

Holly Sharp, CPA, CFE, CFF, ChairmanShareholder and Director, LaPorte

Sidney Eshleman Thornton Community Activist

Arlinda WestbrookDeputy Superintendent of the New Orleans Police DepartmentDirector of the Public Integrity Bureau

Frank Williams, Past Chairman Executive DirectorGreater New Orleans Education Foundation

COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCILHerschel L. Abbott, Jr. Jones Walker Law Firm

Kelvin Adams, Ph.D. Superintendent St. Louis Public Schools

improving teaching. increasing learning.

CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING

Marian Arrowsmith, M.Ed. Supervisor, Elementary Education (Ret.)St. Tammany Parish Schools

Gerard Ballanco, M.D., FAAP Pediatrician (Ret.)

Gordon Blundell, Jr., M.D. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Jack Donahue Louisiana State Senator President, Donahue Favret Contractors

Vaughan Fitzpatrick Community Activist

The Honorable John W. Greene Judge, 22nd Judicial District (Ret.)

Stephen Hales, M.D. Hales Pediatrics

Ruby Bridges Hall President, Ruby Bridges Foundation

Mary Lou Ochsner Community Leader

Robert D. Reily Chairman, The Standard Companies

PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY BOARDRobert Brooks, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Clinical Psychologist

G. Emerson Dickman, III, J.D. Attorney at LawImmediate Past President, International Dyslexia Association

Michael Fullan, OC Dean Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry University of Utah School of Medicine

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. Child & Adult Psychiatrist; Senior Lecturer Harvard Medical School; Director, Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health

Michael Kamil, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, School of Education Stanford University

G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Southern Methodist University; Distinguished Scientist, Center for Brain Health, University of Texas - Dallas

Louisa Moats, Ed.D. Literacy Research & Professional Development Advisor, Sopris West Educational Services

Joanne Quinn, MBAQuinn Consultants, Inc., Toronto Craig T. Ramey, Ph.D. Professor and Distinguished Scholar Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Tech

Mel Riddile, Ed.D. Associate Director for High School Services National Association of Secondary School Principals

Carol Rolheiser, Ph.D. Director, Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Toronto

Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor EmeritusUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Dennis Sparks, Ph.D. Executive Director EmeritusNational Staff Development Council

Robert Sternberg, Ph.D. Professor of Human Development, College of Human EcologyCornell University

PRESIDENT & CEO Alice Thomas, M.Ed.