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Believing that literacy skills are best developed within meaningful contexts, the Institute's initiatives have focused on the contexts of family literacy and engagement. Goodling's work includes the following:

What we do

Evaluation, research, professional development 

Areas of Expertise

  • Family literacy and adult literacy/education
  • Implementation and integration of the four components of family literacy (adult education, parent education, early childhood, parent-child interactions)
  • Family engagement
  • Intergenerational models of literacy
  • Program design and delivery
  • Instructional material development and resources
  • Contextualized instruction
  • Integration of skills into instruction
  • Distance learning and various modalities
  • Assessment of student learning
  • Standards development and implementations
  • Program evaluations
  • Data collection and analysis for continuous improvement