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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 and workplace. ISAL's work includes the following:

What we do

Evaluation, research, and professional development

Areas of expertise

  • Adult literacy and education
  • Family literacy
  • Career pathways
  • IET program development
  • Workforce preparation
  • Post-secondary transition
  • Correctional education
  • Tutoring program implementation
  • Program design and delivery
  • Instructional material development
  • 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