Many of you are familiar with the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant, also known as the SRCL grant, that operated from 2017-2021. Through that grant work, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) found there was an opportunity for Regional Education Associations (REAs) to help sites with implementation and continuous improvement of these multi-year grants.

REA Implementation Liaison Network
When the State of North Dakota was awarded the CLSD grant for $43.9 million dollars to improve literacy outcomes for disadvantaged students from birth through Grade 12 NDDPI required all sites to work with an REA Implementation Liaison each year over the course of the five-year grant cycle. Dive into the article to learn more about the implementation liaison work statewide including the framework, liaison expectations, collaboration, and reporting and how the South East Education Cooperative (SEEC) is playing an important role.

SEEC CLSD Grantee Professional Learning & Implementation Support
Seven SEEC schools (Fargo, Jamestown, Northern Cass/Richland/Milnor Coop, West Fargo, and Wahpeton) were awarded a total of $11,750,000 via the Comprehensive State Literacy Development (CLSD) Grant. Two SEEC Instructional Literacy Coaches were hired for the Richland/Milnor/Northern Cass Coop via their CLSD Grantee funds and great collaboration! Coaches Erica Carney and Cindy Erbes along with Kerri Whipple, have been running the following learning opportunities (some which have also been open to ALL educators) thus far for 2020-2021:

Click below to find out more on what's happening in our SEEC CLSD districts including:
  • Book Studies
  • SEEDS of Early Literacy
  • LETRS training
  • PLI training
  • Literacy Audits
  • PreK & K-3 Reading Corps
  • ELA K-6 core curriculum Literacy Fair