State Training Partnerships

The AIM Institute for Learning & Research is proud to announce a multi-year partnership with the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) to deliver required, evidence-based literacy training to all 6th–12th grade English language arts, English language development, and special education teachers across the state. This initiative will utilize AIM’s Pathways to Proficient Reading: Secondary (PPR:S) course and represents one of the first known efforts in the U.S. to include high school teachers in legislated literacy professional development. The training will reach more than 1,000 teachers in year one.

The AIM Institute for Learning & Research is proud to announce the selection of 10 schools for our new AIM Early Reading Success Schools initiative. This fully-funded, yearlong demonstration project is designed to transform early literacy instruction and ensure that more than 1,000 children in more than 60 classrooms across the country are reading at grade level by the end of the school year.

Supported with a $750,000 donation by the Raphael Family Foundation, the initiative provides AIM-led professional learning, coaching, and implementation support per school to help participating teams accelerate reading outcomes and build sustainable systems for early literacy success. The participating schools represent a diverse cross-section of the country,  including rural communities and major cities, and span public, private, and charter school settings.

AIM Institute for Learning & Research is excited to partner with the Nebraska Department of Education to further literacy and reading improvement efforts through HEROES (Helping to Elevate Reading Outcomes for Every Student) Training. This summer training opportunity, which will take place in Kearney in July, focuses on the art of literacy coaching and is designed to equip educators and leaders with evidence-based practices aligned with the Science of Reading.

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation's Report Card, reveal significant challenges for schools and teachers especially in reading. Amid these sobering statistics, showing a nationwide drop in reading proficiency, Louisiana was the only state to show an increase in proficiency for 4th graders from 2019 to 2024.

AIM Institute for Learning & Research has proudly partnered with the Louisiana Department of Education and more than 25 parish school districts across the state since 2021 to provide AIM Pathways literacy professional learning to more than 9,700 K-3 teachers.

Louisiana's incremental gains, which raised 4th grade reading proficiency to the national average for the first time, underscores the state's dedication to enhancing early literacy through state-funded comprehensive professional development.

AIM is proud to announce the appointment of Kristen Wynn, former State Literacy Director (K-12) for the Mississippi Department of Education, as the new Head of the AIM Institute for Learning & Research. This pivotal addition marks a significant milestone in AIM’s commitment to enhancing literacy education across the nation.