Innovative partnerships. New approaches. Greater opportunities for student success.
Forty years ago, Lindamood-Bell started in San Luis Obispo, California, and embarked on a mission to help all students learn to their potential. Today, across California, Lindamood-Bell is collaborating with educators to address one of education’s most persistent challenges: helping students who continue to struggle with literacy despite years of traditional instruction.
Celebrating our 40th anniversary, we’re excited to share recent partnerships and upcoming presentations featuring California educators rethinking what’s possible.
Coming to Oakland: All-inclusive Education at the Urban Collaborative Fall Meeting
October 26–28, 2026 | Oakland, CA
As a partner with the Urban Collaborative, Lindamood-Bell will co-present with Fresno Unified School District, highlighting literacy and summer school initiatives designed to accelerate reading achievement for students with persistent learning difficulties.
Learn About the Urban Collaborative Meeting
Coming to San Diego: Reaching At-Promise Students
November 4–6, 2026 | San Diego, CA
How can high schools help students who are still struggling to read?
The Reaching At-Promise Students Association (RAPSA) conference highlights innovations for meeting the needs of the most at-risk youth. Lindamood-Bell is co-presenting with Sweetwater Union High School District to share an innovative high school reading clinic model designed to address foundational literacy gaps among adolescent learners.
We’ll explore how similar models can create new opportunities for alternative education programs serving at-promise youth, including students preparing for graduation, postsecondary education, and careers.
Helping At-Promise Students Succeed – Listen to our latest Podcast
California Partnerships: Putting Research into Practice
From elementary schools to secondary and alternative education, Lindamood-Bell continues to support California educators through research-based instruction, intensive intervention, and sustained professional development.
Spotlight: San Francisco Unified
Innovative Funding. Intensive Intervention. Measurable Results.
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), one of the host districts for the upcoming Urban Collaborative Fall Meeting, partnered with Lindamood-Bell to deliver intensive literacy intervention through our Learning Center on Campus model.
Leveraging federal Comprehensive Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CCEIS) funding, SFUSD provided 16 struggling readers with intensive intervention through programs grounded in the science of reading.
Students demonstrated significant reading gains, including a 24-point increase in phonemic awareness, from the 21st to the 45th percentile, and a 19-point increase in phonics, from the 8th to the 27th percentile. Large standard score gains were also achieved in word reading, spelling, and comprehension.
Explore the SFUSD Results and Learning Center on Campus Model
Let’s Advance Literacy Together
Our sensory-cognitive approach targets the underlying processes essential for reading and comprehension, helping educators address the needs of students with dyslexia, English Learners, students receiving special education services, and other learners experiencing persistent literacy difficulties.
Whether you’re exploring teacher professional development or a comprehensive school partnership, we’d welcome the opportunity to discuss what’s possible for your staff and students.
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