1 in 3 students never achieve academic literacy.

Read that again. One in three. Why?

academic literacy is the ability to listen, read and write for the purpose of deep, meaningful learning.

There is a widespread, overlooked issue facing many classrooms today: how do we teach students how to listen, read, and write? Every day in classrooms across the country, teachers are trying to fill a gap that has never been properly addressed within the education system. That gap is a lack of knowledge about how to learn.

Teaching the fundamentals of a subject is straightforward; teaching how to effectively comprehend the material is not. Mastering the skill of comprehension is the key to successful learning.

This critical issue introduces several problems in a classroom:

• it prevents teachers from fully engaging with their students in deeper, meaningful learning.
• it creates a group of students in every classroom that chronically underperform – and develop a sense of helplessness that undermines them.
• it isolates another group of students at a level of competence below the performance threshold they need to be at to reach their goals.
• it causes academic illiteracy which leads to the loss of the stability and productivity of both the individual and society at large.

To get a taste of what we’re talking about, take our academic literacy quiz by clicking the button below.

So, that’s our view of the problem. What is our solution?

we teach a methodology for listening and reading comprehension.

Our methods focus on comprehension mastery: without it, retention and optimal academic performance is impossible. By addressing the root cause of academic illiteracy, we can change a learner’s life forever.