Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Literacy, Remedial Reading & Encouragement, Special Education, Youth Development - Citizenship
Mission: Our mission at Lee Pesky Learning Center is to work together with families, schools, and communities to understand and overcome obstacles to learning. Our vision is to create a pathway to learning for everyone.
Target demographics: Learners from birth through young adulthood
Geographic areas served: Idaho and beyond
Programs: Since opening its doors in 1997, Lee Pesky Learning Center (LPLC) has supported over 100,000 students, educators, and families in Idaho and beyond. LPLC employs a tiered model to accomplish our mission to work together with families, schools, and communities to understand and overcome obstacles to learning.
Our Tier One programs deliver professional development to early childcare providers and early childhood educators. By bringing evidence-based practices to the classroom, LPLC helps to provide a meaningful impact. Professional development takes the form of onsite, webinar, and online trainings.
LPLC's Tier Two programs provides 1:1 reading instruction to kindergarten and first-grade students who are learning English or face other language-based obstacles to learning. A recently launched Tier Two program is LPLC's Pathways to Literacy effort which supports English Language Learners in the Wood River Valley area.
LPLC's Tier Three programs are designed for students with learning disabilities or other significant challenges to learning. At this level, intensive educational and clinical intervention is provided in a 1:1 clinical setting, either on-site or online. LPLC supports approximately 50 clients on a weekly basis with reading, writing, and math interventions in addition to counseling and coaching.
Learners, parents, teachers, and administrators in hundreds of schools have also relied on LPLC's courses and products to engage students.