Our Vision
Inspiring all learners to know the written word and to find beauty, goodness, and truth in the natural and social worlds.
Our Mission
The Harvard READS Lab is a joyful, agile research team that builds long-term partnerships with school districts to solve grand challenges in literacy and education. We do this by advancing the 3Rs of research—relevance, rigor, and replication:
Relevance
We address questions that are relevant to stakeholders in education, government, and philanthropy and transfer ownership of solutions to schoolteachers and school systems.
Rigor
We publish studies in high-quality and high-impact journals and broadly disseminate our findings to the field through a comprehensive communication strategy.
Replication
We embrace open science practices to make our tools, data, findings replicable and useful for other researchers, particularly junior scholars seeking to catalyze their careers.
Ultimately, we seek to elevate teaching and the teaching profession by (a) generating usable knowledge for school teachers, (b) improving literacy and education opportunities and outcomes for all students, and (c) building a strong and vibrant democracy.
Our Work
READS stands for Research Enhances
Adaptations Designed for Scale in Literacy.
The READS Lab at Harvard, led by Professor of Education, James S. Kim, is a research-based collaborative designed to identify and scale adaptive solutions for enhancing children's literacy. We work with teachers and leaders in school districts, schools, non-profit organizations, foundations, and universities who are committed to applying adaptive strategies to improve children’s literacy learning opportunities.
