Identify and eliminate low achievement and inequities in achievement by African American, Latino, low-income, emergent multilingual learners, and students with special needs in critical literacy skills needed for success in college, career, and community. We create and support just & equitable literacy instruction, curriculum, and assessment that: 1) Builds cognitive capacity; 2) Affirms students’ identities and utilizes funds of knowledge; 3) Works to eliminate historically oppressive practices; and 4) Redresses opportunity gaps.