2025 Annual Report
This year's report highlights the LRCC's inaugural literacy endorsement cohort, a
new dyslexia graduate certificate program launching in 2026, expanded online tutoring
for rural communities, and continued statewide partnerships reaching 17 Wyoming counties
and more than a thousand teachers since 2014.
Previous Annual Reports
View past annual reports to learn more about our journey and impact.
Dr. Kimberly Gustafson's first report as permanent Executive Director details a productive
year, including a robust spring 2024 tutoring clinic serving 13 students (pre-K–grade
7) with 11 undergraduate tutors. Endowed Chairs Dr. Leslie Rush and Dr. Cynthia Brock
led extensive district partnerships across Pinedale, Jackson, Burlington/Cowley, and
beyond, alongside statewide needs assessments and research/publications. The Center
also advanced plans for a literacy endorsement cohort funded through a new endowment
and rolled out nine research-based professional development modules for Wyoming teachers.
Read the Full 2024 Annual Report
Marking the approach of LRCC's 10th anniversary of statewide engagement, Interim Executive
Director Dr. Kimberly Gustafson highlighted new partnerships with districts in Fremont,
Sublette, Big Horn, and Teton counties focused on vocabulary and writing instruction,
literacy leadership, and district-wide improvement. The Center hosted its 16th Annual
Fall Literacy Conference on vocabulary instruction, honored Carol Mead Leaders in
Literacy Award recipients Melanie Hornbeck and Jennifer Hayward, and ran a fall tutoring
clinic serving 9 Albany County students. The report also spotlighted the work of Endowed
Chairs Dr. Cynthia Brock and Dr. Leslie Rush and Teacher-in-Residence Sara Pommarane.
Read the Full 2023 Annual Report
This report highlights the LRCC's extensive statewide outreach footprint, spanning
dozens of Wyoming communities from Jackson to Gillette to the Wind River Reservation.
Key initiatives included the Wyoming Writing Initiative (offered in multiple towns),
K–12 literacy needs assessments, whole-school professional development work, the SIL
Symposium and Teacher Leader Quality Grant, and specialized programs like College
Bound Latinas and the Emerging Scholars Literacy Camp. The map-based format underscores
just how far the Center's reach extended across the state that year.
Read the Full 2022 Annual Report
In her first year as executive director, Dr. Amy Spiker helped guide the LRCC through
a busy year of K–3 literacy advocacy, including work on Wyoming's new K–3 reading
guidance document and state ELA standards revision. The Center partnered with Albany
County School District on a summer school program serving 62 students, launched Literacy
Leadership modules for elementary principals, and continued its Arapaho language revitalization
partnership with St. Stephen's Indian School. Other highlights included in-person
K–12 tutoring returning post-pandemic, development of Dyslexia Awareness Alexa skills,
and an online professional learning program that reached over 700 Wyoming teachers.
Read the Full 2021 Annual Report
This last year has been quite a year! As you might expect, the COVID-19 pandemic has
prompted a pause on some of the work of the Literacy Research Center and Clinic (LRCC)
in schools and communities around the state, as well as in our clinical context. Yet
at the same time, it has also allowed us to move forward with some of our initiatives
in new and exciting ways. As they say, change is good.
