Outreach & Impact
Extending Access, Empowering Educators, and Strengthening Communities
Our Mission
To create a future where classroom-tested learning science is the foundation of education everywhere, unlocking better outcomes for every student and every teacher, regardless of circumstance.
Through shared knowledge, professional learning, and tools, The Southport CoLAB empowers educators, families, and communities to reduce inequities and expand access to transformative education.
We believe learning science should not remain confined to research journals, specialized settings, or individual classrooms, and that a learner’s potential should never be limited by circumstance. This belief guides our outreach and our commitment to providing practical, evidence-based support to underserved communities and vulnerable learners.
We believe learning science should not remain confined to research journals, specialized settings, or individual classrooms, and that a learner’s potential should never be limited by circumstance. This belief guides our outreach and our commitment to providing practical, evidence-based support to underserved communities and vulnerable learners.
Increasing Access Where it Matters Most
Meaningful change starts with the educators, families, and communities closest to students. By partnering with schools and community organizations, The Southport CoLAB brings evidence-based, classroom-tested support into learning environments where early intervention and explicit instruction can be life-changing.
Reaching Learners Through the People Who Support Them
The Southport CoLAB’s outreach reflects a broad commitment to access and impact. Some offerings are designed for educators and schools, others for families, caregivers, and community members, and many serve both.
Meaningful change starts with the educators, families, and communities closest to students. By partnering with schools and community organizations, The Southport CoLAB brings evidence-based, classroom-tested support into learning environments where early intervention and explicit instruction can be life-changing.
Reaching Learners Through the People Who Support Them
The Southport CoLAB’s outreach reflects a broad commitment to access and impact. Some offerings are designed for educators and schools, others for families, caregivers, and community members, and many serve both.
Across all efforts, the goal is the same: to help more people understand how students learn and apply practices that support every learner.
Bridging Learning Science and Lasting Change
Our work is designed for the realities of diverse classrooms, where strong instructional frameworks, explicit teaching, and evidence-based executive function and literacy practices can improve learning for all students.
Our work is designed for the realities of diverse classrooms, where strong instructional frameworks, explicit teaching, and evidence-based executive function and literacy practices can improve learning for all students.
By working with educators, schools, organizations, families, and communities, The Southport CoLAB helps build capacity across classrooms, systems, and everyday learning environments. We help leaders connect vision to execution, educators strengthen practice, and families access information that supports student growth.
This systems-level approach helps schools and communities move from fragmented programs and reactive support toward more coherent, proactive, and sustainable practices that benefit every learner.
Together, we are reaching more students and helping ensure that every learner, regardless of circumstance, has access to the understanding, instruction, and support needed to succeed.
Together, we are reaching more students and helping ensure that every learner, regardless of circumstance, has access to the understanding, instruction, and support needed to succeed.
Connect With Us
The Southport CoLAB welcomes opportunities to collaborate with educators, schools, districts, universities, community organizations, researchers, families, and agencies committed to improving outcomes for all learners.
Connect with us to explore outreach, collaboration, and community learning opportunities.
Fueling Access and Innovation
Philanthropic support helps make this work possible. Through generous grants and donor investment, The Southport CoLAB supports innovation, expands access, and extends its impact into the broader community.
Philanthropic support helps make this work possible. Through generous grants and donor investment, The Southport CoLAB supports innovation, expands access, and extends its impact into the broader community.
Outreach is not separate from our mission. It is one of the ways we live it.
The Rhimes Foundation
Helping Fulfill Our Mission
The Southport CoLAB is grateful for the generous support of The Rhimes Foundation, which has strengthened our capacity to expand access to learning science, professional learning, and practical resources for educators, families, and students, including those in underserved communities.
Through state-of-the-art technology, their support helps us reach beyond campus by hosting virtual events, streaming The Southport School’s Community Lecture Series programs, and offering online courses, webinars, and virtual participation in programs that connect educators and families with evidence-informed practices wherever they are.
Together, we are expanding access, strengthening teaching, and helping more learners reach their potential.
Impact By The Numbers
FY2025
671
Teachers Trained
14,420
Students likely Impacted
7
States Participated In CoLAB Training
103
Free Literacy Screenings 2024 - 2026