North Dakota Department of Public Instruction

The buyer seeks a contractor to design and deliver professional learning to educators in North Dakota Comprehensive Literacy Improvement grantee schools. The network will facilitate improvement cycles supported by local implementation practices and provide evidence-based learning content. The contractor will collaborate with the buyer on design and delivery, establish networking structures, develop facilitators, and track participant engagement. The project aims to improve literacy instruction and student achievement across North Dakota.

• 3/13/2025 - Deadline for Questions
• 3/20/2025 - Amendment with Responses Issued
• 4/10/2025 - Proposal Due Date
• 5/9/2025 - Contract Start

• Experience with literacy and Science of Reading professional development delivery across K-12
• Experience with implementation of professional development
• Experience with the implementation of improvement science
• Experience with MTSS implementation

• Design and deliver professional learning to educators in ND CLIMBS grantee schools
• Facilitate improvement cycles supported by local implementation practices
• Provide evidence-based learning content aligned with science of reading
• Establish networking structure for participants to implement and refine instructional delivery
• Develop and train facilitators on literacy content and network protocol
• Collaborate on development of teacher confidence survey tied to ELA standards
• Implement goal-setting structure for individual improvement cycles
• Organize collaborative events for observation and network learning
• Track and report participant engagement
• Provide guidance for educators to achieve comprehensive literacy instruction knowledge