Overview

The curriculum of the Education – Literacy P-12 program offered at Eastern Kentucky University focuses on education best practices and promotes knowledge, awareness, and understanding of the unique needs of different student populations.

Literacy P-12 is a 30 hour program promoting the skill sets needed to become literacy leaders at the school, district, or state level. Throughout the program, candidates will work with students and teachers in aims of providing literacy instruction that reflects current trends and issues and works to provide equitable literacy experiences for all students. Upon successful passing of the Reading Specialist Praxis, our program leads to certification as a Literacy Specialist P-12 and prepares educators to tackle both school-wide literacy challenges and address individual student needs in literacy.

Career options include:

Reading specialist (P-12);
reading and writing teacher in elementary, middle or high schools;
literacy coach (P-12);
teacher leader educator

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Leadership Skills for Teachers
Literacy Programs
Reading Instruction in Middle School
Writing and Teaching Writing
Writing Project Summer Institute
Teaching Grammar and Punctuation

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-05-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-05 00:00:00
Starting 2026-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-08-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus, Online

Campus Location

Richmond, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Meet the requirements of the graduate school
Have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 overall or a 3.25 in the last 60 hours completed
or have a verbal score of 150 and a qualitative score of 140 on the GRE

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

13110 USD / year

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Out-of-State

13110 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

13110 USD / year

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Living costs

Richmond

United States

900 - 1400 USD / month

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Funding

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