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Michigan's Ultimate Ally for Literacy

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GRANTS OPPORTUNITY

Fund Your District Literacy Plan with Grants. Act Now!

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Section 35m | Non-Competitive Formula Grant

  • $87 million available statewide!
  • Prioritizes Tier 1 Core Literacy Materials like IMSE OG
  • Funds curriculum, professional learning and implementation
  • Act fast! Closes July 11, 2025

Application Checklist   |   Funding Details

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Section 35n | Competitive Grant

  • High-impact short-term funding
  • Supports evidence-based literacy with built-in educator supports - like IMSE’s
  • The competitive application is open for ~30 days
  • Hurry! Closes July 11, 2025

35n Grant Overview  |   FAQs

Case Study

Wyandotte Public Schools (WPS) Doubles Student Reading Proficiency

Using funding made available through Michigan Department of Education grants, WPS administrators pursued a two-pronged approach to supercharging its literacy curriculum. The district hired and embedded literacy coaches who followed Michigan’s official coaching model and applied state funds to train its teachers in IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham approach. 

The result? Striking gains in reading ability, boosts in self-belief, and equitable improvement throughout the district’s schools. 

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IMSE IN ACTION

Discover How an IMSE Raffle Changed the Life of This Michigan Educator

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Former Student Intervention Specialist Angela Massey’s path to literacy leadership began in early 2020 when she went to a Michigan Elementary & Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA) conference. There, she entered into a raffle drawing at the IMSE booth and, much to her surprise, won a free training in IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham strategies. 

That prize has now gone on to change her life and the lives of many students. As an educator in a Jackson County, Michigan district, Angela served as a special education teacher, a classroom teacher, and an interventionist before she took the lead on Individual Reading Intervention Plans at her school. Her IMSE training proved to be especially impactful after the disruption of COVID.

“I was so excited to begin this new literacy journey,” Angela recalls. “I was able to use my training and had amazing results. We expected that I would have a total of 17 kids behind grade level by the end of the 2020-2021 school year, but I ended up only having four!”

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With IMSE, the time commitment is worth everything. You walk away with life-changing resources. You work hard, and it can be slow before you see results, but then it clicks for your students. Be patient and trust the process!”

Angela Massey
Former Student Intervention Specialist, Jackson County, Michigan District

More Michigan teachers are now able to receive the IMSE training that changed Angela’s life, thanks to the MDE 35d grant initiative from the Michigan state government. Since the inception of the grants in 2020, IMSE has witnessed an overwhelming response from educators eager to receive structured literacy training. 

Over 1,600 educators from 180 school districts across Michigan have leveraged MDE 35d grants in the last three years to take IMSE Impact training.

To learn more about Angela Massey’s IMSE journey, read the blog.

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IMSE Fulfills State Law

Under October 2024 Senate Bills 567 and 568, Michigan educators are required to use approved tools to screen students in grades K-3 for characteristics of dyslexia, provide students in need with effective reading interventions, provide staff with professional learning consistent with the science of reading, and choose literacy instructional materials from a list of approved sources. 

IMSE courses, coaches, and resources not only satisfy the requirements of these laws, but are proven to help students learn to read.

IMSE (The Institute for Multi-Sensory Education) has decades of experience training educators to make an immediate impact on student literacy. Join the 1,200 schools and districts in Michigan that are using proven, easy-to-adopt structured literacy programs built on the science of reading. More than 8,000 educators in the state are already IMSE-trained.

The IMSE approach works for every student. Every age. Every stage. Together, we can cure the literacy crisis.

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Michigan-based school district, Stockbridge Community Schools, recently implemented IMSE’s literacy instruction based on the science of reading to provide students with better support. Since the school has seen drastic improvements in students’ reading scores, other schools and districts are starting to take note as they also begin to notice the impact of evidence-based strategies.

To learn more about Stockbridge's IMSE journey, read the blog.

Every student deserves to read. Get the literacy solution you’ve been waiting for — sign up for an IMSE training today.

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