Welcome to SERVE Center
At SERVE Center, we believe that education is advanced through knowledge, innovation and action. For the past two decades we have been committed to improving education for all students by:
- Building new knowledge through rigorous and relevant research;
- Promoting "best practices" and offering accessible and user-friendly resources and services;
- Transforming knowledge into action through quality professional development and hands-on technical assistance for educational professionals.
Building Vocabulary in the Primary Years
View video clips about SERVE Center's study of a new intervention that helps Mississippi Delta kindergartners make progress in vocabulary development.
Strategies for Building Vocabulary in the Primary Years is now featured in the SERVE Special Collection on Teachers' Domain.
Read the report, The Effectiveness of a Program to Accelerate Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten.