In May 2011, Education Director Shelea Majors and two other researchers from the Univ. of Rochester implemented a limited pilot of one phase of a literacy intervention that is based in a new model of education theory, which recognized literacy as inherently multi-modal, culturally situated, and power laden.  Kino-Eye Center president Cesare Wright worked with the researchers to create a short documentary film about the initiative.  The Kino-Eye Center is currently sponsoring research and applying for private and federal grant funding, in order to secure the resources to further develop the Deconstructing Literacy project and create an intervention model that may be implemented on a national scale.

The Deconstructing Literacy program emphasizes the value of the pre-existing literacy practices that students bring to the classroom. More specifically, the program allows students the space to use a wide range of literacy practices (particularly New Media modes), in order to bridge a pervasive gap in the comprehensibility and accessibility of expressly academic literacy.

Watch the Deconstructing Literacy mini-documentary: