Tell Your Literacy Story

An organization building a full structured literacy system will need to be able to succinctly tell their structured literacy story, including what has been completed to date, where the organization is going next and when impact on leading indicators and outcome measures should be expected. Misalignment on what has taken place or is in development can lead to misalignment of expectations and abandonment of the broader plan.

Objective:

  • Create a full literacy story deck that can be shared with board members, district leaders or all staff to document where the organization is and is headed. Typical Agenda:

    • Overarching Vision

    • Driving Documents

    • System Component Status

    • Educator Outcomes

    • Community Involvement

    • Student Outcomes

You-do Option

We hope you find this tool useful and can apply it straight away. If you need our assistance, please see the “We-do” options at the bottom of the page.

1) Overarching Vision

2) Driving Documents

3) System Component Status

4) Educator Outcomes

5) Community Involvement

6) Student Outcomes

  • Insert the Overarching Vision, Overarching Organization Mission, Strategic Plan Elements Linked Specifically to Literacy, Any student outcome or teacher preparation specific goals and any principles or belief statements developed by the literacy offices.

  • Insert links and pictures of Driving Documents like MTSS plans, Comprehensive Literacy Plans, Literacy Frameworks, Classroom or School Walkthroughs, Instructional Plans or more.

  • Prompts will guide you to add a brief statement about the key System Components and their Status. If you have key literacy principles or alternative component language, you may want to adapt to fit that language.

    On the second slide:

    1. Drag components along a timeline. This is key to set expectations of when leading indicators may change or have changed and when to expect proficiency gains.

    2. Adjust timeline to fit actual years and stages. Stages may take more than one year and stages can be in the future.

  • Update this slide to cover who has been empowered with structured literacy training and the current educator outcomes around structured literacy.

  • Include any Community Involvement steps taken to date including awareness events and student reporting.

  • Include student outcome results for leading indicators or proficiency measures. If outcome improvements are still pending, set expectations based on educator empowerment and instructional change timelines.

  • Suggestions are included for additional slides but suggest keeping your literacy story as brief as possible to highlight status and priorities.

  • Contact us if you are interested in “We-do” options starting at $1500.

We-do Options

  • We provide a $1500 “We-do” option that includes:

    • 1 hour exploratory meeting

    • Full completion of all slides

    • Follow up presentation of the deck.

    • Additional support up to 2 hours.

    • Slides and templates customized to meet organization branding.

  • $3500 service includes all aspects from District Story Assistance and 10 additional hours of revision and coaching for more in-depth presentations and/or accompanying material.

  • If you would like help organizing and planning large scale system initiatives and need assistance beyond this tool, please contact us or schedule a 30 minute consultation.