System Design Principles

Components of Highly Effective Literacy Systems

• Continuous quality improvement

• Protected block of daily reading instructional time (minimum two hours)

• Reading prioritized system-wide

• Ongoing assessment

• Simplified regular assessment administered system-wide

• Data driven decision making

• Collaborative stake-holder participation in reading system design

• Harmonized, tiered instruction

• Innovative thinking and strategizing

• Functional small group instruction within the classroom

• Fluid student grouping based on meeting deficit needs as they arise

• High expectations for all learners

• Stakeholders acquire conceptual understanding of the tenets of reading

• Teachers freed to teach