Making the Right Literacy Investment for Your School

With National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores plunging to a new all-time low, it comes as no surprise administrators are reviewing their literacy investments for evidence of impact and return on investment. School leaders know they need rigorous, high-quality literacy programs that achieve measurable improvements in student learning. However, amidst funding uncertainty, competing priorities, and a crowded market, it’s become more difficult than ever for school leaders to evaluate their options and make confident, data-driven decisions. 

That’s where Lexia® comes in. We’ve created a checklist designed to cut through the noise and help school leaders reclaim certainty when assessing their literacy program options. From ease of use, technological compatibility, alignment with institutional goals, and more, administrators must balance multiple considerations as they evaluate their literacy investment. Stakes (and stakeholder concerns) have never been higher, and leaders need to feel confident their limited budget is going toward solutions that yield real, measurable results.  

For example, Anita Wansley, the principal of Northeast Elementary School, chose Lexia® Core5® Reading to boost reading skills for Northeast’s K–4 students. Core5’s comprehensive data helped educators make critical decisions regarding students’ readiness for the next grade. “As teachers and administrators, we can’t only pay attention to our intuition,” Wansley said, “but we also need to use data. Core5 provided meaningful actionable data for those discussions and helped to make those challenging decisions.” 

Solutions that leverage real-time data are better equipped to accelerate literacy learning than those that do not. However, this is just one crucial feature school leaders should look for when reviewing their programs. Learn more about each criterion, why it matters for program evaluation, and why Lexia is the ideal choice for data-driven, research-proven literacy solutions that offer administrators what Wansley calls the best “bang for [their] buck” by downloading our checklist “How To Be Sure: Evaluating Literacy Programs.”