Accelerating Literacy Growth for Oregon Secondary Students

To address pandemic-related declines in its literacy scores, Beaverton School District in Oregon needed a scalable, data-driven approach to delivering targeted interventions. It found the solution in Lexia® PowerUp Literacy®.

Highlights from this case study examine the following details of the district’s use of PowerUp for grades 6–12:

• Implementation as a Tier 2 intervention

• Results, including nearly doubling the number of students who reached advanced comprehension skills

• Impact of pairing targeted instruction with real-time data

PowerUp accelerates literacy gains for students who are at risk of not meeting college- and career-ready standards. Rooted in the science of reading and proven to be up to five times as effective as the average middle school reading intervention, PowerUp enables students to make multiple years of growth in a single academic year.

“PowerUp is one tool that can really adapt to student needs,” said Robin Kobrowski, executive administrator for pre-K–8 and language arts K–12. “What I like about PowerUp is that it provides students with work in foundational skills, and that can be a hard area for secondary educators; it’s not something they were trained in.”

Download the case study highlights to explore more details of Beaverton School District’s use of PowerUp and the literacy gains the program helped students achieve.