Closing the Data-to-Action Gap in Minnesota Literacy

Minnesota school leaders are collecting more literacy data than ever, but the real challenge lies in knowing what to do with it. Under the Minnesota READ Act, districts are using screening, progress-monitoring, and intervention data to support literacy improvement and inform their Local Literacy Plans.

This guide provides school and district leaders with a practical framework for turning disparate data sets into actionable next steps that lead to reading gains for students. It explains how to move from gathering screener results to creating effective targeted intervention groups. It also explains why it’s critical to look beyond composite scores to identify students’ specific skill needs, and how to use ongoing performance data to determine whether an intervention is working.

The guide further explores how literacy data can inform decisions about staffing, scheduling, and funding. Administrators will receive practical routines they can follow to ensure that the data they capture informs individual student, classroom, grade-level, and school-level literacy decisions. 

Discover how weekly data scans, four- to six-week intervention reviews, and literacy leadership meetings each play a role in keeping teams focused on next steps. You’ll also see how data from Lexia® Core5® Reading and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® can connect instruction, ongoing performance data, and decision-making.

The goal for Minnesota administrators is to create a clear, repeatable path that meets the READ Act mandates and advances students. To learn more about how you can transform literacy data into timely, targeted intervention decisions that make the best use of your resources, download the guide.