New York Midyear Literacy Leadership Checklist

The midpoint of the school year presents an opportunity to reflect on which literacy initiatives are working—and which need adjustments. After gathering months of progress data, school leaders can examine that information to determine next steps for enhancing literacy instruction.

This checklist for New York administrators provides questions you can ask about your school’s literacy approaches, focusing on four key areas:

• Data review, considering different types of progress data and ways to evaluate it

• Implementation quality, reviewing walkthroughs and findings related to instruction and intervention

• Equity and differentiation, determining whether instruction supports all students, including multilingual learners and those with different learning needs

• Teacher support, evaluating approaches to literacy coaching and support for educators who need it most

The checklist also provides guidance to help you make the greatest impact in your literacy adjustments. By considering actions you identified as partially or not yet completed, you can prioritize the steps that most need attention. 

With your checklist responses and identified priorities in mind, you can use the checklist’s prompt about what one decision would make the greatest impact to determine where to begin. 

Download the checklist for New York administrators now to explore the best ways to effect data-driven literacy change for the rest of the school year.