Pennsylvania
Literacy Progress Is Taking Shape in Pennsylvania Schools
Across the state, educators are strengthening instruction, aligning practices, and building more effective approaches to early literacy with support from AIM.
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What This Work Looks Like in Schools
Educators worked to strengthen structured literacy practices across classrooms, creating greater consistency throughout the school day.
Result: Kindergarten literacy gains of +20%
Instructional shifts toward more targeted, teacher-led support helped ensure students received the right support at the right time.
Result: 1st Grade literacy gains of +26%
What Educators Are Noticing
“As part of our work with AIM, we started using the Classroom Observation Protocol and saw an immediate increase in structured literacy practices. It really pushed us to look at literacy across the entire day. That’s been a big shift for us.”
“This work has pushed my coaching beyond just meeting with teachers and more into focusing on literacy instruction and how I can help teachers improve.”
How AIM Works Alongside Schools
AIM partners with schools and educators to strengthen literacy instruction through:
- Ongoing instructional support and coaching
- Practical, classroom-centered strategies
- Tools to observe and refine teaching practices
- Data-informed decision making
- A focus on sustainable, long-term literacy improvement
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Pennsylvania’s Literacy Leadership Moment
This webinar brings together Pennsylvania leaders, policymakers, and peers from states that have already navigated large-scale literacy change to share practical insights on what strong implementation looks like in practice. Through a candid, leader-to-leader conversation, participants will explore the literacy moves that matter most, strategies for supporting teachers through change, and lessons learned from states further along in this work.
Strengthen Literacy Instruction
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Connect with AIM to learn how schools across Pennsylvania are building stronger, more effective approaches to early literacy.
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