Instructional Focus 2025-26

Teachers will strengthen high-quality core literacy instruction (Tier 1) by ensuring lessons are standards-aligned, explicit, and anchored in clear learning targets and success criteria. In addition, teachers will use current and historical data to identify and address individual and subgroup learning gaps through purposeful Tier 2 supports. By knowing our students well—academically, linguistically, and instructionally—we will provide equitable learning experiences that meet the needs of all learners and close achievement gaps among our subgroups.


Theory of Action 2025–26

If we strengthen Tier 1 instruction and engage in ongoing data analysis…

  • Deepen understanding and access to curriculum resources within HMH Into Reading, Fundations, and Heggerty.

  • Regularly collect and analyze both current and historical data (iReady, Acadience, HMH Module Assessments, FUNdations) to understand student needs and track growth.

  • Identify learning gaps, patterns, and trends for different student groups to plan targeted instructional responses.

  • Strengthen explicit instruction practices and ensure alignment between standards, learning targets, and classroom tasks.

  • Engage in PDSA cycles to reflect on how standards are being taught in Tier 1 and reinforced in Tier 2.

  • Administrators and ILETs will monitor, coach, and sustain this work through sustainability walks, data dives, and feedback cycles, while ensuring parents are aware of their child’s goals, progress, and supports.

…then we can provide a more equitable and effective learning experience for all learners, leading to measurable academic achievement:

  • Create flexible groups based on ongoing data and identified areas of need.

  • Utilize literacy centers and small-group instruction to provide targeted support aligned to student data, including phonics intervention for students in grades 3–5 who need foundational reinforcement.

  • Monitor and track individual student progress using consistent data systems to adjust instruction in real time.

  • Ensure that all students, particularly our ELLs, SWDs, and Hispanic and Black subgroups, receive targeted, data-informed instruction that accelerates growth and closes achievement gaps.s