School/District Highlights

Chenango Folks Central School District, Binghamton, New York

• The Chenango Forks Central School District is located in a suburban part of Broome County, nine miles north of Binghamton, NY. A variety of ssessments have shown that since launching Literacy Collaborative, fewer students are performing below grade level and more students are performing at and above grade level. Read more about Chenango Folks Schools District. [pdf]

Hudson City School District, Hudson, New York

• The Hudson City School District is a rural district located on the Hudson River, just south of Albany, NY. After incorporating Literacy Collaborative, students throughout the district began showing better and more consistent proficiency scores on statewide exams. Learn more about the Literacy Collaborative initiative at Hudson City School District. [pdf]

Pattengill Elementary School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• The Pattengill Elementary School is located in Ann Arbor, Mich. One literacy coordinator at Pattengill described their success with Literacy Collaborative like this: "Our rate of success in standardized state testing has gone from 48% to 72% over that past 5 years." Read about Pattengill's Literacy Collaborative results here. [pdf]

Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, Massachusetts-District Overview

• Literacy Collaborative began in Cambridge in 1998-1999 with the training of a primary level literacy coordinator at the Peabody School. Since that time, Literacy Collaborative schools have started closing achievement gap by bringing their performance up to and even beyond the performance of schools with less needy and diverse populations. Learn more about Cambridge Public Schools experience with Literacy Collaborative. [pdf]

Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, Massachusetts-Individual School Results

• Three schools have implemented primary and/or intermediate level Literacy Collaborative for a sufficient number of years to train classroom teachers in Literacy Collaborative instructional practices. Students in these school have achieved significant performance wins. Learn more about their results with Literacy Collaborative. [pdf]