A Practitioner’s Guide to Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students by Using Evidence to Strengthen Programs and Practices

This resource was developed to help state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) implement evidence-based literacy practices in their classrooms. It is based on the U.S. Department of Education’s Non-Regulatory Guidance for using evidence to improve teaching and learning that includes a five-step, continuous improvement cycle. Each step includes freely available, high-quality literacy resources developed by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES):

• Step 1:Identify Local Needs
• Step 2:Select Relevant, Evidence-Based Project Components
• Step 3:Plan for Implementation
• Step 4:Implement
• Step 5:Examine and Reflect

Click here to download the A Practitioner’s Guide to Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students by Using Evidence to Strengthen Programs and Practices.

This resource builds on the Literacy Roadmap produced by Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast.

Educators can also go to the Regional Educational Laboratories (REL) program page on the IES website to learn more about the program and search for other REL products and resources and the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) program page to search for other evidenced-pages policies, programs, and practices.