Pathways to Proficiency: Your ACT 20 Literacy Support System

Turning mandates into momentum: District-level ACT 20 supports that lead to lasting literacy impact. Wisconsin’s ACT 20 requires actionable literacy plans, timely interventions, and consistent progress monitoring. The layers of services connect districts with expert guidance to support schools through testing, Personal Reading Plan (PRP) development, intervention implementation, and 3–4 week progress checks — ensuring every student receives the right support at the right time.

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Benefits

  • K-3 focus; Adaptable for grades 4K–5
  • Each layer of service provides unique benefits on-site, in your district.

Screening to Personalization: Go beyond compliance by personalizing PRPs using student-specific data and instructional needs.

Instructional Coaching: Get embedded support for Tier 1 small-group instruction and targeted Tier 2/3 interventions.

Accountable Growth: Use consistent progress monitoring cycles to reevaluate and refine plans and interventions.

Systems Thinking: Build a sustainable process aligned to ACT 20 without overburdening your staff.

Who might benefit from participating?

  • Curriculum & Instruction Directors
  • Special Education Directors
  • Elementary Principals
  • Reading Specialists
  • Interventionists
  • Teacher Leaders

Outcomes/Deliverables

This service connects your district with a CESA 6 literacy consultant to guide and refine Act 20 processes across any of the four required areas following a gradual release model to build capacity within your system.

  • Assessment: Support for universal screeners and diagnostic data interpretation
    • Universal Screener Support
      • Provide protocols for administering screeners with fidelity.
      • Building a sustainable screening and assessment system.
    • Diagnostic Assessment Support
      • Help identify diagnostic tools that align with gaps identified in screeners.
      • Develop checklists and modeling support for correct administration.
      • Create implementation guides with timelines and student group prioritization.
  • Personal Reading Plans (PRPs): Templates, training, and co-creation of personalized, student-specific plans
    • Strengthening PRP goals and alignment to instructional needs with a targeted intervention
    • How to make PRP goal writing and monitoring sustainable within your system
  • Intervention: Coaching for core instruction, Tier 2 and 3 support, and small-group routines
    • Strengthen decision-making processes for initial alignment of intervention and how decisions change based on data
    • District and/or individual coaching based on a gradual release model
    • Product Coming soon: Bundle Packages to support targeted skill interventions
  • Progress Monitoring: Tools and calendars for three-week check-ins with data-based decisions
    • Strengthening PRP goal alignment to progress monitoring tools beyond Act 20 requirements.
    • Transition decisions when students meet the goals of their PRPs