For the 2024–2025 school year, our focus was on strengthening literacy through the Pillars of Literacy. We explored innovative strategies, created school-wide learning opportunities, and engaged in professional development for staff. It was exciting to witness the growth in our staff’s understanding of literacy instruction and to see how students responded. 

This year, the 2025 - 2026 school year, we are refining and rethinking our current vision and moving beyond exploring the Pillars of Literacy to further support literacy instruction. During upcoming staff meetings, we will explore the following questions as a team and collecting feedback from staff:

1. How well do we feel our current vision—“Supporting growth in literacy through the use of the Pillars of Literacy”—reflects our current practice and needs?
2. Based on our school reading assessment data:
   a. What trends or patterns stand out to you?
   b. Which areas of literacy seem to need the most attention for your learners (e.g., phonics, fluency, comprehension, making connections, inferencing)?
3. What are some early ideas you have around supports, resources, strategies, or interventions to address these areas of need for your learners?
4. If we revisited and refined our school literacy vision while considering the reading assessment data, what new ideas or areas of focus should we include in our long-term plans?

As we explore these questions together, we will be looking into inviting staff to think about how they would like to be involved in shaping our refined vision and how we can work together as a community to best support this work.