Schools need to draw from data about student performance, teacher practice, and school capacity to create effective, schoolwide literacy and learning action plans that accelerate the literacy and learning development of all students. Public Consulting Group's Literacy & Learning Audit (grades 5-12) integrates your school's data and compares your instructional practices with research-based best practices. You receive a detailed, customized analysis of current school and teacher capacity for literacy and learning instruction as well as specific, actionable recommendations for improvement.

Literacy & Learning Audit Process

PCG's Literacy & Learning Audit is a data- and research-based needs assessment and action planning process that builds schoolwide capacity to support literacy and learning development for all students.

PCG collects data about your school's assessments, programs, instructional practices, structures, and procedures. PCG's adolescent literacy experts analyze the data in light of student achievement and research-based practices that positively impact student learning. They then prepare a custom Literacy & Learning Audit Report identifying current strengths and weaknesses and make actionable recommendations for improving the literacy and learning focus of your school. The Literacy & Learning Audit Report also includes a three-year professional development plan and a one-year action plan.

• Leadership roles and responsibilities
• Use of data to inform decision making
• Teacher professional development
• Integrating literacy and learning across the content areas
• Student motivation and engagement
• Intensive interventions for struggling readers
• School culture and structural supports for literacy and learning
• Parent and community involvement as partners with the school

The PCG Literacy & Learning Audit Report

Each Literacy & Learning Audit Report is an interactive document that provides administrators and school and district literacy leaders with:

• Over 70 pages of analysis, conclusions, and actionable recommendations specifically built on your school's data
• Over three dozen full-color graphics describing your staff’s current literacy and learning practices and procedures, as well as their perceptions about literacy and learning in your school
• Research summaries and guiding questions for use when reviewing data with colleagues and staff

The Literacy & Learning Audit Report provides a comprehensive analysis of your school's data including:

• Key findings based on in-depth analyses and syntheses of student performance, teacher practices, and school capacity for literacy and learning development
• Recommendations for planning and improvement based on the Literacy Leadership Model (Irvin and Meltzer, ASCD, 2008).
• A customized three-year schoolwide literacy and learning Professional Development Plan to help teachers accelerate all students’ literacy and learning development.

Key Components of the PCG Literacy & Learning Audit

• Use student performance data to inform curriculum, instruction, and schoolwide improvements for literacy and learning
• Gain an integrated view of the patterns and trends in data within and across multiple assessments

PCG's Teacher Survey of Classroom Practices

• Identifies the frequency of teacher use of specific instructional practices that support literacy and learning across the school, often showing wide gaps where support is insufficient
• Prioritizes current practices so classroom instruction strengths are recognized and areas for growth are identified
• Reports teacher use of specific practices in components of literacy and learning, such as reading, writing, speaking, critical thinking, and 21st century learning skills that support content area learning and readiness for future learning and the workplace
• Informs the professional development needs of teachers to learn research-based literacy and learning support strategies and instructional practices so all students can accelerate their content learning and literacy and learning development

PCG's Schoolwide Literacy & Learning Capacity Profile

In order to move forward, a school needs to understand its current capacity and opportunities for improvement in four key areas:

• School culture, particularly teachers' literacy and learning beliefs, instructional commitments, and student expectations
• School policies and procedures that sustain a multi-faceted approach to literacy and learning
• Structural supports such as scheduling, professional development, common planning time, and interventions for struggling readers
• Resource allocations for staffing, instructional materials, and technology

PCG's School Information Checklist

• Documents factual overview of the school
• Includes data such as number of staff and their responsibilities, grade levels, organizational structure, special programs