Ms. Tamagari, who led the committee that developed Council Rock School District's structured literacy materials, walked the education committee through a new section of the district website on Thursday and described the district's approach to implementation.

The presentation laid out a leadership-team process, a multi-grade needs assessment and an action plan that lists identified needs, proposed timelines, leads and measures of success. "So tonight we're gonna talk about what we've been doing in regards to our structured literacy initiative," Ms. Tamagari said as she opened the demonstration of the site.

The materials include links to state guidance (noted by Ms. Tamagari as Act 55 and Act 135) and a Pennsylvania State Literacy Plan template that the district used to draft local guiding principles. Staff said curriculum alignment tools such as Atlas now embed structured-literacy elements across K-12 ELA courses and that the district is building a three-year timeline to produce standards, teacher-facing materials and classroom resources.

Professional development is a major component: staff said LETRS training is underway for K-3 and specialized groups, while Aspire and other programs support upper-grade literacy practice. Ms. Tamagari said roughly 223 staff are in training cohorts and that the district has completed unit 1 with a reported pass rate of 92 percent for participants.

The webpage also summarizes assessment plans, including universal screeners such as DIBELS for early grades and a calibrated roadmap so the district can adjust when state-level accountability (Senate Bill 315 and forthcoming guidance) becomes final. "We want parents to be the partner in whatever we do," Ms. Tamagari said, explaining why the district is making materials public.

Board members asked about school-by-school differences and whether the plan was state-required; staff replied the literacy plan is a best practice rather than a direct mandate and said transparency helped families understand curriculum, assessments and supports. Administrators said they will post an updated needs-assessment summary and add review notes after twice-yearly internal reviews.