At Lit, we believe that aligning systems and structures to research — and consistently coaching leaders to implement those systems — will lead to sustained student success.
Our evidence shows that it’s working.
Every partnership begins with a Lit Quality Review (LQR). Using our Reading Ecosystem Alignment Diagnostic (READ), Lit’s reading experts closely examine historical data and instructional artifacts, and spend days in schools evaluating current strengths and opportunities. We evaluate across nine evidence-based indicators.
Every client who participated in a pre- and post-partnership diagnostic increased their scores, demonstrating a stronger, more sustainable reading ecosystem for kids.
Lit’s side-by-side coaching is building leaders’ confidence to lead their systems independently. In fact, 95% of our clients say, “Lit coaching has made me a stronger literacy instructional leader.”
As a result, more children are developing the skills, habits, and mindsets to be confident, lifelong readers. Our longest partners just celebrated the highest number of third graders passing their state reading assessment in school history.
Their work shows that investing at the system level creates ongoing, sustainable outcomes.
Since our start, Lit’s transformative approach to fostering equitable reading ecosystems has benefited more than 70,000 students across 23 states, providing numerous opportunities for children to unlock their potential.
Adelante Schools worked with Lit to craft an intentional vision of what an equitable literacy ecosystem would like at their school, and create an implementation plan that would ensure long-term sustainability and replicability at the systems level.
Through boots on the ground support, thought partnership, knowledge sharing, and coaching, Lit walked Adelante through the process of supporting change from the classroom to the C-suite. By the 2023-2024 school year, 72% of Adelante’s third graders passed the state reading proficiency exam, up from 53% at the start – a schoolwide record.
Adelante has continued to sustain and grow those gains (86% of third graders passed IREAD-3 in 2025), demonstrating the power of Lit’s emphasis on system capacity building.
