The supports and constraints each program includes also vary widely. Some provide basal readers and workbooks, while others put their money into professional development for teachers.
Literacy now drives each school's planning, budget, professional development, practice, and more.
Each school has its coach, trained by the Challenge partnership, who helps teachers reflect on and adjust their own instruction after looking closely together at student work. The focus on coherence seems to be working. I teachers into the classroom, for instance, to reduce class size across the school. Theory is not only out there in those journals. A literacy coach in the classroom can make an enormous difference, agree many other Annenberg initiatives that have adopted the practice.