For over two decades, every school in New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) has selected its own curriculum, resulting in inconsistent quality and cultural relevance, an inability to comprehensively align professional learning with content, and a lack of understanding of what was working and what wasn’t. E4E educators from all five boroughs drafted recommendations calling on NYCPS to transform the selection of curriculum and its currently haphazard implementation. They brought these recommendations to their colleagues, garnered feedback, went back to the drawing board, and ultimately collected over 1,000 signatures in support of the final product. After meetings with Deputy Chancellors, a panel discussion with Schools Chancellor David Banks, dozens of school visits and monthly educator convenings, NYCPS announced “NYC Reads”, an early literacy initiative that will limit K-5 ELA to one of three curricula - - each of which is grounded in the Science of Reading -- to be selected and used uniformly across each of NYCPS’s 32 local districts, impacting 300,000 students. The effects of this change, if implemented properly, are hard to fathom. In NYS, 14% of Black fourth graders and 20% of Latinx fourth graders are proficient in reading. These new curricula stand to triple or quadruple those figures, and the impact on each student that those numbers represent will be truly life changing. New York City is also the largest school district in the country and often sets the tone for other districts. The press coverage and national attention NYC Reads garnered has the potential to revolutionize ELA curriculum and professional learning across the US.