Read the legislation here.  (Begins on page 615 with Sec. 394 and concludes on page 633 with Sec. 404)

Reading Leadership Implementation Council, as mandated by Sec. 402 (8c)

Members

Dr. Maureen Brummett, Newington Public Schools
Dr. Michael Coyne, Dean of the Neag School of Education UCONN
Dr. Margie Gillis, Literacy How, Inc.
Ms. Kim Healy, Wilton, CT 
Mr. Steven Hernandez Esq., Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity (CWCSEO)
Dr. Melissa Jenkins, Bridgeport Public Schools
Ms. Cristina Kingsbury, Waterbury, CT
Ms. Stephanie Lockhart, Wethersfield, CT 
Ms. Frances Rabinowitz, Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)
Ms. Lisa Thomas, Coventry, CT
Ms. Christina Tietz, Watertown, CT

Commission Staff
Dr. Melissa K. Wlodarczyk Hickey, Connecticut State Department of Education
Irene E. Parisi, Connecticut State Department of Education

🎥 Watch: Reading Leadership Implementation Council Meeting, January 13

September 30, 2021 CSDE Update: Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success (HB 6620, SB 1202)  with Irene Parisi, Chief Academic Officer for CSDE
📂 Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success and other CSDE Updates

📜What will the Center do?
• Approve Universal K-3 Reading Assessments and Provide Guidance
• Approve at least 5 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs
• Oversee an intensive reading instruction program and provide to Alliance Districts (upon request)
• Provide an Intensive Reading Intervention Strategy to Alliance Districts
• Work with Local and Regional Boards of Education

📜What must all Local and Regional Boards of Education do?
For School Year Commencing July 1, 2023:
• Implement a K-3 reading curriculum model or program approved by the Center.
– If the local or regional board demonstrates to the Commissioner of Education that such board has insufficient resources or funding to implement any of the approved reading curriculum model or programs, Commissioner shall grant time extension.
– Commissioner and Center may grant a waiver to local and regional boards of education to implement a model/program other than those approved by Center.
• Use one of the approved Universal K-3 Screening Reading Assessments to identify
K-3 students below proficiency in reading

📜What must local or regional boards of education having an Alliance District do?
Commencing July 1, 2022:
• Consult with Center to provide supplemental reading instruction to K-3 students below proficiency
• Ensure reading remediation plans have been developed by a reading interventionist for each K-3 student enrolled in an elementary school in an Alliance District who has been identified as reading below proficiency
• Ensure the principal of each elementary in an Alliance District must notify the parent/guardian of any K-3 student who has been identified as being below proficiency in reading
• Consult with Center to provide any K-3 student below proficiency at the end of the school year with an intensive summer school reading instruction program

The CSDE has established an open review period from May 4, 2022–May 25, 2022, to assist in the
identification of Connecticut reading curricula models and/or programs. During the open review period, districts may submit recommendations for Grades Pre-Kindergarten–3 reading curricula models and/or programs to be considered for review by the CSDE, in consultation with the Reading Leadership Implementation Council. 

CLICK HERE for more information about the Open Review Process and how to submit a program for review.