K-12 Literacy Consulting · Proven in NYC Public Schools
When reading scores won’t move, the problem isn’t your teachers. It’s the system around them.
CSAS partners with schools and districts to turn literacy plans into measurable reading growth through job-embedded coaching, leadership development, and MTSS systems grounded in the Science of Reading. We don’t deliver workshops and leave. We build capacity that stays.
Partner schools
NYC school districts
Students reached
Point benchmark gain, BOY→EOY
Every figure we publish is verified directly against source benchmark data. Built in the nation’s largest school system. Designed to work in yours.
One School Year, In Motion
Drag through the year. Watch students become readers.
This is composite Acadience Reading benchmark data from our 2025–2026 partner schools: real students, real classrooms, one school year of job-embedded partnership. Move the slider from September to June.
In September, 1 in 3 students at our partner schools scored well below benchmark. Here is what a year of embedded partnership changed.
How We Measure ItThe Case for Urgency
The science is settled. The gap is instructional.
%
of our children can learn to read at proficient and advanced levels when they receive evidence-based, systematic structured literacy instruction.
What the reading research shows
%
of fourth-grade students in the United States are not yet reading at a proficient level.
2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
The distance between these two numbers is not ability. It is instruction.
The Real Challenge
You bought the curriculum. You trained the teachers. So why isn’t the needle moving?
Your Teachers
“We’ve done the workshops. Monday looked the same as Friday.”
Tap to see why
What’s actually needed
Teachers need more than training.One day workshops fade by Friday. Teachers need live modeling, co-teaching, feedback, and coaching inside the lessons they actually teach, week after week, until new practice becomes daily practice.
Your Leaders
“We have the data. The meetings don’t change anything.”Tap to see why
What’s actually needed
Leaders need systems, not slogans.Principals need routines they can run: walkthroughs that see the right things, data meetings that end in decisions, intervention placement that moves students, not another binder on the shelf.
Your Students
“The intervention lists keep growing. The same kids stay on them.”Tap to see why
What’s actually needed
Students need precision.A struggling reader isn’t “behind.” She has a specific, findable skill gap. Instruction has to target the exact strand blocking her growth: decoding, language comprehension, or both.
Your District
“Every initiative works. Until the consultants leave.”Tap to see why
What’s actually needed
Districts need what lasts.The real test of any consultant is what remains after they leave. If results depend on our presence, we haven’t done our job. Capacity that stays is the entire point.
Your Diagnosis
You just described four symptoms of one condition: an implementation problem.
The good news: implementation problems are fixable, and unlike curriculum problems, fixing them doesn’t start with buying anything new.
The CSAS Difference
We build capacity. We don’t leave dependency.
Most professional development is designed to be repeated. Ours is designed to become unnecessary.
Sit-and-get PD
Delivers training days, then moves on
Leaves resources, not routines
Measures success by attendance
Implementation fades within weeks
Success depends on the consultant returning
The CSAS partnership
Diagnoses your system before prescribing anything
Models and co-teaches in real classrooms
Coaches teachers and leaders side by side, all year
Measures success by student benchmark growth
Transfers ownership so the work continues without us
What We Do
Four levers. One goal: every student achieving.
Four services, four verified results. Select any card to go straight to that service page, or explore them all together.
01 Literacy Instruction
Structured literacy in every classroom, every tier, every day.
From foundational skills in the early grades through fluency and comprehension in the upper grades, implemented inside the curriculum your district already owns, with coaching that reaches every classroom.
25% → 86%
Kindergartners at or above benchmark, one school year (Brooklyn partner school)
02 Leadership Development
Structured literacy in every classroom, every tier, every day.
Principals and instructional leaders learn to run data meetings that change practice, protect instructional time, and build schoolwide systems where strong teaching is the norm, not the exception.
11 of 11
District 32 partner schools improved across three consecutive years
03 MTSS & Intervention Systems
The right support, for the right student, at the right time.
Tiered intervention systems that connect screening data to the right programs: placement decision rules, program alignment, and progress monitoring routines your teams run themselves.
38% → 61%
Students at or above benchmark across partner schools, BOY to EOY
04 Specially Designed Instruction for Diverse Learners
No student’s services come at the expense of the other.
SDI for students with disabilities, alongside language-rich structured literacy for English language learners and multilingual learners, and for dually identified students, both needs addressed together.
3% → 65%
One partner school’s grade level at or above benchmark, in a single year
Not sure which lever comes first? Most partnerships combine them. A 30-minute strategy call maps the levers to your benchmark data and gives you a concrete scope, usually in one conversation.
Why Our Approach Works
Grounded in the science of reading. Proven in implementation.
The Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Rope, structured literacy, MTSS, and implementation science, woven into every coaching day. Climb the rope from research to results.
The CSAS Coaching Cycle
Six phases. Then we do it again.
Diagnostic Walkthrough
Consultants and school leaders visit classrooms together with a shared look-for protocol, then review benchmark data side by side. By the end of day one, everyone agrees on the same two or three instructional priorities.
Evidence That Matters
We don’t ask you to trust our approach. We show you the numbers.
Every figure below comes from real partner schools, including our work as an NYC Reads Partner across 12 community school districts.
- Students at or above benchmark: Beginning of Year 38%
- Students at or above benchmark: End of Year 61%
- Students well below benchmark: Beginning of Year 34%
- Students well below benchmark: End of Year 20%
Acadience Reading composite benchmark data, partner schools, 2025–2026. Every figure verified against source data.
3%→65%
School Spotlight
In a single school year of structured literacy implementation, one partner school moved a grade level from 3% of students at or above benchmark to 65% at or above benchmark.
Acadience Reading composite, beginning of year to end of year.
25%→86%
Kindergarten · Brooklyn
Students at or above benchmark more than tripled: 30 of 35 kindergartners finished the year on track.
18%→65%
Grade 1 · Brooklyn
First graders at or above benchmark more than tripled across the year: a 47 point gain.
46%→75%
Grade 2 · Brooklyn
Three of every four second graders finished the year reading at or above benchmark, up 29 points.
Spotlight and grade-level results are drawn from different partner schools. Acadience Reading composite, beginning of year to end of year, 2025–2026, each verified against source data.
Meet the Students Behind the Data
Every percentage point has a face.
Five people. Five turning points. Choose one and follow their year, from the September everyone worried about to the spring nobody saw coming.
Marcus, Grade 2
Composite portraits drawn from CSAS partner classrooms. Names and details changed to protect privacy.
Who We Serve
Wherever you lead, start here.
NYC Public Schools
We are already inside your system: approved NYCPS vendor, twelve districts, all five boroughs, NYC Reads. K–2 foundational skills. Grades 3–5 vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Grades 6–8 MTSS and intervention. One purchase order away from the partner whose schools went 11 for 11.
Districts Nationwide
Your state passed the mandate. We build the version that actually teaches children to read. Assessment readiness. Embedded coaching. Leadership systems. MTSS that works in practice, not just on paper. Verified growth by the mid-year window, or the plan changes.
State Agencies & Partners
We have sat on your side of the table. State and federal service. Professional development delivered at statewide scale. Turnaround work that held. Bring us your highest-stakes initiative. We have carried heavier.
You have seen how we work. The next step takes thirty minutes.
Bring your benchmark data. A real person replies within two business days.
The Cost of Standing Still
The most expensive curriculum is the one that never reaches the classroom.
Districts spend millions on programs, assessments, and training, then switch curricula when scores don’t move, and start over. Estimate what stalled implementation is costing your district right now.
That’s the literacy investment your district has already made that isn’t yet reaching students as measurable reading growth: roughly 850 students currently reading below benchmark, if your district mirrors national screening averages.
Illustrative estimate based on your inputs and typical benchmark distributions. A CSAS diagnostic replaces this estimate with your actual data.
From New York City School Leaders, 2025–2026
In their words.
Six principals. Six partner schools. Tap any card for the full quote.
Recognized at the State and Federal Level
“Dr. Williams has consistently demonstrated her outstanding state-level executive educational leadership abilities, setting a national standard by creating one of the most impressive and comprehensive statewide professional development plans to address closing the achievement gap for all students.”
Williams Knudsen, Ph.D. Former OSEP Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
“Dr. Chandra Williams is a dynamic speaker and phenomenal leader, specializing in turnaround structures and processes. Her sessions proved to be one of the highlights of the conference as each one filled to capacity. Her understanding of the state agency’s responsibility as well as the school leader’s role in turnaround is unparalleled.”
Jamilliah Longino, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent School Improvement, Mississippi Department of Education
Questions Leaders Ask Us
Straight answers, before you ever get on a call.
What is job-embedded literacy coaching, exactly?
It means our consultants work inside your classrooms, modeling lessons, co-teaching, observing, and debriefing with teachers week after week, instead of delivering one-day workshops. Practice changes where teaching happens, so that’s where we work.
How quickly will we see results?
We measure at every benchmark window (beginning, middle, and end of year), so you see movement within the first year, not after it. Across our 2025–2026 partner schools, students at or above benchmark grew from 38% to 61% between fall and spring.
Do you work outside New York City?
Yes. Our model was proven in the nation’s largest and most complex school system, and we partner with districts nationwide, especially in Science of Reading mandate states, and with state education agencies pursuing statewide initiatives.
Do we have to change our curriculum to work with you?
No. We are curriculum agnostic. We help your teachers implement the programs your district has already adopted with fidelity, and we build data routines around the universal screeners you already use, including Acadience Reading.
How is CSAS different from other literacy consultants?
Three ways. We coach inside classrooms rather than delivering workshops. We publish results and verify them against source benchmark data. And every partnership is designed to transfer ownership, so your system keeps working after we leave. We build capacity, not dependency.
What does a partnership cost?
Engagements are scoped to your goals, from targeted 4–10 day per school partnerships to deep 11–50 day anchor engagements.
Start the Conversation
Your students are ready. So are we.
Tell us about your school or district, and we’ll build a partnership plan around your goals, your data, and your calendar. No pitch decks. A working conversation about your students.
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