| | Accessible VersionCalifornia's Comprehensive Literacy Needs Assessment 2024 |
Professional Learning Support Division |
| This Comprehensive Literacy Needs Assessment is an integral part of the California Department of Education’s (CDE’s) recently awarded 2024 Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant. The survey utilizes a rubric for local educational agency (LEA) teams to identify at what stage or to what extent their systems result in optimal literacy outcomes for all students. It is designed as a tool for LEA teams to determine areas of strength and development related to literacy outcomes, not to evaluate the performance of participating LEAs, administrators, teachers, staff, or students. |
| Intended Respondents: This survey provides an opportunity for LEA faculty and staff to evaluate their literacy structures and supports. Teams can include county and district leaders, school administrators, multilingual education coordinators, instructional staff, special education staff, students, and families. |
| Instructions and Recommendations: LEA teams should discuss the questions on the survey and complete it as a group before completing it online. After an opening set of program-specific questions, the survey is divided into Key Topics (A–F) and poses evaluative questions. Each level of the developmental criteria refers to and builds upon the preceding levels. For example, the optimizing level includes not only its own descriptors, but also those from the emerging, developing, and operationalizing levels. All questions are required except those marked as optional. |
| One designated staff person from the team should submit a final version to the CDE. The electronic version is available on the CDE's CLSD webpage. For information about completing this survey or the electronic submission process, please email the CLSD grant team at CLSDP@cde.ca.gov. |
| Note: Select the Save Responses button on the first page of the survey if you do not intend to complete it in one session. You will receive a request to provide your email address. You will receive an email with a unique web address (URL) for accessing the survey. It is recommended that you copy the URL on the application web page and save it in the event you do not receive a confirmation email. This address will allow you to return to your needs assessment. Do not use the Back button until you receive the unique URL, as doing so will clear the contents in the response field(s). |
| Select Next to begin the Needs Assessment. |
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