About Us
Career educators. One obsession: every child reading.
The Center for Student Achievement Solutions is a K–12 literacy consulting firm built by educators who have worked at every level of the system: classroom, principal’s office, district cabinet, and state agency. We bring science of reading expertise, structured literacy coaching, and job-embedded professional development into real classrooms, and we measure ourselves by one thing only: student benchmark data.
87 partner schools
Why We Exist
Literacy is equity. Reading is power. And neither one happens by accident.
Transformational teaching happens through expert coaching, sustained support, and aligned systems that work. That is why we exist: to stand beside teachers and school leaders until evidence-based reading instruction is not an initiative in your district, but a habit.
Who We Are
Whatever seat you sit in, we have sat in it too.
We are strengths-based, collaborative career educators who have worked at every level of K–12 education. Select your seat and see why that matters to your partnership.
We know Friday afternoon in room 214.
Our consultants have stood where your teachers stand: the small group that will not gel, the pacing calendar that will not wait, the student whose eyes say the strategy from last month's PD is not working. That is why our coaching happens inside your classrooms, during real lessons, with real students. We would never coach from the back of a library, because nobody ever coached us that way when we needed it.
Whole-School Partnership
We support every level of the building at once.
Reading outcomes change when leaders, teachers, and students improve together. That is why every CSAS partnership works all three levels simultaneously, with the same consultant connecting them.
For Leaders
Clarity and command of the data
Regular progress monitoring meetings with principals
Leadership-level data analysis sessions
Instructional look-for walkthroughs with the ILT
Individual and group leadership coaching
Summer planning intensives
For Teachers
A consultant beside them, not above them
Side-by-side co-teaching in real lessons
Lesson modeling with focused debriefs
Grade team planning meetings
Data analysis that ends in groupings
Professional development tied to their programs
For Students
Instruction precise enough to reach every reader
Structured literacy across Tiers 1, 2, and 3
Small groups matched to diagnostic data
Multisensory, strengths-based strategies
Cross-linguistic supports for multilingual learners
Progress monitored until gaps close
Our Founder
Dr. Chandra Williams built the partner she could never hire.
Over more than two decades in public education, Dr. Williams worked at every level of the system and became known as an expert at turning around low-performing districts and schools to close achievement gaps for students across the country.
After two-plus decades working at every level of the education system, she has learned what works, and what does not, when it comes to teacher retention, student achievement, and school improvement. CSAS is that knowledge, turned into a firm.
She founded the Center for Student Achievement Solutions on a conviction most vendors avoid saying out loud: schools do not need another program. They need experienced educators standing beside their teachers and leaders until the evidence-based practice holds on its own.
The Journey
Every stop taught something your district now benefits from. Select each one.
Leading schools inside the nation’s largest school system, she learned the lesson CSAS is built on: improvement lives or dies in the daily routines of a building, not in the binder on the shelf.
What your district inherits: coaching designed by someone who has run a school, not just studied one.
Why We Exist
The sentence behind every engagement.
Our Mission
We empower educators to deliver reading instruction so exceptional that every child experiences the moment print becomes meaning. We build the click.
Our Vision
A public education system that no longer needs us: where every school runs the routines that grow readers, and reading success is determined by instruction, not circumstance.
Education does not change because of better programs. It changes because educators are empowered to implement them exceptionally well. That is our approach, and the four commitments below are how we hold ourselves to it.
Our Leadership
Hannah Goodman turns partnership strategy into Tuesday-morning practice.
Hannah Goodman, M.S. · Director of Strategic Literacy Partnerships
Every CSAS partnership has an architect, and it is Hannah. She leads the CSAS literacy consultant team, designs the strategy inside every school transformation, and drives our NYC Reads partnership work across New York City community school districts. A former K–6 reading interventionist and reading AIS teacher, she has delivered intensive structured literacy instruction grounded in the science of reading herself, and every coaching plan she approves is measured against work she has personally taught.
Strategy that never reaches a classroom is just a document. Every plan Hannah writes must survive contact with a real master schedule, a real Tuesday, and a real teacher’s next lesson. That is the standard, because that is where children learn to read.
Her reach runs from district-level strategy with superintendents to instructional coaching for teachers, and she is the coach who sharpens the coaches. See the standard for yourself: click the video and watch Hannah lead a back-to-school UFLI Foundations session for K–2 teachers, live.
The Work So Far
Measured the way we ask schools to measure.
Partner schools
NYC school districts
Students reached
Coaching days delivered each year
Across seven partner kindergartens in one Brooklyn district, students at or above benchmark climbed from 18% to 68% in a single year. Results verified against Acadience Reading and iReady source data. Read the District 32 case study →
You have seen how we work. The next step takes thirty minutes.
Bring your benchmark data. A real person replies within two business days.
Where We Have Worked
From the nation’s largest school system to statewide initiatives.
Our team has delivered science of reading implementation, MTSS, school turnaround, and special education support in districts and state agencies across the country.
New York
Mississippi
Washington, DC
Ohio
Rhode Island
Maryland
What We Stand For
Four commitments. Zero exceptions.
These are not wall posters. They are the operating rules of every engagement, and you are invited to hold us to them. Open each one.
01 Research before recommendation
Before we recommend anything, we study your benchmark data, observe your classrooms, interview your leaders, and audit your systems. In your building, this means: the plan you receive was written for your schools, not copied from our last client.
02 Evidence before opinion
03 Implementation before compliance
04 Results before recognition
We publish nothing we cannot show a superintendent in the source file, and we hold our own work to your benchmark windows. In your building, this means: you see evidence by mid-year, and the results belong to your educators, not to our marketing.
The Team
The standard every CSAS consultant meets.
We do not staff partnerships with presenters. We staff them with career educators, and every consultant who walks into your building clears the same bar.
Classroom experience, required
Everyone who coaches teaching has done the teaching.
Leadership experience, required
Our people have led schools and teams, so they coach leaders credibly.
Structured literacy credentials
Training in LETRS, Orton-Gillingham, and science of reading methodologies.
In your building, weekly
Modeling, co-teaching, and data meetings, inside your adopted curriculum.
No product sales agenda
Nothing we recommend earns us a commission. Ever.
Work With Us
Bring us the school that keeps you up at night.
Thirty minutes, your benchmark data, and an honest conversation about whether we are the right partner. A real person reads every inquiry and replies within two business days.
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