Case Study · NYC Community School District 32 · Bushwick, Brooklyn
Eleven of eleven.
Every school we served in the district improved. Not most. Not the ones with the easiest starting points. All eleven partner schools, across three consecutive school years. This is what an anchor literacy partnership looks like from the inside.
Why This Number Matters
Averages hide schools. This wall has nowhere to hide.
A district average can rise while individual schools sink. Eleven of eleven cannot. Watch each school light up: the building with the veteran staff and the building with twelve new teachers, the school that started strong and the school that started far behind. When every partner school improves, the results belong to the system, not to luck.
Schools shown as numbered tiles; individual school identities available with district permission during procurement review.
ESSA Evidence Aligned
Improvement strategies meet evidence-based practice criteria under ESSA at Levels II or III.
Approved NYCPS Vendor
CSAS is an MTAC 1256 approved vendor for literacy instruction professional development and coaching. NYC READS partner.
Source-Verified Results
Every figure on this page traceable to Acadience and iReady source files, available in procurement review.
The Context
An anchor commitment in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Community School District 32 serves the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn inside the nation’s largest school system, under the citywide NYC Reads initiative and its mandate for evidence-based early literacy instruction.
The partnership took the deepest form we offer: an anchor engagement, with consultants embedded in each of 11 partner schools for 14 to 26 days each year. Not a workshop series. Not a pilot in two friendly buildings. Eleven schools, every year, with the same accountability to benchmark data that the district itself carries.
That choice created the condition this case study documents: when implementation support reaches every classroom, improvement stops being a lottery.
Partnership at a glance
The Anchor Model
What 14 to 26 days per school actually buys.
An anchor partnership is not more workshop days. It is a different kind of presence, deep enough to change daily practice and long enough to transfer ownership. Select each phase to walk the arc, and watch how deep the work goes.
Diagnose and embed
Benchmark data, classroom evidence, leadership interviews, and a systems audit shape each school’s plan. Coaching cycles begin inside classrooms: modeling, co-teaching, and debriefing inside the adopted curriculum.
The Results
Three years. One direction.
All eleven District 32 partner schools improved across three consecutive school years. And across our full 2025–2026 partner portfolio, which District 32 anchors, here is what one school year of embedded partnership produced. Tap through the benchmark windows.
Acadience Reading composite, 2025–2026 partner schools. Tap BOY, MOY, and EOY to watch one year of growth.
The band that matters most shrank by 41%. Fewer students far from benchmark means Tier 3 intervention was placed correctly and worked.
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Inside the Numbers
What one year looks like at the grade level.
30 of 35 kindergartners on track by June.
The share at or above benchmark more than tripled in a single year.
From under half at benchmark to three quarters, closing the door on late referrals.
What Remains
The real result is what runs without us.
Three consecutive years of improvement is not a streak of good luck. It is the signature of routines that hold. Try it yourself: take the consultants out of the building.
Leader-run instructional systems
Walkthrough protocols with literacy look-fors, and data meetings that principals lead themselves, ending in decisions rather than in scheduling the next meeting.
Teacher capacity inside the curriculum
Educators who have moved through full coaching cycles, from learning a practice to mastering it independently, inside the programs the district already owns.
Intervention that follows written rules
Placement decision rules, program-to-gap matching, and monitoring routines that keep working for students long after the engagement ends.
Your District Next
Eleven of eleven was built, not found.
A 30-minute strategy call maps the anchor model to your benchmark data and your calendar, and gives you a concrete scope, usually in one conversation. Ask for the source-data verification, and see every figure in the source file.
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