Literacy Health Check — Literacy Impact

Is your school working hard on literacy, but not yet seeing the impact?

The next step is not to add more.

The next step is to strengthen alignment and consistency across your approach. The Literacy Health Check™ is a short, strategic diagnostic that helps school leaders look beyond programs, routines, resources and data, and consider the broader conditions that influence whether literacy improvement can be sustained.

It is designed to be a conversation starter for leaders who want to understand why their literacy improvement work may not yet be showing up consistently in student progress and achievement as expected.

20 questions. 10 areas. 15 minutes.

You will respond to 20 carefully designed statements across key areas, rating each on a four-point scale. Here's how the scale works:

1

Not Yet Evident

Not yet visible

Not yet visible, agreed, or consistently in place across your school.

2

Beginning

Depends on individuals

Signs of this starting, but it depends on individual teachers, teams, leaders, or pockets of practice.

3

Established

In place, varying quality

Generally in place and visible across the school, although quality, consistency, or follow-through may still vary.

4

Embedded

Consistent across the school

Consistently enacted and visible across the school.

Your personalised report translates your responses into a clear picture of your school's literacy approach, including your overall Health Score, an area-by-area profile, a visual overview, interpretation of results, where impact may be leaking, and suggested next steps.

10 areas that determine whether literacy improvement sticks

The Health Check examines the conditions that influence whether literacy improvement is coherent, equitable and sustainable. Not just programs and data, but the system beneath them.

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The organisational and cultural conditions that support literacy improvement, including clarity of roles, time allocation and communication.

The conditions that support effective improvement work, including shared expectations, relationships and focus.

Whether all students have consistent access to high-quality literacy instruction and support.

How effectively data is used to identify need and guide support for students.

Whether literacy priorities are clear, focused and visible in practice.

How literacy improvement is supported and guided across the school.

Whether staff have the knowledge and confidence to teach literacy effectively.

Whether teaching approaches reflect effective learning practices.

Whether there is clarity about what is taught across the school.

Whether teaching practices are consistent and understood across classrooms.

Your score tells a story

Your overall Literacy Excellence Health Score places your school on a spectrum from requiring attention to embedded throughout. Each band comes with interpretation and guidance.

0–39%

Requires Attention

40–69%

Developing

70–84%

Strong

85–100%

Embedded throughout

0–39% Requires Attention

Critical gaps are likely affecting your school's capacity to build literacy improvement that is coherent, equitable and sustainable.

40–69% Developing

Promising conditions are present, but impact is likely leaking through inconsistency or gaps between intention and practice.

70–84% Strong

Many of the conditions for literacy improvement are in place. The next priority is likely consistency and follow-through.

85–100% Embedded throughout

Your school has strong literacy practices in place across the school.

A leadership conversation starter, not another initiative

The report is designed to support honest, strategic conversation. No more initiative fatigue. No more competing priorities. Just a clear picture of where you are and where to focus next.

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Clarify the current health of your schoolwide literacy approach

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Identify which areas are strong and which need attention

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Compare leadership team perceptions

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Start a data-informed conversation about where impact may be leaking

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Prioritise next steps without adding more disconnected initiatives

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Use the results as a baseline before beginning further improvement work

Our students deserve nothing less.

Start the Health Check

Complete the 20-question assessment and receive your personalised report. $7 AUD, one-time payment. Secure checkout with Stripe.

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