Texas Reads, Texas Leads / Outcomes to date
Early evidence of stronger systems, leadership, and literacy implementation.
TXRL supports districts as they move structured literacy and high-quality instructional materials from adoption to consistent classroom practice. Early evidence points to stronger leader knowledge, clearer districtwide expectations, and growing implementation capacity.
01 / District leader survey
Leadership knowledge is strong. Systems are still catching up.
The Spring 2026 TXRL district leader survey gathered responses from 63 leaders across eight demonstration sites. Leaders reported strong knowledge and expertise, while principal capacity and district systems remain the clearest areas for continued development.
4.4Leadership priorities & use of dataAverage score out of 5.0
4.3District leadership expertiseAverage score out of 5.0
3.4Systems & organizational alignmentAverage score out of 5.0
58%Average teachers implementing all components of the structured literacy blockAcross participating sites
02 / What districts are reporting
Implementation is becoming more coherent across campuses.
Greater instructional consistency at scale
Early gains in foundational reading
Systems matter as much as training
03 / District examples
Different contexts. Common shifts.
Castleberry ISD
Leaders report more consistent structured literacy implementation, stronger shared expectations, and encouraging early K–3 reading gains, particularly in kindergarten.
Killeen ISD
Across 31 elementary campuses, district leaders have strengthened standardization, monitoring, feedback cycles, and data use to reduce variation in implementation.
La Porte ISD
Structured literacy has become part of a more unified district instructional identity, supported by principal learning, walkthroughs, coaching, and common expectations.
Mesquite ISD
Cross-department collaboration and principal supervisor engagement are helping connect literacy goals, instructional practice, and leadership expectations across campuses.
04 / Workshop impact
Learning is translating into clearer action.
Workshop feedback from 2024–26 shows that district and campus leaders valued the combination of evidence-based literacy learning, concrete implementation tools, and protected time to plan together. Participants gained greater clarity and stronger alignment on structured literacy priorities, building momentum for effective implementation.
Source: TXRL Workshop Impacts, 2024–25 ↗