Building Bright Futures Through Literacy and Innovation
A three-year NYSED-funded initiative that began in January 2025, addressing two critical areas: literacy development through the myON digital reading platform, and early engineering education for PreK–K students.
Structure
Every leg of Cycle 3
Each leg has its own overview, materials, and professional learning. Start wherever you need to.
Leg 1 · Literacy
myON Literacy Initiative
Personalized digital reading for every elementary student in the district, plus a sustained professional learning series for educators and families.
Login paths · demo accounts · PD series · family engagement · survey & CTLE forms
Open the myON leg →
Leg 2 · STEM
Little Engineers · PreK–K Engineering
25 sequenced lessons plus two bonus builds across five themed units, with teaching decks, blueprints, handouts, and printable templates.
27 lesson plans · 25 teaching decks · blueprints · templates · curriculum doc
Open the Little Engineers leg →
Implementation
The three-year arc
Cycle 3 moves from platform integration, through full implementation, to sustainability and outcome assessment.
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Year 1 · 2025
Platform integration and initial training
myON rollout across participating schools, account provisioning for staff and students, and the first wave of teacher training. Little Engineers curriculum design and site setup.
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Year 2 · 2026
Full implementation and ongoing PD
Sustained professional learning series, instructional integration through assignments and data reports, family engagement events, and weekly engineering exploration blocks at both implementation sites.
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Year 3 · 2027
Sustainability planning and outcome assessment
Outcome measurement against the four impact areas, documentation of practices that continue past the funding period, and reporting to NYSED.
Where the work happens
Implementation sites
| Site | Leg | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Harlem Academy | myON Literacy | Elementary-wide myON access, school and at-home reading |
| St. Charles Borromeo | myON Literacy | Elementary-wide myON access, school and at-home reading |
| PS/MS 46 Arthur Tappan School | Little Engineers | 125 PreK–K students · engineering centers in each early childhood classroom · weekly engineering exploration blocks |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | Little Engineers | 75 PreK–K students · family engineering nights · take-home engineering kits |
Goals
Areas of desired impact
The four outcome areas Cycle 3 is measured against.
01
Reading engagement
Increase in average daily reading minutes across all elementary grades through myON implementation.
02
Teacher approval
Through increased student engagement with both the literacy and engineering programs.
03
Vocabulary growth
Increase in engineering vocabulary usage among PreK–K students at implementation sites.
04
Reading scores
Improvement in reading comprehension assessments for students with consistent myON usage.
These four areas carry no figures yet. When you have measured results, drop them into the cards above in cycle-3/index.html — the layout already leaves room for a headline number per card.