Literacy proficiency is foundational to every child’s success in school. Students take English language arts courses in every grade and apply their literacy skills in every course. Lacking literacy skills, students fall behind in all subjects. Every teacher is a literacy teacher, and every teacher is a learner. The educator’s learning cycle is similar to the literacy curriculum in most schools. Each semester, students’ engagement with literacy concepts gets more challenging and rewarding, just as each time teachers tackle a new learning goal, they build on previous learning and their work becomes more challenging and rewarding. Learning Forward’s theory of action is based on assumptions that educators won’t achieve their high goals for student learning if they don’t set and measure high goals for educator