Pathways Action Map

The Action Map is a tool that helps us work towards a shared vision:

All North Carolina children, regardless of race, ethnicity or socioeconomic status, are reading on grade-level by the end of third grade, and all children with disabilities achieve expressive and receptive communication skills commensurate with their developmental ages, so that they have the greatest opportunity for life success. 

The Action Map provides a snapshot of initiatives in NC that are leading work in key policy and strategy areas, or “actions”, that can help us achieve this vision. Through the Pathways to Grade-Level Reading initiative, these actions were prioritized by hundreds of NC stakeholders—including input from parents, providers, research, and cross sector early childhood leaders—using a whole child approach to literacy, starting from birth, and resulting in the creation of a data framework and a policy framework. These frameworks lay out the areas that Pathways partners said NC should work on first to move the needle on third grade reading proficiency.

The Action Map calls attention to strategies that specifically work to improve outcomes for children of color and gives special consideration to the wisdom and innovation of people of color.