Summit K12 supports educators in using this shift to the ELPA assessment as a chance to strengthen instructional clarity, deepen academic language development, and ensure every Multilingual Language Learner (MLL) gets deeply personalized, proficiency aligned, data-driven instruction that sets them up to succeed.
Our approach is proven across more than 2k districts nationwide and driven by a clear mission to:
- Empowerall MLLs to grow at least one proficiency level per year
- Accelerate reclassification of MLLs including long-term ELs
- Support every new English learner with strong Language Foundation Skills and guidance in over 30 languages.
Step into the transition with confidence.
Summit K12’s Connect to Literacy™ program is designed to revolutionize the way English Language support is delivered across the state of Arizona. Our approach combines professional tailored professional learning pathways, personalized practice and data-informed instruction to support educators and students with the transition to Arizona's ELPA assessment.
Instruction and practice mirror the assessment's blueprint from day one, so classroom growth and assessment results move together.
Backed by Summit K12's proficiency growth guarantee.
Real-time, domain-level data pinpoints exactly where each student stands, so instruction can be precisely targeted to what they need next.
Ongoing professional development gives leaders and teachers proficiency-aligned strategies and clear data at every step of the transition, so every stakeholder who supports students stays confident and aligned.
Arizona classrooms will move forward with confidence when professional learning, curriculum, coaching, and leadership pull in the same direction — systematically, and over time. That's the support model Summit K12 has proven across 2,000+ districts nationwide.
The Arizona Professional Learning Suite includes four connected tiers, each targeting a different lever, built to drive the kind of support that drives a seamless and successful transition.
FREE 60 minute foundational webinars that clarify academic language expectations, linguistic complexity, and the relationship between task design and student reasoning. Designed for educators across all instructional roles and districts, these sessions offer a shared starting point — grounding everyone in what Arizona's new ELPA assessment means for classroom practice, from the online Dynamic Screener to the four-domain Spring Reassessment.
Interactive workshops that strengthen task design, academic language development, and classroom rigor across disciplines.
Teachers leave with concrete strategies they can apply immediately, built around the kinds of tasks and language demands their students will navigate on Arizona's new ELPA assessment.
An intensive institute that builds district and school-based coaching capacity.
Participants learn structured approaches for guiding teachers through task analysis, academic language demands, feedback conversations, and collaborative calibration of student work.
Because implementation only sticks when someone inside the building knows how to sustain it, this institute focuses on developing the coaches and instructional leaders who will carry Arizona's transition forward long after the training ends.
A three-part leadership series focused on monitoring rigor, aligning expectations across schools, and building coherent structures that sustain academic language growth systemwide. Sessions help leaders move from awareness to action — connecting what's happening in classrooms to the decisions being made at the system level as Arizona transitions to its new Emerging, Progressing, and Proficient reporting levels.
All sessions prioritize practical classroom application, leadership calibration, and sustainable implementation structures.
Readiness is the first step. Strong results demand a curriculum already proven to build it. Connect to Literacy™ is tried and tested across ELPA21 states, built to mirror the assessment's own blueprint so students walk in already familiar with the format, the task types, and what's expected of them.
Connect to Literacy™ is designed for both Integrated and Stand-alone environments, so Arizona districts can implement it as a companion to core instruction or as the primary driver of MLL growth.
Either way, it delivers targeted online instruction aligned to academic language progression at every proficiency level on Arizona's ELPA assessment, through:
Connect to Literacy™ is built to provide support for educators, administrators, students, and families, ensuring all MLLs achieve stronger academic outcomes.
Provides structured, research-backed lessons to ensure students develop strong language skills.
Designed for small groups and individuals, adapting to students’ varying proficiency levels.
Gives educators real-time insights into student performance and growth.
Automatically evaluates responses to streamline scoring and feedback. Learn more about our AI Auto-Scoring.
Provides a clear instructional roadmap to support consistent language development.
Tracks student progress with data-driven insights for informed decision-making.
Prepares students with test-aligned tasks to improve performance.
Helps districts achieve and maintain high proficiency levels over time.
Ensures all MLLs gain at least one proficiency level per year, backed by a money-back guarantee.
Uses validated assessment data to project State ELP Assessment success.
Engaging instructional materials provide students with interactive learning experiences.
Ensures appropriate challenges based on each student’s proficiency level.
Targets individual student needs in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Available in 30+ languages to keep families informed about student growth.
Empowers parents and guardians to participate in English learning alongside students.
Provides interactive sessions to support multilingual learners at home.
Based on an initial assessment or score upload, Connect to Literacy™ develops a deeply personalized Learning Plans that steadily increases language independence and complexity, guiding every student toward sustained progress and ELPA readiness.
Personalized Learning Plans:
Connect to Literacy™ delivers measurable proficiency growth at scale.
Grounded in ESSA Tier III research and backed by Summit K12’s proficiency-level growth guarantee, C2L ensures multilingual learners gain at least one proficiency level per year.
With Personalized Learning Pathways across all four language domains and embedded assessment rigor throughout, districts optimize multilingual outcomes and accelerate reclassification rates.
Connect to Literacy™ integrates the Science of Reading within a research-based language development framework, strengthening phonemic awareness, decoding, syntax, morphology, and academic vocabulary to build literacy and language together.
With explicit, systematic instruction, multilingual learners develop strong foundations while advancing toward the academic language proficiency required for success on the new statewide proficiency measure.
Connect to Literacy™ provides targeted Newcomer on-ramp treks and supports in 30+ home languages that help students with or without foundational decoding skills in their home language, confidently navigate and engage with learning from day one.
Additionally, translated parent letters and complimentary family access foster engagement and support at home from families across New York’s diverse multilingual communities.
As New York transitions to the new Statewide Assessment, leaders need access to detailed oversight across the system. Connect to Literacy™ provides 40+ real-time reports spanning district dashboards, school performance monitoring, classroom insights, and individual student growth.
Monitor multilingual learner performance across schools and grade bands. Executive dashboards surface trends and guide strategic decisions.
Identify strengths and learning gaps across listening, speaking, reading, and writing to strengthen ELPA readiness.
Track individual growth, pacing, and Progress. Pinpoint proficiency gaps and completion rates to fine-tune instruction & drive measurable assessment outcomes.
Connect to Literacy™ uses AI-powered auto-scoring to accelerate English language development with real-time feedback and actionable insights
Trained and refined using hundreds of millions of curated student recordings and written responses from multilingual learners across 120+ countries, the AI engine evaluates speaking and writing tasks with precision and consistency.
We understand successful implementation goes beyond setup—it requires seamless integrations with your existing systems, secure data governance you can trust, and an ongoing partnership rooted in real classroom experience.
Our experienced customer support team works closely with district leaders, campus administrators, and teachers to ensure a smooth, secure launch and long-term success with our platform.
Single sign-on for Summit K12 platforms plus SSO support for all major LMS and SIS platforms with SAML or oAuth.
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