The ARISE Coalition recommends that the Department of Education (DOE) provide schools participating in the Universal Literacy Initiative and the Literacy Coaches that work with them with a toolkit of strategies for engaging all families, including those of students with disabilities, in their literacy efforts. While we are not looking to dictate any single strategy to educational staff in the NYC public schools, we recommend that participating schools undertake some combination of the promising practices [PDF] listed in the linked document.
