Outcomes you can show your board.
Pilot programs structured to demonstrate measurable growth on universal screening within one term. We know what your superintendent needs.
For districts
K-12 literacy infrastructure that earns its line item.
A literacy platform built for the realities of district procurement: short sub-processor list, NDPA-friendly, AWS-native, built on the Science of Reading research base, and structured to show outcomes inside one term.
Why districts choose Storytime
Six things you'll need to defend the purchase.
Multiple scopes and sequences, one platform.
Schools across a single district often run different literacy programs. Storytime aligns to the scope and sequence each school is already teaching — no forklift change required for the platform to fit each building's choice.
NDPA-friendly. AWS-native. Short sub-processor list.
Built on AWS US-East. Data residency under your control. NDPA reviewed by district legal teams. We make the procurement step short on purpose.
Clever rostering and SSO, live today.
Clever single sign-on and rostering are in production now. ClassLink, OneRoster, and additional providers are in active development — built on demand as districts request them. CSV import works in the meantime.
ESSA Tier 4 evidence rationale, published.
Storytime maintains a documented theory of action meeting the ESSA Tier 4 ("Demonstrates a Rationale") standard — logic model, peer-reviewed research base, evaluation plan. We also support curricula with their own established ESSA evidence (UFLI, Wilson Fundations, IMSE) and anchor to whichever program your state mandates.
PD that respects teachers.
Onboarding training is short, asynchronous-first, and tied to the actual workflow. Coaching available; never required.
From the field · SETX Cooperative · Liberty, Texas
How SETX Cooperative uses AAC + Storytime AI to publish every student's story
Every student deserves access to the same rich learning experiences as their peers — not simplified substitutes.
Students with autism and language-based communication needs struggled to develop the characters, settings, and details that bring creative writing to life — and their finished illustrated books rarely made it onto the hallway walls alongside their peers'.
Time from a student's AAC story selections to a fully illustrated, narrated read-along book
Under 1 minute end-to-end
Baseline: Not feasible without extensive adult mediation — students could not produce illustrated finished books at session pace.
Stories completed in a single creative-writing period by a previously reluctant writer
5 stories in a row (the lesson ended because the period did, not because she ran out of ideas)
Baseline: Often zero — perfectionism around 'doing it wrong' prevented finishing a single story.
Student work displayed on the school's hallway walls alongside peers'
Students now request printed copies to take home and add to the hallway prints
Baseline: Rare — special-education creative writing did not produce illustrated finished books for display.
Your state's literacy law
Compliance reference for the ten states with the most active literacy reform.
Plain-English summaries of FL, TX, CA, NY, IL, PA, OH, GA, NC, and MI literacy laws — what districts need to do, what curricula are approved, and how structured-literacy platforms support compliance.
Browse all state literacy lawsFrom inquiry to expansion
How a district gets started — start to finish.
01
Discovery
30-min conversation to understand your literacy program, current curriculum, and procurement timeline.
02
Pilot scoping
We propose a pilot — usually one school or one grade band, one term. You define success metrics with us.
03
NDPA + procurement
We send our standard NDPA, security questionnaire responses, and sub-processor list. Most districts close in 2-3 weeks.
04
Pilot run
Onboarding, weekly check-ins, end-of-term outcomes report aligned to the metrics you set.
05
Expand
Successful pilots typically expand to a full-grade band or full-district the following term.
Recognized + trusted
By awards juries, school partners, and the families and educators we serve.
Awards + recognition
School + community partners
About the authors
Written and edited by the Storytime AI founding team.
Brian Carlson
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder and CEO of Storytime AI. Leads the company from Baltimore, building a literacy platform that meets every reader where they are — anchored to the Science of Reading.
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Scott Quinlan
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder and CTO of Storytime AI. Owns engineering, product infrastructure, and the agentic growth pipeline — from the platform's AI generation engine to the structured-literacy content surface district leaders evaluate.
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Kate Dwyer
Co-founder & CMO
Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Storytime AI. Translates Science-of-Reading research and product capability into language teachers, parents, and district leaders can act on. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area.
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Don't see your program?
We can align to any scope and sequence on district request.
The programs above are what we ship aligned out of the box. If your district has adopted something else — a state-specific scope, a less common phonics core, an internal sequence — we add it. Send us your scope and sequence and we'll cross-tag the decodable library against it. No additional cost during pilot.
Talk to us about a one-school pilot this term.
The fastest way to see if Storytime fits your district is to run a real pilot. We'll structure the metrics; you keep the data.