MOWR Submissions

MOWR Submission Guidance for LEAs

The Arizona State Legislature appropriates approximately $45 million annually to elementary schools for the purpose of supporting effective reading instruction in grades K-3. To receive these additional funds, each school district and charter school is annually (as amended by HB2026) required to submit a literacy plan and triannual data for review and approval by the Arizona Department of Education Move on When Reading team.

Literacy Plans for 2024-2025 are due on or before October 1st, 2024

Literacy Assessment Data and Narratives are due on or before:

  1. October 1st (Window 1 opens by August 5)
  2. February 1st (Window 2 opens December 1)
  3. June 1st (Window 3 opens April 1)

 

Only one data window can be opened at a time. Once the window closes and a new data window opens, it is no longer accessible in your ADEConnect portal should you miss a deadline.

ADEConnect Setup and Permissions for MOWR 2024-2025 

Directions for gaining access to the MOWR portal for school-level and LEA-level approvers who are new to MOWR. It is the responsibility of the LEA entity administrator to ensure up-to-date approvers. The MOWR team cannot update these permissions.

ADEConnect Help

Contact ADESupport, Submit a Support Ticket, Find an Administrator and Frequently Asked Questions

Accessing the Move On When Reading Portal - ADEConnect and Applications Video

MOWR School Literacy Plan Guidance 2024-2025

Step-by-step guidance:

(this is the first step in a multi-step process)

  1. Accessing the MOWR portal as the School Approver
  2. Entering school-level information
  3. Submitting a school literacy plan to district/charter LEA Approver


This school submission (even for single-site charters/districts) does not go directly to ADE. An LEA Approver will now need to review and accept each school plan prior to submitting to ADE. See the LEA section below, for the next steps.

MOWR LEA literacy plan guidance 2024-2025

Step-by-step guidance:

  1. Accessing the MOWR portal as the LEA Approver [LEA-level Access and Roles Support Video]
  2. Reviewing school plans [LEA-level Review and Acceptance Support Video]
  3. Accepting each plan for aggregation [LEA-level Review and Acceptance Support Video]
  4. Adding final district budget allocations 
  5. Submitting to ADE [LEA-level Submission to ADE Support Video]

    MOWR literacy assessment data submission 2024-2025

    Literacy assessment data is submitted to the ADE three times per school year via the MOWR portal.

    This data is due by October 1, February 1, and June 1 of each year. If your school or LEA misses a data submission due date and is no longer able to submit the data electronically, please contact Move On When Reading.

    Step 1: School Approver Enters School Literacy Assessment Data

    Step 2: LEA Approver Accepts for Aggregation and Submits to ADE

    Revising a Rejected Literacy Plan 2024-2025

    This document is intended to provide technical guidance for revising a MOWR Literacy Plan that has been rejected by the ADE MOWR team. Plans may be rejected when information is missing, incorrect, or not reflective of Arizona statutory requirements or best practices. As a reminder, MOWR funding is released to districts/charters upon the final approval of the MOWR Literacy Plan.

    Revising a Rejected Literacy Assessment Data Submission 2024-2025

     

    MOWR Curriculum Submission Guidance for Vendors

    • All submissions for curriculum that use balanced literacy strategies will not be reviewed and do not qualify to be added to the vetted list. 
    • Only submissions for curriculum based on Science of Reading and Structured Literacy will be accepted and reviewed.
    • The deadline for core reading program submissions is Oct. 1. New core reading submissions will not be reviewed between November and June. 

    MOWR Vetted Core Program Submission

    Intervention MOWR Vetted Programs Guidance

    MOWR Core Program Example Rubric

    Intervention Program Example Rubric

     

    **The views and opinions expressed in any third-party resource do not necessarily reflect those of the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) and do not imply an endorsement by ADE.