A close-up of a child's hand writing with a colorful pencil.

The video opens with a close-up of a child's hand holding a colorful pencil, writing on a paper. The scene transitions to a woman speaking directly to the camera, followed by shots of a classroom and then a man speaking. The video shows statistics about literacy in Maryland, including a map of the state and numbers of schools visited, classrooms observed, and educators participated. It then shows a teacher interacting with students in a classroom and concludes with a woman reading a book to a child. The University of Maryland logo appears throughout.