Deadline: 29-Jul-22
The Strong Foundations Math and Literacy Framework Development Grant is now open for local educational agencies (LEAs), including districts and open-enrollment charter schools.
The grant provides technical assistance to support a comprehensive collective learning experience with leaders and staff across the LEA, focused on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and what research says about how students learn reading and math.
The grant also provides technical assistance to help LEAs develop a strong literacy and/or math framework aligned to current research.
The goal of the framework is to help LEAs ensure all existing instructional priorities are aligned with research and to build a shared understanding and unified vision of success with LEA staff around the “why” behind all LEA priorities to support learning acceleration.
Criteria
- LEAs who have completed this work have highlighted it as a critical component to manage change in the aftermath of COVID-19 response.
- LEAs awarded can also provide stipends to participating LEA staff and join communities of practice with other LEA leaders doing this work.
- This grant is one component of the broader Strong Foundations Grant Program (Texas Education Code, Sec. 29.0881) established through House Bill 4545, 87th Regular Session, 2021, that offers multiple years of LEA support and is intended to increase the percentage of third grade students reading on grade level.
- Therefore, LEAs participating in this grant will receive priority access to future TEA planning and implementation supports that are part of the broader Strong Foundations program.
For more information, visit Texas Education Agency.
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