Greetings!
Greetings Strong Foundations Implementation LEA Leaders! We hope you had a strong start to the 2024–25 school year! Your Strong Foundations Implementation journey is now underway. The collaboration with your approved provider to create the systems and practices that will support successful implementation is critical during the early part of the year. Your approved provider is here to coach and support you and your LEA through every step of the grant, ensuring the creation and implementation of the most impactful deliverables and professional learning experiences.
The September newsletter contains important information to support your LEA in preparation for the school year. Thank you for your commitment to excellence in education!
The Strong Foundations Implementation Team
Milestones
Action Items
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Due Friday, September 13: Submit SFI Pre-Implementation Survey
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See more information in the Reminders and Next Steps section.
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Professional Learning and Flexible Supports
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Plan with your approved provider (Product Advisor) for the delivery of professional learning and flexible supports for district and school leaders, coaches, and teachers.
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Collaborate with Implementation Advisor
- Collaborate with your approved provider to receive support for developing upcoming action plans, to schedule school-based Learning Walks, and for on-going leadership coaching.
- Submit completed Action Plans to your approved provider (Implementation Advisor) by the date agreed upon.
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Learning Walks: Learning Walks are observations conducted by leadership teams that focus on systems-level implementation to identify patterns and trends that inform system-level change management.
Reminders and Next Steps
SFI Pre-Implementation Survey:
To better understand your experiences, the TEA team will be asking every participant from your LEA to complete 5 surveys this year. These surveys should take participants about 10-15 minutes to complete.
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Action required: Please send the appropriate links to the members of your team who should complete them.
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Note: participants who were on the roster you submitted to TEA have already received communications from the Strong Foundation Implementation (SFI) Team via Qualtrics with a direct link to the survey on August 12. They do not need to take the survey again.
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Survey participation is a crucial element of program success and continuous improvement of the grant, please ensure noreply@tea.texas.gov is whitelisted for all participants at your LEA/schools. Doing so prevents important SFI emails from being marked as spam and being routed to your junk folder. Read more about how to whitelist email addresses.
Reminder: Upcoming Leader Community of Practice (CoP) Opportunities
The SFI Implementation Team is excited to announce the opportunity to join a community of practice for leaders to collaborate, reflect, and share experiences. Sign up for Leader CoP Sessions and please invite other district and school leaders who would like to participate.
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The SFI Executive Leader CoP sessions provide collaborative learning for district executive leaders implementing HQIM. It is a platform for leaders to engage in short bouts of new learning from a featured keynote speaker, while also experiencing focused small-group discussions.
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Executive Leader CoP Sessions
- October 10, 2024, 9:00–10:30 a.m. - Communicating the Instructional Vision to Stakeholders
- January 9, 2025, 9:00–10:30 a.m. - Aligning Educator Experience, Selection, Support, and Collaboration to HQIM
- March 13, 2025, 9:00–10:30 a.m. - Focusing on Continuous Improvement and Sustaining Implementation
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The SFI School Leader CoP sessions allow school and program leaders to continuously improve HQIM practices on campus while building their capacity as instructional leaders. Leaders who attend these sessions will foster resiliency in their schools as they are equipped to support the strong continued use of HQIM for students. Each session will be delivered twice to provide flexibility in the leaders’ attendance.
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School Leader CoP Sessions:
- September 17 and 19, 2024, 10:00–11:30 a.m. - Campus-Based Instructional Coherence and Instructional Management
- November 5 and 8, 2024, 10:00–11:30 a.m. - Instructional Leadership in HQIM Implementation
- February 18 and 20, 2025, 10:00–11:30 a.m. - Sustaining the Change and Synthesizing the Learning
Reminder: HQIM Learning Labs
Sign up to visit one an Innovator Learning Lab! Learning Labs provide you an opportunity to visit an Innovator district to see students engaged with rigorous, grade level content in real time and learn what planning happens in the background to implement HQIM effectively. HQIM Learning Labs will be hosted in fall 2024 and spring 2025. The Innovator Website has instructions with how to request a visit.
Engagement Opportunities
We are always looking for ways to connect with our partners in the field!
From site visits, to review opportunities, to focus groups, there are numerous ways to connect with TEA and support the field of education. If you are interested in participating in an engagement opportunity, sign up by clicking the button below.
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