Strong Foundations Implementation

Grant overview

With Strong Foundations Implementation, you receive direct grant funds for technical assistance to support the high-fidelity implementation of Texas open educational resources (OER) instructional materials. This includes high-quality professional learning designed for you and your team—teachers, instructional coaches, school leaders, campus administrators, and district leaders—to effectively implement OER.

If you are a Title I and Federally Identified campus, including CSI, TSI, and ATS, participating in Strong Foundations Implementation (SFI), you may be eligible for Strong Foundations Implementation: School Improvement PLC Supports. Through this program, you receive direct grant funds for technical assistance with professional learning communities (PLCs), ensuring high-fidelity implementation of Texas open educational resources (OER) instructional materials. 

Our partnership services around HQIM implementation include helping instructional teams:

• Set a clear vision for excellent instruction with your selected team of school and district leaders, coaches, teachers, interventionists, and more
• Complete a curriculum study and articulate clear expectations for curriculum use to facilitate the implementation of Texas OER instructional materials
• Create district-level instructional material transition plans and campus-level implementation action plans
• Deliver high-quality professional learning (HQPL)
• Establish an observation and coaching tool and determine support for collaborative and individual planning, including unit and lesson internalization, lesson preparation, student work analysis, observation and feedback, and progress monitoring

• Selection team process and team member criteria (a Texas Curriculum Support Guide resource)
• Vision setting: A can’t-miss step for curriculum
• Avoid the pitfalls of curriculum implementation

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Instruction Partners wrote the book on materials selection, adoption, and implementation, and we’ve partnered with schools and districts across the state of Texas to support their work. 

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