Texas Impact Network
A Model for American Public Education
A joint venture between Educate Texas and the Commit Partnership, The Texas Impact Network works with state and regional partners to help districts improve the futures of teachers and students.
A Model for American Public Education
A joint venture between Educate Texas and the Commit Partnership, The Texas Impact Network works with state and regional partners to help districts improve the futures of teachers and students.
A Model for American Public Education
A joint venture between Educate Texas and the Commit Partnership, The Texas Impact Network works with state and regional partners to help districts improve the futures of teachers and students.
KEY INITIATIVES
REWARDING TOP TEACHERS
The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) attracts and retains effective educators at traditionally hard-to-staff schools by empowering teachers with the opportunity to earn six-figure salaries.
A SYSTEM OF SOLUTIONS
The Texas Impact Network plays a supporting role in advocating for a sustained commitment to equitable school financing through a multi-channel approach that shares data, lifts the voices of champions, and shares stories of courageous and exemplary models.
DATA
The HB 3 Implementation Dashboard provides real-time information on the interest and participation of districts in initiatives across the state of Texas. Daily updates provide an accurate snapshot for stakeholders to track progress.
STORIES
Identifies passionate, student-centered practitioner voices to promote HB 3. Superintendents, staff, and principals have been placed on panels, hosted at legislative meetings, and provided other platforms (e.g. blogs, social media, presentations) to tell their stories of implementation and student benefits.
VOICES
Effectively demonstrates a strong, united message across school leaders statewide. The Texas Impact Network employed this capability most recently for an April 2023 hearing of the House Education Committee during which several superintendents testified in support of expanding the Teacher Incentive Allotment.
GROWING SUCCESS
The TIA directly supports school systems through the design and launch of rigorous, multi-measure teacher evaluation and professional development systems approved by TEA. The expertise provided informs strategic compensation, professional development, and staffing strategies to increase the likelihood of successful TIA implementation.
The Program Continues to Grow:
6,246
Teachers have received a TIA designation!
485 School Systems with 3.3M+ Students
Have fully implemented or are in the process of implementing TIA.
168 School Systems with 1.4M+ Students
Have fully implemented TIA.
Teachers in TIA districts make:
$1,750 MORE*
Master teachers in TIA districts make:
$20,000 MORE*
* in base salary than teachers in non-TIA districts, on average.
FOCUSED STAFFING SOLUTIONS
HALF DAYS. TOTAL DIFFERENCE.
Provides elementary schools with funding for up to 30 additional half-days of instruction to enhance teacher pay, mitigate learning loss, and prevent “summer slide,” when students lose some of the achievement gains made during the school year. The effects of the global pandemic on learning loss increased the number of school systems interested in this program.
REWARDING TOP TEACHERS
Supports regionally diverse school systems through the statewide ADSY Planning and Execution program and the Texas Education Agency (TEA), as well as direct support.
TEA identified three models for systems looking to implement ADSY:
MODEL 1
Voluntary Summer Learning: A base 180-day calendar and up to 30 days of summer programming for a targeted subset of students.
MODEL 2
Intersessional Calendar: A base 180-day calendar with up to 30 additional days interspersed over the full year for accelerated learning and enrichment with a subset of students.
MODEL 3
Full Year Redesign: A revamped 210-day calendar and revised daily schedules to increase time for teacher planning and collaboration, student enrichment and breaks during the school day.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE ONE SYSTEM AT A TIME
Any Texas school system can access ADSY. Current participating schools span the state and range from small schools to major urban systems. The largest, Dallas ISD, approved Intersessional and Full Year Redesign calendars.
104 School Systems
60K Students
Attended an elementary campus with additional days in the 2021-2022 school year.
20 Days
Added to school year calendars at these campuses, on average.
CREATING TIME TO TEACH AND LEARN
REWARDING ACHIEVEMENTS
Provides Outcomes Bonus Funding to school systems when students take the next step in their planning by enrolling in postsecondary institutions, completing an industry approved credential, and/or enlisting in the military by the fall following graduation. These bonuses are distributed equitably, with more funds awarded for students experiencing economic instability.
FUNDING SUCCESS STORIES
Every Texas school system with high school graduates is automatically eligible to receive CCMR Outcomes Bonus Funding. By ensuring awareness of this bonus funding, it can be used to analyze the effectiveness of current CCMR programming and identify strategies to improve student outcomes.
This is done through three connected initiatives:
EMPOWERING RURAL SYSTEMS
To help rural systems with tight resources, the Rural CCMR Accelerator Program extends expert coaching and student support services to select Texas school systems.
The Accelerator Program helps participating schools:
REGIONAL FOCUS. STATEWIDE IMPACT.
Targeting support at the regional level, the Network aims to build capacity and touch all school systems within the portfolio of regional partners through the professional learning community. The professional learning community breaks down regional silos between individuals with the same goals and allows for sharing of resources, best practices and collaborative problem-solving.
STARTING AT THE TOP
Chief Financial Officers in Texas school districts play a pivotal role in the success of the students they serve. In order to improve student outcomes, CFOs must play a pivotal role in catalyzing new ways of thinking, acting, and investing that re-envision overall resource usage as opposed to just incremental changes.
COLLABORATE TO BE GREAT
Brings together school finance leaders from across Texas who are committed to transforming outcomes for students and maximizing the impact of their districts’ resources. The Network supports CFOs by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to act as strategic leaders within their districts and providing them a venue for meaningfully collaboration and learning.
The CFO Strategy Network is facilitated by Education Resource Strategies (ERS). For over a decade, ERS has been leading networks of strategic CFOs focused on rethinking the use of resources to transform schools and systems.
STRENGTHEN NUMBERS
The CFO Strategy Network is accessible to any school system in the state of Texas There are currently more than 40 districts serving more than one million Texas students in the Network.
The Texas Impact Network co-sponsors the CFO Strategy Network with the Texas Education Agency. As part of this network, the CFO Strategy Network offers its members unique opportunities and benefits, including:
INVESTING IN STUDENT SUCCESS
Educate Texas, an initiative of Communities Foundation of Texas, is the trusted change agent in education that is thinking bigger by proving solutions through programs and practices, instilling change through policy, and convening the right partnerships and networks for action.
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407 N. 77 Sunshine Strip
Harlingen, Texas 78550
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