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LASO 5 offers 21 opportunities across five learning acceleration strategies.
Where should districts begin?
With student outcomes, system needs, and implementation readiness.
Choose the opportunities that advance your priorities.
Deadline: Dec. 1, 5 PM CT.
#LASO5
Supporting teachers includes examining how their work is organized.
Education Week highlights schools using team-based staffing to share instructional responsibilities and reduce planning demands.
edweek.org/teaching-learning…?
A walkthrough isn't the finish line. It's the beginning of a decision.
Observe → Learn → Respond → Revisit.
The value of walkthrough data is what leaders learn from it, what they do next, and whether they return to see if the response changed practice.
Schools aren't usually short on data.
The question is what we're learning from it.
Good measurement should shorten the distance between what we see and what we do next.
carnegiefoundation.org/six-i…
Strong instructional materials matter. So do the conditions around them.
New LPI research is a reminder that HQIM implementation also depends on teacher learning, leadership, collaboration and classroom conditions.
learningpolicyinstitute.org/…
#HQIM
LASO Cycle 5 is OPEN!
But the first question isn't necessarily, “What should we apply for?”
Start with: What are we trying to accomplish?
Then find the opportunity that helps move that work.
Less lift. More capacity for the work that matters.
#LASOCycle5 #TexasEducation
Instruction. Teacher retention. School climate. Attendance. Engagement.
They aren't separate systems.
Research from @LPI_Learning shows how principal leadership connects many of the outcomes districts are working to improve. Take a peek!
learningpolicyinstitute.org/…
This Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate the histories, cultures, voices and contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities and the students and educators shaping what comes next.
Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth from UnTapped Genius!
25 years later, we remember the lives lost, the families forever changed, and the courage of those who served on September 11, 2001.
Today, we pause to honor and remember.
#PatriotDay #September11 #NeverForget
A student isn't “Tier 2” or “Tier 3.” The support is.
MTSS should respond as student needs and evidence change, not turn tiers into permanent labels.
Our COO Brian explores why the language matters in his latest article: tinyurl.com/UGMTSS
Literacy shapes what students can access, understand, question, imagine and eventually choose.
Yet UNESCO reports 4 in 10 children globally still don't reach minimum reading proficiency.
Literacy is opportunity. Every child deserves access to it.
#InternationalLiteracyDay
LASO Cycle 5 opens September 23.
The goal shouldn't be to find a grant and create work around it. The goal is to understand the work, then identify the resources that can accelerate it.
Priorities first.
Opportunity second.
Implementation always.
#LASO #TexasEducation #Genius
Most organizations don't have a goal-setting problem.
They have a goal-execution problem.
Our COO Brian explores what happens between setting the goal and doing the work and why performance management should build capacity, not compliance.
Take a look!
untappedgenius.org/insights/…
Back to school = back to belonging. 💛
CDC research links school connectedness with better attendance, higher grades/test scores & graduation.
Before students can thrive, they need to know they belong.
#BackToSchool #StudentSuccess #Education
cdc.gov/youth-behavior/schoo…
Every school year gets its own story.
There will be challenges, surprises, small wins and breakthroughs, and students who discover things about themselves they didn't know in August.
Welcome back, educators. Here's to everything this year has yet to become. 💛
#BackToSchool
The genius is already there.
We're here to tap into it.
#Genius #TappingIn #HQIM #Leadership #education
Strong PLCs aren't built around agendas.
They're built around questions.
DuFour's 4 PLC questions continue to focus teams on what matters most: student learning.
#PLC #EducationLeadership #SchoolImprovement
New teachers need more than orientation.
They need ongoing support systems.
#NewTeacherAcademy #TeacherDevelopment
Strong writing doesn't happen by accident.
Let's help students move from ideas to high-scoring responses.
#WritingForTheTEN #ECR #TexasEducation
