As Approved Providers, ESC Region 19 is committed to providing quality, TEA aligned services to all of our districts. Our consultants have dedicated numerous hours to becoming certified across the various initiatives to ensure our districts receive the most up to date and aligned services. Certification and Qualifications for Strong Foundations include:
Instructional Management Certification
Instructional Framework Certification
Research Based Instruction Strategies Certified
Product Advisor Certification
Implementation Certification
The Mathematics Achievement Academies ecosystem includes courses in grade-level content and pedagogy, problem-solving and discourse, formative assessments across content strands, and leadership support sessions. The goal is to increase teacher knowledge by engaging in research-based, effective, and systematic instructional practices that enable students to develop problem-solving skills and a strong foundation of number sense and fluency. Stipends are available for specific programs and eligible educators.
The RBIS are a set of research-based practices that highlight misconceptions that are most common in the field. They cover topics that sometimes require conceptual or philosophical changes to how we approach instruction and form a set of practices that are supported by research and should be present in classrooms, regardless of instructional materials. These strategies are based in the science of how students best learn math and reading in K-12 classrooms. The RBIS also demonstrate why High Quality Instructional Materials are important and what is required to implement those materials well
The TEKS Resource System (TEKS RS) is an online curriculum management platform designed to support Texas educators in delivering the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
A professional learning model that allows teachers to lead their learning to improve student outcomes .
The Texas Reading Academies comprehensive model is a face-to-face, in-person learning experience. It includes a combination of online modules, in-person literacy community and learning sessions, and coaching support to promote classroom application of Reading Academies instructional practices. Participants must complete online module assignments and artifacts in the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), participate in in-person learning sessions, and demonstrate mastery of Reading Academies content during classroom observations and coaching by a Comprehensive Cohort Leader.
Planning support will be tailored through a consultation with ESC Region 19 consultants & LEAs and/or campus to develop an instructional framework that will meet the vision and goals set by the LEAs and/or cmapuses