Why Strong Foundations Planning?

Strong Foundations Planning (SFP) is a Texas Education Agency (TEA)-sponsored initiative strategically allocating funds to assure that all districts can create instructional frameworks aligned to the research-based instructional strategies (RBIS) that serve as tools for districts to make instructional decisions. To accomplish this, districts are funded to: 

• Assure that curriculum is aligned with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.

• Implement a structure of change management, enabling district leaders, principals, and teachers to create an instructional framework appropriate to their district context that improves curriculum implementation.

• Partner with an approved provider (AP).

Districts should use the SFP grant to support instructional shifts, which require a constructed and successful change management system.

Strong Foundations Planning manages an instructional change process. It creates enabling conditions to adopt and implement high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for the long term.