Strong Foundations Planning

Strong Foundations Planning is a 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: 

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

2. 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.

3. Partner with an approved provider from the Strong Foundations Approved Provider List (SFAPL). 

Districts should use Strong Foundations grants 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.