Reports/Guides

Learn in this report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about Applying an Equity Lens to Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

Read Education Week's Special Reports:
- How to Help Students Recover from a Broken Year
- Student Mental Health: Helping a Generation Cope with COVID-19's Fallout

Review the relevant early childhood standards in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (for vertical alignment see by Chapter; for horizontal alignment see by Grade)

Explore the Closing the Skills Gap Position Paper recently published by the LEGO Foundation

Review TEA’s Vertical Alignments to understand the progression of knowledge and skills across the early childhood continuum. This document displays a visual representation of the alignment of standards in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

Learn about activities for engaging parents in Emergent Bilingual instruction in the Institution of Education Science’s publication, the Educator’s Guide for Family and Caregiver Activities for Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School Practice Guide

Review TEA’s Vertical Alignments to understand the progression of knowledge and skills across the early childhood continuum. This document displays a visual representation of the alignment of standards in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

Explore the Closing the Skills Gap Position Paper recently published by the LEGO Foundation

Review the relevant early childhood standards in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (for vertical alignment see by Chapter; for horizontal alignment see by Grade)

Read about the disparities in access to grade-level content in TNTP’s report on The Opportunity Myth (although mostly about middle and high school, the principles discussed are applicable to early childhood as well)

Use the Learning Acceleration Guide to make a plan to accelerate all students back to grade-level in the upcoming 3-5 years

Get a better understanding of why Learning Acceleration is the best strategy in this presentation by the Commit Partnership

Intro to Learning Acceleration - Read-Only

Read the LEGO Foundation’s reports to learn how play can help harness children’s creativity in the classroom and promote equitably academic growth:

Creating Creators

Learning through Play

Learning Through Play: increasing impact, reducing inequality

Read AIR Recognizing the Role of Afterschool and Summer Programs and Systems in Reopening and Rebuilding

Read The 74: Tutoring During the Summer Is a Great First Step Toward Fixing Pandemic Learning Loss. It Must Continue into the Fall

Review TEA’s resource: The Commissioner's List of Approved Prekindergarten Assessment Instruments

Review the guidelines and requirements for determining LEP for grades K-12

Review the guidelines and requirements for campus committees for EL programs and eligibility

Learn about activities for engaging parents in Emergent Bilingual instruction in the Institution of Education Science’s publication, the Educator’s Guide for Family and Caregiver Activities for Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School Practice Guide

Read the Home Visit Project's Impact Report from 2021 to learn about the benefits of home visiting

Read the Learning Policy Institute's online guide and fact sheet on Expanded Learning Time: How States and Districts Can Use Federal Recovery Funds Strategically

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