Full Year Redesign
Resources Archive
Example Resources from ADSY PEP FYR
and Insights from the Broader Field
Redesigning the school day and year is a huge opportunity and a fundamental change for students, families and staff. A thoughtful and inclusive planning process may be the most important precursor of effective implementation. Planning must start early, include key stakeholders and voices, and follow best practices. Successful planning requires a strong leader who is positioned to engage a district and/or campus-level planning team. In turn, the planning team commits to establishing a comprehensive vision for the program, owning critical planning decisions and activities, and responding to unanticipated challenges.
TEA RESOURCES
VISION AND DESIGN
Stakeholder Engagement Guide by Education Elements: This guide offers additional guidance on stakeholder engagement that may be helpful as you strive to include the perspectives of students, families, teachers and community members in your redesign.
Centering Teacher Voice and Leadership by FourPoint Education Partners: This video offers reflections from previous ADSY PEP FYR efforts, focused on centering teacher voice.
ADSY_Reflection_Video-Centering_Teacher_Voice_&_Leadership.movDallas ISD launched Time to Learn, a comprehensive approach to help ensure the pandemic doesn’t have long-lasting, negative impacts on student learning. To ensure robust input from stakeholders, they designed surveys and focus group guides for families, students, principals, teachers and other school staff.
Accelerating Learning at Ignite Community School: Ignite Community School participated in Cycle 1 of ADSY PEP Full Year Redesign. They collected feedback from families to inform their planning and messaging. Review the family survey and watch an overview video to see how they made it easy for their families to offer input.
Crowley ISD was a participant in the first year (Cycle 1) of ADSY Full Year Redesign. In the video, the Crowley leadership team talks with students, teachers and families to get their perspective on the benefits of the additional time that the Full Year Redesign schedule provides to enhance teaching, learning and enrichment experiences.
Pawnee ISD was a participant in the first year (Cycle 1) of ADSY Full Year Redesign. This video captures a range of activities from a Family Day event they coordinated to energize students and families about Full Year Redesign on the first day of school in the 21-22 school year. Superintendent Michelle Hartmann shares her excitement and their vision for the program in remarks starting at 5:58 in the video.
Spring ISD's parents and school leaders talk about how ADSY FYR offers opportunities for students to engage in creative hands-on learning experiences like coding, robotics, STEM, and technology. Children can flourish in an environment where students have the gift of additional time to learn and teachers have more time to plan and collaborate.
Engage2Learn ADSY Marketing Ideapad is a planning tool developed by Engage2Learn to help participating districts map our a communications and marketing plan to support the implementation of Full Year Redesign.
INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH
Three Ways to Find and Review HQIM for ADSY Funding: A resource shared by TEA to support selection and adoption of high quality instructional materials.
The Science Behind Brain Breaks: A brief video sharing research demonstrating that brain breaks boost creativity, cognitive function, and social skills.
What Are Brain Breaks? by EdTechReview: This video shares the importance and benefits of brain breaks.
STAFFING
Finding Time for Collaborative Planning by ERS: A study profiling four school systems that focused on improving the quality of instruction through professional learning.
Teacher Professional Learning Diagnostic Assessment by ERS: A tool designed to help LEAs assess their professional learning model against strategic practices identified through research.
We Asked Teachers What They’d Do with 10 Extra Minutes a Day by EdSurge: Teacher feedback on how they would use extra time if they had it.
