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School Actions are whole-school strategies districts use to increase access to high-quality schools, meet community needs, and address chronic underperformance. The School Action Fund (SAF) grant provides technical assistance, resources, and grant funds to support the planning and implementation of school actions for, and at, individual campuses to improve schools and provide parents and families with the schools and programs they want, need, and deserve. The School Action Fund supports these bold school actions:

  • Restart a struggling school
  • Create a new school
  • Reassign students to a higher-performing school
  • Redesign a whole school

For more information on transformative School Actions and School Model Playbooks, please visit the Center for School Actions website.

  • ESF-Aligned
  • High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
  • Research Based Instructional Strategies (RBIS)
  • Strategic Scheduling

School Action Fund Resources

The resources below align with the core components of all school actions.

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Effective Schools Framework

For information on the Effective Schools Framework (ESF).

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High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)

HQIM with embedded assessments and diagnostic tools.

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Additional Days School Year

For more information on Additional Days School Year.

 

 

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Accelerated Instruction

For Information on Accelerated Instruction.

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Assessment Resources

For more information on Assessment Resources

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School Model Playbooks

For more information on School Model Playbooks.

 

 

 

 

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District Impacts

"The School Action Fund grant was a transformative catalyst for our campus, enabling us to change a multiple year, low-performing rural school through a more engaging P-20 model. Through the grant process, A.B. Duncan moved from a previous F/D rated campus to a high B, where students and teachers demonstrated impressive growth."
— Shauna Lane,
Dean of Academic Affairs,
Floydada Collegiate ISD
"The School Action Fund helped our district to implement systems and structures that aligned district goals, and campus and district improvement plans with intentionality and purpose, hence increasing effectiveness."
— Stephanie McCloud,
Chief Academic Officer,
DeSoto ISD

80 districts across the state benefit from School Action Fund support

  • More than 210 Million dollars in direct funding or in-kind support.
  • More than 280 School Actions have been planned or implemented.
  • More than 132,000 Texas students served.

Important Information and reminders

  • Continuation Funding Process
  • Gate 4 Due Dates
    • Planning Deliverables are due on May 3, 2024
    • Continuation and/or Implementation Deliverables are due on May 17, 2024
Contact Information

For additional information, contact:

Laura Hyatt
Manager, School Action Fund
Laura.Hyatt@tea.texas.gov

schoolactionfund@tea.texas.gov