Our 2024 Annual Report
We support pioneering school systems to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based strategies funded and incentivized by Texas state legislation.
Learn more about the school systems we serve and support we provide in our annual report linked below.
Students Reached
Texas Student Population Served
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Our History
The Texas Impact Network was formed in response to the passage of Texas House Bill 3 (86R), which transformed public school finance in Texas. Passed by the Texas Legislature in 2019, HB 3 not only added $3.25 billion annually to fund public schools, but also created equitable, innovative funding opportunities that target our state’s highest-need students with up to $4 billion in additional investments.
These three data-proven policies are:
The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA)
What is it?
The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) was designed to attract and retain highly effective educators at traditionally hard-to-staff schools by providing a realistic pathway for top teachers to earn six-figure salaries.
In order to access to the Teacher Incentive Allotment from the state, the school system must achieve the following:
Goal #1: Develop a rigorous plan to implement a high-quality local designation system with input from teachers and other stakeholders—ensuring validity and reliability of measures
Goal #2: Submit an application for approval to TEA
Goal #3: Implement the system’s Teacher Incentive Allotment plan with fidelity
To learn more about this exciting policy, visit: https://tiatexas.org/
Our Impact
Additional Days School Year (ADSY)
What is it?
The Additional Days School Year provides elementary schools with funding to provide up to 30 additional half-days of instruction to enhance teacher pay, mitigate pandemic-related learning loss, and prevent summer slide for students who tend to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year. The effects of the global pandemic on learning loss has increased and accelerated the number of school systems exploring implementation of this program.
TEA identified three potential models for school systems looking to implement ADSY:
Option 1: Voluntary Summer Learning: A base 180 day calendar and up to 30 days of summer programming for a targeted subset of students.
Option 2: Intersessional Calendar: A base calendar of 180 days with up to 30 additional days interspersed over the full year for accelerated learning and enrichment with a subset of students.
Option 3: Full Year Redesign: A revamped 210 day calendar and revised daily schedules to increase time for teacher planning and collaboration and student enrichment and breaks during the school day.
ADSY Planning and Execution Program
The Texas Impact Network partners with the Texas Education Agency to run the ADSY Planning and Execution Program (PEP). The ADSY PEP is a competitive grant program offering planning and execution supports for school systems interested in implementing either the Voluntary Summer Learning or Full Year Redesign models.
All systems receive planning year grants and technical assistance from The Learning Agenda to design and implement a plan for extending the school year for elementary students. Thirteen school systems in the first cycle implemented in the 2021-2022 school year. The second cycle includes 60 school systems working on the Voluntary Summer Learning model and 20 school systems working on the Full Year Redesign model. These districts will spend the 2021-2022 school year designing programs to implement in 2022-2023.
Interested in joining the ADSY Planning & Execution program? Reach out to: salexander@rosehilledsolutions.com
Our Impact
College, Career & Military Readiness (CCMR)
What is it?
The College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) Outcomes Bonus supports the state’s mission to prepare every child for success in college, career, or the military. School systems receive additional funding for preparing students for college, a career, and the military when they take the next step in their career planning by enrolling in postsecondary institutions, completing an industry approved credential, and/or enlisting in the military by the fall after graduation. These outcomes bonuses are distributed equitably, with more funds awarded for students experiencing economic instability.
Goal #1: Develop a rigorous plan to implement a high-quality local designation system with input from teachers and other stakeholders—ensuring validity and reliability of measures
Goal #2: Submit an application for approval to TEA
Goal #3: Implement the system’s Teacher Incentive Allotment plan with fidelity
To learn more about this exciting policy, visit: https://tiatexas.org/
Our Impact
In 2020, the Texas Impact Network launched the Rural CCMR Accelerator Program extending expert coaching and student support services to select rural Texas school systems and building a network of rural school systems focused on common goals. Over three years, the Rural CCMR Accelerator provided intensive technical support to 53 school systems that collectively serve nearly 10% of all rural students in Texas.
70% of Rural CCMR Accelerator systems in cohort 1 showed growth in their CCMR outcomes-bonus funding, with outliers like San Augustine (+25pp), Rio Hondo ISD (+16pp), and Aransas County (+11pp) showing enormous year-over-year gains.
This work has since evolved into the Rural Accelerator Network. Click below for more information on that program.
