FourPoint Blog Our insights on education’s most pressing issues.Featured PostsView CategoriesView Tags California, Coherence, and Continuous Improvement With the release of Getting Down to Facts, Stanford…Read moreArrow Right Icon OST Programming in Queen Anne’s County Public Schools: An Innovative Model for Sustainability Queen Anne’s County Public Schools (QACPS) is a mid-sized rural district on the eastern…Read moreArrow Right IconTag IconDistrict and State System Improvement, Educaton Where Do We Go from Here on Equity? Not too long ago, the idea of equity was placed front and center, becoming…Read moreArrow Right Icon More Posts District Use of ESSER Funds: Concerns about Impact and Program Sustainability In 2020, the federal government passed three separate laws that each allocated significant resources to the…Read moreArrow Right Icon Rethinking School During Challenging Times: A Reflection on Lessons Learned Supporting high-quality Expanded Learning Time (ELT) has been a key priority of FourPoint Education Partners (FourPoint) from our inception. Over the past two years, FourPoint has partnered with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Texas Impact Network (TIN), Education Resource Strategies (ERS), The Learning Agenda (TLA) and several Design and Implementation (DI) Partners, to help districts plan strategically to redesign for an ‘Additional Days School Year’ (ADSY) through summer learning as well as full-year redesign models. The support we have provided gives us a unique perspective and experience to support additional communities, in Texas and around the country, as education leaders identify, plan, and implement approaches to incorporating ELT into their work to close the persistent equity gaps that have been widened by the pandemic. Read moreArrow Right Icon Closing Equity Gaps through Expanded Learning Time: What We’ve Learned from Supporting ELT Planning This Past Year Recent research by The Education Trust (Ed Trust) and MDRC identified Expanded Learning Time (ELT) as…Read moreArrow Right IconTag IconCurriculum, Instruction Pandemic Era Teaching and Learning: A Fundamental Question Remains Like other teachers and education leaders across the county, “Teaching and Learning during a Pandemic”…Read moreArrow Right Icon Funding and Sustaining an ADSY Summer Program Since 2020, FourPoint has helped dozens of Texas Local Education Agencies – districts and charters –…Read moreArrow Right IconVideo Icon Accelerating Learning with School Year Redesign at Ignite Community Schools (Fort Worth, Texas) FourPoint Education Partners is proud to support Ignite Community School in redesigning their school year, allowing…Watch videoArrow Right IconVideo Icon Additional Days School Year (ADSY): Goose Creek’s Ashbel Smith FourPoint Education Partners is proud to support Goose Creek ISD in redesigning their school year to…Watch videoArrow Right Icon New Report Centers Student Voices on Postsecondary Readiness What did the Class of 2021 – and their younger peers – have to say about…Read moreArrow Right Icon Work-Based Learning: A Key Lever for Building Critical Connections A growing body of research is making it clear that, while competencies and credentials are critical…Read moreArrow Right IconVideo Icon Equity-Driven Principal Supervision: Taking Stock of Re-Entry and Planning for Recovery – A 3L Virtual Meeting Listen in on a discussion among principal supervisors navigating equity, leadership, and logistics during the…Watch videoArrow Right IconBlog Pages1Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next PageArrow Right Icon
California, Coherence, and Continuous Improvement With the release of Getting Down to Facts, Stanford…Read moreArrow Right Icon
OST Programming in Queen Anne’s County Public Schools: An Innovative Model for Sustainability Queen Anne’s County Public Schools (QACPS) is a mid-sized rural district on the eastern…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Tag IconDistrict and State System Improvement, Educaton Where Do We Go from Here on Equity? Not too long ago, the idea of equity was placed front and center, becoming…Read moreArrow Right Icon
District Use of ESSER Funds: Concerns about Impact and Program Sustainability In 2020, the federal government passed three separate laws that each allocated significant resources to the…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Rethinking School During Challenging Times: A Reflection on Lessons Learned Supporting high-quality Expanded Learning Time (ELT) has been a key priority of FourPoint Education Partners (FourPoint) from our inception. Over the past two years, FourPoint has partnered with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Texas Impact Network (TIN), Education Resource Strategies (ERS), The Learning Agenda (TLA) and several Design and Implementation (DI) Partners, to help districts plan strategically to redesign for an ‘Additional Days School Year’ (ADSY) through summer learning as well as full-year redesign models. The support we have provided gives us a unique perspective and experience to support additional communities, in Texas and around the country, as education leaders identify, plan, and implement approaches to incorporating ELT into their work to close the persistent equity gaps that have been widened by the pandemic. Read moreArrow Right Icon
Closing Equity Gaps through Expanded Learning Time: What We’ve Learned from Supporting ELT Planning This Past Year Recent research by The Education Trust (Ed Trust) and MDRC identified Expanded Learning Time (ELT) as…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Tag IconCurriculum, Instruction Pandemic Era Teaching and Learning: A Fundamental Question Remains Like other teachers and education leaders across the county, “Teaching and Learning during a Pandemic”…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Funding and Sustaining an ADSY Summer Program Since 2020, FourPoint has helped dozens of Texas Local Education Agencies – districts and charters –…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Video Icon Accelerating Learning with School Year Redesign at Ignite Community Schools (Fort Worth, Texas) FourPoint Education Partners is proud to support Ignite Community School in redesigning their school year, allowing…Watch videoArrow Right Icon
Video Icon Additional Days School Year (ADSY): Goose Creek’s Ashbel Smith FourPoint Education Partners is proud to support Goose Creek ISD in redesigning their school year to…Watch videoArrow Right Icon
New Report Centers Student Voices on Postsecondary Readiness What did the Class of 2021 – and their younger peers – have to say about…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Work-Based Learning: A Key Lever for Building Critical Connections A growing body of research is making it clear that, while competencies and credentials are critical…Read moreArrow Right Icon
Video Icon Equity-Driven Principal Supervision: Taking Stock of Re-Entry and Planning for Recovery – A 3L Virtual Meeting Listen in on a discussion among principal supervisors navigating equity, leadership, and logistics during the…Watch videoArrow Right Icon
