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Summer Budgeting Tool
FourPoint created a budgeting tool to help LEAs effectively plan for summer programs. In it, planners can create initial budget estimates, get specific about their program's scale and staffing, document all associated costs, and map out revenue sources. The tool also offers an at-a-glance summary of program metrics and budget features.
FourPoint created a budgeting tool to help LEAs effectively plan for summer programs. In it, planners can create initial budget estimates, get specific about their program's scale and staffing, document all associated costs, and map out revenue sources. The tool also offers an at-a-glance summary of program metrics and budget features.
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Happy, Healthy, Whole, and High-Achieving: A Self-Assessment for Districts Preparing for Strategic Planning
This strategic planning guide offers a structure and framework for education leaders to make plans based on key issues, deep partnerships, and local contexts. We hope you use this guide to promote coherence and innovation within your district, now and in the future.
This strategic planning guide offers a structure and framework for education leaders to make plans based on key issues, deep partnerships, and local contexts. We hope you use this guide to promote coherence and innovation within your district, now and in the future.
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Work-Based Learning Made Easy: A Toolkit to Maximize Opportunities in Your Community
Work-based learning is a win-win-win for students, educators, and employers. FourPoint partnered with Naviance to create this toolkit and give schools and districts strategies for implementing meaningful career learning opportunities.
Work-based learning is a win-win-win for students, educators, and employers. FourPoint partnered with Naviance to create this toolkit and give schools and districts strategies for implementing meaningful career learning opportunities.
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Needs Assessments and Strategic Planning
Accessing ADSY Funding
Texas's Additional Day School Year (ADSY) initiative gives LEAs funding to design engaging academic and enrichment opportunities. To qualify for ADSY funding, a 180 instructional day calendar and 75,600 operational minutes are required. FourPoint developed the infographic below to help districts interested in ADSY and similar programs understand some strategies and implications for planning.
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The ADSY 180 Instructional Day Requirement
Texas's Additional Day School Year (ADSY) initiative gives LEAs funding to design engaging academic and enrichment opportunities. To qualify for ADSY funding, a 180 instructional day calendar and 75,600 operational minutes are required. FourPoint developed the infographic below to help districts interested in ADSY and similar programs understand some strategies and implications for planning.
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Financing Community Schools: A Framework for Growth and Sustainability
Community school practitioners continue to ask: How do we finance this? How can we sustain our community schools? This brief from FourPoint and the Partnership for the Future of Learning offers several answers, drawing on real district and state level examples to help community school leaders with the complex work of developing and implementing a finance plan to support all aspects of community schools.
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Framework for Sustaining Promising Initiatives
As this framework makes clear: money matters, but is only one part of the sustainability story. Savvy education leaders not only know the importance of balancing financial needs with funding streams, they also take care to involve stakeholders, partners, and leaders while considering their own organizational capacity.
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Funding and Sustaining a Summer ADSY Program
Texas's Additional Day School Year (ADSY) initiative gives LEAs funding to design engaging academic and enrichment opportunities. ADSY reimburses LEAs for half of an instructional day. LEAs providing a full-day opportunity need to decide how they will cover the remaining cost. FourPoint developed the infographic below to help districts interested in ADSY understand strategies for developing programs with sustainable financing.
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Navigating ADSY Financial Requirements: Considerations for Successfully Accessing Additional Days School Year Funds
In 2019, the Texas Education Agency launched its Additional Days School Year grant program, making new funding available for elementary schools offering extended year opportunities to students. To access these funds, LEAs must meet specific and sometimes-nuanced requirements. This guide lays out what those are and provides insights on how LEAs can take full advantage of ADSY funding to create sustainable extended-year options.
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Organizational Development
Playbook: Redesigning Schools For a Changing Future
The Playbook gives practical guidance on how to initiate, plan, implement, and manage a school redesign process, leading readers through the process of developing a clear and coherent vision for change and then designing and managing the change process.
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Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for Out-of-School Time Programs: A Strategy Guide
In partnership with the National League of Cities, FourPoint (formerly Cross & Joftus) developed this guide to help mayors create strong partnerships that build public will and increase investments in for out-of-school time programs.
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Sustainability Self-Assessment
FourPoint has developed a Sustainability Self-Assessment to help cities that are building—or considering building—city afterschool systems. The assessment is free to use and can be adapted by local communities to meet their needs.
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Instructional Leadership Capacity Building
District Self-Assessment of Principal Supervisor Role
To help districts fully realize the powerful impact of principal supervisors, FourPoint Education Partners designed a self-assessment tool that leaders can use to evaluate how well the principal supervisor role is being leveraged to improve teaching and learning in schools.
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Planning for Re-Entry & Recovery: A Guide for Promoting Equity, Improvement, and Innovation
FourPoint developed this guide to help education leaders plan for re-entry and recovery while transforming their education systems following COVID-19. It provides a structure and framework for addressing student and staff well-being, learning loss, college and career readiness, partnerships with families and community organizations, logistics and operations, and strategic resource deployment.
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Policies and Practices that Promote Equity and Racial Justice in Schools
What can district leaders do to promote equity and racial justice for their students? FourPoint has identified practical steps that administrators and board members can take.
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Student-Centered Support Systems
City Afterschool System Framework
FourPoint has developed a City Afterschool System Framework to help cities that are building—or considering building—city afterschool systems. The one-page framework is free to use and can be adapted by local communities to meet their needs.
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City Strategies to Engage Older Youth in Afterschool Strategies: Strategy Guide
This FourPoint (formerly Cross & Joftus) guide, produced in partnership with the National League of Cities, describes four strategies that municipal leaders can employ to promote high-quality out-of-school time opportunities for middle and high school youth.
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Find Your College Fit Activity: Shuffle, Sort and Stack
Students who select good-fit educational pathways after high school earn degrees and credentials at higher rates. But
deciding which colleges and universities to apply to can be daunting. This activity helps students conduct a more targeted search and ultimately select schools that are a solid match and fit.
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Guide to College Access Fit Factors
Each college and university is unique. This tool lays out questions students can use to find one that is a good fit.
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Leveraging GEAR UP: A District Self-Assessment
The federal GEAR UP grant program can play a powerful role in boosting a culture of college, career, and life readiness and ensuring students graduate prepared for postsecondary success. Informed by its supports to districts implementing GEAR UP, FourPoint created this self-assessment tool to help leaders fully leverage their programs.
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Work-Based Learning Made Easy: A Toolkit to Maximize Opportunities in Your Community
Work-based learning is a win-win-win for students, educators, and employers. FourPoint partnered with Naviance to create this toolkit and give schools and districts strategies for implementing meaningful career learning opportunities.
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