Tools and Resources

Network districts use a variety of models, templates, and exemplar artifacts to implement the SGS Strategy.

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References

Essential Action 1
Quality Seats Analysis Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help you complete the Quality Seats Analysis (QSA) for your district as a part of the Annual School Planning...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 1
Annual School Planning Toolkit

The Annual School Planning toolkit can be used as a playbook for the process that ensures districts review school performance, engage with their community...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 1
Community Engagement Toolkit

Community Engagement is an are essential component in delivering high quality best fit schools to students and families. This Community Engagement toolkit will assist...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 2
Talent Landscape Tool

The Talent Landscape tool provides districts a method to estimate how many campus leaders will be needed in the foreseeable future. This tool can...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 2
Progress Monitoring Toolkit: A Toolkit to Support Strong Implementation of School Actions

The Progress Monitoring Toolkit provides a set of tools to support high-quality monitoring of 10 partner-managed and 2) district-managed actions. The toolkit includes sample...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 3
Enrollment Toolkit

The enrollment toolkit supports districts and partners by sharing a multi-year process to reform enrollment. Inside this toolkit district leaders will find stakeholder engagement...

Exemplars

Essential Action 1
Edgewood ISD Superintendent outreach videos

Superintendent Hernandez regularly engages the Edgewood ISD community using videos published to YouTube and shared on social media, which provides him a direct and...

References

Essential Action 2
Authorizer Handbook

This Authorizer Handbook is a reference document that provides an overview of best practices throughout the authorizing life cycle and includes several templates and...

Exemplars

Essential Action 3
Apply Midland School Finder

In 2020, Midland ISD launched Apply Midland to help families and parents find a school that meets their child's needs and interests. Parents can...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 2
NACSA’s Core Pre-Opening Monitoring Guidance and Sample Pre-Opening Requirements

Authorizers have an obligation to decide if a school is ready to open for instruction. This is a detailed list of actions that school...

Models/Templates

Essential Action 2
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Plan

This Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Plan includes the following components:

Prepare: 

  • Part 1: Define the key aspects of the whole communication plan process -...