School Actions Overview

What are School Actions?

School Actions are bold strategies that transform low-performing schools, fulfill unmet community needs, and expand access to world-class learning environments for students.

All School Actions include the following components:

  1. ESF-Aligned
  2. High-Quality Instructional Materials
  3. Research Based Instructional Strategies (RBIS)
  4. Strategic Scheduling

School Actions

Check out the LASO Cycle III web page.

Restart

Restart Actions provide an opportunity for a district to rapidly improve outcomes for students through an intentional focus on highly effective talent, new rigorous academic programming, and culture systems that focus on positive school culture. Learn more:

New School

New School Actions allow districts to design a new learning environment that best suits student, family and community needs. Learn more:

Reassign

The Reassign Action supports districts in the thoughtful transfer of students to high-performing A/B-rated schools after the closure of a campus.

Redesign

Redesign Actions support a school leader to develop and implement a whole school model that meets the community's needs. Learn more:

Welcome Innovation Cohort Members

The Innovation Cohort provides a step-by-step data-driven school planning process led by the Center for School Action experts that builds districts’ capacity to identify the best-fit school actions for their highest-needs campuses.

  • Cleveland ISD  
  • Donna ISD  
  • Killeen ISD  
  • Terrell ISD  
  • Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD  
  • Willis ISD  
  • Richardson ISD  
  • Pflugerville ISD  
  • Newton ISD  
  • Lancaster
  • Plano ISD
  • Lufkin ISD
  • Vidor ISD
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