Texas School Ready
What is Texas School Ready?
Texas School Ready is a comprehensive preschool teacher training program combining a research-based, state-adopted curriculum with ongoing professional development and progress monitoring tools. The goal of this program is to help children be better prepared for school.
Preschool teachers enrolled in TSR Comprehensive take part in a comprehensive teacher training program designed to help children be more prepared for kindergarten and beyond.
TSR Comprehensive Program focuses on the following four components:
Teachers can participate in the TSR Comprehensive program through one of two models:
Face-to-Face:
Co-Teaching
Modeling
Side-by-side coaching
Remote:
Teachers film themselves teaching a lesson and remote coaches give them feedback and support through the online TSR platform.
The benefits of participating in the TSR program:
- Multiple research studies have confirmed that Texas School Ready positively impacts teacher instructional practices in the classroom, regardless of setting (public school pre-k, Head Start, and private child care classrooms).
- Teachers show increases in their use of language-building strategies, including the quality of book reading, general conversations with children, and the use of oral language instruction to build these skills.
- Teachers also show better responsive teaching practices, organization of their centers, and the use of lesson plans.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) conducted by researchers at the Children's Learning Institute on the effectiveness of TSR Comprehensive are published in peer-reviewed journals after undergoing rigorous evaluation by independent experts in the field.
To learn more, visit: https://texasschoolready.org/tsr-comprehensive
Receiving TSR Comprehensive Services
