001All right, the time is now 9:33 a.m. So, we're going to go ahead and get started. Welcome everyone to the ADSY planning and execution program grant webinar. We'll likely you'll likely hear us refer to this as the adsy pep grant. Uh moving forward, we're excited to have you with us today as we explore opportunities to extend learning time through ads summer and ads fullyear redesign. My name is Rashama Bellor and I am the manager of additional day school year at TEA. Joining me today are Brian Doran, the director of expanded learning models and Erica Stewart, the AI summer learning project manager. Brian will be supporting this webinar by answering your questions as you have them via the Q&A question function and Zoom. And you'll get to hear from Erica Stewart later this morning as she
002walks us through ADIs summer um model grant requirements as well as overall ADZI PEP and as she closes us out um for the webinar as well. Let's go through some housekeeping items. First during this webinar we'll start off with an overview of the lasso cycle 4 portfolio and share broadly what this opportunity looks like for every school system across the state. We'll then go into a deeper why for this specific grant opportunity um that we call adsep and dive into what you can expect from the adsy planning and execution program. Finally, we'll highlight a couple of universal next steps for the application process and timely reminders for all school systems um that are participating in the lasso cycle 4 process. During this webinar, please use the Zoom Q&A function to submit your questions. Our team
003will work diligently to answer questions in the Q&A box during this webinar. We won't be able to take questions live, but you can go ahead and put those questions in the Q&A and we'll make sure that each of those gets answered. Um, all questions, um, even those that we don't have an opportunity to get to in this webinar, will be recorded and added to a future Lasso FAQ document, which will be published on the Lasso website um, on November 3rd, 2025. And all webinar slides and recordings will be posted on the Lasso Cycle 4 website after all webinars are completed. And in the meantime, if you have any follow-up questions about the Lasso application process after this webinar, please email the Lasso team at lasso tea.exus.gov. We'll start with an overview of the lasso cycle
0044. Lasso is a single consolidated application that combines grants, aotments, and inind supports bundled around a few key strategies to accelerate um academic gains. There are $500 million worth of estimated services and supports for school systems across 15 initiatives to support learning acceleration and innovation. You'll find that the 15 opportunities offered via lasso cycle 4 are anchored in four learning acceleration strategies. Curriculum and instruction which focuses on highquality instructional materials that are designed to support school systems with making up ground in mastering grade levels for students. There's educator and training uh which focuses on Thailand Poplines to support teachers more time which is where the the AI plan execution program sits to support students most in need to expand instructional time and of course continuing to provide targeted supports for students and then there's innovative
005school models to help incorporate all aspects of the learning acceleration framework. The lasso 4 portfolio has several initiatives that span multiple years. So this robust table on this screen displays the funding view for all 15 opportunities with the total allocation across all years beginning with the lasso cycle including continuation grants where applicable. For example, you'll see here that the ADZY planning and execution program spans two to three years depending on the grade level band that you're applying for. And we'll dive deeper into that in the coming slides. We're going to go ahead and get started by talking about the additional day school year initiative. Um and so we'll get started with talking about adsy and grounding and the framework the research framework um for adsy. This slide may be familiar to many but it's particularly
006relevant when we're discussing ads because it represents the foundational research underpinning our approach. Research has shown that student achievement levels tend to drop during the summer months. It's it's a phenomenon that we all commonly refer refer to as summer slide. This decline in achievement widens the gap between low-income and high-income students by up to three grade levels by the time low-income students reach fifth grade. Before we dive into the adsy planning execution program, we want to take a moment to talk through ads itself, which serves as the foundation for the ads pep grant. ADZI is an initiative designed to combat summer learning loss by providing formula funding to school systems that add up to 30 additional days to their school year beyond the minimum requirement. Adsy formula funding is a statewide opportunity that any eligible
007school systems can tap into provided they meet the base calendar eligibility requirements. host those ads days for the eligible students at the eligible campuses and submit those days via the PE's extended year submission following the school year that the adsy days were hosted. This slide outlines the base state requirements for general ads participation for all school systems. Recent legislative updates have expanded ads eligibility to include grades 6 through 8. It lowered the base calendar requirement and increased funding opportunity for campuses that add more instructional days. And so you'll see this new pathway called the three quarters day formula funding pathway. To qualify for ADSI, campuses must serve at least one grade level and grades preK through 8. The base academic calendar must include a minimum of 175 instructional days with at least 75,600 operational minutes
008excluding the minutes covered by staff development waiverss. And now there are two formula funding pathways for school systems to select from when they're considering adsy uh for their school system. So, the half-day formula funding pathway, this is this purple um column that's on the left, uh serves or is for campuses that are serving grades level preK through 8. That is the base eligibility for ADSI statewide. And for this half-day formula funding pathway, campus academic calendars are going to include that base eligibility requirement of 175 days with the 75,600 operation of minutes. then they are able to add anywhere from one to 30 additional five days of instruction beyond the minimum base calendar requirement. And so for example, if a school system has the base calendar requirement of 175 days, they add just one more day
009and they host that day for those eligible students submit those days and ps that day itself is going to generate half-day formula funding back into the school systems um FSP. They want to ensure that for the half-day formula funding that a teacher meeting the school system certification requirements are delivering at least 2 hours of instruction on the designated ads a day. So that is the information needed for half day formula funding. Now we'll talk about the 3/4ers day formula funding which is this deep blue column on the right. This funding is available to the campuses that have a total of 200 full instructional days in the calendar. So this total can include adsy days as long as the campus is operating the at that base eligibility requirement for adsy. So 175 full instructional days with
010the 75,600 operational minutes and then adding at minimum with the base calendar of 175 at minimum 25 days uh full adsy days to meet that 200 day threshold. In those adsy days, um, a school systems, a teacher that's meeting the school system certification requirements must deliver at least four hours of instruction on those designated adsy days. And the key thing here for both funding pathways um is that adsy days have to be hosted separately from the regular instructional uh calendar. So they can't be hosted as part of the regular school day. uh for example they can't be hosted on the second half of the day. What the ADSY planning and execution program does is provide a grantup supported opportunity for school systems to access adsy formula funding and ad days in a research aligned way
011which is what you'll see with adsy summer and adsy full year. Statewide there are three tea identified models for calendar design for adsy. Um there's summer learning which entails a 175day traditional calendar and up to 30 days for something additional. Um and this is where summer program would occur. There's the intersectional calendar where you have the 175 days spaced out throughout the year and you're able to add um breaks for targeted remediation and learning acceleration for students. Um, and then there's the third model, fullear redesign. And this is where you'll have a 200 plus day calendar leveraging weekly ADSy days to increase teacher planning time and student brain breaks. The adsy planning and execution program supports option one and option three, which is summer learning and fullear redesign. And we'll talk through what these programs
012look like um in the coming slides. So, we've talked through the problem that ADI aims to solve through more time, which is summer learning loss, which compounds over time for students from lowincome backgrounds. We've also talked through the opportunity to combat summer learning loss via adsy which provides statewide opportunity for eligible campuses to generate halfday or 3/4 day formula funding depending on the number of days added um and how those days are structured. Now we are going to talk through the adsy planning and execution program which is designed to support school systems with not only tapping into the 3/4 day formula funding um that's available through adsy but also to do so in a research aligned way that has been shown to deliver results for students um and we'll talk about what those results look
013like for ADP students um as well. All right. So, we've covered the base information needed to understand ADZY and then the branch um that supports adsy implementation which is the adsy plan and execution program which is the grant that we are talking about today. So, let's go ahead and start the deep dive into adsep. ADIPEP is this grant program that is going to support interested school systems with implementing the researchbased extended learning programs through ADI fullyear or the ATI summer learning models. So through this grant program, school systems are going to engage in a year-long strategic planning process where they'll receive technical assistance and professional development that is aligned to the model that you're selecting through this grant application process. The grant again is intended to strengn ads formula funding implementation and school systems can
014access adsy formula funding with or without participation in the grant program. But we do see that participation in the grant program does help bolster adsy implementation and help support student learning acceleration as well. And so here it's just a brief description of a of what the adsy plan execution program does. We've covered that it supports school systems with high quality implementation of adsy summer and adsy full year. This grant program is going to help you leverage both grant grant program funding as well as adsy formula funding. So, two sources of funding that could possibly be going into your additional days program um if you're participating in this grant program. And so, school systems that participate in this grant program will receive a researchbased planning process through strategic planning tools, through um technical assistance, and through
015being in a community of practice to uh continue to meet and to plan their ADZY aligned programs. ABSY on its own can deliver results provided that those additional days are implemented well and that they are deliberate uh opportunities for intervention or learning acceleration for students. However, our data shows that students at campuses that participated in an ADS pep summer or adsy fullear program achieve larger gains in math and reading in the 2223 school year compared to those that did not participate in a grantup supported ADSY program. If you take a moment to orient yourself to this graph, you will see on the top left side of the slide here that the orange bar shows non ADI students statewide. The blue bar represents adi pep summer participants. The purple bar is adi fulyear participants. So those
016are grant supported um programs. And then adsy nonp which are the adsy statewide. So students that are participating in any additional days statewide without any grant supports. First note that ADI students tend to start from a lower baseline in terms of like the percent of students that are reaching meets and star. However, you can see that despite starting from a lower baseline and star ads students tend to see larger gains. So in this analysis comparing the meats percentages from 2122 to the 2223 school year star we found that in the 2223 school year statewide students saw a 2% increase in math meets and a 3% decline in reading meets. However summer participants had a 10 percentage point increase in math and a 3 percentage point increase in reading adi fulyear students. So that's the purple
017bar saw an average of 11 percentage point increase in math meets and a 1% increase in reading. Non-grant ads saw a 5 percentage point increase. So that's this green bar right here. And a 1 percentage point decline in reading. So these programs mostly serve emergent bilingual, economically disadvantaged, and special education students, demonstrating that extended time is effectively being used to support the students most impacted by summer slide and is leading to clear academic gains for those students. And although not included here, it's also worth noting that in the 2324 school year, we continued to see that students attending ADY programming outperform state trends in percentage point growth and math and reading star. Though not as in as much of a dramatic incline as what's displayed, but this continues to show us and to underscore the
018impact of a researchbased ADSI summer and ADIY four-year programs. So, we're incredibly excited to offer this grant opportunity for school systems um through lasso cycle 4. So, when applying to ads pep, there are two models that school systems can select from and lasso for. There's the adsy fular redesign, that's this one over here, and adsy summer on the left. As we move into this third tier of the diagram, you'll see different options for applicants based on their eligible grade levels and their history with ADSI PEP, the ADSI plan execution program. So, campuses that are completely new to ADSI and have never drawn down funding under the ADSI planning and execution program. So if your school system has never participated in ADSI full year or ads summer via grant supports then you're able to apply for
019the grade bands of prek through five and if your stu if you have campuses that have never participated in adep before. So there this is like the grade 6 through 8 expansion. This is an opportunity that we're also excited to offer here as a result of House Bill 2. And it is an opportunity that is exclusive to participants that have participated in ADS PEP before. So they'll be able to select um and apply for campuses that are serving grades 6 through 8. And they'll be able to do this for both ADSI full year and ADSI summer. Uh depending on the model that you're applying for, we anticipate um reserving around 30 spots for grantees um that are applying for adsy summer and around six uh spots for grantees that are applying um into the ADSY
020fullyear model. We're going to now take a walkthrough of AdSie fullyear uh redesign before I hand this um off to Erica to talk through ads summer and the remainder of um more information essentially about ads pep and close us out for the webinar fullyear presents an innovative opportunity to provide unique impactful learning experience for students yearround. found. With the benefit of more time, campuses awarded under this model will have the opportunity to creatively reimagine a typical school day. They'll be able to explore new strategies that can benefit both students and teachers. So for adsy full year, if you're applying and you're selected and awarded for this model, your school system will essentially be leveraging the 25 plus adsy days by strategically embedding them into the regular school year calendar to create a revamped 200 plus
021day calendar that allows the campus to increase teacher planning time weekly, increase student brain breaks and enrichment opportunities as well as leverage the adsy days to provide just in time support such as tutoring to accelerate student learning. Here we have an example of how an adsy day may look like for your campus. This is just an example. Um notice here in this example that Wednesdays are strategically changed. So those Wednesdays here are defined as adsy days and they're strategically changed to meet the needs of students and teachers. So adsy days are strategically designed here to allow more times for brain breaks and 90 minutes for students to engage in project-based learning. And instead of the traditional 290 minutes of instruction, an ads a day reduces that amount and allows school systems or the campus to
022essentially focus on accelerated learning time and reading and math. And the key here too is the freedom and flexibility for your campus to really support and address the individual needs of students during the school day. So a unique opportunity here to increase the amount of time that your teachers have for planning during the week. So this will help reduce the amount of time that a teacher has to take work home. And so it could really help with balancing um teacher planning time as well as increasing the amount of time or the access that students have to brain breaks and enrichment opportunities during the regular school year. Let's walk quickly through the three-year implementation roadmap for campuses that are applying um for so essentially for preK to 5 implementation. Year 1 for as a full year
023happens in the 26 27th school year and this is the foundational year that's focused on strategic planning and readiness. So grantees are going to in their first year complete an adsy fullear strategic plan, conduct a teacher time analysis uh for to be ready to increase teacher planning time and begin developing a master schedule for the 2728 school year that aligns with the ads fullyear theory of change. With adsy as the foundation for this model, a key milestone will be securing the 2728 adsy eligible eligible calendar. In year two, campuses are going to move. So that's the 2728 school year. Campuses are moving into full implementation of what they've planned um during the 2627 school year. So the redesign master schedule is going to be launched. teams are going to begin analyzing student attendance and growth
024rates during the implementation year. Satisfaction surveys are going to be conducted um to gather feedback from stakeholders. And based on these insights, campuses are going to be able to refine their master schedules to ensure continued alignment. impact reports are also going to be uh generated in year two um to continue to showcase like the growth and the impact that you're seeing across your campus due to the ADSY fullyear model. And then again that annual schoolboard sign off to make sure that the campus is remaining at eligible so that in addition to the grant funds the campus is generating that formula funding back for this school system at the end of year two. Um the successful completion of year two is going to be able to allow you to apply for continuation funding to support the
025third year of implementation. The final grantup supported implementation year, so that's year three here, emphasizes sustainability and reflections where campuses are going to continue implementing and refining their master schedules. They're going to continue analyzing student outcomes and making the adjustments, the adjustments needed to support students and teachers. Um, and then throughout each year, campuses are going to be receiving supports. So, that's monthly professional development and one-on-one technical assistance. They're going to receive strategic plan feedback um to help ensure that the model or like the plans for the model are aligning to the ADZI uh fullear theory of change. And this structured timeline helps ensure that campuses are not only implementing the ADZI fullear model with fidelity, but are also building capacity for long-term success. So you'll see that year over year you have this opportunity
026to refine based on what you're learning on the ground. Let's take a look also at the funding timeline for campuses serving grades preK through 5 for the full year and how it reflects a sustainability centered approach in year one. So that's the 26 27 school year campuses are going to uh receive or an award of 250,000. So this is what's going to be granted when a campus is awarded at lasso4. And this funding is going to support the foundational activities such as strategic planning, master scheduling development, stakeholder engagement, laying that groundwork for implementation. school systems that successfully complete year one um of ADZI PEP so are going to be eligible to apply for continuation funding uh for the 2728 school year and again this is contingent on that successful completion of year 1. You'll see
027that there's a reduced funding tier here that reflects this shift towards sustainability that are going to be encouraging campuses to begin to leverage internal efficiencies and resources. So think about the fact that here you are not only receiving grant funding but as you're submitting your adsy days and ps you're also generating formula funding back to that school system that you are going to be able to have the option or the autonomy to put that funding back into your adsy days to continue to support your school system. So, it's grant funding as well as that statewide formula funding that your school system is going to have access to to be able to support your planning and implementation um and campus wholewide activities as well. So, again, this tiered funding model supports implementation. It reinforces the long-term
028vision for ADZI, which is to empower these campuses to sustain their expended learning opportunities beyond the life of the grant. With the passage of House Bill 2, again, we're excited to offer this new opportunity, which essentially is a pilot for grades 6 through 8. So, this this opportunity or this expansion allows middle school campuses to engage in the same structured um requirements and planning and implementation as what you were we were just talking about for grades preK through 5. The only difference that you'll note here is that there is no year three because this is a unique opportunity for the new campuses, so grades six through 8 to pilot what ADZY full year will look like at a grade 6 through 8 campus, receive supports as they're doing so um before they close out their
029uh first implementation year. So that's in 2728. This slide outlines the funding structure for campuses that are participating in the grade six through eight expansion pilot. It is a one-time grant award. And so when you're awarded at lasso cycle 4. So uh if selected for this grant program for the 2627 school year, it is the 250,000 that's awarded at lasso 2 to support both the planning and implementation year for years 2627 and 2728. Um, and then we anticipate that as part of this application process, if a campus or if the school system has participated in AD PEP previously, you're going to be able to select this opportunity to apply for multiple campuses. So imagine if you're applying for one campus for ADS summer, the other campus for ADS full year. And so for this grade
0306 through 8 expansion pilot opportunity, this award at lasso 4 is going to be 156,250. And that's for both models for both years. All right. And so now I'll pass it over to Erica Stewart to lead us through the rest of the webinar. Erica, take us away. >> I uh sorry, could I chime in real quick? I went to answer a Q&A question specific to four year redesign and marked answer live instead of chat or type the answer. So I'm just going to answer it live real quick. The question was how much uh help to manage this does the approved provider provide and so uh the approved providers for both actually for both full year redesign and for uh summer learning. They're there to support the planning process to serve as uh uh someone to
031really to support that planning process. The bulk of the strategic planning work itself though since so much of it is context uh is reliant on district project manager work which we'll get into a little bit more here uh in a bit but I wanted to address that before we move on. Thanks. >> Thanks Brian and thanks Rama. Uh so now that we've talked about the adsy initiative and the adsy fular redesign grant opportunity we're going to take a look at the adsy summer learning grant opportunity. You can go to the next slide. Great. Um, so a study from the RAN Corporation found that summer programs that had specific quality parameters effectively eliminate summer slide. And so you can see those quality parameters on the screen. Those parameters are running a nocost program for five to
032six weeks, keeping class sizes small, ensuring certified teachers provide at least three hours of academics each day, offering high quality enrichment, and providing transportation and meals at no cost. So the ads pep summer grant program is grounded in the Rand research and these parameters. Over the last five years, ADEP Summer has served over 30,000 students statewide each summer. 85 school systems have participated in the program, and we've benefited from the support of 11 different state and national partners that have lent their expertise in summer learning to our program. Here we see an overview. So, similar to full year redesign, a similar view, but for summer. Um, so here's an overview of the grant participation timeline for the ADSI summer preK through 5 cohort. And so you'll see that in all three years of grant participation,
033school systems will ensure schoolboard sign off on the ADSI calendar for the following year. Um, complete the summer strategic plan, engage in a program summer site visit each summer, create and share with TEA and stakeholders a summer program impact report, and apply for continuation funding for the following year for years one and two of the program. And then year three has all of those same deliverables and also has three unique deliverables to year three which are ensuring annual schoolboard sign off of the Azy calendar. So just making a part um of what your school system does every year, creating an AI sustainability plan to support ADI implementation and summer program implementation that lives beyond the grant and participating in an ADI pep grant exit interview. And then similar to fullyear, the supports that grantees receive
034through ads summer every year, our monthly professional development, monthly one-on-one technical assistance from the approved provider, um, and then receiving strategic plan feedback from ADP summer experts throughout the year um to inform the the plan the planning process. And then here is um, Azie PEP summer preK through 5 grant funding. Um, so you can see that the grant grant funding amount for each year begins with $100,000 in year one and then scaffolds down to 33,000 in the last grant year um with the same approach as full year with the tapered amount approach building towards sustainability beyond the grant. Here we have the adip summer grades 6 through 8 expansion pilot. Um, and so deliverables and supports are the same here as for the prek through five cohorts. The only difference is that the grade 6
035through8 expansion pilot is a 2-year grant commitment versus a three-year grant commitment. And then here we have the funding. So again, the 68 expansion pilot is open only to school systems with prior ADS PEP participation that are seeking to expand to grades six through 8. Um, and so ADI summer grant funding totals $100,000 for both years uh combined or excuse me 125,000. Um and then we uh like Rusha talked about with full year, we anticipate awarding up to four spots to the previous adset participants that apply for both summer and full year. Um and should a school system be awarded both models, a funding cap um which you see there on the screen will be applied. So that's ad summer. We're going to zoom out now and talk about ads pep requirements for both ads
036summer and adsy full year. So the the what you see here on the screen are Azie PEP as assurances. Um a highle overview of those asurances for both summer and full year. This is not a comprehensive list. This is kind of the highle overview. Um the full list of asurances can be found in the program guidelines. Um so that highle overview of those asurances are first. Um your project manager plays a really central role. They'll attend all learning community workshops. They work closely with the approved provider and they're going to lead the school systems adep steering committee to sure everything is staying aligned and on track. The steering committee meets monthly and includes representatives from finance and curriculum and instruction. And this team is really going to help guide [clears throat] the strategic planning process
037throughout the year. Throughout the grant, the school systems uh adipep team will need to attend all required professional development sessions and TA meetings and maintain open communication with their TA provider. as Roshama spoke about earlier, um the Azie eligible calendar is really critical milestone um and to-do for school systems. And so u making sure that the school board signs off on the 2627 school year calendar and ensuring that is ADSI eligible is essential for grant eligibility. And then finally, remember that at the ADZY model requires at least 25 additional days be added to at least a 175day base instructional calendar. Um and this commitment spans the full duration of the grant. And then on this slide we have some additional model specific requirements. So if we look at ads pep summer first um school systems
038agree to place 25 to 30 adsy days in the summer. They agree to conduct six hours of daily programming which includes at least three hours of math and reading, one hour of teaks based enrichment, and then the remaining two hours used for an additional hour of enrichment, transitions, lunch, and other flexible needs. And the school system also agrees to implement a datadriven summer academic strategy that's aligned to their regular academic strategy and their regular year HQIM. We'll take a look at full year. And then for full year, school systems agree to place 25 to 30 adsy days and they ensure that at least 75% of those days are placed between August and March. They agree to develop and implement a strategic master scheduling plan that includes brain breaks and enrichment for students. And they agreed
039to make strategic shifts that will result in a measurable increase in teacher planning time during the implementation years of the grant. And then with both models um require that academic instruction is delivered by teachers meeting the school system certification requirements. Here we have an overview of the ADI time commitments. So most of what's on the left we covered in the previous slides on the asurances but I want to highlight the responsibilities and time commitments by role. Um so we've already touched on the project manager and the steering committee. So just want to also highlight the role of the superintendent in your school board. So your superintendent is going to ensure districtwide alignment and then the school board um approves the adsy calendar every year and the full details for this can be found in the
040grant one pager and the program guidelines. Here we see the ads pep scoring criteria. Um so looking at that top part of the table you'll see that base points are going to be allocated in tiers. Um, and the tiers are determined by the number of instructional days that are in the 2526 academic calendar. And so, for example, if a school system has a 2526 academic calendar, that's 175 days, they would fall into tier 1 and would receive 30 points for their calendar. And then after the calendar points are allocated, um, an additional 10 points can be earned for implementing an EMRA approved curriculum during the 2526 school year. So that's the top part of the table. And then the bottom part of the table are the priority points that can then be added to that
041base point allocation. And so you'll see that base points are available for the following. using Blue Bonnet learning um completing previously completing strong foundations implementation having a resource campus designation. Um there are priority points for board of manager districts or districts that have at least 5 years of unacceptable accountability ratings. Um if a school system has an EP, so an established educator preparation program and then if a school system has a teacher incentive aotment TIA system in place. So applicants must receive a minimum of 40 total points. So that's the base points with the priority points added to them to be considered for an interview. Um and invitations for interviews will be prioritized by highest base scores first followed by total score. We'll look at the interviews next. Um so the top 45 scoring applicants
042based on their model and their grade level group will be invited to interview. And there's four groups for that. following the different models and cohorts. So for the summer model for grades preK through five, the summer model for grades six through eight, and then the fullear model for grades P preK through five, and the fullear model for grades 6 through 8. Um and then if a school system is applying for both summer and full year, um they'll they'll only need to conduct one interview. Um each interview is going to be scored out of 30 points. Um and then for full details, you can find that on page 25 of the ANC program guidelines. Interview discussions will focus on um this is on the left of the screen um the school systems commitment to the ADZI
043instructional calendar understanding of ads pep grant requirements um aligning the grant participation with the school system strategic priorities instructional readiness and academic strategy organizational capacity to engage successfully in the grant and plans for sustaining the program beyond the grant period. A minimum score of 20 out of 30 points is required to be considered for an award. Final rankings will combine the interview scores with the base and priority points that we covered in the last two slides ago. Um and then awards will be made in rank order beginning with tier tier one applicants um followed by the following tiers. Um, as funding remains, we anticipate awarding approximately 35 school systems with the following approximate breakdowns that you see here. So 20 awards for summer pre-K through five, three for fular prek through five, five for summer
044grades six through eight, three for fulery grades six through eight, and then again anticipating awarding up to four um award spots for the dual uh model for previous Azip participants that apply for both full year and summer. Here we have information about the Azip approved providers. So grantees will be assigned their technical assistance providers in March of 2026. Um the ADSP summer approved providers are the regions 1, 11, and 20 education service centers. So grantees statewide will receive supports from one of these three um ESC's and um school systems do not need to be physically present in those regions to receive an award or to receive support from one of these three ESC's. For adip fulyear, one vendor will be approved for all Azie fully year awardees. Um, and final selection is going to be
045determined of that vendor will be determined prior to the official start of the grant. Great. And then while the adsep uh grant does not require grantees to contract directly with a provider, so this does not apply to the adipep grant program. This slide offers an overview of recent executive orders that outline specific language that must be included in those contracts. They're not relevant to this grant opportunity. Um, okay. Let's take a look at next steps. So, Lasso4 applications open on October 3rd. They close December 3rd. And then major milestones which you see here to be aware of. Um, in addition to that application window is scoring and interviews. That window is December 4th through January 22nd. The egrants window is from February 3rd to March 5th. And this is the window for districts to accept
046or decline any initiative offerings. Um and then the NOGA, there's a 60-day window for NOGA issuing. Um LEAs must submit LASO4 applications by December 3rd at 5:00 p.m. Uh TEA has already emailed unique application links to LEA superintendent. Um and if needed, eleas can complete a request for application link form to receive a new link. A PDF of the application is posted on the lasso cycle 4 website. However, important note that eleas do need to submit the application through Qualrix [clears throat] using that unique application link. Um and applications must be signed by the superintendent to be accepted. So if you have any questions coming out of today's session, we encourage you to attend one of the ads tea ads team's upcoming office hours or one of the upcoming application support sessions on October 28th.
047The tea ads team will be hosting office hours from 12 to 12:30. And then the TEA team is also offering application support sessions on October 27th and November 3rd. And you can register for those sessions um on the lasso4 web page. Updated FAQs will be posted by November 3rd. And then for questions, you there's two contacts here. Questions about adsy ads pep, you can contact the tea adsy team. Our email is adsyta.ex.gov. And then questions about the application process um is best to direct to the lasso team at lasso tea.ex.gov. A note about change requests and declines. So, LASO has an informal discretionary competitive grant process. Declines and change requests are not advisable. Um, if declines are requested, they'll be considered on a case-byase basis for the ELEA's and could raise the LEA's federal grant
048risk level in the coming year. Here is a final overview of key dates and helpful tools to support planning. All LASO resources, timelines, webinars, planning tools are available at the on the lasso page at TEA. And that concludes our presentation. So, we're going to stop recording now and we'll stay on for a few more minutes. So, you can continue to share any remaining questions in the chat if you would like to and we'll work on answering those. Um, but we will stay on until 10:23 and then we'll go ahead and close out um the webinar. So, feel free to stay on and continue to share questions in the chat for us to or in the Q&A for us to answer.