001Okay, good afternoon everyone. Colobby, I went ahead and recorded it, so we're good there. Um, thank you for attending our math supplemental curriculum um, fall kickoff. We are going to go over some information that if you're new to your role will be new information to you. If you were in your role last year, um, it will be mostly a repeat of information. Um, as soon as this, um, webinar is over, I will request to post the webinar and the recording onto our website. So, it should be up within the next week or so. If you have any colleagues that were not able to join, I know it's the first day of school for a lot of people or if not the first day, it's the first week. So, um, you know, we want to make
002this available to view asynchronously as well. So, it will be up um, in in about a week or so. So, let's go ahead and get started. Uh, first of all, if you are in attendance, then congratulations. You were renewed for your math supplemental curriculum grant for year 2. Last year was our first year. Um, and that means that you all had your met your usage requirements um and have been working diligently to ensure that students are using this uh the program that they are assigned. So, we really appreciate that and we are excited to see the growth that students make from using these products. Uh, my teammates, I'm Crystal Workman, Texas tutoring specialist. Um, also with me on this webinar is uh Dr. Colobby Self. He is the director of Texas tutoring supports and Issa
003Maldonado is also on um the line as well. They're going to help monitor if you have questions. Uh I we were notified that the chat is disabled, but you can post questions in the Q&A. So if you have any questions, please feel free to post them there and we'll try to answer them throughout the webinar. If we don't get to them, we'll email you afterwards with an answer. Our agenda for today, we already finished number one, welcome introductions and congratulations. Um in true education format, we are going to go over our objectives for the meeting. Then we'll talk about the initiative a little bit. We'll talk specifically about the providers and then we will get into the requirements for each school system or LEA. Um and then just a few important um reminders and some
004next steps for you all to be aware of. Um if you do have questions, we have our TEA help desk um throughout the year. You're always welcome to submit a ticket to the TEA help desk. We really try to get back to you within um we try within 24 hours. We can't guarantee, but we do guarantee that we'll get back to you within three business days. So, if you have any questions throughout the year, please do not hesitate to ask us. We also have the Lasso 2.0 website um that will have all of our decks and webinars and things like that that are always accessible throughout the year. I am going to kick it over to Colobby to go over our objectives for today. Thanks Christa. Uh just review and and for for a lot
005of you this is going to be review but we wanted to have again have this webinar because many of you may be new to your role or maybe you just need a review about what the mass supplemental curriculum initiative is. So, we're here to provide the quick overview. Um, maybe new or need a review. Uh, reminders of some upcoming deadlines and the grant requirements and provide details of the upcoming TEA office hours. So, there's additional supports coming if needed. A little bit about the initiative. Uh, overall initiative is 25 million. It is inind supports only. That means there's not uh any direct funding coming to uh school systems. We have uh close to 300 uh school systems participating. Um we're going to talk a little bit about the timeline. There is a different uh date
006uh to be aware of. And again, as we've talked about from the beginning of the program, licenses do end in February of 2026. and that is due to the source of funds for this uh grant. The the purpose of the program is to provide licenses uh that are highquality supplemental curriculum uh for preK through 12 math for learning accelerate accelerated settings. So, you may be using this for tutoring uh such as meeting House Bill 1416 requirements or high impact tutoring programming, blended learning. Uh but you you've agreed uh to a set of requirements. You've submitted a planning um planning documents as an example. uh agreed to specific training, submitted examples of a schedule of where you're going to implement the use of the products, evidence of administrator buyin and implementation, and how you're going to
007monitor the data uh that comes out of the usage. And you've agreed to use the product with fidelity. So again, you're here for that reason. You've shown that you've been able to use the product as designed uh for student outcomes. So congratulations. We're glad to have you back. Um, here's some timelines uh that have come and gone and we're in the year two of implementation uh now through February of 2026. Again, just reminder reiterate uh funding for the project expires in February 2026. We'll send out several reminders uh but just planning and you'll need to talk to your provider. Um, each provider's handling that somewhat differently, but uh, go ahead and start planning now what's going to happen after that February date, if you will. The logic model, um, and so far we've seen resounding
008success with implementation is getting, um, everybody aligned with a buyin and understanding what the purpose of the program is. So we thank for thank y'all for submitting that and being admitted into the program. Schedules were submitted uh working with the vendors. In this case we call our vendors providers to uh get the training scheduled and that's required. So you can say well we did training last year but a a requirement of our providers is that they do an annual training because uh not much may have changed with the program but we want to be sure that everybody coming in. You you probably have new staff um new people coming into the district. Everybody understands how to use a a product, how to generate reports and understand how to monitor that usage. Uh rostering students is
009important. Um we do have some specific data requirements that um we need our providers to collect as part of the rostering. So they'll uh be sure to share that with you or your IT staff whether you're using class link or another um student information system type import. It's important that y'all work together on ensuring that the correct data sets are provided there. We want to ensure that you're using the product with fidelity and we'll have we'll have charts and resources if you forget that can always talk to to the provider or reference our prior decks. Those haven't changed uh from last um last year's usage um expectations. Those haven't changed from uh phase to phase or term to term as we like to say it. And uh we're looking at student star outcomes um trending
010toward positive student outcomes uh for those students that have used it uh with fidelity on that end. So we're excited to see those outcomes coming in here shortly from some of our providers. So here we are today. Um our star impact efficacy study for products are underway. Um, yellow again, you'll probably say he said this a thousand times, but our grant does end at the end of February. So, uh, even in January, some of the providers will probably be, uh, wrapping up and talking to you about, uh, next steps, uh, probably sooner than that. But if you haven't heard from them, I would be proactive in your planning about next steps to ensure that you have um what you need for possible summer school or um other programming that you may need with after school
011and other other setups you may need for your students. Krista, I don't know if you have anything to add to the timeline on that, but uh feel free to to chime in or ease up on that. >> Thanks, Kobe. No. um as he had as Kobe mentioned, we're in year two of the implementation. So, um all of the orange pieces that you see on the left are things that your LEA has already completed. Um again, if you're new to your role, you may um you know, need to to ask someone um if you're looking for those documents or again, you can submit a help desk ticket if you're wondering like what your plan what your um data planning document was. We have all of those things that have already been submitted. We did not ask
012for them to be submitted again in year two. Um the thought process was you submitted them in year 1. You followed them because your usage was high enough to be renewed. And so we are assuming that the you still have a plan in place for this year. Um we will be tracking usage this year and access this year as well just to make sure that students are still using with fidelity. Um, but there is nothing required to be submitted to TEA with the exception of you would have gotten an email if you were asked to complete a mitigation plan. Um, those are very LEA specific. So, if you don't know what I'm talking about, then it probably does not apply to you. Um, but again, feel free to always ask questions if you have them.
013We are going to get into Oh, Colobby, did you have anything else? >> No. And and just remember those uh parameters still there. We are we are monitoring usage and access initially by the uh dates and usage. So um you know it is a short time through February. I know that'll go by fast, but we want to ensure that you have the licenses and the the access you need until that time time periods up. So thank you. Thank you for being here. And I said, if you're new and you need access to any of those documents, like I I didn't see what our data plan was and can't find it, uh, reach out and we'll try to get those for you. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Um, so we're going to talk about some of the
014provider requirements overall. So this is again, if you were here last year, you are very familiar with this slide. If you are new, I'll kind of go over it. um these are the usage thresholds that each provider has um is being held to. So all of the students that use this product are being held to these usage requirements. And that is the column um in the middle here. We did provide this column on the right that has the approximate time. That's just to help in planning purposes, but um unless the requirement is a minute. So for example, Carnegie their their requirement is actually 20 minutes a week. So that's the same, but for most of them, it's going to be like, we're not tracking 25 to 30 minutes of students on the program. We're tracking
015did they answer at least 15 questions per week. Um, and so that's just something to note. The time is there just to help with planning, but the usage that we are looking at are is that middle column under the usage threshold. Everyone is every provider has a little bit different usage threshold from what they have their studies have shown um shows the most student growth. And so that is what we will be tracking and looking toward um this school year. Um I have put this in and highlighted it and put it in bold. All licenses need to be accessed between September 1st and September 30th. Um, of course, if you are up and running with your provider, if you you've been trained and students have been rostered and and they tell you that you have
016the go-ahhead to go ahead and start using licenses this month, that is fine. Um, our contracts renew with them September 1st. So any student that logs in in a August, their usage um will be tracked for like last school year, but ours renews September 1. So if you all if students are logging in and using with Fidelity, it shouldn't be an issue because I can't there there's probably not an instance where a student logs in in August and then doesn't log in again in October. Um but we need to make sure that all students access between October 1st or I'm sorry, September 1st and September 30th. Last year, if you were with us, um we asked that all students logged in by October 30th. This year, we've moved that deadline up just because it's the
017second year of implementation. Most eleas are familiar with their provider. Um so the launch period should be a little bit shorter. And then also with that end date of February, um it's important that students get up and using quickly so that way they can really get the benefits of the program. Um, providers should be reaching out to train all necessary staff and roster students. Again, as Colby mentioned, training does need to be completed every year. So, even if you all train completed training last year, you will need to complete another training this year. Again, providers are aware of this and should be in contact with you all to make sure that this happens um prior to students accessing licenses. Um, they may have providers may have additional deadlines. So just please make sure that you
018are working with them, hearing from them. If you are like hey I haven't heard from my provider I don't know again send us a message um or send us a tea help desk ticket and we are more than happy to communicate wi with you all. Um this is a big one. Um providers are required to collect the Texas student data systems the tsds unique 10digit student ID. This was a requirement last year. A lot of the providers had a little bit of trouble getting it. Um I'm not sure if there I think there might have been an IT issue or something going on, but this is something that they are required to gather. It is something that was agreed upon in the grant asurances when LEAs um applied for the grant and signed up for
019the grant. So um if you are not sure how to do that, please work with someone in your IT department to make sure that that number is uh provided to the providers. It's the only way that we can track which students are logging in and then um track toward student usage growth or student growth um based on their usage. And then also providers cannot provide more licenses than the LEA was allocated without our approval. So um they they may be able to give you additional licenses but they will likely have to you know charge you in a contract outside of TEA. So, if they if you need more licenses, talk with them. They'll likely have you talk with us um and and see what we can do. But whatever your max number of licenses that
020you were allocated is the max number that they are able to provide. Um and then this is an overview for the LEA. So for each school system, um most of the items on this slide have already been accomplished. So um making sure that you have campus level administrators, district IT directors, the superintendent all in agreement of and and aware of the MSSE grant that would have happened previously. if there's been turnover, just please make sure those individuals are still aware of the grant um and agree to um have students utilize. Um again with same with the LEA lead sponsor and the campus level lead um again the LEA implementation plan that was developed, you submitted that last year along with campus contact info. A lot of people are sending me an email or a help
021desk ticket letting us know if there's been turnover. Hey, this person is no longer here. Please update their contact info to this person. That's really helpful just so that way you make sure you never miss a communication. Um, again, you submitted schedules and a data monitoring plan all last year. Um, and then requesting only licenses that will be accessed. If you all have had a significant drop in your enrollment and you haven't let us know that already, please do let us know. um before students are accessing licenses, we are able to easily remove licenses prior to being accessed and then we can potentially give them to an LEA who maybe didn't uh maybe their enrollment increased and they are wanting more licenses. So, please just let us know. I mentioned this before, but there's a
022couple things I'm going to repeat several times because they're super important. Providers are required to collect that TSDS number. Um, please make sure you work with your IT department. U, they are going to continue to bug you until they get it. Um, and so just it it's the way that they are going to track students. So, it's very very important that that number is communicated. That is different than the students SIS ID that they have in your system. So, just make sure that that TSDS number is being able to be provided. >> Christa, there's a question in the Q&A that may apply to several on the call and I'll generalize it. If they were approved for a change from one provider to another, um, do they need to register or do anything or should the
023provider uh be reaching out or is that issa or somebody? Looks like it may be answered there. Do they need to do anything to reach out to the new provider or should the provider be reaching out to them? >> Yeah. So if you were approved a change in provider then that has been communicated to the provider and you should hear like somebody someone on the provers's team should be reaching out to you if you have not heard from them. So Shauna if you don't think that your LEA has heard from them again submit a help desk ticket or um I think my email might be in here. Let us know and we can again communicate with the provider and make sure that they reach out to you. You shouldn't have to do anything. Someone on
024the provider team should be reaching out to your LEA to get you all set up. >> Yep. And I dropped the uh help desk link in the chat for you. It's a direct link to the portal. So, feel free to bookmark that. If you um haven't heard from them, I would say by the end of this week, go ahead and complete a help desk ticket and uh we can can follow up with it early next week. uh we we meet with the providers pretty frequently and we could be sure to surface that with them. Um and I'm going to repeat myself again. All licenses need to be accessed between September 1st and September 30th. um if they are not accessed, it could result in a reduction of the non-access licenses or if nobody if no
025students in your LEA have um access licenses, it could be result in removal from the provider. Um I would say that likely if you're on this call that's not going to happen. That's more like maybe an LEA participated last year, they're not wanting to participate again this year, but they haven't communicated that with us. That's really what we're looking for there. So, as long as kids are logging in, you all should be fine. Just please make sure that all students are accessing prior to that September 30th date. Um, and again, rostering and training needs to happen prior to that. So, that students can log in quickly. So, again, providers should have been in contact with you if they have not yet. They should be very soon to make sure that training happens and all of
026that happens very quickly. Um, and then just reiterating, if students log in in August, they will need to log in again after September 1. Our grant does end, as Colby had mentioned, FE uh at the end of February 2026. We would love for it to continue to the end of the year. Unfortunately, due to the funding source, we cannot extend it. Um, and so just ensure that you're working with your provider. they are very aware of this end date. So, they should be proactive in reaching out to let you all know um what their plan is to try to continue the partnership with you. Um but certainly keep that date in mind. We don't want anyone to get to um you know, January or middle of February and then be blindsided that oh, you're going
027to lose you're going to lose access to these licenses. So, licenses do end in February, which we are aware is kind of a weird end date. Um it's just the nature of the funding. The next few slides are going to be slides that um each provider we ask each provider to provide us with a slide just of information. It may have contact information. So if we come to your provider slide, it may be a good um thing to like screenshot if you need someone's contact information. um or as I had mentioned these will be posted within about a week or so to our to the lasso website. So you can um find that information there as well. So this one is going to be age of learning my math academy. Um they have some new
028information this year. I'm not going to read off these slides. I'm just going to kind of cycle through them and let you all read through them if um they are your provider. Something of note, they have a new point of contact. Um, Courtney Burr, her information again is on this slide. Um, and then they have some office hours that are they all of the providers have office hours upcoming. Um, but they have an a sign up available on this slide that again will be posted within the next week. Our next provider is Carnegie or Mafia. Um, again, I'm not going to read through this slide, but they have training and office hours that can also be signed up for. Um, they actually have an additional slide that I'll go to in just a second with
029their contact information. Um, but if Carnegie is your provider, you will definitely want to make sure that you sign up for training and office hours with them. And they do note their recommended usage is that 20 minutes per week. Here is that contact information for Stephanie Duran. Again, if you want to screenshot it, if you need to get in contact with her, you're more than welcome to. Our next provider is uh Curriculum Associates or I Ready. So, they have some information about previous or current districts that they're working with. They have their contact information for Claudia on here as well. um screenshot if you need to and then I will let you read through some of their information here as This one is I ready as well. it. They have their recommended usage again at
03030 to 49 minutes a week with 70% average passing rate. We um is our next provider. Um again, they have some contact information down at the bottom and some QR codes that you're welcome to um scan if you would like to access those. StMath is our next provider. They have their recommended uh weekly usage on this slide as well. Um something to note for StMath is that their usage is different depending on which grade level your students are enrolled in. So that's um an important call out for them. They also talk a little bit about some districts that they have previously partnered with and they have um their contact information on this slide as well. So again, screenshot if you would like or this will be available to you in about a week. And last
031but certainly certainly not least, we have Zern. Um they have contact information on this slide as well. They also talk about their office hours and a link to sign up for that if you have not yet. Um and then they will have some ongoing support and training um to help student or to help you all get started for the year. Um also Zern wanted to let me know that everyone should have received an email from Alexandra Selenus or Marita Morales to get started for the 2526 school year. um and that you are welcome to reach out to either of them for questions. They said an important first step is for um is to make sure that your training is scheduled for admin and for teachers um and encourage all students to log in as soon
032as possible We wanted to provide this webinar for anyone that may be new to the initiative or just need a refresher, but we also wanted to provide a more interactive time frame if people had specific to their LEA questions. And so we do have um two office hour opportunities coming up. These both will be next week. Um no new information will be shared during these office hours. This will simply be a comeand go time for your um LEA to come ask questions, have them answered. Um we can help with anything you might need at this time. Uh maybe introd you could send if you have a new program contact, they could come um and just get to know us a little bit better. Um but we will be hosting those next week. We tried to
033do a morning and an afternoon session again to accommodate the busy busy time of year that we know this is. Um so those are linked. They were also linked in the email that I sent you all. But again, you can submit a help desk ticket if you want those links or if you've lost them. Uh finally, we just wanted to provide some information on lasso 4 that is coming up. Please note, MSSE is not a part of lasso 4. We were a part of lasso 2, but um we wanted to promote the lasso 4 cycle in case your LEA is interested. The application window for that opens um in October and closes in December. Um they it will include 15 initiatives to support learning acceleration and innovation which is going to estimate around $397 million.
034So lots of great things coming. Definitely look into that. um you are able to go to the lasso cycle 4 webpage to learn about more information or if you have a specific question that lasso email is the um right point of contact for you and they'll be able to answer most of the questions that you have. Finally, we've said this but these are the three most important parts from today's webinar. Please make sure you are sending your uh TSDS to providers. Please make sure students access licenses between September 1 and September 30th. And please remember that licenses do end in February. So you'll want to plan of what to do with students from um if you want to continue to use licenses past February for the end of the school year. We had a uh
035Crystal, we had a question about what specific day in February. It is the last day in February. So the 28th is when the licenses end, which is a Saturday. February 28th at midnight central standard time, I guess, central time it would end. Uh the licenses would end at that time. So >> too bad it's not a leap year. Maybe we would have got an extra day. So, >> um, go, um, here is, um, our points of contact. Again, the help desk. I'm in the help desk multiple times a day. If you submit a ticket, you will likely get a response very quickly. Um, we also have our accelerated instruction web page. Um the and for general grant we can a we can answer specific MSC questions but if you have a general lasso question that
036lasso email is going to be the the best way to ask those sorts of questions. If you ask us we certainly can um direct you to them if if we're not the right person to ask. That is everything that we have for you all today. If anybody has questions, I believe if you raise your hand, I can allow you to talk or you're welcome to put um your questions in the chat. Um otherwise, if you do not have any questions, then we really appreciate you all attending. Again, we hope to see you at the office hours where you can ask specific questions. And if you don't mind um scanning the QR code um and just completing a it's a super quick exit ticket, that we would love that. Um, and I hope that you all
037have an amazing start to your year. If today was your first day of school, congratulations. Hope you made it through or you have a couple more hours probably. Um, but we are excited for this school year and to see uh student usage continue to grow. I am going to go ahead and stop the recording. But again, if anybody has a question and they want to to be able to talk, if you raise your hand,