In 2019, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) secured funding from a landmark education bill, Texas House Bill 3, to launch initiatives across the state that addressed summer learning loss. The initiative, called Additional Days School Year (ADSY), provided funding to participating school districts to add up to 30 additional instructional days to their school year calendar. The voluntary summer learning component of ADSY called the Planning and Execution Program (PEP), offered districts support for planning and program design to develop and launch comprehensive, evidence-based summer learning programs.

One such support was the requirement to select a Design and Implementation (D&I) partner from an approved list of technical assistance vendors before implementing the ADSY PEP initiative1. At the initiative’s launch in 2020, SCRI was selected by all seven districts participating in ADSY PEP as the technical assistance partner of choice (from a list of five TEA-approved partners). In each year since the launch, new school districts across Texas have joined this initiative and partnered with SCRI. The combination of SCRI’s deep practitioner expertise and BellXcel’s 30 years of evidence-based education solutions provided districts with access to proven strategies, resources, and tools known to result in strong youth outcomes. Review the case study to learn more.