Access free resources to support your Texas Rising Star quality improvement journey!
Texas Rising Star Certified Providers are encouraged to sign up for FREE access to Texas School Ready’s online tools hosted on CLI Engage. Through a partnership with the Texas Workforce Commission, all TSR Online tools and resources are available for free to all home-based and center-based:
- Texas Rising Star-certified programs
- Programs with the Entry Level Designation
- All others that have contacted their Board with interest in participating in Texas Rising Star
Programs that sign-up for TSR Online have access to the Texas School Ready tools and resources that include the professional development, child progress monitoring system, classroom observation tools, and supplemental activities, hosted on CLI’s new digital resource platform, CLI Engage.
All staff can access TSR Online tools and resources. After signing up, all teachers and administrators at your program can have access to TSR Online.
What does TSR Online include?
Practical tools for early learning programs, aligned to your quality improvement efforts and mentoring:- Screening, Progress Monitoring, & Observation: Simple, playful child progress monitoring measures that capture a child’s progression in skill areas known to predict school readiness
- CIRCLE Progress Monitoring System meets the pre-K classroom assessment requirement in Texas Rising Star
- Online Learning & Professional Development: Interactive professional development courses that track completion and use fun self-assessments to check understanding
- Activities & Materials: Curriculum and supplementary activities with video-based demonstrations and connections to progress monitoring
- CIRCLE Pre-K Curriculum also available with a full scope and sequence, and available at no cost!
- Quality Improvement & Innovation: Observation and goal-setting tools for advancing quality instructional strategies and learning environments
- Family Engagement: Family engagement resources to support and expand what programs already have in place