Fort Worth Education Partnership

Check out this list of summer learning opportunities in Tarrant County.

We are proud to be a significant supporter of this great event each year.

Fort Worth Education Partnership is proud to be a founding funder in 5 of the 6 teacher residency programs that partner with Fort Worth ISD. Supporting and scaling residency-trained teacher programs is a critical step forward in supporting a strong local teacher pipeline.

FWISD leans on teacher pipeline to build stability during Texas takeover Future teachers say support, mentorship will shape whether they stay as Fort Worth ISD navigates leadership change.

What does it take to reduce the parent perception gap at the community level?

In this episode of Paying Attention, hosted by Brent Beasley, CEO of Fort Worth Education Partnership, Brent sits down with Loretta Burns from AB Christian Learning Center and Alyssa Studer, Director of Go Beyond Grades Tarrant County, to talk about the work happening across Tarrant County.

Since 2024, more than 80 organizations across the region have come together to bring the Go Beyond Grades campaign to life to better support families.

This conversation highlights how local organizations are integrating Go Beyond Grades into their work and how it’s helping parents and families:

✔ Better understand their child’s progress
✔ Ask if their child is on grade level
✔ Take action to support learning at home

It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when communities align around student success.

🎧 Listen here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2540510/episodes/18922731-go-beyond-grades-tarrant-county

Learn more about Go Beyond Grades Tarrant County: https://gobeyondgrades.org/tarrant/

We are glad to be a part of bridging the gap between educational research and classroom practice.

“When I learned about Go Beyond Grades, I was shocked to find out the difference between a child’s report card and their reading on grade level.” - Loretta Burns, Executive Director, AB Christian Learning Center

Listen in on an insightful conversation between Brent Beasley, Loretta Burns and Alyssa Studer on how Go Beyond Grades grew from an awareness campaign to parent learning partnership focused on student learning and reducing the parent perception gap. They talk about the impact Go Beyond Grades has had on Tarrant County parents and students.

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Go Beyond Grades Tarrant County Brent visits with Loretta from AB Christian and Alyssa the Director of Go Beyond Grades about the efforts in Tarrant county to reduce the parent perception g...

For Tarrant County parents: there’s ton of summer learning opportunities for your children in grades K-12!

We appreciate this piece by Dr. Robert Rogers. As Dr. Rogers notes, last year only 36% of FWISD third graders were reading at grade level. However, there are examples of success within the Fort Worth ISD as well. Cesar Chavez Elementary School has challenging demographics (63% of students are English learners, and 89% are economic disadvantaged). In 2021, only 19% of third-graders in this school could read at grade level. Four years later, that jumped to 58%, an increase of roughly 10 percentage points each year.

In other words, all children can succeed, and we can do this.

Dr. Rogers concludes:
"When a community sets ambitious goals and aligns its schools, nonprofits supporters and civic leaders, rapid improvement is possible. In the Fort Worth school district, we face a choice. We can continue explaining why our children are not learning to read and why we send more than 3,000 students to fourth-grade every year unprepared. Or we can unite as a community, establish and insist on high expectations for our students, and provide the support needed to achieve our goals. Our city’s future rests in the balance."

Stop making excuses and teach Fort Worth ISD students to read | Opinion Successes elsewhere and in some FWISD schools show rapid gains are possible, even for students learning English or facing poverty. | Opinion

We appreciate Trenace Dorsey-Hollins's thoughtful, student focused thoughts on state intervention.

Parents are watching what Texas does in FWISD. Here’s what we expect | Opinion Fort Worth parents will demand that Education Commissioner Mike Morath keep his promise to focus on improving student outcomes. | Opinion