Partners
Bellwether Education Partners
Bellwether Education Partners is a national nonprofit focused on dramatically changing education and life outcomes for underserved children. We do this by helping education organizations accelerate their impact and by working to improve policy and practice.
Bellwether envisions a world in which race, ethnicity, and income no longer predict opportunities for students, and the American education system affords all individuals the ability to determine their own path and lead a productive and fulfilling life.
Teach Plus
Teach Plus' programs are designed to engage and support teacher leaders in transforming the system to best serve minority students and students of color. Since 2009, Teach Plus has grown from 16 teachers to a network of more than 26,000 solutions-oriented teachers nationwide.
In July 2017, Teach Plus Texas launched a partnership with Harmony Public Schools to train and provide year-long coaching to 200 Teacher Leaders from Houston and Dallas to the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso, Through this Teacher-Led Professional Learning (TLPL) partnership, the Teacher Leaders will help to ensure effective collaboration between teachers - ultimately supporting the learning of Harmony's 35,000 students.
Corwin Press & instructional coaching Group
Harmony adopted Jim Knight’s instructional coaching model to ensure that every student received excellent instruction, every day, in every class, by sharing high impact teaching strategies and proven instructional coaching practices to provide ongoing coaching and support to all teachers in structured cycles where teachers identify current realities of their classrooms, set goals, come up with strategies, and put their learnings into practice until they reach their goals.
BloomBoard
As a way to engage teachers in deeper and differentiated PD, Harmony identified micro-credentials for personalized, competency-based PD where teachers decide and control their own professional learning. BloomBoard provides the tech platform that hosts hundreds of micro-credentials and supporting collections that teachers and schools can choose from to support their practice in the classroom. Harmony worked with BloomBoard to identify a set of micro-credentials that align with our current teacher evaluation system (H-TESS) and improve essential classroom teaching practices identified in Teach Like a Champion (TLaC) to build those high-leverage skills in the classroom.
Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE)
The Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE) at Region 18 Education Service Center (ESC) provides technical assistance to Texas school districts as they address these areas. TxCEE’s mission focuses on equipping educators to improve student achievement by aligning district resources and increasing educator effectiveness through campus leadership training, coaching, and instructional support. The physical location of TxCEE is in Austin, Texas.
UT-Austin
Institute of Public Schools Initiative (IPSI)
The Institute for Public School Initiatives (IPSI) at UT-Austin serves our common goal of helping all students, early childhood through high school, achieve their academic potential. IPSI provides high-quality professional learning opportunities and technical assistance to public school districts and charter schools primarily through two types of initiatives: (1) those that directly support students, and (2) those that equip and empower educators and leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to prepare diverse student populations for college and career success in the 21st century
Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC)
The Community Training and Assistance Center is national not-for-profit organization with a demonstrated record of success in the fields of education and community development. CTAC builds district, state, and community capacity by providing technical assistance, conducting research and evaluation, and informing public policy.
Solution Tree
Solution Tree delivers comprehensive professional development to schools and districts around the world. Solution Tree has empowered K–12 educators to raise student achievement through a wide range of services and products including educator conferences, customized district solutions for long-term professional development, books, videos, and online courses. Last year, more than 25,000 educators attended Solution Tree events on professional learning communities, RTI, assessment, and other topics.
Teach like a champion (TLAC)
Harmony has partnered with Uncommon Schools since 2018 to train and build capacity in our teachers and instructional leaders to bring TLAC 2.0 strategies to all classrooms across our state-wide network of schools. TLAC licensed resources in Behavior & Culture and Engaging Academics have been embedded in Harmony Instructional Playbook as well as arc of the year.
The danielson group
Harmony has maintained a long-standing partnership with The Danielson Group to train, certify, and calibrate our school leaders in Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching. Each year Harmony also provides training for our new teachers thru The Danielson Group to ensure onboarding teachers have a strong understanding of the framework.