$1.92M TEA Grant: “Texas Strategic Staffing for Sustainable, Paid Teacher Residency Programs”

This is a two-year TEA state-funded grant for districts and charters, designed to provide direct technical assistance and other supports to districts/charters and educator preparation program (EPP) partnerships to design and implement paid, year-long, high-quality, sustainable teacher residencies across SY 2025-26 and SY 2026-27.

Supports will be provided by education service centers via the Texas Strategic Staffing (TSS) technical assistance service.

Districts/charters and EPPs selected for the grants — of up to $80,000 per grantee — will make informed decisions to develop paid teacher residencies that leverage reallocation and reinvestment of local funds to support teacher residents’ wages while they engage in other instructional responsibilities such as: substitute teaching, paraprofessional roles, tutoring, and more.

The TEA anticipates awarding a total of 1.92 million.

Visit the TEA Grants home page for grant details — and here for the TEA’s Texas Strategic Staffing home page.

Deadline: March 7, 2025.