ESF Diagnostic Survey

The Effective Schools Framework, first developed by TEA in 2018 and continuously revised since then, is a tool to help all schools improve the quality of education they provide to Texas students. The framework is designed to help school leaders deeply analyze their current approaches and develop action plans to get better. It relies on a specific diagnostic process, where information is gathered on a variety of policies, procedures, and practices happening at each participating school, by looking at documentation, assessments, focus group discussions, on campus observations, and surveys.

TEA provides a grant to Education Service Center Region 13 to help support the ESF as part of the Center for Effective Schools (CES). For one aspect of the ESF diagnostic, Region 13 conducted a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process in 2019, and selected Panorama Education to administer the questions developed by CES for surveys tied to the ESF.

While Panorama offers a variety of educational services, Texas’s use of Panorama is limited to administering the ESF survey, with survey questions developed specifically by CES which are different than questions found in Panorama’s other product offerings. The specific question language for the ESF surveys can be found above.