Increase Student Interaction in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
Authors: Monica Gonzalez, Education Specialist, ESL/Bilingual “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin According to TEA’s reports there are 817,165...
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Increase Student Interaction in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Instructional Materials Selection & Adoption Personal Financial Literacy Resources Surviving & Thriving in the First...
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Why Did the Poet Do That?—The Case for Teaching Author’s Craft
Authors: Janet Hester and Lenicia Gordon, Literacy Specialists We know that we are growing beyond the old classroom paradigm of drilling printed lists of terminology and moving toward providing...
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Phonics Instruction for Middle and High School ELLs
Author: Ivonne Santiago, Bilingual/ESL Specialist Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Learning to read is a little bit like learning to ride a bike while you are balancing a person on the handle-bars,...
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Making the Most of Pre-K Team Meetings
Authors: Cathy Doggett and Leslie Gaar de Ostrovich, School Ready Specialists Pre-K teachers often use team meetings to share activity ideas for upcoming themes and to plan field trips and special...
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Integration is Essential
Author: Jennifer Jordan-Kaszuba, Secondary Science Specialist Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Integration of science process skills within the teaching of science concepts is essential for students to...
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The Genius of Genius Hour
Author: Leslie Barrett, Specialist: Technology & Library Media Services Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Genius Hour is an education trend that is getting a considerable amount of buzz lately. It...
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Foundations for Fractions in the Primary Grades
Author: Fredric Noriega, Secondary Mathematics Specialist Tags: Math, fractions, STAAR One math concept that is often feared by both students and teachers is fractions. Everything about fractions seems...
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Curating Social Studies Content on Pinterest
Author: Rachel Hernandez-Eckert, Education Specialist: Social Studies Have you ever torn pages out of a magazine and put them on a bulletin board or in a folder labeled Great Ideas? Although that is...
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In This Issue (11) Curating Social Studies Content on Pinterest Foundations for Fractions in the Primary Grades The Genius of Genius Hour Integration is Essential Making the Most of Pre-K Team Meetings...
View ArticleTime to Dive into the 21st Century
Author: Jennifer Woollven, Instructional Technology Specialist Digital matters. There really is no getting around this. Fears about connectivity and Internet safety are no longer excuses that we, as...
View ArticleScience in the Age of Globalization
Author: Jennifer Jordan-Kaszuba, Secondary Science Specialist The world is shrinking, not in the literal sense, but in the sense that increasingly academic endeavors and businesses are global in...
View ArticleA New Math STAAR
Author: Fredric Noriega Texas is set to implement the revised math standards during the 2014-2015 school year for grades kindergarten through 8. High school math teachers will implement new math...
View ArticleNew Educator Evaluation System Ahead
In spring 2012, based on feedback from the field, the Texas Education Agency began taking steps to overhaul state systems for training, evaluating, and supporting teachers throughout Texas. This...
View ArticleMaintaining Metaphase Momentum in the Expository Writing Process
Author: Cortney Esquitin, Instructional Coach To teach well, we do not need more techniques and strategies as much as we need a vision of what is essential. It is not the number of good ideas that...
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Eight Language Program Models: Four Linguistic Roads
Author: Tracy Dennis, Bilingual/ESL Education Specialist All students must travel down the educational super highway. However, English language learners (ELL) must be diverted down different...
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Early Childhood Math
Authors: Region 13 School Ready Team What does quality math instruction look like in a Pre-K classroom? Is doing math during “calendar time” enough to teach all the Pre-K Guidelines? What type of math...
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Addressing the Background Knowledge Deficit in the Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Lenicia Kinney Gordon and Janet Hester, Literacy Specialists Let’s face it. The ones we worry about come to us with less than half of the experiences, words, and home-support for acquisition...
View ArticleAcademic Conversations for Diverse Learners: The First Steps
Author: Tonia Miller, Education Specialist: ESL/Bilingual Reasons for Students to Converse in Schools “I didn’t know what I knew until I talked about it” –Seventh-grade science student (Zwiers &...
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In This Issue (12) Academic Conversations for Diverse Learners: The First Steps Addressing the Background Knowledge Deficit in the Language Arts Classroom Early Childhood Math Eight Language...
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