College and Career Readiness, Latest News
The following opinion piece was written by HD Chambers, superintendent of Alief ISD, and Joe Arnold, senior government affairs manager for BASF Corp. and chair of the workforce development committees of the Texas Association of Manufacturers and Texas Chemical...
College and Career Readiness, Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments, Organizational Transformation
In January 2016, the Vision in Practice blog was created — by Texas educators for Texas educators — to provide insight into classrooms, campuses, and districts that are transforming teaching and learning to meet the needs of students in the 21st century. Spearheading...
College and Career Readiness, Digital Learning, Latest News
In December 2015, the University Interscholastic League announced that it will host the first-ever UIL robotics pilot program to begin during the 2015-16 academic school year. The UIL Robotics State Championship will have two divisions, UIL Robotics: FIRST® Division...
College and Career Readiness, Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Midway ISD in Region 12, a Consortium Associate, or one of 80-plus school districts that partners with the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium and shares a mission of preparing future-ready students, has joined the “makerspace” movement, turning school libraries...
College and Career Readiness, Latest News
On October 26, 2015, Roscoe Collegiate ISD celebrated the grand opening of its new STEM Agricultural Research Center. Keynoting the event was Texas House Public Education Committee Chair Jimmie Don Aycock, who commented that the district’s P-20 model is accomplishing...
College and Career Readiness, Latest News
In September 2015, Newsweek ranked Early College High School in Harlingen CISD as one of the top high schools in the nation in its “Beating the Odds 2015” list, coming in at number 84 on the list of 500 public high schools across the United States for their...