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Willis ISD, a Consortium Associate district, will break ground in spring 2017 on a new Career and Technology Education Center building that will provide space, classrooms, labs, and upgraded equipment that will help enhance and grow 20 courses in 16 career directions,...
College and Career Readiness, Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments, Organizational Transformation
The Texas High Performance Schools Consortium, a group of 22 school districts charged with informing the governor, Texas Legislature, State Board of Education, and commissioner of education on methods for improving student learning in Texas public schools, has...
College and Career Readiness, Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Prosper ISD, a Texas High Performance Schools Consortium district, is giving a team of high school students the opportunity to try their hand at comedy with a student-run TV show launched in September 2016 as part of the school’s scholastic broadcast program....
College and Career Readiness, Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
ChickTech: High School is a yearlong program that introduces high school girls to different aspects of careers in technology. It is designed to inspire them to pursue careers in the technology and computer science fields. Thirteen Lake Travis High School girls...
Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Sunnyvale ISD, a Consortium Associate district east of Dallas, recently opened a next-generation learning space at its middle school. “We felt it was important to change the learning space because instruction has changed. We moved away from teaching kids in rows more...
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In 2016-17, Beeville ISD, a Consortium Associate district, became the first Texas school district to make computer science a requirement for all 3,500 students at its six campuses. To do that, the district needed to teach its teachers first. It formed a one-year...