Digital Learning, Latest News
On November 17, 2015, the State Board of Education brought together experts for a day-long summit at the Texas Capitol to explore the pros and cons of a rapidly changing classroom environment that includes more digital products and technology each year and its impact...
Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Each high school in Mesquite ISD, a Consortium Associate district, will have an innovation prototype classroom equipped with flexible furniture and technology, thanks to funding provided in the 2016-17 budget. The idea behind the innovative classrooms is to get...
Digital Learning, Latest News
In Amarillo ISD, a Consortium Associate district, pre-K through fifth-grade teachers meet each Tuesday after school in a campus computer lab for “Techno Tuesday.” Led by Amarillo ISD digital learning leader Mindy Montano, the hour-long weekly gathering is designed to...
Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Round Rock ISD, a member of the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium, opened Joe Lee Johnson, the district’s first STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) academy in August 2016. The school is aligned with the district’s strategic plan,...
Digital Learning, Latest News
Stephenville ISD, a Consortium Associate district, is one of only two Texas school districts (and 19 nationally) to be accepted into the national League of Innovative Schools, a coalition of forward-thinking school districts organized by the Digital Promise, a...
Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments, Organizational Transformation
This feature on MISSION: School Transformation, written by Merri Rosenberg, was included in the September/October 2016 issue of Texas School Business magazine. The Mission: School Transformation movement is spreading like wildfire across Texas, clearing out old ways...
