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Social Studies: How to Hack Social Studies (6th-8th)
This half-day training empowers teachers with a road map to be successful in the classroom and ultimately on the 8th Grade Social Studies STAAR®.
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Social Studies: How to Hack Social Studies (9th-12th)
This training empowers teachers with a road map to be successful in the classroom. Educators learn to identify the essential content students need to master at each grade level, how to spiral that content, and how to create a learning framework to take their students to mastery level understanding.
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Strategies for Empowering Students and Teachers Through Data Ownership
Gain a better understanding of how to use data to improve student outcomes and empower students to take control of their learning.
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Gifted and Talented: Fall 2023 Leadership Meeting
Join us for the Gifted and Talented Community Fall Leadership Meeting. This meeting offers updates from ESC Region 13, the state coordinator, various guest speakers, and opportunities to network with area leaders.
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Social Studies: Effective Vocabulary Instruction in the Social Studies
The amount of vocabulary in secondary social studies courses can be ovewhelming for both teachers and students. If you are looking for ways to strategically identify vocabulary that will yield the highest return on understanding then join us at this one day workshop.
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Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention
Mastering the basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is an essential goal for all students. Most educators also agree that success at higher levels of math hinges on this fundamental skill.
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Systems for School Leaders Professional Development Series
Join us for engaging trainings where we'll dive deep into streamlining your processes and free up your time as a school leader!
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T-TESS Training
Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) is the Commissioner recommended teacher evaluation system for the state of Texas. It’s a system designed by educators to support teachers in their professional growth and includes a goal-setting and professional development plan, an evaluation cycle, and a student growth measure.
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T-PESS Training
Texas Principal Evaluation and Support System (T-PESS) is the Commissioner recommended principal evaluation system for the state of Texas. This system assesses the principal’s performance in relation to the Texas Principal Standards.
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TExES (195) Representative Exam Experience
Prepare for your TExES (195) exam with our ESC Region 13 on-site or remote representative exam experience. ESC Region 13 offers an opportunity to take an almost full-length (80 questions) representative TExES exam as a practice test before your test. Join us
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Coaching PLC Teams - Two-day, In-person Workshop
Join this two-day, in-person workshop to learn how to use a coaching cycle to support team growth and build a team’s capacity to achieve shared student-learning goals.
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Texas Superintendents' Certification Institute (TSCI)
A 12 month program to train future superintendents.
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Getting ready for the new year
Your back-to-school planning toolkit
Browse the programs, workshops, and resources to add or help with the back-to-school planning process.
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Leadership Series Online Courses
Grow your knowledge on everything from school staffing to family engagement with our Leadership Series Online Courses! These seven school leadership online courses are self-paced and can be purchased individually or as a bundle with a 20% discount. Each part
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MakerHappen
MakerHappen is designed to support EC-12 teachers in all content areas, librarians, and administrators in the understanding and implementation of educational MakerSpace.
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Safe & Supportive Schools Learning Series
The 2023-24 Safe & Supportive Schools Learning Series is a Title IV Part A Fully-Funded Program that offers a variety of Coffee Hours, Lunch & Learns, and Workshops with a primary focus on improving academic outcomes by maintaining safe and healthy students.
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How to Plan Back-to-School Professional Development
The school year has ended; your teachers and students have left the building, and you’re closing out the year. As a proactive school principal, you know the work doesn’t stop. You likely have a lot on your to-do list: hire new staff, finalize the campus map so your custodial team can work their magic, support […]
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Vision, Mission, Values Creation
Support for the creation of your campus or district vision, mission, goals, and values that fulfill the success criteria of ESF 3.1.
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ESF Diagnostic Process
The ESF Diagnostic Process is a collaborative approach to school improvement that changes the conversation from products and quick fixes to strategic key practices and long-term solutions.
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Drinking from the Firehose
As a school leader, you juggle parent requests, teacher concerns, student learning, budgets, and a million other little things every day. It feels like you're constantly drinking from the firehose.
So that's why we created this podcast—to share real stories and practical strategies from principals in the field and experts in education. We're covering everything from culturally responsive schools, to COVID-19 recovery planning, and self-care.
