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Virtual Learning Opportunities:
Grab your device and headphones; you can listen to some fabulous webinars even while you're catching some rays this summer. Soak up the sun and learning at the same! The best part is all of the resources links are not only fabulous, but they are also FREE!
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development – ASCD
ASCD is dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading so that every child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. For 75 years, ASCD has been at the forefront of education issues that affect learning, teaching, and leading. ASCD is an excellent resource for online learning, webinars, book resources, and essential reading on current education trends that can be found in their Educational Leadership publication.
The Region 10 is the Educational Service Center for Greenville ISD. Region 10’s website hosts online resources, weekly updates, links to teaching and learning offerings, and a calendar of upcoming professional development opportunities.
Super Teacher video lessons are short clips of engaging, innovative, and useful lessons that are happening within GISD. Super Teachers are selected each month by campus principals and are chosen for skillfully engaging their students through strong instructional and motivational practices. This video library captures these highly qualified teachers in action, so their ideas and best practices can be examplars.
NEW! TExES ESL Supplemental #154 Preparation Manual
The TEA English Learner Support Division is thrilled to announce the release of a newly-developed TExES English as a Second Language (ESL) Supplemental #154 Certification Exam Preparation Manual as part of a Texas Education Agency (TEA) Title III-funded grant in partnership with Region 10 Education Service Center (ESC). This manual is located on the TEA Title III, Part A web page under TEA Supplemental Resources.
This free ESL certification preparation manual is intended to equip Texas educators who desire to increase capacity in their districts and to enhance their existing ESL programs beyond minimum state requirements. Additionally, a free online ESL certification preparation course is currently being developed, based on the content within the preparation manual. We look forward to announcing the online course release in the spring.
Access more information here: ESL Certifications The 411
If you have any questions, please contact our TEA English Learner Support Division at EnglishLearnerSupport@tea.texas.gov.
TEA Texas Gateway
The Texas Gateway is a content management and delivery system operated by the Texas Education Agency. Through the Gateway, teachers, students, and parents find TEKS-aligned resources to use for instruction, intervention, acceleration, or additional practice. These courses are free of charge.
