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UTSA College of Education & Human Development's Residency 2.0 Learn more about The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Education & Human Development's Residency 2.0. This clinical teacher program prepares new teachers to meet the diverse needs of...

Helping Students Make Sense of Our Current World With COVID-19 and the George Floyd protests, students and teachers may be having difficulty processing and responding to all that is going on in our nation. Teachers will need to be prepared for the social and emotional...

Educator Preparation Adaptation in the COVID-19 Era There are many recent discussions around how educator preparation programs are adapting during COVID-19. I recently enjoyed watching a webinar with several thought leaders from across the nation. They explored...

North Carolina public TV now airing programs to help students RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With schools shuttered for another six weeks due to the new coronavirus, North Carolina's public television network is airing educational programs designed to complement work that...

Gov. Greg Abbott tells Texans to stay home except for essential activity in April He also said that schools would remain closed until at least May 4 as the state increases its efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday told Texans...

Wichita Falls ISD's School@Home programs Wichita Falls ISD will soon dive into school at home programs as the push continues to combat COVID-19. A top district educator offered tips and information to students and parents to navigate the sweeping changes coming soon....

Day-by-Day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. Scholastic resources for keeping the learning going from home. We’ll be adding more each day. Read the Full Article » March 30, 2020 | ElevateTxEdREAD MORE Partnership Updates + News + Stories from the...

Dallas ISD Honors 200 Future Teachers Two-hundred students enrolled in a Dallas ISD program that offers them the ability to take college-level courses while still in high school signed letters of intent with the district that guarantees them a teaching position later....

You can help scientists spot penguins from space or seek out new galaxies. There are at least two bright spots in these strange times: Telescopes are still studying distant galaxies and penguins are still pooping across Antarctica. In both cases, if you're looking for...

Zoombombing... With more people than ever relying on Zoom to facilitate remote meetings and online learning, the video conferencing service has become a logical — and easy — target for online trolling attacks. It’s a phenomenon called “zoombombing,” which means...

Here are tips and tricks to make you a pro user (KTLA) — Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! The video chat software Zoom was started nearly a decade ago, but in the past few weeks, it has become the go-to app to keep us connected while we stay at home. It seems as though everyone is...

Library doors may be largely closed, but options still exist for research, reading Most Denton libraries have shuttered their doors in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19. But the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and city library systems...

Join us for a live interview with LaTonya Goffney, Aldine ISD superintendent, about education and the coronavirus outbreak Join The Texas Tribune at 8 a.m. Thursday, April 2 for an interview with Aldine Independent School District Superintendent LaTonya Goffney,...

Midland College offers special 5-week mini-mester Midland College is offering a special five-week session targeted for high school juniors and seniors as well as current university and college students. The special session enables students to earn up to 4 hours of...

Student teachers across East Texas learn of waiver for certification NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Zoom lessons are resourcefully used by SFA student teachers, who like their young students, were suddenly pulled out of a school classroom. For days these soon to be...

Food Program Approved for Kids WACO, Texas (KWTX) Emergency Meals-to-You -- a program aimed at delivering 1,000,000 meals per week to rural school children at schools currently closed due to the coronavirus -- was praised by President Donald Trump Friday at the White...

Texas school districts pushing forward amid constant change and challenges Texas school districts will vary in how they respond to the COVID-19 Situation. And that’s okay. Read the Full Article » March 27, 2020 | ElevateTxEdREAD MORE Partnership Updates + News +...

Humble ISD approves plan to provide chromebooks to students without devices ...above a three or four, and of graduates from the 2016-17 school year, 55.6% were enrolled in Texas Higher Education. Read the Full Article » March 26, 2020 | ElevateTxEdREAD MORE...

Apple offers free consultations to help teachers make the best of online learning ...TODAY that its more than 100 educators on staff are available to help teachers - from K-12 through higher education - hone their approach to online student learning and workflows....

Texas Educators Are Rising to the Challenge In an instant, everything has changed. Texas educators are responding to the call. They deserve our thanks and our support, now, and as we look to the future. The current global health crisis has toppled... Read the Full...

Fort Bend ISD readies to launch online learning program ...75,000 different reasons," James said. During recent conference call discussions with TEA commissioner Mike Morath and other superintendents, Dupre said he’d brought up issues related to equity. "What I...

Lamar University partnering with school districts, offering free resources as teachers switch to online format ...schools continue to shut down to stop the spread of COVID-19. The College of Education at Lamar University is helping educators across the state make the...

Six Red Marbles Is Hiring Educators Disrupted by COVID-19 ...instructional design, content and curriculum development, project management, and publishing to preK-12, higher education, adult learning, and publishing markets around the world. To learn more about the...

Addressing Pre-Service Capacity in Ed Tech: How Can States Reimagine Educator Preparation? ...How did Connecticut realize higher education’s role in supporting K-12 educators’ technology use? It started with the opportunity to get students and educators online. CCET...

Faculty Success launches new mentoring program for UTSA educators ...curriculum created by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, housed at the University of Wisconsin, Becoming a Mentor @ UTSA is designed to explore what mentoring is and...

Six Ways to Support Your Students During Isolation Here’s what you can do for students during the COVID-19 quarantine. Read the Full Article » March 24, 2020 | ElevateTxEdREAD MORE Partnership Updates + News + Stories from the Field of Education

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) This blog is an up to date, comprehensive view of resources for learning at home. The author provides tips as well as resources for short-term and extended closures. Read the Full Article » March 11, 2020 | ElevateTxEdREAD MORE...