REGION X RESOURCES

Foreign Languages

This website provides teacher presentations, handouts, and handouts for teaching Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish.

Social Studies

U.S. Small Business Administration

The website offers a brief online course on how to start a business and develop a business plan. The free course could be used as a homework or enrichment activity for an economics class.

Martin Luther King

website maintained by the National Parks Service offers a curriculum focuses on building on students' current civil rights knowledge and helping them to compare present-day realities to past struggles for justice in America and throughout the world.

The Great Pandemic
Learn about life in the U.S. in 1918, the nation's health and medical care, and what happened when the pandemic struck.

Science

Earth System, Structure, and Processes provides video clips and interactive resources on wind power, earthquakes, environmental change, plate tectonics, recycling and composting, the scientific process, seasons, and volcanoes.

Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test Challenge
helps students to gain a better understanding of the experimental process and causality through considering control, random assignment, and possible confounding variables.

Fine Arts

Guide to Harlem Renaissance features music, art, and writing from Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s.

Artchive

Fantastic website devoted to artists.

Louvre Museum

in Paris

National Gallery of Art

NGAkids Still Life
lets student compose their own still life paintings as well as experiment with perspective, size, and spatial arrangements; add textured brushstrokes.

Math

TMDS/TSDS
Texas Math and Science Diagnostic

Figure This!
offers interactive math problems families can use to help children understand estimation, volume, and other math concepts.

Teaching with Data Simulations
helps students visualize abstract statistical concepts and see dynamic processes behind the gathering, analysis, and interpretation of statistics.

MATHCOUNTS

a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement

Health and Safety

Runaway Prevention Curriculum
provides 14 modules to help educate youth about alternatives to running away.

Counselors

Counselors' Symposium:

Understanding Student Culture; Shaping Tomorrow's Leaders

Free Tools

Expert Village
has how-to and instructional videos from renowned experts.

Twitter
is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected. Broadcast where you are and what you're doing right here and right now by texting from your mobile phone.

OhDontForget.com
lets users send a free text message. Recipients will be charged a regular text-messaging fee.

FAFSA4caster
created by the Federal Student Aid (FSA) office of the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to help families figure out if college is possible financially.

Weebly.com
is a website building tool with a one-step process for adding content

Grants and Contests

The National Peace Essay Contest has students in grades 9-12 write a 1500-word essay on the selected topic.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Other

Paper Models
provides printable paper models for students or teachers to print and construct.

Pocket Edition reports a variety of statewide statistics on topics such student demographic groups, grade levels, district and campus enrollments, and district staff by category.

Friends of Texas Public Schools

educates Texans about the strengths and achievements of Texas public schools

TExES Exam Reviews

Media and Technology

Texas Intel® Master Teacher Training Sessions being held at Region 10.

Technology Applications Teacher Network includes lesson plans and resources for tech apps courses.

Update Your Personal Information on SBEC

Region 10 Products

Online Learning Center

AEIS IT Online

ICAT (Curriculum Alignment Tool)

WebCCAT (Benchmarking Tool)

Empower Educational Data Warehouse

Region 10 Information

Region 10 Employment Opportunities

Region 10 Staff Directory

EdNet10 Videoconference Sites

Innovative Teachers and Students at Work!

Collinsville ISD is available to the world through its Internet Radio class. By leveraging donations and used hardware, a student broadcasting class offers music, news , interviews and weather forecasts through the Internet. Ken Kemp, the district's technology director and Intermediate school principal reports that the class is an effective way to introduce students to knowledge and skills needed in a broadcasting career. The class was recently featured on a KXII new report.

Students from Melissa Ridge Elementary in Melissa ISD recently competed in the national Interwrite Makeover Video Contest. The students, with help from third grade teacher Karen Rose, created a video parody entitled “It’s a Low Tech Life”. Congratulations to these innovative students.

Partial Loan Forgiveness or Deferment

Teachers with certain types of student loans may qualify for partial loan forgiveness, deferment, or cancellation benefits. Eligibility for these benefits depends on the type of loan the teacher has, the date of his/her first loan, whether the school where the borrower is teaching is listed as a designated low-income school, the length of teaching time, and in certain cases the subject-matter being taught. Some loans have no benefits. Texas designated subject-matter teacher shortage areas for the 2007-2008 school year are mathematics, foreign language, special education, science, bilingual/ESL, and Technology Applications. Click here for additional information.

2007-2008 Master Teacher Program

The list of eligible campuses for the 2007-2008 Master Teacher Program (Reading and Math) have been posted on the TEA website. The online application will be available January 2008 to accept data from districts with eligible campuses and teachers. To learn more about the master reading and math teacher program click here.

Fingerprinting and Criminal History

Senate Bill 9, passed by the 80th Texas Legislature, directed the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) to create rules that would in part establish a deadline for a certified educator to submit fingerprints in compliance with the law. The SBEC rules, which are now effective, state that a certified educator’s national criminal history record must be received by the Texas Education Agency staff within 80 days after receiving a notice to submit fingerprints in compliance with SB9. Failure to do so would result in the individual’s certificate being placed on inactive status, causing the person to become ineligible for employment in a Texas public school in a position that requires educator certification.

Starting in January, the state will begin fingerprinting or conducting criminal history background checks on about 1 million certified and non-certified Texas school district employees over the next four years. Senate Bill 9,

Coming Events

Foreign Languages

Social Studies

Science

Fine Arts

Math

Health and Safety

Counselors

Free Tools

Grants and Contests

Other

Media and Technology

Region 10 Products

Region 10 Information

Innovative Teachers and Students at Work!

Partial Loan Forgiveness or Deferment

2007-2008 Master Teacher Program

Fingerprinting and Criminal History

Coming Events

Assessment

Assistive Technology

Behavior Management/Health

Bilingual/ESL/

Counselor

Curriculum and Instruction

Dyslexia

Effective Teaching Practices

Gifted and Talented

Library Services

Math

Preschool/HeadStart

Reading/ELA

Safe Schools

Science

Social Studies

Special Education

Teacher Certification

Technology/CTE