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Mike Morath’s STAAR Announcements Are Disappointing
Mike Morath announced that students learning remotely will not have to take the STAAR this school year. This is to accommodate families who are concerned by the health implications of sending their children to campus to participate in the test. Because the STAAR...
TEA Announces Pre-K Learning Solution to Support Texas Schools with In-Person and Remote Instruction
The Texas Education Agency today announced the next set of instructional materials – a full suite of resources and tools for prekindergarten – that will be made available to school systems through the Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL 3.0) initiative. Like other THL 3.0...
Give Them What They Need
Virtual learning is rough, but some help is on the way from federal dollars through the CARES Act and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites. Granted, the CARES Act funds will help all 1200 plus Texas school districts by reimbursing money already spent on laptops, tablets,...
Hybrid Learning and the New Definition of “Close Contact”
There are 1,247 school districts in Texas. A handful of these—Livingston, Blanco, Roosevelt, Moody, and Lubbock-Cooper ISD, for example—have eliminated virtual learning entirely at this point. But most Texas schools are offering hybrid learning at this current stage...
School District COVID Reporting
Many school districts across Texas have been providing in-person learning for some weeks now, but here in the state’s capital, students only began going back to campus this past week. The city is watching warily to see how this impacts the local COVID-19 numbers. A...
The Reboot: School Operations in an Unpredictable World
Best-selling author and renowned education consultant Sean Cain wowed us all last Monday during his webinar The Reboot: School Operations in an Unpredictable World. Sean’s presentation was part of the bonus content for Education Law for Principals, and it was...
TEA Issues New Guidance on Summer Programs
This week, the Texas Education Agency released new guidance for school districts that will impact the way districts handle summer programs. In collaboration with the Governor’s Strike Force and the Texas Department of Emergency Management, Personal Protective...
TEA Offers Free Tool to Parents and Schools to Diagnose How Much Their Students Learned This Year and To Help Educators Plan for the “COVID Slide”
The following is a press release from the Texas Education Agency AUSTIN, Texas – May 12, 2020 – To further support student learning and an understanding of student progress even as students are educated from home for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year, TEA has...
School Closures and Coping
Governor Abbott has officially closed all schools in Texas till at least April 3rd. Many people expect closures to be extended beyond that, whether it’s from state-wide mandate or the decisions of local districts. Texas school districts are doing an incredible job of...