Advanced Academics & GT Updates

As we wrap up this semester, we are already looking ahead to 2023! We've included a preview below of some of our Spring offerings. We look forward to continuing our support of your good, human work, and we wish you every possible happiness for this holiday season and a much-deserved winter break.

Region 10's advanced academics services are part of the Instructional Practices Package and align with CCMR as well as secondary core content areas to support ALL students.

1-Hour Zoom Session

• Jan. 26 @ 11:30 a.m.
• Feb. 27 @ 4:30 p.m.

1-Hour Zoom Session

• Jan. 26 @ 4:30 p.m.
• Feb. 27 @ 11:30 a.m.

Since changes to CCMR are likely to occur with the 2023 Accountability Refresh, we will not be hosting our annual CCMR conference this February. The final 2023 Accountability Manual is expected to be published in Summer 2023, so we will explore a relaunch of our CCMR conference in Fall 2023.

TEA released in TAA correspondence the updated 2023 A-F Accountability System Framework.

• Updated Preliminary 2023 A–F Refresh Overview and Summary

• Updated Preliminary 2023 A–F Refresh Framework

• 2023 A–F Refresh Summary of Stakeholder Feedback and Adjustments to Framework

Please submit feedback using this form before February 1, 2023. Submit a separate form for each comment.

• Launchng in January 2023: The required essay for completion of the College Prep English course via Texas College Bridge will now be in EdReady! Students will have the ability to write and submit the essay directly from their EdReady study path. Teachers will provide feedback and grade the essay directly in EdReady.
• The Group Summary Report allows you to monitor student progress and completion.
• Check out the FAQ document!
• Check out the newly-created PEIMS guidance document!

Region 10's gifted and talented program is a separate cooperative focused on the individual academic and emotional needs of identified GT students

GT Foundations

GT Pick-6

Administrator Training and ToT's (for GT Foundations)

Counselor Training

Service Design:

The State Plan requires that districts provide "an array of appropriately challenging learning experiences in each of the four foundation curricular areas" in grades K-12. (19 TAC §89.3). Identified students should receive services during the school day and throughout the school year, with kindergarten being the only exception, as schools typically don't begin servicing kindergarten students until the spring. According to TEA, gifted students should be afforded flexible pacing, acceleration, opportunities to pursue their areas of passion, and schedule modifications if necessary, to meet their learning needs. Most importantly, teachers are expected to differentiate for their gifted students, adapting and/or modifying "the core or standard curriculum to meet the needs of gifted/talented students." (4.9) Also a necessary part of our gifted students' education is to address their social and emotional learning needs, from kindergarten all the way through high school (3.11). This aspect of GT program design sometimes get left out at the secondary level. For more information on the social and emotional needs of gifted students, please visit SENG's (Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted) resource library, with 100's of articles written by mental health professionals and educators in the field.

Registration Links:

Morning Edition - occurring the second Tuesday of the month at 9:00 am (CST)

Afternoon Edition - occurring the fourth Tuesday of the month at 1:00 pm (CST)

This year will have guest speakers addressing different areas of gifted/talented education. Monica Brewer will continue to review sections of the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students and answer your questions about program services.

• November 2022
• October 2022
• September 2022