Advanced Academics & GT Updates

Learning is a precious joy, and we want to encourage some creative and easy-to-implement activities at a time of year that is often full of interuptions and adjusted schedules. Explore 12 ways to end the semester on a creative note.

The Region 10 website will be getting a new look in January 2025, and we'll be moving our current ListServ communications to Constant Contact. We'll send a Constant Contact message out before the winter break as a trial run of the new system. If you are currently on our ListServ, you will not miss a beat.

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.

According to the 2024 Accountability Manual, in the 2025-2026 school year, CCMR credit can only be earned through College Prep courses that are on an approved TEA list by a student who is in 12th grade.

TEA's Nov. 22 "This Week in Performance Reporting" included updates on the college prep approval process and rubric.

• TEA has set up a college prep overview page for LEAs that includes a timeline. A final list of approved college prep courses will not occur before March 2025.
• The rubric is included on Pages 13-16 of the Guide for College Preparatory Course Providers
• Providers, such as Texas College Bridge or Institutions of Higher Education, must submit an interest form by January 10 so that they will receive an application to complete prior to the January 31 deadline. 🔶 [updated Dec. 12 to reflect change from Jan. 24]
• R10 will host an informational Zoom session on December 12 to help schools understand how they might be impacted by this process. Register Below.

🔶 Updated Dec. 12

Stay in the know: access the slide deck from the Dec. 12 session "Updates to the College Preparatory Courses Approval Process"

Please join the College Board’s Texas team in December as we review the tools and reports available from the PSAT 8/9, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT School-day test administration, including AP Potential, K-12 reporting portal, Skills Insight, and the SAT Suite Question Bank. We will address the SAT's alignment with Texas CCMR goals, as well as strategies for increasing student success and opportunities. If you have questions, please let me know!

Date: December 11, 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (central)

Registration Link: https://eventreg.collegeboard.org/xblWvg

Although you need to communicate with your dual credit partner for specific guidance, you can reference the FAQ about the dual credit eligibility rule changes published by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). You can also access the rules directly:

• Rule 4.54 - Texas Success Initiative

• Rule 4.84 - Dual Credit Requirements

The Learning Acceleration Support Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 3 consolidated grant application opened on October 14, 2024, and closes on December 13, 2024, at 5:00 P.M. CST. School Districts, and charter schools can apply for grants to implement, expand, and support AP Computer Science Principles for schools, teachers, and students. Learn more here.

Register for Socratic Questioning

January 23, 2025

4:15 - 5:15 p.m.

on Zoom

Register for Academic Rigor at 11:30 a.m.

Register for Academic Rigor at 4:15 p.m.

February 6, 2025

1 hour session on Zoom

🔶 Updated Dec. 12 with Registration Links

• February 3: learn how a district used data and depth of knowledge to drive instructional decisions starting at 6th grade
• May 12: learn practical tools and strategies to elevate the depth of knowledge students experience

Register for CCMR & Accountability on March 25, 2025

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

In Person at Region 10 ESC

400 E. Spring Valley Rd., Richardson

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

Our in-person 6-hour updates really consist of two, three hour sessions. You can mix and match on different days, or do a morning and afternoon on the same day. You must register for two courses to earn your full six hours.

• 1/16/25 8:30-11:30 Cultivating Empathy and Resilience: Tackling Bullying of Gifted Students (3 hours)
• 1/16/25 12:30-3:30 Thoughtful Learning: Using the 4 Cs to Challenge Gifted Students (3 hours)
• 2/13/25 8:30-11:30 Empowering Excellence: Cultivating Self-Teaching Skills in Gifted and Talented Learners (3 hours)
• 2/13/25 12:30-3:30 Screen Wisdom: Cinematherapy Lessons to learn for Teachers (3 hours)
• 3/6/25 8:30-11:30 Cultivating Empathy and Resilience: Tackling Bullying of Gifted Students (3 hours)
• 3/6/25 12:30-3:30 Thoughtful Learning: Using the 4 Cs to Challenge Gifted Students (3 hours)
• 4/24/25 8:30-11:30 Empowering Excellence: Cultivating Self-Teaching Skills in Gifted and Talented Learners (3 hours)
• 4/24/25 12:30-3:30 Screen Wisdom: Cinematherapy Lessons to learn for Teachers (3 hours)
• 5/8/25 8:30-11:30 Cultivating Empathy and Resilience: Tackling Bullying of Gifted Students (3 hours)
• 5/8/25 12:30-3:30 Thoughtful Learning: Using the 4 Cs to Challenge Gifted Students (3 hours)

Our asynchronous 6-hour book study runs each month. All readings, responses, and reflections are due by the end of the month in which you registered. If you decide to register near the end of the month, you will have limited time to purchase and read the book, and take part in all of the required activities. It might be best to register for the next month's session, so you have the full month to participate. You will be required to acquire your own copy of the required book.

• 1/31/25 Embracing the Whole Gifted Self: A 6 Hour GT Book Study (runs 1/1/25-1/31/25)
• 2/28/25 Embracing the Whole Gifted Self: A 6 Hour GT Book Study (runs 2/1/25-2/28/24)
• 3/31/25 Embracing the Whole Gifted Self: A 6 Hour GT Book Study (runs 3/1/25-3/31/25)
• 4/30/25 Embracing the Whole Gifted Self: A 6 Hour GT Book Study (runs 4/1/25-4/30/25)
• 5/31/25 Embracing the Whole Gifted Self: A 6 Hour GT Book Study (runs 5/1/25-5/31/25)

GT Foundations parts 1 & 2 are to be completed in person, through your district or through Region 10. They do not have to be completed in two consecutive days or in sequential order. GT Foundations Parts 3-5 are to be completed online, asynchronously.

• 1/7/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 1/8/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design
• 2/3/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 2/4/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design
• 3/3/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 3/4/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design
• 4/8/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 4/9/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design
• 5/12/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 5/13/25 8:30-3:30 GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design

The required 6-hour GT Administrator training is for campus and district level administrators, and for GT teachers who have "supervisory duties for service decisions". This course must only be taken once. It is NOT an annual update.

• 2/25/25 8:30-3:30 Administrator 6-hour GT Training
• 4/8/25 8:30-3:30 Administrator 6-hour GT Training

The required 6-hour GT Counselor training is for school counselors "who work with gifted/talented students" (pretty much all school counselors) . This course must only be taken once. It is NOT an annual update.

• 2/24/25 8:30-3:30 Counselor 6-hour GT Training
• 4/16/25 8:30-3:30 Counselor 6-hour GT Training

The ToT is a two-day course, the Trainer of Trainers for GT Foundations Parts 1 & 2. It is for administrators and GT teachers to turn around the training and present it to the teachers in their own district. It cannot count as credit for GT Foundations Parts 1 & 2. Participants should already have taken GT Foundations Parts 1 & 2 before registering for this course.

• 2/10/25 8:30-3:30 ToT for GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 2/11/25 8:30-3:30 ToT for GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design
• 5/19/25 8:30-3:30 ToT for GT Foundations Part 1: Nature and Needs
• 5/20/25 8:30-3:30 ToT for GT Foundations Part 2: Identification, Assessment, and Service Design

• GT students have special needs and need curricular modifications in order to grow and learn
• Gifted students can't "take care of themselves"...they need teachers and guidance just like other students.
• Gifted students may require a range of educational services. They are rarely equally gifted across the board, and may need support, tutoring, or intervention in particular content areas.
• GT students aren't always straight "A" students, nor are they always teacher pleasers!
• Gifted students need opportunities to work with their intellectual peers and other gifted students.

• October/November 2024 (Coordinator Meeting Slides, College Prep Approval Process, Dual Credit Eligibility Rule Changes, AP/IB Exam Subsidy, AP Career Kickstart, AP CS LASO Grant, TEA Advanced Academics Newsletter, GT Screening)
• September 2024 (Accountability, Texas College Bridge, Digital AP, Digital SAT, GT Reminders)
• March/April 2024 (Performance Reporting, CLEP, & GT Offerings)