TIVA Summer Professional Development Conference

July 12-16, 2010

Omni by the Galleria, Houston

Mark your calendars!

President Obama’s State of the Union Address

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    

Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills

Listed below is the 1/4/10 summary of enrolled instructors by state for the 2010 Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills.  Contact John Morse to find both enrolled and non-enrolled instructors by name.   Ford AAA will continue to process enrollments as long as we see activity for the next few days.

ILS Writing Contest Rules and the Topic for 2009-2010

1/25/2010:  2010 Iota Lambda Sigma Writing Contest

STAAR to replace TAKS

TEA Press Release - January 26, 2010 

 

AUSTIN – Commissioner of Education Robert Scott announced today that the next generation of student tests will be called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR.

STAAR will replace the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), which is the criterion-reference assessment program that has been in place since 2003.

TEA CTE Announcement: Funding Available for PLTW

1/22/10:  Funding available to schools for Project Lead the Way (PLTW) engineering implementation support

SBOE Gives Final Approval to Graduation Plan Changes...

TEA News Release 1/19/2010

AUSTIN – The State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to changes in the state’s graduation plans, including reversing a plan to phase out the Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC) course for the Recommended High School Program. Members approved dozens of amendments to the draft social studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills curriculum standards and will continue that review process in March.