WHAT A DAY! We had such a great day today celebrating the white cane by hosting students with Visual Impairments from across Region 10 during today's White Cane Day Celebration! They decorated their canes, created signs, and took a march from our Abrams building to our Spring Valley building. While on their march, they were cheered on by our fantastic staff members who wore white for the occasion! Before the parade, they got to engage in some fun recreation and leisure activities, such as learning about Goal Ball, making hand puppets, learning about self-care, and cooking up some delicious brownies in a cup! Thank you to everyone who helped make today such a special day!

We 🫶 Region 10 Principals! It was a day full of 😁s at the Region 10 Innovate Principal Conference! In addition to breakout sessions led by their peers, attendees were treated to inspiring keynotes from 2022 Texas Principal of the Year Mario I. Acosta, EdD, and from author and former Principal Jimmy Casas. From beginning to end it was a fulfilling day of learning, networking, and collaborating!

Region 10 had such an exciting day as educators gathered for the first-ever Experiencing Ed Tech Conference! We were thrilled to have the incredible Amber Teamann from Crandall ISD as our keynote speaker. The participants had a blast diving into sessions that explored a variety of topics, from AI in education to discovering new classroom tools. A big shoutout to our partners, presenters, and amazing attendees who made this day truly unforgettable!

We couldn't be more grateful for the incredible energy and enthusiasm that filled Region 10 today! Today's attendees deserve the BIGGEST shoutout for making this Thursday unforgettable! 😁

Today 100+ STEM educators from across Region 10 gravitated to the Nancy Watten Technology and Event Center for the first ever Region 10 Texas EcosySTEM Exchange! They heard from expert speakers, engaged in hands-on activities, and connected with vendors and peers in an effort to enhance the STEM programs in their districts! We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the presenters, sponsors, volunteers, and participants for ensuring this day was a smashing success, leaving no element of doubt about the importance of STEM education in our region! 🧪🔬🌟

We have some new faces to welcome to Region 10! Please give a warm welcome to these Region 10 new hires, who are ready to make a difference in the lives of our educators and students! 🎉

We had a great time with Coppell ISD nurses yesterday as we partnered with Medical City for a Trach and G-Tube training! The nurses demonstrated how to assess a tracheostomy site for proper care and suctioning techniques, how to assess a G-Tube placement, implement the identify the mode of feeding (through a pump or gravity feed), evaluate, and document the procedure. Thank you to Tracy Robinson, BSN, RN, CPN, CCRN-K from Medical City for leading the training! 😁 (📸: Becki Lander, Ginger Riggins)

We grow best when we learn together, and there were plenty of opportunities today at the Multilingual Leaders Quarterly Meeting for these district leaders to learn from each other! During the meeting, they discussed the best ways to identify, serve, assess, monitor, and reclassify Emergent Bilingual students in their districts! It was a fantastic day full of growth 🙌

No matter what season it is, we always root for teamwork and collaboration 🏆. We had championship-level discussions during our Multilingual Coaching Academy this week!

Meet Regina! 🤩 This Region 10 Reggie's Robot is ready to roll and serve a homebound student at Prosper ISD's Rushing Middle School! This robot is a VGO robot that provides an innovative solution for students to participate in the classroom from home or the hospital. Over the years, they have helped students stay connected with their peers and teachers while recovering from injuries, illness, or other factors that prevent them from being in the classroom. Reggie allows the student to develop strong teacher and peer relationships, stay socially connected, boost morale, provide tangible health benefits, and receive quality instruction without falling behind on coursework.

Collaborating and 😁s! Today, district leaders from across Region 10 joined us for the Dyslexia Coordinators Roundtable! The roundtable gave them the opportunity to connect, contribute, and build capacity to promote a culture of high expectations for students with disabilities. We shared updated information from TEA, evaluation practices, implementation practices, and service options and processes to support students in a variety of settings. Thank you to our sponsors, Scottish Rite for Children, Learning Ally, and Reading Horizons for helping make today such a great experience!

🚧 We constructed great connections, engineered insightful discussions, and built the foundation for a great year during the first session of our Pre-K Building The Foundation Cohort! This year-long cohort of eight sessions builds upon early childhood development and instructional best practices to ensure that our educators are experts and our youngest scholars are kindergarten-ready and well-equipped for future learning. We can't wait to see all the great takeaways these participants will be building this year! 🦺

Our Abrams building was packed today, as participants at the Dyslexia Identification within the FIE session dove deep into understanding dyslexia as a specific learning disability, outlined the roles of the multidisciplinary team, learned more about the FIE process, and reviewed the two-prong requirements for eligibility for special education services. It was an action-packed, highly interactive day of learning and collaboration! 👏

Helping educators runs in the family! Today, we had the pleasure of having the granddaughters of Region 10 employees Kim Boyd and Carol Wilson join us for a fun morning at work! Just like their grandmothers, they did an outstanding job of providing excellent information during the Region 10 Early Childhood Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment training, as participants practiced their assessment skills while observing them play! 🥰

It was a 😁ing start to our 2023-2024 Assistant Principal Leadership Academy (APLA)! Today, Assistant Principals in our APLA cohort met for the first time, where they were treated to an inspiring and hands-on presentation from Peter DeWitt, Ed.D. over instructional leadership! This cohort will meet nine times over the course of the school year, and we cannot wait to see what great takeaways these participants will have from it! 🤩

What a morning of learning with Region 10 504 Leaders! 🤩 Today, these exceptional leaders gathered at Region 10 for the first Section 504 Leadership Meeting of the school year. We delved into new updates, explored hot-button topics, and engaged in hands-on activities that further deepened our understanding of the students we serve 🙌

The (book) doctor is in! Today, librarians from across Region 10 were treated to a workshop from Book Doctor Kimberly Young on how to make repairs to older books in their collection so that their books could last longer and reach more readers! 📚 Thank you to Kimberly Young for helping us provide such a useful hands-on learning experience!

It may be a short week, but there is still plenty of time for collaboration and learning! 😁 have you signed up to learn with us this summer?

Today, our first Pre-K Building The Foundations Cohort wrapped up its first year! Today, educators presented how they have applied their learning in the classroom, reflected on the past year, and enjoyed some time playing games! We are so proud of all the hard work they have put in for their young scholars! 👏😁

Today, the Dallas Association of Vocational Adjustment Coordinators (DAVAC) honored several with their end of year awards! Congratulations to these recipients for their outstanding work! Transition Paraprofessional of the Year-Julianna Murray, Prosper ISD Vocational Adjustment Coordinator of the Year-Kim Reed, Prosper ISD Business of the Year-Market Street Frisco #562 Outstanding Student of the Year-Steve Diaz, Rockwall ISD