Happy Valentine's Day! We L❤️VE seeing the smiles on the faces of our Early Head Start families when we all get together! Our little learners at Lawson Early Childhood had a great time dancing at the Candy Heart Hip Hop Event last night! Thank you to everyone who made last night such a wonderful experience! 🫶
Collaborating to learn new, engaging methods to help students study is a super way to start off the week! 🤩 Educators had the chance to connect and learn new ideas during today's Region 10 Reading/Language Arts Strategies for Success (Grades 3-10) Boot Camp!
What. A. Day! We had such a great time collaborating and learning with HR professionals during today's HR Summit! Today's breakout sessions covered a wide range of HR-related topics that provided excellent ideas and resources for these professionals to use in their districts! Thank you to everyone who made today amazing!! 🫶
Early Childhood educators had so much fun during today's theme-based learning! In the afternoon they got to rotate around stations and try out new activities they can implement in their classrooms! Thank you to everyone who made today so much fun!!
👀 These R10 Superstars in action! R10 Consultants, Amber Jones and Courtney Stevens shared some knowledge about Assessment Frameworks at the TASA Midwinter Conference in Austin 👏👏 Thank you to everybody who attended!
Collaboration is the best way to start the week! We were excited to host regional counselors and educators for today's focus group as they provided excellent insights and feedback for updates on the 6th edition of the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling. 👏👏
Last night was a culmination of hours of hard work and dedication for our newly-pinned National Board Certified Teachers during our NBCT Pinning Ceremony! The most respected professional certification available in K-12 education, we loved getting to roll out the red carpet and celebrate this significant achievement with them, their families, and their school districts! Congratulations to all these fantastic educators!!! 👏👏👏
Our favorite mornings are the ones where Region 10 is packed with 😁 and 📚!
It was all 😁s and collaboration yesterday during our Early Career Vision Professional Cohort Training! One of the cohort members shared information about assessment tools for the others in the group, and we helped out by providing tools to all of the attendees!
We 🩵 seeing collaboration in action! Last week, Region 10 Adapted PE Specialist Thomas Swinden helped facilitate a learning experience for educators at Lacy Elementary! These educators from Princeton ISD observed an Adapted PE class at Hyde Park Elementary in Denison ISD to get ideas for how they wanted to structure their program in the future.
(📸: Melissa Massey/LinkedIn)
Special thanks to The Dallas Morning News for highlighting our Total Eclipse of the Classroom trainings! Part of a partnership with Dallas College and the Frontiers Of Flight Museum, these trainings have been providing safety guidelines and activities for teachers to use in preparation of the 2024 total solar eclipse! Read more about the importance of this great partnership at https://bit.ly/3HpNXHj
We have educators from far and wide joining us for today's Region 10 & TASB training entitled “ Recruiting & Retaining School Employees”. Welcome everyone from Dallas, Mesquite, Irving, Highland Park, Collinsville, Trinity Basin Prep, Liberty Eylau, Celina ISD! 👋
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 🙌
