Region 10 Education Service Center

01/12/2023

Outstanding educators have been helping us to paint a week full of collaboration and learning! 🎨

01/09/2023

Layne Pethick shares effective brain booster activities and practices that parents can do at home to build their children’s brains so they can be ready for the challenges ahead. These brain activities and practices are research-based to develop the areas of the brain needed for social-emotional competencies, behavior regulation, and academic success. The information and ideas that will be shared are great for children of all ages and adults too! Register now at https://region10.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7pVNc1QnSDWz0P2BHjfc8g
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Layne Pethick comparte actividades y prácticas efectivas para estimular el cerebro que los padres pueden hacer en casa para desarrollar el cerebro de sus hijos y que puedan estar preparados para los desafíos que se avecinan. Estas actividades y prácticas cerebrales se basan en investigaciones para desarrollar las áreas del cerebro necesarias para las competencias socioemocionales, la regulación del comportamiento y el éxito académico. ¡La información y las ideas que se compartirán son excelentes para niños de todas las edades y también para adultos! https://region10.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0D1wGm6Qy-jl9sAiWSDCg

01/06/2023

Photos from University of Texas at Arlington College of Education's post

01/04/2023

Save the date! This year's Kid-netic Games will be held on Saturday, May 6th! The Kid-netic Games is an annual weekend athletic event for students ages 2-22 (if still attending high school) with physical impairments such as amputations, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, dwarfism, and other orthopedic impairments. The Kid-netic Games provide an opportunity for students with physical disabilities to develop friendships and gain knowledge of various sports, and produces a variety of community resources and networking opportunities for families of students with physical disabilities.

01/03/2023

Calling all Early Childhood Educators! The Region 10 Now4Forever "Sea the Possibilities" Annual Conference will be held at the Plano Event Center on July 11-12, 2023, and we want you to share your expertise! We are seeking presenters to share their expertise at our conference. Submit a proposal to present at the conference this year, each selected presenter will receive 1 complimentary registration to attend the conference! Presentations will be 75 minutes in length.

Link to form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdByU_GsL8SK9o3avx2GNJJbmv7z-VqvFGPuE4p9TppL8gxhQ/viewform

If you have any questions or need assistance completing this form, please contact Cindy Lee ([email protected]), Andrea Mitchell ([email protected]), or Kim Boyd ([email protected])

12/16/2022

Happy Holidays from Region 10! We will be closed from December 19-January 1st, we can't wait to see you all in the new year! 🎄

12/15/2022

Have you heard of a Career Rodeo? Community ISD put together a Career Rodeo for all elementary students in CISD. Students were able to explore various careers and career clusters through hands-on activities facilitated by high school student ambassadors. This event was a great way to help students find their areas of interest and take another step toward being future-ready!

12/15/2022

Check out these big 😁s, as the Head Start students at the Denison Lamar Head Start program unwrapped some presents ahead of the holidays! 🎁

12/14/2022

Today, Region 10 Homeless & Foster Care Consultant Sonia Rhykerd delivered hygiene kits to Kemp ISD, Crandall ISD, and Forney ISD! These kits will go to students and families who are experiencing homelessness this holiday season. Each kit was assembled using materials donated by Region 10 staff members.

12/13/2022

Today, Region 10 Library Consultant Nancy Watson delivered some new books to the library at St. Anthony Academy Dallas! Today, the Kindergarten students got to check out some of the new books she brought with her, while the 8th-grade students browsed the collection.

12/12/2022

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

Attention High School and Middle School teachers! Check out this free opportunity for your students to get some SAT/ACT prep in, courtesy of Texas A&M University-Commerce! There are three sessions available!
https://tamuc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5cNDGp9tomfN4VM

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

12/08/2022

Today our Adapted PE team was helping out in Prosper Independent School District, where paralympic athletes from across North Texas school districts got some practice in while playing their favorite sports! From basketball and bowling to bocce ball, there was fun for everyone!

12/07/2022

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf, but have you heard of an educator in an elevator?

12/06/2022

For today's APLA meeting, attendees worked through the Region 10 Poverty Simulation. This simulation exists to promote poverty awareness, increase understanding, inspire change, and transform perspectives. By participating in the simulation, Region 10's Assistant Principals are able to better serve families in their districts.

12/06/2022

R10 Counselor Conversations

The latest Counselor Conversations is here, packed full of great downloadable resources for the winter!

🌟 2023 spring events based off your feedback
💙 Student healthy coping skills & choice boards for the classroom
🧰 Drug Awareness Tips and Tools
🎓 CCMR resources

Check it out ➡️ https://www.smore.com/tu4xd

R10 Counselor Conversations 🔘 Thirty-Fifth Edition: December and January 🔘

12/05/2022

Today, Elementary Science educators in our Elementary Science Cohort had a wild time with us at the Dallas Zoo! They worked on some hands-on activities, explored the zoo, and even went on a guided tour to learn more about how they could use the zoo in their classroom! 🦒

12/02/2022

Today is National Special Education Day! From trainings to Special Olympics, Region 10 is proud to support and assist Special Education educators and students as they work together to create a successful academic experience!

12/01/2022

The latest edition of Reach! Magazine is out now! From building pathways for student success in the metaverse, to a new program designed to help students achieve post-secondary success, this magazine is full of impactful stories of the many ways Region 10 and school districts are helping students reach new heights! Read it today at https://issuu.com/region10esc/docs/reach_magazine_web

11/29/2022

Check out our Region 10- Empowering New Teachers team hard at work with some amazing teachers in Irving Independent School District today!

11/28/2022

Check this out! After noticing some issues with his vision, Region 10 Nurse Heather Beck helped connect Larry, a student at Midlothian ISD, with optometrist Dr. Prapta. After conducting a vision screening test, Dr. Prapta recommended a pair of glasses to help Larry’s vision. After hearing that there was a 2 week wait for glasses, Dr. Prapta went above and beyond by paying for the glasses himself and expedited them to Larry! It was a life-changing moment for Larry, who now has a new pair of glasses just in time for the holiday season!

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we are thankful for all the amazing educators who work at districts across Region 10! What are you thankful for?

11/18/2022

Sherman ISD hosted a local Bocce competition for area districts. Athletes worked hard and all went home with medals!! Thank you to all the student volunteers from Sherman High School in helping make this event a success!! Region 10’s Adapted PE team had a great day!

11/17/2022

Yesterday, Region 10’s Holly Bishop (front) guided students from Terrell ISD during their Learning on Location experience! They learned several survival skills and had tons of fun at the beautiful Trevor Rees-Jones Scout Camp! 🌲

11/17/2022

Check out how the Region 10 Title IV Small and Rural Schools Grant is helping out students in Boles Independent School District! They were able to participate in the Measured By Character presentation!

11/15/2022

The one and only Todd Whitaker is spending time with district administrators at Region 10 today during the 2022 Leadership Symposium! It has been a great day as he has discussed how administrators can maximize their leadership roles in education!

11/14/2022

Check out how Maddox, a student at Pottsboro High School, spent time learning during the Beach Day and Pumpkin Celebration Sensory Stories in his Active Learning Classroom, which provide extra prompts for students to take in their environment. Way to go Maddox! 👏

11/14/2022

Elizabeth Danner, State Transition Coordinator with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), will be joining us for a statewide webinar to review resources on the Texas Transition website designed to help parents participate in the transition planning process on November 30, 2022, in English at 12:15 p.m. (CST) and in Spanish at 1:15 p.m. (CST).

Registration link English webinar: http://bit.ly/3tgGW4A

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Elizabeth Danner, Coordinadora de Transición Estatal de la Agencia de Educación de Texas (TEA), se unirá a nosotros en un seminario web estatal para revisar los recursos en el sitio web de Transición de Texas diseñado para ayudar a los padres a participar en el proceso de planificación de la transición el 30 de noviembre de 2022, en inglés en 12:15 (CST) y en español a la 1:15 p. m. (CST).

Enlace de registro seminario web en español: http://bit.ly/3DTo9RZ

11/11/2022

Experienced Teachers Survey

Region 10 is conducting a survey to help us understand the reasons and conditions that motivate experienced teachers to continue in their careers. Please share this link with your teacher friends! We look forward to analyzing and publishing the results from this study and sharing the information with educators across the region.
https://region10.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aftGh5YHzO5HrMO

The purpose of this survey is to help us understand the reasons and conditions that motivate experienced teachers to continue in their careers.

11/08/2022

Happy Election Day! If you haven't already, make sure you exercise your right to vote today! To find your nearest polling location, visit https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ 🗳

11/07/2022

Region 10 Adapted PE team hosted “Purposeful Planning: Adapting the PE TEKS for ALL!” for APE and PE staff throughout the region. Attendees learned about vertically aligning PE TEKS, checking out scope and sequences, incorporating paraprofessionals in the PE setting, learning ways to adapt various PE activities for ALL students and ice breakers to incorporate into the classroom! Thank you to the Cedar Hill Independent School District Athletic Department for allowing us to use your facilities!!

11/07/2022

Check out some of the great highlights from the Head Start Fatherhood Event at the Mabank ISD Head Start Office!

11/07/2022

Check this out! In Campbell ISD, second-grade teacher Beckie Rodgers went to great lengths to set up a “Surgery Center” where students did “surgery” on sentences! Her class spent the past 20 days working on a narrative writing unit, where she tied in the theme of medicine!

To conclude the unit with a "big bang", Rodgers set six stations up-one was strictly just imaginative play, where they engaged in taking each other's blood pressure and listening to heartbeats with real equipment. Five stations were complete/incomplete sentences, silly writing using medical terms like "stretcher" and "ambulance", capitalizing, punctuation, and such as this. One of the stations was set for narrative writing prompts.

Rodgers had given the students a little hint the day before that something big was planned, and they were so excited when they got to see it all!

"They seemed to thoroughly enjoy the day, the giggles and laughter were priceless," shared Rodgers. "I thoroughly enjoy going above and beyond for my students to help them love learning, especially for something as necessary and challenging as teaching writing."

11/04/2022

This week, Region 10 ESC College, Career & Military Readiness held the Education and Industry Summit! School district leaders had the opportunity to connect with professionals from a wide array of industries in order to help bridge the gap between education and industry!

11/03/2022

Stay tuned for some exciting news coming your way!🤩We love partnering up with our incredible community members and creating new collaborative initiatives!

11/03/2022

Check out this fun activity! The students in Mrs. Woody’s Head Start class at Perrin Early Childhood Center learned how to make orange juice and competed to see who could squeeze more orange juice, the teachers or students! Who do you think won?

11/03/2022

The Crandall and Royse City Head Start Programs had a great time during their Fatherhood events last week! Both programs went out to the pumpkin patch, where they had a day of fun with songs, science experiments, games, and even a photo booth! 😁

11/03/2022

Let's play some Bocce ball! Wolfe City students had a great time this week during their Special Olympics Bocce Ball Tournament! There were plenty of 😁 and high-fives to go around, as Region 10 Adapted PE Specialist Thomas Swinden helped facilitate the fun!

11/02/2022

On Friday, October 28th, Italy Stafford Head Start program had their Fatherhood Picnic event. Due to the rain the picnic was moved inside and the parents improvised and set up a picnic setting in the Head Start hallway and Head Start office! Every father in attendance received a vinyl lunch bag filled with gifts and at home activity handouts.

11/01/2022

Region 10 Data Solutions Program Coordinator Courtney Stevens is taking over our Instagram story today! Check it out at instagram.com/region10esc/

10/31/2022

Kemp ISD hosted a local Special Olympics bowling competition against Eustace High! Smiles were beaming all day from hitting strikes, dressing up and receiving medals! All participants went home with hardware today! Region 10’s Melissa Tyler was in attendance to help out as well!

(📸 credits- Kemp ISD Facebook)