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A Note from the TEKS Resource System Director, Ann Graves
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Hello and welcome from the TEKS Resource System Team. We look forward to another great year with your partnership!
Thanks to the many participants who attended the 2017 TEKS Resource System Summer Conference. Our keynote speaker, Aric Bostic, certainly had us FIRED UP for the start of school. If you missed this conference please mark your calendar for the 2018 conference, July 31 - August 2 in San Antonio. Aric will return as our MC and will provide break-out sessions each day. Also, the presenter application will be posted in November, prior to the Thanksgiving Holidays. Please share your talents with teachers across Texas!
The TEKS Resource System Development Team members are preparing for new ELAR/SLAR standards and Science streamlining. Social Studies will be the next content area to undergo streamlining. Thanks to those currently serving as writers and reviewers for ELAR/SLAR. Your time and talents are deeply appreciated! We love the fact that the TEKS Resource System is a curriculum written by Texas Educators for Texas Educators! Our students are well-served and in good hands!
You can look forward to our quarterly TEKS Resource System Newsletter. We will bring you updates on our content and highlight a specific content team each quarter.
Please remember your feedback is always encouraged. Let us know how we can better serve you! Have a great 2017-2018 school year and GET FIRED UP!
Sincerely,
Ann Graves, Director
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Who's Who on the TEKS Resource System Content Development Team
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Meet the TEKS Resource System Content Development team members who support mathematics.
From left to right are
Dusty Burcham and Toni Morrison
, Math Content Specialists,
Tamara Ramsey
, Math Content Coordinator, and Marsha Perales, Technical Support Specialist.
Thank you all for the incredible work you each do to support the TEKS Resource System and the teachers and students in Texas.
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To those affected by Hurricane Harvey in South Texas ....
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Our thoughts are with those in South Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey. We hope that you feel comfort and support as you rebuild, recover, and adjust to a new normal in the days ahead.
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Contact your Regional ESC for your TEKS Resource System Needs
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Your local Education Service Center can support your training needs and implementation questions about the TEKS Resource System. Contact your regional service center for professional development to support planning and increase your understanding of the curriculum components, assessment items, and system tools in the TEKS Resource System.
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Click the image or link below for a Video from the
It's not too early to begin making plans to attend the 2018 State TEKS Resource System Conference. Save the date!
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A large number of districts in the state of Texas use the TEKS Resource System to support instruction and assessment from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Check out the statistics below.
Districts = 849
Campuses = 4,498
Number of users = 230,772
Number of educators who logged in from 9/2016-6/2017 = 86,282
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Assessments
In addition, our content teams are working hard to continually update and add to our assessment system which includes our assessment item bank, performance assessments and spiral review items for math in both English (K-12) and Spanish (K-5 or 2-5). Here is the current data regarding assessment item totals in the TEKS Resource System.
English Versions of Assessment Items:
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Total Number of Elementary Items
(Grades 2-5)
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3,370 items |
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Total Number of Middle School Items (Grades 6-8)
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2,866 items |
Total Number of High School Items (Grades 9-12)
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4,447 items |
Spanish Versions of Assessment Items:
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Total Number of Elementary Items
(Grades 2-5)
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3,375 items |
English Versions of Formative Spiral Items:
(Math Only)
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Total Number of Elementary Items
(Grades K-5)
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831 items |
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Total Number of Middle School Items (Grades 6-8)
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403 items |
Algebra I and Algebra II
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242 items |
Spanish Versions of Formative Spiral Items:
(Math Only)
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Total Number of Elementary Items
(Grades K-5)
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831 items |
English Versions of Performance Assessments:
| Math |
333 PAs |
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Science
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263 PAs |
Social Studies
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414 PAs |
| ELA/R |
509 PAs |
Spanish Versions of Performance Assessments:
(Grades K-5)
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Mathematicas
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150 PAs |
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Ciencia
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115 PAs |
Estudios Sociales
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117 PAs |
| SLAR |
247 PAs |
Unit Assessment Passage Count (English):
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Total Number of Elementary Passages
(Grades 2-5)
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85 |
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Total Number of Middle School Passages
(Grades 6-8)
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72 |
Total Number of High School Passages (Grades 9-12)
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83 |
Unit Assessment Passage Count (Bilingual):
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Total Number of Elementary Passages
(Grades 2-5)
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85 |
Thank you, TEKS Resource System Content Development Team, for the time, attention, and detail that you give in order to keep our system current and aligned to our state TEKS and in-line with best practices for assessing content understanding. |
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Don't miss out on the great content resources in the TEKS Resource System!
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There are great content specific resources in the TEKS Resource System to support your planning and assessing needs. Peruse and use the resources for your content area and be sure to access them (and check for new additions) throughout the year!
Here's a
video to show you how to access the content specific resources in the online system.
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In Case You Missed It: TEA and SBOE Updates |
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The following are information and/or links to correspondence regarding or impacting curriculum, instruction and assessment.
NEW Calculator Policy for Grade 8 Science STAAR:
Beginning with the May 2018 administration of STAAR, calculators will be required for STAAR grade 8 science. Districts must ensure that students have access to a calculator with four-function, scientific, or graphing capability when taking the STAAR grade 8 science assessment. Click this link for the
updated calculator policy.
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Current Language Arts Content
- We have not made any major changes to our curriculum or assessment components for the 2017-2018 school year.
- We will be updating our STAAR Stem Resources with the 2017 STAAR released items. We hope to publish these in October.
- We will not be releasing STAAR Analysis at this time because of new development (see below). We will, however, create the district templates with the 2017 STAAR items so districts can conduct their own analysis.
- As always, we continually monitor feedback and make changes and adjustments to our content as needed.
NEW Language Arts Content
- In Language Arts, we have begun to develop new curriculum for the newly-adopted ELAR/SLAR TEKS. We have hired contractors from districts and ESCs from across the state to participate in this project. This team is comprised of classroom teachers, instructional coaches, curriculum experts, principals, consultants, and ESC specialists who are contributing their expertise to develop excellent curriculum materials for all of our member districts.
- This summer our team of contractors completed all the specificity associated with the new TEKS. It is now under review by the TEKS Resource System ELAR/SLAR Development Team.
- Districts can expect drafts of all the curriculum components one year prior to implementation in order to provide us with feedback on the new components. Please see below for our timeline:
- Summer 2018- Publish K-8 curriculum components in draft form
- 2018-2019- Conduct ESC focus groups and collect feedback on the K-8 draft curriculum components
- Late Spring 2019- Publish the final K-8 curriculum components that incorporate feedback from ESCs and districts
- Summer 2019- Publish K-8 assessment passages and items; Publish High School curriculum components in draft form
- 2019-2020- K-8 implementation of the new TEKS and curriculum; Conduct ESC focus groups and collect feedback on the High School draft curriculum components
- Late Spring 2020- Publish the final High School curriculum components that incorporate feedback from ESCs and districts
- Summer 2020- Publish High School assessment passages and items
- 2020-2021- High School implementation of the new TEKS and curriculum
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What has this team been working on this summer?
- Reviewed and enhanced Kindergarten and Grade 1 Mathematics and Matemáticas components to include new information from TEA Supporting Information documents for Kindergarten and Grade 1, released April, 2017
- Reviewed and enhanced Grades 3-8, Algebra I Mathematics and Grades 3-5 Matemáticas components for 1st Nine Weeks after analyzing 2017 STAAR released items
- Updated Grades 3-8, Algebra I Mathematics STAAR Blueprint and Item Percentages to include the 2017 STAAR released state item percentages
- Created Grades 3-5 Matemáticas STAAR Blueprint and Item Percentages for 2015-17
- Added approximately 150 items to Grades 2-HS Mathematics Assessment Item Bank, including approximately 45 items to Grades 2-5 Matemáticas Assessment Item Bank
- Added approximately 140 items throughout the school year to Kindergarten-Grade 8, Algebra I, Algebra II Mathematics Formative Spiral Item Bank, including approximately 28 items to Kindergarten-Grade 5 Matemáticas Formative Spiral Item Bank
What will this team be working on this fall?
- Analyze 2017 STAAR released items to update STAAR Analysis documents for Grades 3-8, Algebra I Mathematics and Grades 3-5 Matemáticas to be released late Fall, 2017
- Review and enhance, if necessary, Grades 3-8, Algebra I Mathematics and Grades 3-5 Matemáticas components for 2nd- 4th Nine Weeks after analyzing the 2017 STAAR released items
- Review and enhance Grades 2-8, HS Mathematics and Grades 2-5 Matemáticas components to include new information from TEA Supporting Information documents when posted this fall
- Add Assessment Items throughout the year to Grades 2-HS Mathematics, including Grades 2-5 Matemáticas
- Add Formative Spiral Items throughout the year to Kindergarten-Grade 8, Algebra I, Algebra II Mathematics, including Kindergarten-Grade 5 Matemáticas
- Develop NEW Geometry Formative Spiral Items to be released Summer, 2018
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Science News
2017-2018 Current Science Content
- Grade 3, Grade 7, and IPC courses are new for 2017-2018
- Course Versioning:
- Biology Concept-Based (same as biology 16-17)
- Biology Sequential (draft status removed; fully aligned to assessment)
- IPC Chemistry First
- IPC Physics First
- All K-12 documents have been updated and are currently published, including K-5 Spanish
- Enhanced Overview section of the IFD, added new State Resources, and revised some PAs
- Added over 600 new assessment items for Grades 2-HS to the item bank from 2016-present and ongoing development continues
- 2017 STAAR Analysis will be published this fall and may result in minor specificity revisions. See the Revisions section of the home page.
- Coming soon: K-1 Formative Spiral assessment items - begin publishing this fall with ongoing development
- Continue to be responsive to feedback and revise content as needed
2018-2019 NEW Science Content
- Streamlined Science TEKS Side by Sides can be found in the Resource section of each course or grade level. Consider thinking through streamlining throughout the school year.
- Please see the News & Updates section of our home page to download the Considerations for Streamlining document. Click on NEW! Streamlined Science TEKS Side by Sides (August 9, 2017)
- The language of the streamlined Science TEKS is currently available on the TEA site at the following link: https://goo.gl/czynqW
- September: New 2018 Science TEKS will be entered into TEKS Resource System site and clearly labeled 2018-2019
- Due to streamlining, the following revisions to curriculum and assessment documents will occur:
- Revised YAGs and TVDs (Grade 3, Grade 7, and IPC will be minimal due to 17-18 revision)
- Minor revisions to VADs/TCDs
- Refinement of overarching understandings & questions, unit understandings & questions, sample guiding questions, vocabulary, performance assessments, rubrics, and assessment items
- All 2018-2019 documents will be uploaded as pdfs and temporarily housed in the Resource section of each course or grade level. Please provide feedback through the feedback button.
- September-October: Upload YAGs, TVDs, VADs/TCDs to Resource section
- October-April: Upload IFDs to Resource section
- May: Remove documents from Resource section and publish in the site
- End of May-July: Realign and retag assessment items to match 2018-2019 TEKS,YAGs, and IFDs
- 2018-2019 Course Versioning:
- Biology Systems Macro-Micro
- Biology Systems Micro-Macro
- Biology Sequential
- IPC Chemistry First
- IPC Physics First
NEW HS Science/CTE Course Development
- Anatomy and Physiology - Coming Soon - 2018-2019
- Forensic Science - Coming Soon
- Aquatic Science - Coming Soon - Draft TCD currently in Resource section; please send feedback
- Astronomy - Coming Soon
- Earth Space Science - Coming Soon - Draft TCD currently in Resource section; please send feedback
- All new HS courses for science credit are searchable under High School Courses and Science, including CTE courses
Contract Employment Opportunities
A Look into the Future
- The state's proposed time line is to complete a full review cycle of the Science TEKS in 2019-2020, adopt revised TEKS 2020-2021, and implement revised TEKS in 2022-2023. More information is available on the TEA site at the following link: https://goo.gl/Y3jvB1
- As you go through the next couple of years, please begin thinking about what you would like to keep, delete, or revise. Document your ideas and be prepared to be a voice in the state science community when the time comes in 2019.
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2016-17 Work
Curriculum
- All curriculum is updated and enhanced
- Overviews in some courses have been expanded with greater detail to highlight possible instructional contexts
- Tweaked some Unit Understandings to be more specific to the context and content of the unit (mostly World History and World Cultures)
- We have moved a handful of student expectations around in units to improve alignment to unit understandings.
- Added an Interactive Notebook Resource
Assessment
- All assessment is updated
- Additional items added to fill a few gaps in elementary and geography each six weeks
- Added over 300 items this school year
- All 2016 STAAR Analysis resources completed
- 8th grade and US History TCDs were updated in December to reflect new understandings from analysis
- Redesigned and reorganized our internal team site to improve efficiency
- Expanding capacity for hosting contractors
- Pulled each item and metadata for over 3000 items from our online database in 3L to templates in our SharePoint item bank system
- Introduced a new numbering system and renumbered each item
- Completed an audit of item alignment to unit understandings
Legislative Session
- The naturalization test failed to be added as part of the accountability system
- They did not eliminate the 8th Grade and 11th Grade STAAR after all
2017-18 Work
Streamlining
- TEA and the SBOE are beginning the streamlining process. Details on the entire process can be found at http://bit.ly/2xdypEP
- The revised process for streamlining can be found at http://bit.ly/2vPiY5k
- The new process is quite a bit different than science and includes multiple opportunities for teacher participation. You should join the work. Application for serving on a streamlining committee can be found at http://bit.ly/2gKiq6o. Only 85 have applied so far.
- The new schedule for TEKS revisions and Instructional Materials adoption has been released and can be found at http://bit.ly/2eKtujp. Social Studies will not start a full revision of the TEKS until 2023.
- Part of streamlining includes an opportunity to provide feedback in the form of a survey on individual standards. The elementary survey can be found at http://bit.ly/2eNO5XM while the secondary survey can be found at http://bit.ly/2gLgkTN. Surveys close October 6.
- Stakeholder meetings will occur in October. TEA will be meeting with professional groups to determine how to coordinate input.
- Members for Workgroup A will be notified in November.
- Due to Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts, the meetings for workgroups has been delayed approximately 3 months. The first meetings should be held in January.
- Our team is monitoring the process and will provide periodic updates on progress.
Curriculum
- Most of our curriculum work will be limited to tweaks until the streamlining process is complete. We will then begin any redevelopment necessary depending on the degree of revision done during streamlining.
Assessment
- STAAR Analysis will begin this fall and will roll out prior to the Christmas break.
- We have completed our inaugural item writing contracts. We have approximately 125 new items that are making their way through the review process. We expect those to being going live in the next few weeks.
- We intend to have additional item writing contracts later in the fall. If you are interested in writing, please complete an application at the Region 13 employment website found at http://bit.ly/2gKVjsm.
- We are working on improving Performance Assessment after training with Jay McTighe. These efforts will be folded into our overall redevelopment around streamlining.
- Currently, we have approximately 3610 live items in grades 2-12 with the plan to add several hundred more this year. Currently we have approximately 386 live Performance Assessments across all grades.
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