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SBOE approves list of high-quality instructional materials
Dec 6, 2024
In an 8-7 vote, the State Board of Education approved a comprehensive list of K-12 instructional materials during its November meeting in Austin.
New shift emerging in lesson planning: “internalizing” instead of designing
Sep 26, 2022
TCTA is seeing signs of a potentially major shift in the way teachers could be asked to approach lesson planning, and some classroom veterans are…
Community efforts to ban books draw resistance from librarians
Apr 23, 2022
Orchestrated efforts to ban certain books deemed “pornographic” from school libraries across the country are being met with resistance by groups who…
Akash Patel helps students build global connections
Apr 23, 2022
Amid the isolation of the pandemic, Dallas ISD Spanish teacher Akash Patel gave his middle school students something many desperately needed — a…
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