New TEKS Overview: Interconnected Strands

Monday and Tuesday, I worked with a dedicated group of teachers and leaders at Childress ISD. Yes. These teachers came for staff development on the last week of school. Why? Because they want time to think about and plan their curriculum and textbook selection processes. Brilliant.

As we worked through the documents, I came away with a deeper understanding of the design and interconnectedness of the standards - even though I have been working with variations of the document for several years now. 

Here are two videos that describe my new learning. Thank you to Victoria Young and Jennifer Wilkerson who led CREST (Coalition of Reading and English Supervisors of Texas) in understanding the structure of the TEKS and how we can go about reading them to begin our curriculum planning.

Video One: TEKS Strands and Substrands

Video Two: Interconnectedness Across Strands within a grade level.