Early Childhood Spring Newsletter
ESC Region 11
Region 11 Early Childhood
Upcoming Events
Early Childhood Education Networking Meeting
9:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
Are you an Early Childhood leader in a school district or charter school looking for an opportunity to network with others in a similar position? Come join us for a time of information, networking, and sharing ideas about High-Quality Early Childhood Education. ESC Region 11 staff will provide Early Childhood updates from TEA and share future early-learning opportunities.
Upcoming Trainings
Increasing Parent Involvement in Early Intervention: Using the Matrix Approach and Coaching Strategies with Sensory-Impaired Children (Ages 0-3) and Their Families
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Children with sensory impairments, including deafness, visual impairment, and deafblindness, benefit greatly from an early intervention approach that supports family engagement and incorporates research-based early intervention strategies. The Matrix Approach, a new and exciting method designed for use with families, has proven to be successful in helping practitioners integrate parent involvement and coaching strategies into their sessions. It has been developed for use with children with sensory impairments and refined to align with recommendations from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Early Childhood. Workshop participants will receive instruction on the Matrix Approach, including opportunities to apply the approach in practice through coaching. This workshop is being offered face-to-face at ESC Region 11 and via livestreaming.
ELAR TEKS Overview for Teachers, K-4
8:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Participants will closely read and deconstruct the revised ELAR TEKS for implementation. Participants will review the current and revised TEKS and thoroughly analyze the verbs and potential outcomes. There will be a chance to practice with each strand in order to fully understand what students are asked to know and do with an emphasis on vertical alignment in grade-level bands.
Creating Learning Environments for PreK, K, and PPCD Settings: EC-PBIS Tier 1
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
What's in this for you as a teacher? For you (the PreK, K, and PPCD teacher) it is:
- 6 positive messages to build a classroom culture
- 5 elements to a well-managed class meeting
- 4 layers of teaching and learning
- 2 days of engagement, strategies, and reflection.
Why commit two days? Here is what veteran kindergarten teachers have said:
"This training is phenomenal!"
"This session has incredible energy and organization."
"It uses developmentally appropriate practices to understand behaviors."
The materials fee covers the costs of classroom consumables distributed during the session.
Deepening Independence in Readers and Writers Workshop: Engaging and Purposeful Student-Centered Experiences
8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Are you concerned that your students are not participating in meaningful learning experiences while you are pulling small groups or conferring? Do you want to cut back on worksheets and provide your students with more engaging work while they are working independently? This session will include instructional ideas that will deepen independence in reading and writing. It will include student-centered experiences for independent work, partner work, and small-group learning. Classroom routines, instruction, and assessment will be shared with classroom examples.
Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle: School Edition
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Education Service Center Region 11 presents a day of learning dedicated to assisting educators who work with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The program will be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The goal of the program is to provide educators, direct service personnel, and campus leadership with strategies, resources, tools, and evidence-based practices in the education and service of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Topics will include: visual structure, behavior strategies, academic strategies, executive functioning, assistive technology, social skill strategies, communication strategies, etc.
Prekindergarten Guidelines - Starting Off Right! (Two-Day Training)
8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
High-quality, early-learning experiences provide a great start for success for prekindergarten students! Come investigate the best practices and current research laid out in the Prekindergarten Guidelines and learn how to implement them in your classroom to support diverse learners and promote school readiness. This two-day session will provide an interactive overview of the introduction and 10 domains outlined in the Prekindergarten Guidelines: Social and Emotional Development, Language and Communication, Emergent Literacy - Reading, Emergent Literacy - Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Physical Development, and Technology. Let's start these young minds off right!
Effective Early Childhood Instruction for Young ELs
8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
This course will provide teachers and administrators a better understanding of how to design early childhood instruction to meet the needs of young English learners' (ELs) language development and examine the critical areas of academic success.
What to Do When the Kids Just Don't Get It
8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
In this class, teachers will take a deep dive into guided reading. The focus will be on assessing comprehension, selecting texts that are meaningful to students, and planning small-group lessons that teach comprehension and so much more. Attendees will leave with hands-on experience and practical ideas to improve their guided-reading lessons.