TexQuest News

Goodbye 2020, HELLO 2021!

The TexQuest Support Center hopes everyone's year is off to a great start. As we embark on a new year, we look forward to the many opportunities we will have in assisting students and educators across the great state of Texas. What goals do you have? We want everyone across the state to know how amazing TexQuest digital resources are and how well they connect to curriculum.


Author Resources Visit TeachingBooks and take a peek at their list titled "Black Experiences: Affirmation and Resilience, Activism and Resistance in 45 Books for PreK-Grade 12," sponsored by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC). This extensive resource list contains books by famous authors such as Jason Reynolds, Kwame Alexander, Jacqueline Woodson, and more. Share this list with students, teachers, parents, ANYONE! Beautiful and inspiring books are meant to be shared.	Biographies, Articles, and Lessons Gale has so many resources; where to begin? How about starting with a webinar about Black History Month resources within Gale! Don't have time to watch a webinar? How about a pre-made project sheet you can easily share with students? Find those here.	Multi-Level Texts Need the same article in more than one reading level? Most Britannica articles are available in elementary, middle, and high school levels. Students can toggle between levels, translate, use the text-to-speech feature, save to their Google Drive, and more. Share this folder that contains biographies of the out of this world Hidden Figures mathematicians with your students and staff.

Author Resources

Visit TeachingBooks and take a peek at their list titled "Black Experiences: Affirmation and Resilience, Activism and Resistance in 45 Books for PreK-Grade 12," sponsored by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC).

This extensive resource list contains books by famous authors such as Jason Reynolds, Kwame Alexander, Jacqueline Woodson, and more. Share this list with students, teachers, parents, ANYONE! Beautiful and inspiring books are meant to be shared.

Biographies, Articles, and Lessons

Gale has so many resources; where to begin? How about starting with a webinar about Black History Month resources within Gale! Don't have time to watch a webinar? How about a pre-made project sheet you can easily share with students? Find those here.

Multi-Level Texts

Need the same article in more than one reading level? Most Britannica articles are available in elementary, middle, and high school levels. Students can toggle between levels, translate, use the text-to-speech feature, save to their Google Drive, and more.

Share this folder that contains biographies of the out of this world Hidden Figures mathematicians with your students and staff.


eBooks! EBSCO eBooks are easily shared with students, teachers, and parents. Simply find a book or list of books you would like to share, click on the Permalink option, copy, and SHARE! All EBSCO eBooks are available simultaneously with no limit! Every student in your class can access the same book at the same time. Check out this great list of Black History books!	Biographies Students can easily navigate the available biographies in ProQuest SIRS Discoverer. Up-to-date articles are available in each biography with an easy-to-follow time line documenting important events in a person's life. Visit this biography of Mae Jemison and find out for yourself how truly easy the articles are to read.	Videos, Speeches, Audiobooks (to name a few) Learn360 has added several Black History Month topics to the sliders on their landing page. Visit their page to view the wide variety of topics available from the marches for peace in Selma to Maya Angelou. With the new quiz feature Learn360 has added, you can have students watch an entire video or segment, then complete a quiz you have added to check for understanding.

eBooks!

EBSCO eBooks are easily shared with students, teachers, and parents. Simply find a book or list of books you would like to share, click on the Permalink option, copy, and SHARE! All EBSCO eBooks are available simultaneously with no limit! Every student in your class can access the same book at the same time.

Check out this great list of Black History books!

Biographies

Students can easily navigate the available biographies in ProQuest SIRS Discoverer. Up-to-date articles are available in each biography with an easy-to-follow time line documenting important events in a person's life. Visit this biography of Mae Jemison and find out for yourself how truly easy the articles are to read.

Videos, Speeches, Audiobooks (to name a few)

Learn360 has added several Black History Month topics to the sliders on their landing page. Visit their page to view the wide variety of topics available from the marches for peace in Selma to Maya Angelou.

With the new quiz feature Learn360 has added, you can have students watch an entire video or segment, then complete a quiz you have added to check for understanding.

Updates from Our Providers

Our providers are continuously striving to improve their product. Here are a few updates:

EBSCO has launched an eBooks app available now for iOS devices; Android coming soon.
TeachingBooks has recently added Two-Minute Takeaways, a collection of short videos featuring how to use TeachingBooks resources.
Learn360 has recently added a quiz feature available in free educator accounts. To learn more, visit this Learn360 Support Page.
Britannica School Insights, the new extension for K-12 schools, enables students and teachers to cut through the noise on the internet and get trusted and verified information at the top-right corner of their search results page. More information can be found on Britannica's Provider Support page!

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In TexQuest, There's Something for EVERYONE!

Ever get overwhelmed looking through all of the TexQuest resources? With so many choices it's easy to become confused of who has what! Well, look no further than our Resource Guide! The Resource Guide lists what each resource contains and the specific features found within said resource. It's a great tool for teachers, librarians, students, and parents. Download one today and make it your own.

View all of our Resource Guides at https://texquest.net/welcome/programmaterials.

Upcoming TexQuest Training Opportunities

Is building your TexQuest knowledge one of your goals? We have several FREE upcoming training opportunities for all TexQuest participants.

Deep Dive into Britannica School for Elementary K-5, February 11, 2021, 2-hour session
Get TexQuest Out of the Library and Into the Classroom, February 16, 2021, 3-hour session
eBooks and Classroom Resources from TexQuest, February 17, 2021, 3-hour session
Let’s Have a Conversation about CCR (EBSCO), February 17, 2021, 2-hour session
Accommodate All Students with TexQuest, February 18, 2021, 3-hour session
Get TexQuest Out of the Library and Into the Classroom, February 23, 2021, 3-hour session
TexQuest and Digital Tools, February 24, 2021, 3-hour session
Tips, Tricks, and Treasures: How to Share TexQuest Digital Resources, February 25, 2021, 6-hour session
Accommodate ALL Students with TexQuest, March 2, 2021, 3-hour session
Let's Have a Conversation about CCR (EBSCO), March 2, 2021, 2-hour session
Deep Dive into Britannica School for Elementary K-5, March 3, 2021, 2-hour session
Connect to Curriculum: TexQuest Digital Resources for Your Classroom, March 4, 2021, 3-hour session
Engage and Excite Readers with TeachingBooks-Elementary, March 23, 2021, 2-hour session
Engage and Excite Readers with TeachingBooks-Secondary, March 23, 2021, 2-hour session
Let's Have a Conversation About CCR (EBSCO), March 24, 2021, 2-hour session
TexQuest + Digital Tools: Powerful Projects and Assessments, March 25, 2021, 3-hour session
Let's Have a Conversation About CCR (EBSCO), March 30, 2021, 2-hour session
Ramp Up Student Learning with Learn360, March 30, 2021, 2-hour session
Get TexQuest Out of the Library and Into the Classroom, 3/30/2021, 3-hour session
Let's Have a Conversation About CCR (EBSCO), March 31, 2021, 2-hour session

This is just the tip of the iceberg! We have more sessions scheduled through the end of July. For more sessions, visit the Training Calendar: https://texquest.net/welcome/trainingcalendar

February is Library Lover's Month

Do you remember when you first fell in love with libraries? I do! My third grade teacher, Mrs. Carreon, read Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls right after lunch. She would read for 20 minutes then stop when the timer went off leaving us all eager to hear more the next day. It was the highlight of my day and I remember feeling lost when we finished the book. I wasn't ready to let go of the characters I fell in love with just yet!

Mrs. Carreon took me to the library and introduced me to Ramona the Pest, The Boxcar Children, Little House on the Prairie, and Superfudge. I found new characters to love! Our school librarian let me switch out the books regularly and thus began my love of libraries!

Visit TeachingBooks for some favorite stories about libraries and librarians.

-Norma M. Gutierrez, TexQuest Support Center

Don't Forget!

We have professionally made bookmarks and flyers you can download and make your own. Visit texquest.net to view all of them. These flyers and bookmarks can be shared with students, teachers, and parents. Download one or two, or all of them!

TexQuest Program

TexQuest is a statewide digital resources program that provides anytime, anywhere access to high quality, authoritative digital resources to all educators, students, and students' immediate families in Texas K-12 public schools and open enrollment charter schools. Supported, in part, by appropriations from the Texas State Legislature, Texas districts pay a small per student participation fee to gain access to TexQuest resources from the providers listed on this page.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission administers all aspects of the TexQuest program and is responsible for the selection and coordination of all TexQuest resources, as well as district invoicing.

Education Service Center, Region 20 serves as the TexQuest Support Center and is responsible for help desk, technical assistance, outreach, communication, and training to support the program.

TexQuest Support Center

Feel free to contact us with ANY TexQuest related question. We are more than happy to help!

1314 Hines, San Antonio, TX, USA texquest@esc20.info (844) 719-1501 texquest.net

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Norma Gutierrez

TexQuest News

Winter 2021

TexQuest News

Winter 2021

Goodbye 2020, HELLO 2021!

Author Resources

Biographies, Articles, and Lessons

Multi-Level Texts

Author Resources

Biographies, Articles, and Lessons

Multi-Level Texts

eBooks!

Biographies

Videos, Speeches, Audiobooks (to name a few)

eBooks!

Biographies

Videos, Speeches, Audiobooks (to name a few)

Updates from Our Providers

In TexQuest, There's Something for EVERYONE!

Upcoming TexQuest Training Opportunities

February is Library Lover's Month

Don't Forget!

TexQuest Program

TexQuest Support Center

Connect with Norma Gutierrez

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