TEA+Learning+System+Components

Hi, welcome to this wiki!!! I hope this will be an easier way to work together on our Week 1 assignment.
If you are interested in collaborating online to complete the table just leave your comments and name on this page.

To help us get started, here's the transcript of the lecture on the 6 components of TEA.

Names:
Roger Dreger, Instructional Support Coordinator, Los Angeles Unified School District

Elizabeth A. Pressler, Learning Center Lab Manager, Lamar State College-Orange (in Texas) Here's what I created from participation in three wikis. I'm not sure whom to identify as my collaborators. --Elizabeth

Mo Wong, Chemistry Teacher, Cypress Fairbanks ISD

Meritte Threadgill, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Connally ISD in Waco, TX

Diana Sullivan, Spanish Teacher Intermediate level, Klein ISD

Amanda Flores, 2nd grade teacher, Rio Hondo ISD

Allen Bordelon, Director of Technology, La Vernia ISD

General Comments on assignment:
I am a little vague on what we are supposed to do and how long the summary is supposed to be. I went to the links and saw hundreds of pages with no clear correlation between all the chapters in the document and the 6 components. Am I missing something? What chapters are relevant to the assignment?

I understand the components idea, but what about this "state" vs. "local" stuff? Are we suppose to evaluate the TEA system based on the needs in a specific district? --Elizabeth  It seems to me that the "state" is what the education code, TEKS, etc has mandated. "Desirable Local" seems to be how a specfic district or school site should implement it and "Preliminary Suggestions for Improvement" is what changes we would make to that implementation.

Once again, I feel I am in a place where I have to "pretend" I work at a Texas school and go from there. Can any more collaborators put in what is being at their "local" level? -Roger 

Component and area you want to work on:
I am willing to do any section of the assignment I'm still a bit vague on what to do!!!

Here's what the coach emailed me (Roger) today, Wed 8/26, about part 2 of the assignment:

 * //"Hi Roger,

For Part 2, the sites listed are for you to gather additional information on top of what you learned from the Week 1 Lectures and Part 1 or the assignment. If you are having trouble locating what you are looking for, try other resources to gather your information. Let me know if this makes sense and if you need additional assistance.

Flora"//** What other resources? If there are better resources, why were we directed to the others to begin with? No, I'm sorry. Flora's answer doesn't make any sense to me. Flora hasn't answered my email yet, but if that's all she's got, I suppose I'll have to find better resources and send these to Flora so she will pass them along to others. I'm really not trying to be difficult; it's just that I've already wasted enough energy sending out emails to have already done the assignment if I'd had some good directions in the first place. --Elizabeth

I have just searched for "Texas learning system," "TEA learning system," "TEA learning system componets," and other such terms. None of these turn up any useful information. What other search terms do you think I should be using? --Elizabeth

I (Mo) emailed Flora as well and got the same answer. She did send out a brief example today.  I'm going to start filling in the table, so we can have something... OK, I tried creating the table here, but the boxes were all weird with the text. Here is an attachment.   Thanks for helping out. I really like what Mo's done so far. BTW,I think this assignment is very poorly constructed. In fact the assignments in the program so far do not seem well suited to people that are not currently working at a school in Texas. I find it hard to believe none of the other people taking the class previously have had problems!

How can we do local provisions since we are not working at the same school site? I guess we should "pretend" we are a school district based on Flora's response. "...3. Local provisions refer to the school district or campus (LEA...Local Education Agency is use for school). __**These would be what your district is doing (you and/or the two people you have chosen to collaborate with)**__."

I will do "Administrative Procedures" and "Curriculum Documents" for Min. State Provisions tonight.

One more thought, how will we keep changes and revisions on the document? Should we keep re attaching the document with different names like revision #1, etc?. Has anyone used Google Docs, I think that is for collaborating. I'm open to suggestion.

Thanks again Mo and Elizabeth. I really appreciate this! -Roger

Here is another revision. What I put it repeats some of what is already there, but there are some "local" ideas--what aspects of staff development are left to local schools and districts, which is everything except the PDAS. I'm not talking about a specific school when I say "local;" I mean local as opposed to state. Elizabeth



This looks good so far, but I also know that the textbook adoption is also done on a district level (at least for my subject). A group of individuals meet and evaluate textbooks according to guidelines and rate which ones supply the standards in the most desirable fashion. -Diana Here's some more stuff I put in. I copied it from stuff I put on another wiki. One thing is not mine, though; but since I'm using it (in revised from), it's mine second-hand. It's something I added to staff development. I was looking for some rules regarding staff development, and someone found a reference to these in the TX Ed Code. --Elizabeth <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">I like what everyone has contributed. I added some rough thoughts on Preliminary Suggestions for Improvement for Staff Development. I also expanded what I wrote on Des. Local Prov. for Curriculum Documents.

It might make it easier if we went ahead and noted what part each of us did. That way there could be more cross-collaborating with other people. -Roger



I just filled in all the left over boxes. For the Administrative procedures, I feel that CIP is more for campus rather than state and thought TAC was more appropriate as state provision. -Mo



Even though I joined the group a little late, I hope that it is not too late to contribute to our week 1 assignment. I made a few corrections and changes to the document because I think it is supposed to sound like a group project rather than just input from one person on each section. Let me know what you think about Learning Goals, since that is the section I just worked on. If I misunderstood the assignment in any way or modified something that I was not suppoed to, we can always use the previous document. Thanks for letting me join the group-Amanda.

I continued to edit the file and this is what I have so far. I included more in some of the sections and formatted the font so that the assignment looks like a final project from the group. Again, I hope I didn't make changes that I should not have done, so you can always use the other documents if needed.-Amanda

This is the final file that I edited. I have also decided to post all three of you as my collaborators. I hope nobody minds. I know the assignment only calls for two, but I don't see why I can't put all three of your names on the assignment. Thanks-Amanda