Audience: All K-12 Educators and District/Campus Leadership, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will examine CSCOPE in relation to STAAR, unit assessments, mastery of TEKS, rigor, levels of questioning, benchmarking, and other relevant topics including formative and summative assessment.
Curriculum Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators and District/Campus Leadership, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will center around the CSCOPE curriculum in terms of best practice usage of the major curriculum documents: Vertical Alignment Document (VAD), Year-at-a-Glance (YAG), Instructional Focus Document (IFD), and TEKS Verification Document.
Instruction Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators and District/Campus Leaders, Curriculum Coaches
Focus: This strand will focus on best practice instructional strategies and techniques for effective and engaging instruction, including the 5E Model. Major topics will include Performance Indicators, Exemplar Lessons, and Enhanced Instructional Transition Documents for Math (EITG's). All core content areas will be highlighted.
Technology Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators and District/Campus Leaders, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will focus on the usage of technology in effective, TEKS-aligned instructional delivery. Web 2.0 Tools, interactive whiteboards, student response systems, data analysis tools, the CSCOPE Lesson Planner, and many other technology-related topics will be featured. Sessions will include information from 3rd Learning, the new CSCOPE website developer.
Leadership Strand
Audience: District and Campus Leadership, Curriculum Coaches, Lead Teachers, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will focus on CSCOPE topics for campus and district leadership, including curriculum coaches. The effective use of the Professional Learning Community, administrator tools, networking, troubleshooting, and the sharing of "what's working" will be highlighted, along with Q and A with the CSCOPE team and website developers.
Special Populations Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators and District/Campus Leaders, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will focus on the needs of special student populations-Special Education, English Language Learners, and Gifted and Talented students. Topics will include differentiated instruction, English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), and accelerated learning / enrichment.
Co-Curricular Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators of non-core (co-curricular) subjects, District/Campus Leadership, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons
Focus: This strand will focus on the non-core subjects, and how teachers and their students can utilize CSCOPE in the non-core classes. This strand will highlight the need for the whole faculty to be a part of CSCOPE and STAAR success, including TEKS mastery, rigorous instruction, and engaging content delivery.
Discovery Strand
Audience: All K-12 Educators, District/Campus Leadership, Curriculum Coaches, Parent Advocates/Liaisons, and anyone interested in finding out what CSCOPE is all about.
Focus: This strand will feature sessions appropriate for those needing CSCOPE 101 basics or re-training. Any educator who would like to find out about the CSCOPE process will benefit from the sessions in this strand.
What is CSCOPE?
ESC-R19 is one of nineteen service centers participating in the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative called CSCOPE. CSCOPE is a curriculum support system that is fully aligned to the TEKS and designed to provide a common language, process and structure for curriculum development. Groups of ESC professionals and content specialists have collaboratively clarified the TEKS so that instructional delivery is more focused to ensure success for all students. CSCOPE has:
Created a curriculum based on the best of research and practice
Clarified the TEKS by adding specificity
Aligned the TEKS from a 12-K perspective
Created a suggested scope and sequence to ensure that all TEKS are taught in the course of a school year
Created lessons fully aligned to the TEKS with the rigor necessary for mastery
ESC-Region 19 is pleased to announce our first annual CSCOPE Regional Conference. Educators from all over the region will explore CSCOPE through the lens of "Moving Forward," gaining practical ideas about how to take CSCOPE to an entirely new level of success! This conference features strands and sessions appropriate for all educators K-12, whether already CSCOPE users or those who simply want to discover what CSCOPE is all about!
Featured Speaker
Michael Horning Jr., M.Ed.
Michael Horning, Jr., co-founder and President of 3rd Learning, has worked for over fifteen years as an educator at many academic levels and settings. Mr. Horning has served as a middle school social studies teacher, museum educator, instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor, leading multiple practical experiences in utilizing technologies in the classroom with various instructional approaches. His keynote address will inspire you to keep moving forward to new levels of success with CSCOPE!
Conference Description
The focus of this first annual CSCOPE Regional Conference is to explore CSCOPE through the lens of “Moving Forward,” allowing all K-12 educators to reach a new level of success with CSCOPE. Whether you are new to CSCOPE or have used it for some time, there is valuable information to be gained by all stakeholders in our community of educators. During the two-day conference, participants will be able to choose from over 50 breakout sessions organized into eight strands:
ESC-Region 19 is pleased to announce our first annual CSCOPE Regional Conference. Educators from all over the region will explore CSCOPE through the lens of "Moving Forward," gaining practical ideas about how to take CSCOPE to an entirely new level of success! This conference features strands and sessions appropriate for all educators K-12, whether already CSCOPE users or those who simply want to discover what CSCOPE is all about!
