We Lead. We Serve.
URockEdu is the digital team at ESC Region 11. We exist to honor and celebrate the work that teachers do every day!!
Email: mcollins@esc11.net
Website: https://www.esc11.net/diglearn
Location: Education Service Center Region 11, South Cherry Lane, White Settlement, TX, USA
Phone: 817-740-7562
Facebook: facebook.com/Urockeu
Twitter: @URockEdu
Calling All Canvas Experts!
Are you interested in presenting? We encourage you to share your knowledge and expertise with your Region 11 colleagues. Please share your proposal with us here. We will be reviewing proposals shortly and will get back to you no later than mid-May. Plan your session to be 45 minutes long. Visit this site for all of the latest information. If you have any questions, contact Vicki Arrington at varrington@esc11.net.
The URockEdu Team Member Quiz
Over the next few months, we will be spotlighting a different URockEdu team member. To make it fun, we want you to take this quiz and see how well you already know next month's featured team member, Shelly Shaw. The winner will be announced in next month's newsletter, along with all of the answers.
LMS Support and PLNs
We have curated many resources to support educators in the use of Canvas, Google Classroom, and SeeSaw. You will find those resources here.
In the past several weeks, we've held virtual PLN meet-ups for Canvas, Google Classroom, and SeeSaw. We had incredible sharing and learning, and we're looking forward to many more.
Whether you're just learning to use one of these learning management systems or you're an expert, please join us for our next virtual meet-ups. Check here for future meetings.
URockEdu Recorded Zoom Sessions
During the first several weeks of the closing of schools, the URockEdu team held a variety of webinars to support Region 11 educators in their transition to the online learning environment. We recorded some of those webinars and have posted them here for your continued learning journey.
Planning for the Win with Blended Learning Academy
As our thinking about how education needs to look in the here and now across North Texas, we will invariably being to transition into a mindset about the fall of 2020. So many teachers and students have been forced to rethink how and when they interact. Please look over our Blended Learning resources here, and reach out to either Charles Cooper or Shelly Shaw at ESC Region 11 with your questions. We'd love to help you plan, think through planning, or support your planning to win back the fall of 2020.
Summer Project-Based Learning Academy Goes Virtual!
That's right! We are excited to announce that our May PBL Academy will take a blended approach with Zoom webinars and Canvas facilitated modules. For more information on our PBL Academy, PBL 2.0 Sessions (for those already implementing PBL) and PBL for Administrators, please click here.
Beyond the Buzzword Blog
Read Charles' and Shelly's latest blog post: Making Lemonade out of Lemons.
BrightBytes NEW Remote Learning Survey
BrightBytes understands that you are guiding your staff, students, and communities through unprecedented times. To help, they've partnered with ISTE to develop a free remote-learning survey specifically designed to help districts understand how well students, teachers, principals, and parents are handling the transition to remote learning. They've provided this FAQ document. To get started with this survey, contact Texas Client Thought Partner Stormy Cullum at scullum@brightbytes.net or 936-520-9802.
What?! Thrively is Free through June 30!
Thrively is a digital platform that allows teachers, parents, and students to discover students' unique strengths, interests, and aspirations to build the skills they need for success in the K-12 classroom and beyond. They offer online SEL lessons that you can assign to your students to complete independently. Use the promo code BREATHE20 to try Thrively out today.
