Region 10 Charter School Academy for Teachers 2026: Full Schedule

10:15am CDT

Goal‑Scoring Feedback: Using Snorkl to Elevate Classroom Play

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Snorkl is a powerful, real‑time feedback tool that helps teachers quickly capture and visualize student thinking. In the classroom, Snorkl supports formative assessment by revealing what students understand—and where they may need more support—before moving on. Teachers can use Snorkl during warm‑ups, checks for understanding, exit tickets, group work reflections, or deeper learning routines. The tool’s real‑time feedback helps educators adjust instruction on the fly, personalize next steps, and facilitate richer class discussions grounded in what students are actually thinking.

Speakers

Darcie Midkiff

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

I have been in education for 35 years. I taught 8th Math for 17 years, then became campus administrator, district administrator and for the last 10 years have served as a Math Curriculum Support Consultant for Region 10.

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT
Room 301

Instructional Strategies, Math

10:15am CDT

Make Thinking A Classroom Routine

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT

Room 303

Limited Capacity seats available

Want to get students thinking deeper and more visibly? Experience a variety of practices designed to make students’ thinking a routine part of the learning process. Spend time exploring the Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolkit to discover additional thinking routines to use in your classroom and develop a plan to embed thinking as a routine part of your class! (Recommended for grades 3-12)

Speakers

Laura Kile

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Laura is a Learning Innovation Consultant at Region 10 Education Service Center. With nineteen years of experience in education, she previously served as a consultant for Region 18 ESC, a technology integration specialist, a campus instructional coach, and a secondary English teacher... Read More →

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT
Room 303

Instructional Strategies

10:15am CDT

Making Fractions Make Sense: A Fraction Progression

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT

Room 204

Limited Capacity seats available

This session explores how purposeful use of manipulatives supports students’ conceptual understanding of fractions. Participants will examine the progression of fraction concepts and connect concrete and visual models to key ideas such as unit fractions, equivalence, and operations. Teachers will leave with a clearer understanding of why manipulatives matter and when to use them to deepen student reasoning.

Speakers

Kendall Veazey

Consultant, Region 10

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT
Room 204

Instructional Strategies, Math

10:15am CDT

RLA Research Based Instructional Practices in Action (Grades 3-12)

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT

Room 201

Limited Capacity seats available

Let's move the ELAR Research-Based Instructional Strategies from theory into real classroom practice. Participants will explore high-impact instructional moves for each of the four RLA RBIS through modeling and classroom examples. Walk away with ready-to-use strategies that strengthen Tier I instruction and accelerate student learning.

Speakers

Chandra Shaw

Consultant, Region 10

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT
Room 201

Instructional Strategies

10:15am CDT

STEM-Focused Writing: Using AI for SCR Prompts

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT

Room 305

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will guide teachers through the Short Constructed Response (SCR) writing process, providing practical strategies for developing TEKS-aligned, grade-level prompts. Participants will explore effective techniques for designing prompts that assess and reveal students’ depth of thinking within the classroom setting.

Speakers

Samantha Bradbury

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Samantha is a highly experienced education professional with a background in biological sciences as well as being certified in STEM teaching . Her twenty-plus-year career includes ten years of teaching high school and over a decade as a Science and STEM Lead and showcases her passion... Read More →

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am CDT
Room 305

Instructional Strategies

11:20am CDT

Make Thinking a Classroom Routine

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 11:20am - 12:15pm CDT

Room 303

Limited Capacity seats available

Want to get students thinking deeper and more visibly? Experience a variety of questions and practices designed to make students’ thinking a routine part of the learning process. Spend time exploring the Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolkit to discover additional thinking routines to use in your classroom and develop a plan to embed thinking as a routine part of your class! (Recommended for grades 3-12)

Speakers

Laura Kile

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Thursday July 23, 2026 11:20am - 12:15pm CDT
Room 303

Instructional Strategies

11:20am CDT

Voracious Vocabulary Instruction K-8

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 11:20am - 12:15pm CDT

Room 201

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is designed to equip educators with the skills and strategies necessary to improve their students' vocabulary acquisition and usage. Participants will learn the latest research-based practices for building vocabulary skills and incorporating them into classroom instruction, as well as exploring practical techniques to engage students in learning activities that will create classrooms full of voracious “vocabularians” who become self-driven, word conscious learners.

Speakers

Chandra Shaw

Consultant, Region 10

Thursday July 23, 2026 11:20am - 12:15pm CDT
Room 201

Instructional Strategies, ELAR

1:20pm CDT

Design Solutions with Design Thinking

LIMITED

Thursday July 23, 2026 1:20pm - 2:15pm CDT

Room 303

Limited Capacity seats available

Design solutions for common classroom roadblocks through the design thinking & problem solving protocol “Solve in Time!” Experience a protocol structure that challenges learners to think critically and engage in meaningful discourse to solve real world problems together, then explore ways to use the protocol with students! (Suggested for K-12)

Speakers

Laura Kile

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Thursday July 23, 2026 1:20pm - 2:15pm CDT
Room 303

Instructional Strategies

9:30am CDT

Discovery Ed Mystery

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 9:30am - 10:25am CDT

Room 205

Limited Capacity seats available

Go on an adventure to learn how Discovery Education can help you and your students.

Speakers

Beth Dolliver

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Friday July 24, 2026 9:30am - 10:25am CDT
Room 205

Instructional Strategies

9:30am CDT

The Right Kind of Challenge: Balancing Conceptual Understanding with Productive Struggle

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 9:30am - 10:25am CDT

Room 206

Limited Capacity seats available

Great math learning happens when students make sense of ideas, not just follow steps. In this session, we’ll connect RBIS 1 (Balance of Conceptual and Procedural) and RBIS 4 (Productive Struggle) to explore how students learn best when they have time to reason, represent, and wrestle with challenging math in K-5th grade - all within a culture that values effort, thinking, and understanding.

Speakers

Julie Hills

Consultant, Region 10 ESC

Julie Hills is a K–12 Math Consultant at Region 10 ESC, where she partners with districts to strengthen mathematics instruction and implement high-quality instructional materials. With nearly two decades in education, Julie supports leaders, coaches, and teachers in aligning curriculum... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 9:30am - 10:25am CDT
Room 206

Instructional Strategies