With Plan4Learning, the goals in your District Plan will become a reality. Campus and District Improvement Plans are the structures that define your goals, and Plan4Learning guides you along your path.

Everyone remembers their favorite teacher. Whether it was through a kind smile, an inspiring word of encouragement, or a gentle push in the right direction, they had the power to help you reach your potential.

Our goal, at 806 Technologies, Inc. is to be like that favorite teacher and provide the power to help schools reach their potential. We believe all educators deserve the best tools available to help students achieve success.

Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test --- Second Edition

NNAT2 uses progressive matrices to allow for a culturally neutral evaluation of students’ nonverbal reasoning and general problem-solving ability, regardless of the individual student’s primary language, education, culture or socioeconomic background.

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Get Connected.
Get Results.

McGraw-Hill Connect is a digital teaching and learning environment that saves students and instructors time while improving performance over a variety of critical outcomes.

Real science means inquiry-based, hands-on investigation.

Stemscopes

Born in teacher professional development labs at Rice University, STEMscopes K-12 is no stranger to teachers’ needs. STEMscopes K-12 creates a student-centric blended STEM learning environment where teachers are able to teach, intervene, and accelerate their diverse students.

Combining digital resources, supplemental print, and hands-on kits, STEMscopes K-12 adapts to your teaching style while increasing engagement, rigor, and student achievement. With a vast research backbone, extensive and continuous teacher input, and a 24/7 professional development portal, STEMscopes K-12 sets itself apart from other publishers—it is truly a product made by teachers, for teachers.

Dash is a real robot, charged and ready to play out of the box. Responding to voice, navigating objects, dancing, and singing, Dash is the robot you always dreamed of having. Use Wonder, Blockly, and other apps to create new behaviors for Dash — doing more with robotics than ever possible. No books or camps needed!

Personalized Practice

College Board and Khan Academy

Official SAT Practice helps students focus on exactly what they need to work on most. There are two ways to get personalized practice: Students can link their College Board and Khan Academy accounts to send their scores from the PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, PSAT 8/9, or SAT; or, if students don't have scores to share, they can take diagnostic quizzes.

Istation at Home Download for Windows PC http://istation.com/downloads/setupIstation.exe

Download for Apple Mac Computer http://istation.com/downloads/Istation.dmg

Link for Android Device https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kglanclfgliekimcflbfmcjohpikhchb

Educators, students, and parents can all extend learning beyond the traditional school day.

With Istation Home, students pick up right where they left off at school and can continue on their individualized learning paths at home.

With the Assignments feature, teachers can assign homework and additional lessons for individual students, small groups, and the whole class! If students want to rework a specific lesson, iPractice empowers them with the option to revisit the lessons that they enjoy the most. Finally, parents and guardians can use the Parent Portal to monitor performance and get involved with instruction at home.

Thorough, relevant reports are available online 24 hours a day for teachers, administrators, and parents.

Video Conference Resources

Region 5 ESC Video Help Desk

409-951-1850

Shane Freeman

DL Specialist

Videoconference DL cart Request Form

***For the larger DL Carts (Polycom, Tandberg, etc...)****   

Videoconference Mobile/Desktop Request Form

***For PC, Laptop, and Tablet***

Request to View a Recorded TETN

Connect 2 Texas Calendar

***Calendar of Video Conferences*** 

Achieve 3000

For more than a decade, Achieve3000® has supported the individuality and potential of every student by reaching them where they are to help them reach higher levels of reading and writing proficiency.

Our fundamental belief is that literacy unlocks achievement, and that the key to improving literacy is differentiated instruction. Today, Achieve3000 is the leader in differentiated online instruction, serving more than one million students across the United States. In 2011, Inc. magazine included Achieve3000 on its annual 500/5000 list for the fifth consecutive year, the exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest growing private companies.

Achieve provides the only web-based, differentiated instruction solutions designed to reach a school's entire student population — mainstream, English Language Learners, special needs, and gifted. In addition to KidBiz3000®,TeenBiz3000®, Empower3000™ and other literacy solutions, Achieve launched its first differentiated core curriculum solution, eScience3000® in 2011.

Discover more about what makes Achieve3000 the leading force in differentiated learning solutions by clicking through the “About Us” items to the left.

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Classroom Books & Materials

• Overview
• Catalogs
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Getting started with Destiny Library Manager

Destiny brings all your library automation together on one server: circulation, cataloging, searching, and reporting. It is completely browser-based — providing access to your library from virtually anywhere.

This document guides you through accessing Destiny and performing the initial setup tasks. It includes the following sections:

Opening Destiny

Bookmarking Destiny

Logging in to Destiny

Changing your password

About browser settings and navigation

Building your database

If you are converting from Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus

If you are importing your patron and title records

Setting up your site

Setting up your calendar

Setting up your loan policies

If you converted from Circulation Plus-Catalog Plus

If you imported your records

Destiny’s default loan policies

Understanding access levels

What’s next?

If you need installation instructions, see "Installing Destiny" in the documentation provided with your Destiny installation CD. For help converting your database from Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus, see Converting to Destiny Library Manager.

http://texquest.net/welcome

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 appropiations 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 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.

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Follett Library Resources is an authorized reseller of Renaissance Learning products. The Renaissance school improvement process is a combination of research-based software and teaching strategies which supercharge your existing curriculum and instructional programs. Here’s a list of the Renaissance Learning products you can order from Follett!

Renaissance Place enables schools and districts to centralize all the information from Renaissance products into a single accessible database, allowing for consolidated school- and district-wide reporting, improved ease of use, and enhanced service and support. Renaissance Place will allow schools and districts to more easily implement Renaissance programs and significantly improve information accessibility for teachers, librarians, principals, parents, and district personnel while providing significant cost benefits.

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Pearson Testing Online

Microsoft Office 365 provides users with the basic productivity applications necessary to get work done in the modern enterprise. It includes applications like Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, and OneDrive, just to name a few

Office 365 Login 

On Data Suite Login

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School Technology and Readiness Chart

The Texas School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart gauged progress in meeting the recommendations in the Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020 (LRPT). The legacy STaR Chart reporting system is closed. The STaR Chart reporting instruments remain available in PDF and/or Word formats for districts who would like to continue using it for local technology measurement or to create local forms.

TeachingBook.net

We are a small, dedicated team working to enrich every student’s reading experience.

More Learning. Better Outcomes.Digital curriculum designed to actively engage

students in learning combining 

embedded supports and scaffolds to meet diverse student needs, actionable

data to inform instruction, and success management, to ensure you get the

outcomes you're expecting. 

ProQuest is committed to empowering researchers and librarians around the world. Our portfolio of assets -- including content, technologies and deep expertise -- drives better research outcomes for users and greater efficiency for the libraries and organizations that serve them.

Access your TexQuest resources from Britannica Digital Learning!

EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For over 70 years, we’ve partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.

For more than 80 years, Lifetouch has been the professional photography company of choice for schools and families. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN., the enterprise is organized around four primary business units operating in local communities across North America.

Built on the tradition of “Picture Day”, Lifetouch captures smiling faces from preschool through high school graduation, as well as sports, special events, seniors and yearbooks; and also serves customers in JCPenney Portrait Studios and Church communities.

Lifetouch is also proud to be a part of the Shutterfly family of brands.

Esri was founded to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. We do so by supporting our users’ important work with a commitment to science, sustainability, community, education,

research, and positive change.

Imagine Math

Grade 3 to 8, Algebra 1, and Geometry

Personalized learning driven by the Quantile® Framework

Supports and scaffolds for English language learners

On-demand tutoring by certified math teachers

Productive struggle with Proactive Intervention

Motivation system that develops confident thinkers

Curiously Fun

Your students will BEG to use Education Galaxy! We motivate through reward and recognition to keep students focused while never distracting from the learning process.

Amazingly Effective

Help your students succeed! Schools that integrated our solutions into their classrooms, averaged a 6-point increase in student performance on state test.

Highly Affordable

We pride ourselves on offering the most effective and affordable solution available! Request a quote for your campus. You will be amazed at the value Education Galaxy provides!

Our Mission

Waterford.org seeks to blend the best aspects of learning science, mentoring relationships, and innovative technologies to form community, school, and home programs that deliver excellence and equity for all learners.