Kindergarten Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.1 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full kindergarten computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.1 Technology Applications standards span eight strands and 18 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching together products…
1st Grade Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.2 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full 1st grade computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.2 Technology Applications standards span nine strands and 20 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching…
2nd Grade Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.3 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full 2nd grade computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.3 Technology Applications standards span ten strands and 23 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching…
Oklahoma Academic Standards Computer Science vs. CSTA: What the Crosswalk Shows We recently published a unit-by-unit comparison of Texas's Computer Science TEKS against the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards and found that half of Texas's content had no CSTA counterpart at all. Naturally, the next question was: what does the same comparison show for Oklahoma?…
Texas TEKS Computer Science vs. CSTA Standards: What the Crosswalk Actually Shows If you teach computer science in Texas, you've probably seen "aligned to national standards" claims on curriculum materials without much explanation of what that actually means. So we did the comparison for real: every one of the 236 Texas TEKS Computer Science /…
3rd Grade Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.8 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full 3rd grade computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.8 Technology Applications standards span twelve strands and 29 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching…
Free Texas IEP ARD Process Roadmap: Timelines & Parent Rights Texas doesn't run its special education process the way most other states do — and it doesn't even use the same vocabulary. There's no "IEP team," there's an ARD committee (Admission, Review, and Dismissal). There's no generic "evaluation report," there's an FIIE (Full Individual and…
Free Oklahoma IEP Process Roadmap: Timelines, Checklist & Parent Rights Walking into an IEP meeting without knowing the deadlines is one of the fastest ways for a family — or a new case manager — to lose track of what's actually required. Oklahoma is stricter than federal law in several places (a 45-school-day window from…
4th Grade Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.9 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full 4th grade computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.9 Technology Applications standards span twelve strands and 29 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching…
Fundamentals of Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §127.672 Standard, No Prep Teaching a full high school Fundamentals of Computer Science course in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §127.672 standards span six strands and 39 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching…
