8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Staff

Ready to share your expertise with your colleagues but not sure how to begin? Transitioning from teaching students to leading professional development for peers can be daunting. In this interactive session, we will tackle "presenter anxiety" head-on by bridging the gap between classroom instruction and adult facilitation. Best of all, you will walk away with a ready-to-use outline template to confidently design and deliver your own engaging sessions. Come with your expertise, and leave with the tools to share it!

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Staff

 Elevate your presentation skills by mastering advanced facilitation and designing professional learning for measurable impact. This course deepens your understanding of adult learning dynamics and accountability. You will practice managing challenging group behaviors, calibrating effective PD evaluation, and designing actionable follow-up to ensure learning translates directly into practice.

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Staff

Ready to share your expertise with your colleagues but not sure how to begin? Transitioning from teaching students to leading professional development for peers can be daunting. In this interactive session, we will tackle "presenter anxiety" head-on by bridging the gap between classroom instruction and adult facilitation. Best of all, you will walk away with a ready-to-use outline template to confidently design and deliver your own engaging sessions. Come with your expertise, and leave with the tools to share it!

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Staff

Elevate your presentation skills by mastering advanced facilitation and designing professional learning for measurable impact. This course deepens your understanding of adult learning dynamics and accountability. You will practice managing challenging group behaviors, calibrating effective PD evaluation, and designing actionable follow-up to ensure learning translates directly into practice.

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Teachers Pre-K to 5th grade

Description: In this session, participants (teachers Pre-K to 5th grade) will learn how to establish a structured classroom environment that promotes high behavioral expectations. The session will emphasize the development of clear, positively stated expectations centered on safe, respectful, and responsible behaviors, along with the implementation of an effective behavior management system that prioritizes positive reinforcement and mutual respect agreements.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Audience: All Teachers Pre-K to 5th grade

Description: In this session, participants (teachers Pre-K to 5th grade) will learn how to create a positive classroom community through the use of Community Building Circles. The session will focus on establishing clear expectations for circles, effectively utilizing a talking piece, identifying appropriate times to implement circles, and developing questions that foster positive relationships between students and teachers.

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Audience: Any Teacher K-12 

Backwards design is a planning approach that begins with the end in mind—identifying the desired learning outcomes first, then determining how students will demonstrate mastery, and finally designing instruction to support that learning. In this summer session, K-12 teachers will explore how to disaggregate TEKS to clarify the depth and intent of the standards, increase the level of questioning to promote deeper thinking, and align standards, assessments, and daily instruction to create purposeful, high-quality, and rigorous learning experiences that drive student success.

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Audience: Any Teacher K-12 

Backwards design is a planning approach that begins with the end in mind—identifying the desired learning outcomes first, then determining how students will demonstrate mastery, and finally designing instruction to support that learning. In this summer session, K-12 teachers will explore how to disaggregate TEKS to clarify the depth and intent of the standards, increase the level of questioning to promote deeper thinking, and align standards, assessments, and daily instruction to create purposeful, high-quality, and rigorous learning experiences that drive student success.

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Audience: All Teachers Pre-K to 5th grade

Description: In this session, participants (teachers Pre-K to 5th grade) will learn how to establish a structured classroom environment that promotes high behavioral expectations. The session will emphasize the development of clear, positively stated expectations centered on safe, respectful, and responsible behaviors, along with the implementation of an effective behavior management system that prioritizes positive reinforcement and mutual respect agreements.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Audience: All Teachers Pre-K to 5th grade

Description: In this session, participants (teachers Pre-K to 5th grade) will learn how to create a positive classroom community through the use of Community Building Circles. The session will focus on establishing clear expectations for circles, effectively utilizing a talking piece, identifying appropriate times to implement circles, and developing questions that foster positive relationships between students and teachers.

2026-2027 School Year (Due Aug. 3rd 2026)

Beginning in Summer 2026, TEA is requiring Civics Academy for elementary principals and teachers. One principal & teacher from each campus must attend during Summer 2026. Chosen teachers have already been identified for each campus. Only sign up for this session if you are attending Civics Academy after May 22 and are declining the stipend for attending.