AchieveTexas
AchieveTexas is a system designed to help students (and their parents) make wise education choices. It is based on the belief that the curricula of the 21st century should combine rigorous academics with relevant career education. When schools integrate academic and technical education, students can see the “usefulness” of what they are learning. The system also facilitates a seamless transition from secondary to postsecondary opportunities.
Advanced Technical Credit Program
The Advanced Technical Credit (ATC) Program allows high school students to receive credit at participating community colleges across Texas for taking certain enhanced technical courses. The ATC Program does this by creating statewide articulated courses - these are special high school courses that can transfer to community colleges.
America's Career Resource Network (ACRN)
America's Career Resource Network (ACRN) consists of state and federal organizations that provide information, resources and training on career and education exploration. The network is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and operates in every state and territory.
Career Clusters
Career Clusters identify pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace, so students can learn in school and what they can do in the future. This connection to future goals motivates students to work harder and enroll in more rigorous courses.
Career & Technology Association of Texas
The Career & Technology Association of Texas, on behalf of career and technical educators in Texas, promotes quality instructional partnerships with business and industry to successfully prepare every student for the challenges of postsecondary education, a globally competitive workplace and active citizenship.
College Tech-Prep of Texas
Tech-Prep is a way to start a college technical major in high school. In a Tech-Prep program, you begin your course of study in high school and continue in a community or technical college. The result is a certificate or associate degree in a career field.
Criminal Justice Today, 7th Edition
CSCOPE – CSCOPE is aCurriculum Collaborative coordinated through Region I and which is comprised of 20 regional partners which provides stakeholders with quality curriculum.
CATEMA -
The CATEMA™ system is an online student registration and tracking program.
Career and Technology, Tech-Prep, or any other educational programs can track
their schools, teachers, students, courses, and credits.
CTE Industry Certifications
This site has been prepared as a resource for educators and parents by the staff of the Career and Technology Education Unit of the Texas Education Agency. Agency staff will endeavor to keep this link current with the help of Career and Technology Directors from school districts throughout the state and representatives from business and industry.
Cosmotology Department at Nixon high School
Court Tv Crime Library
The Crime Library is a rapidly growing collection of more than over 600 nonfiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. The stories focus mostly on recent crimes, but an expanding collection also delves into historically notorious characters, dating back to the 1400s and spanning the globe.
The Crime Library is a source of entertainment and education for millions of readers throughout the world, and it serves as an important resource for students researching current and historical subjects and for producers of television documentaries and book authors.
Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences
The mission of The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences is to produce and disseminate instructional materials that support family and consumer sciences and career orientation programs and to provide related pre-service and in-service professional development to educators and administrators within those program areas.
Duke University School of Law
Duke Law School was established as a graduate and professional school in 1930. Its mission is to prepare students for responsible and productive lives in the legal profession. As a community of scholars, the Law School also provides leadership at the national and international levels in efforts to improve the law and legal institutions through teaching, research and other forms of public service.
eChalk - eChalk’s Online Learning Environment is a comprehensive technology solution that provides each and every member of the Pre K-12 community with the information, tools, and resources they need to succeed.
Instructional Materials Service (IMS)
Instructional Materials Service (IMS) is a service unit of the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Services performed by IMS staffers include curriculum and special project development, in cooperation with Career and Technology Education personnel, mainly Agricultural Science and Technology Education and Trade and Industrial Education staff from the Texas Education Agency.
Labor Market and Career Information (LMCI)
Labor Market and Career Information (LMCI) is a unit of the Texas Workforce Commission within the External Relations Division. Our mission is to improve the way Texans make career and educational decisions by providing useful and reliable information about careers, educational training options and jobs.
Region I Service Center - The Region One Education Service Center is part of a state-wide system of 20 regional education service centers created by the 59th Texas Legislature to assist school districts across the state. Originally slated to work with school districts as a media center, the role of the education service center has expanded to work alongside school districts to carry out the three main objectives as stipulated in the TEC §8.002: to assist school districts improve student performance, to assist school districts to operate efficiently and effectively, and to carry out the mandates of the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Legislature.
State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) - Ensure the highest level of educator preparation and practice to achieve student excellence.
TAKS Blueprints
The TAKS blueprints establish the length of each test and the number of test items measuring each objective. These blueprints provide consistency from one test administration to the next. They have been developed to ensure that each subject-area/grade-level test includes a variety of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) student expectations eligible for assessment. In addition, each subject-area blueprint reflects an appropriate distribution of the TEKS across objectives for that grade level.
TECH PREP - Tech Prep is a major initiative that involves restructuring traditional curricula and introducing new approaches at the high school and community college levels. Viewed as one of the most innovative and effective education reform efforts in recent American history.
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE)
The mission of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) is to ensure a Texas where people are served by highly trained and ethical law enforcement and corrections personnel through screening, developing, and monitoring resources and setting standards.
Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS)
The Texas Department of Public Safety is an agency of this state created to provide public safety services to those people in the state of Texas by enforcing laws, administering regulatory programs, managing records, educating the public, and managing emergencies, both directly and through interaction with other agencies .
Texas Education Agency (TEA) - Division of Curriculum
The Division of Curriculum oversees the development and implementation of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in public schools. The Division provides information to school administrators, counselors, parents, and students on course offerings and issues related to 19 TAC Chapter 74. In cooperation with the divisions of Textbooks and Student Assessment, the goal of the Division of Curriculum is to provide information and resources to ensure academic success of all students in Texas public schools.
Texas Education Agency (TEA) - Career and Technology Education Curriculum
The Career and Technology Education (CTE) Unit, in the Division of Curriculum, provides direction and leadership to the CTE programs throughout Texas. Unit staff assists districts statewide with implementation of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for CTE; collaborates with various professional organizations regarding CTE programs; and assists the Textbook Division in overseeing the textbook adoption process for CTE instructional materials. The CTE Unit also provides on-going communication with the field related to the curriculum and graduation requirements in TAC Chapter 74.
Texas Education Agency (TEA) - Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, comprise the state-mandated curriculum that establish what every student, from elementary school through high school, should know and be able to do. They were developed to comply with §28.002(c) and (d) of the Texas Education Code and can be found in the Texas Administrative Code in Chapters 113 and 118.
Texas Penal Code, 2005 - 2006 Edition
The general purposes of this code are to establish a system of prohibitions, penalties, and correctional measures to deal with conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens harm to those individual or public interests for which state protection is appropriate.
United States Constitution
The constitution of the United States of America.
Vocational Information Center – Career Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans. Explore vocational and technical careers, check out the skills employers really want, find a trade school, research technical topics and take a look at the current job market within the VIC. |
