r/TexasTeachers

Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.

The letter requests the final report of these investigations by December 31, 2026, so that appropriate action can be taken and additional reforms may be considered by the 90th Legislature.

Look for making up findings to lower spending on education even more.

Is anyone in region 7 or 8 area? Northeast? Our insurance rates skyrocketed. Last year I was able to cover myself and children for $6xx (medical, not including others) but now that same plan is $1xxx. The others are also too high. Now, I can cover myself but won’t be able to cover my children. What are we doing for something outside of school insurance to cover our chronically ill children?

We have to use the bluebonnet curriculum. (I won’t go into specifics about my grade level and subject as I don’t want to give identifiable info). Dense slides with poor explanations. example and practice problems that don’t take into consideration the average student is behind in math and needs more simple “starter problems” or explanations.

I’m doing my best to pick out the key concepts, cut out complicated problems and getting kids to understand at the basics but this is miserable and school just started 2 weeks ago. The pacing is so quick I can’t just spend multiple days on one topic so I’m basically left to cut my losses and get the kids to understand the bare bones ..

I am currently enrolled with Teachworthy and I cannot get in a school to do my observation hours to get my SOE. I have applied to observe in just about every school district in the central Texas area and nearby campuses. I keep getting directed to substitute teach instead, but I need to observe direct instruction. I get called for interviews but as soon as they know I don't have my SOE I am told they cannot hire me (even when I have disclosed not having the SOE openly to the talent acquisition team and the campus prior to the interview- I am trying to be respectful of their time). I don't know what else to do since I have exhausted every resource. I come from a completely different career field so I have no contacts within school districts to get a foot in. I have passed background checks for two campuses (one offered a job once I have my SOE and the other has approved me to sub) My advisor continues to say to keep applying. Any advice on how to get these hours? Has anything worked well for anyone else in the past? I have completed all the available online hours I have through the program and passed my content exam. I just need the 25 hours in person observation hours to complete. I appreciate any help I can get, thank you!

I applied to Austin ISD last night, and received a rejection this morning before 8am (making me think nobody actually read it). What gives?

I found out today I was designated Recognized in 2023 and Exemplary as of 2024. It appears on my certificate as active until 2029.

I was a new teacher in 2022 and I worked myself crazy for good scores. But I was never sent a letter or email, no one informed me, and I have not received one cent for TIA on any paycheck or supplemental pay, so I never knew. I just assumed I wasn't doing a good enough job.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am i missing something? Is it somehow possible I just won't get to see exactly what funds/how much I will receive for TIA?

I emailed our district's TIA rep but so far it's crickets...

…..where did you go?

I know a lot of teachers are leaving the profession- where are all of you guys going?

I need help with bluebonnet internalization! Anyone with resources to make it easier and faster pls! It’s my first time using it and it’s taking a whole of my time as a kindergarten teacher! I have a life too! I am going crazy! Thanks

My new school district is requiring everyone who's not ESL certified to get certified. Im so busy being a first year kindergarten teacher that I dont know when ill even have time to study for it. How hard is the test? Also why are they requiring it? 😭😭

Losing lots of staff. Budget meeting for the city today. Reduction in physical item checkouts vs digital has caused a required reduction in staff and ~40 people are losing their positions in the library according to the city’s website.

Not admin, but customer service based staff. Circulation and library aides specifically. The reduction in administrative costs or a change in hours could likely cover all of these positions, but it’s easier to cut the people that are actually serving our communities.

They’re talking about charging $20 for people within Bexar County, but outside of city limits, too.

For those of you who utilize the library, you may want to make an effort to have your voices heard.

For those of you that don’t, you may want to reconsider. There are a lot of services within the library that your taxes already pay for and come at no additional cost. Use them.

Increased withholding to 23%

If you score lower on your ttess 2 years in a row they will drop your allotment

Admins now have a 2 week window to drop in and score you

Anyone else have updated guidelines?

What’s the most amount of goals you’ve ever seen? Average for me is 12, but I’ve had up to 30 goals for a student. I feel like 30 goals doesn’t do the student justice, but that’s just my opinion.