Texas Regional Collaborative (with Region XI ESC)
As the lead institution, the Education Service Center Region XI has partnered with the Institute of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education and the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History to provide professional development to teachers through a grant from the Texas Regional Collaborative (TRC). The 2008-2009 funding provides the fourth year of the grant. Approximately 60 teachers have participated in the program.
The TRC is an award-winning statewide network of K-16 partnerships that provide sustained and high intensity professional development to K-12 teachers of science across the state. This infrastructure of over 22 institutions of higher education collaborating with the Texas Education Agency, education service centers, school districts, and business partners, has a track record beginning in 1994 of designing and implementing exemplary science professional development using research-based instructional models, materials, and best practices.
