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==The K-12 Science TEKS Summit is an ongoing collaborative effort that began in June 2009 with a group of 50 science educators and now involves 100 + science teachers, science specialists and district science coordinators. Goose Creek CISD's Science Department hosted the first K-8 Science TEKS Summit and invited area science specialists and science coordinators to attend. The primary goal was to work together to deconstruct and analyze the newly adopted 2010 Science TEKS and to identify major changes so these district science leaders would be able to prepare science teachers to effectively implement the new TEKS in the fall of 2010. The documents that were created during this meeting can be accessed by clicking the links in the grade level list on the left. == ==The next meetings were hosted in September 2009 by Harris County Department of Education and meetings were added to include high school science educators. The objective was to continue and extend the work that began in June. The focus of the fall meetings was to deconstruct and analyze changes in the high school science TEKS and to map out a suggested scope and sequence for science K-12 that details the logical flow of concepts and maximizes opportunities to spiral concepts throughout the year. The TEKS deconstruction documents for high school science courses and the suggested scope and sequence documents that resulted from these meetings are also available via the grade level links in the list on the left. == ==In January 2010, Lisa Felske, Science Consultant for HCDE, created the first workshops to help train and prepare science teachers K-12 to be ready to teach the new Science TEKS next fall. The Science TEKS documents underwent further refinement as a result of these meetings and are included in each grade level's page ==

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= Below are the TEKS side by side comparison from Lisa Felske. =



= Below are the TEKS side by side from the TSELA presentation at CAST. =

Thank you to Dot Leach and Tracy Landrum.