Current Project: Texas Workforce Commission Youth Outreach
Turning expertise into outcomes for the state of Texas’ workforce and career and technical education system.
Our team has worked with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) Career and Technical Education department since 2017 on projects that are making it easier for Texas teachers to access educational materials and learn new skills for their professional development. Ultimately, it will help Texas students achieve their personal, professional, and educational goals.
Read more about our work with the TEA below.
TEA CTE Resource Integration
Our team was contracted in January 2017 to integrate 10,000 CTE resources, which had been divided across seven independently run websites. The TEA saw the need to integrate the resources into a single collection to provide educators and practitioners with a single statewide resource repository.
To align our work with the TEA’s strategic vision, we:
- Developed a comprehensive strategy for evaluating resources,
- Migrated the resources, and
- Engaged Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and external stakeholders.
These steps enabled us to create an actionable plan for migrating and curating CTE resources.
- Improved accessibility, usability, and quality of the resources
- Introduced more user-friendly tagging taxonomy to allow users to find and access resources
- Created a thorough and robust evaluation process to review resources and ensure relevancy to CTE field
- Coordinated TEA and national CTE experts to develop new resources to fill gaps and address agency and sector needs
TEA CTE Instructional Design
As part of our ongoing work with the TEA CTE Resource Integration project, we are also in the process of creating web-based learning modules. Our instructional design team is currently transforming outdated courses into new web-based modules. The redesign includes:
- Understanding the target audience and course objectives,
- Assessing existing materials, and
- Optimizing learner experience for the courses.
This project showcases our creative and technical instructional design abilities, which you can read more about below.
- Managed an agile course development process and plan that incorporated phases for analysis, design, development, and review
- Wrote and designed programs of study and course learning plans
- Designed course unit plans and lesson plans that aligned with CTE priorities
- Created toolkits and other publications related to the CTE field