Instructional Services

The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) includes a team of Education Service Centers that represents all areas of the state. The collaborative's goal is to provide a quality curriculum support system to Texas K-12 schools. TESCCC has developed CSCOPE, a comprehensive, customized, user-friendly curriculum support system. In addition to the curriculum, CSCOPE encompasses resources for implementation and monitoring to ensure a quality curriculum.

Approximately 200 districts across Texas are now a part of the curriculum collaborative with over 30 districts in Region 16. Ten ESCs are working jointly in this endeavor.

The online curriculum is easy to navigate and can be accessed by teachers, administrators and other staff members 24/7. CSCOPE includes all core subjects from grades K-12 and several advanced courses.

This is available to contracting districts who have the CSCOPE add-on to the Curriculum and Instruction contract. If you want more information, contact Diane Reid, 806.677.5177 or email.

February 18, 2008
A page has been created that lists all available webcasts with a link to a PDF document containing the webcasts for the different grade levels. Click here or on the Webcasts link at the top of the page to access this information.

December 13, 2007
Please click here to open a PDF file for links to the Social Studies webcasts.

September 15, 2007
Webcast: The first webcast for contracting districts is now available. This particular webcast is about 15 minutes in length and provides a general overview of the system. To access the webcast, please go to the home page for your district's cscope site. Under "My Curriculum," you will find a link to "CSCOPE Webcasts." Click on this link and you will pull up the webcast. To bring up the player controls which disappear after a few seconds, just move the mouse over the bottom portion of the video. They will reappear.

The webcasts provided in the future will be grade and course specific. This site will keep you posted as to availability.

Chemistry: We are currently in search of a writer for chemistry. Chemistry teachers are encouraged to use the Year-at-a-Glance (YAG) document to guide them as to the TEKS being taught in a particular six-week period along with the Vertical Alignment Document (VAD) to provide specificity to the TEKS. An IFD for the second six weeks is scheduled to be available on Tuesday, Sept. 18, for chemistry which can also be used to guide instruction. We apologize for this inconvenience and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible while maintaining the integrity of the quality of lessons provided.

Second Six Weeks: The majority of instructional units and exemplar lessons for the second six weeks are available on your CSCOPE website. Every effort is being made to finish and publish the remaining units and lessons as quickly as possible.

CSCOPE provides exemplar lessons to demonstrate the depth, breadth, and rigor of the clusters of specified student expectations taught in this unit. They are intended to be used as any other high quality teaching resource. Teachers can add to these lessons with other materials to allow students to achieve the standards clustered together in the instructional focus document. These exemplars contain the elements of learning to ensure that students get access to the rigor and content of the IFD; however, they can and should be supplemented with other available resources.

September 7, 2007 - Assessments: The assessments for CSCOPE are ready. Please contact Debbie Purvines at 806-677-5274 or by e-mail if you need additional assistance.

Access to VADs and IFDs is no longer available on Region 8's website, because the documents are now available in the Curriculum Developer on your district's site. To access these documents after you are logged in, go to the "Curriculum Elements" drop down box at the top of the screen. Select "Resource Sampler." The VADs and IFDs are housed in this portion of the Curriculum Developer website.