July News from Texas College Bridge

We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer break and doing your best to stay cool! Here at Texas College Bridge, we’ve been equally focused on helping districts close out the past year while getting ready for the new school year. In this newsletter, we have some important program updates, as well as a few reminders, to help you and your students get the most out of Texas College Bridge this year.

Update District Coordinator Contacts

To help ensure success for your ISD in the new year, please take a moment to update our list of District Coordinator contacts and add or remove staff as appropriate. Thanks!

New Resources Webpage and Video Tutorial Series

What did we do on our summer vacation? We created a new Resources page on the Texas College Bridge website, which provides one consolidated location for all the key resources for district leaders and teachers, as well as for your students. Here you will find downloadable guides, checklists, implementation guidance, as well as links to more resources in our help center.

We’ve also evolved our training program to feature a series of recorded video tutorials, also included on the Resources page. Rather than having you and your staff watch long webinar sessions, these short, step-by-step modules (less than 10 minutes each!) will walk you through all the basics of Texas College Bridge. The first five videos in the series are live on the new Resources page.

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Upcoming PLC Sessions To build on the learnings covered in the video tutorials, we will be hosting a series of PLC sessions for district coordinators and teachers over the coming months. These sessions will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practices with districts across the state. Registration links for these will be posted on our website, but the first few are included here. District Coordinator PLC – Register HERE         Monday, July 25 at 2:30 p.m. OR Tuesday, July 26 at 9:00 a.m.         Tuesday, August 16 at 9:00 a.m. OR Wednesday, August 17 at 2:30 p.m. Teacher PLC - Register HERE         Tuesday, July 26 at 2:30 p.m. OR Wednesday, July 27 at 9:00 a.m.         Tuesday, August 16 at 2:30 p.m. OR Wednesday, August 17 at 9:00 a.m. We will be recording more short tutorial videos for adding to the Resources page this fall. We hope you find the videos convenient and helpful, and that you join one of our upcoming PLC meetings after going through the tutorials.

2022-23 School Year You’ll be receiving more in-depth information on how to prepare your ISD’s details in Texas College Bridge for fall in the coming weeks. In the meantime, some key details for you to be aware of: Only juniors and seniors can participate in Texas College Bridge (this is unchanged). Districts will be receiving new URL links for new student registration – these will be unique to your district and different from last year’s links. Class of 2023 student accounts will remain active, however, those students will need to restart their coursework from the beginning with the Stage 1 diagnostic. To ensure accurate reporting and reduce student issues, we suggest the following: When a student signs up for Texas College Bridge, they should use their personal email address. As your students sign up, please be sure to check the accuracy of their data, especially their Date of Birth.

Status of District Agreements

For districts that are already participating in Texas College Bridge, there is no need to submit a new Participation, Data Sharing and Requirements Agreement. If an update should be needed, our team will contact districts on an individual basis.

Extended Office Help Hours

We are offering extended office help hours through August to answer your questions, provide technical assistance, and provide implementation guidance as we kick off the new school year. View Schedule

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