Ed-Tech Innovation Exchange: It’s SHOWTIME!
Thank you Sponsors, Administrators and Students!
September 10-11, 2025
Hyatt Regency Downtown Houston, Texas
TALAS Hosts the Education Innovation Exchange (EIE)
TALAS is proud to host the Education Innovation Exchange (EIE) this week! This unique event brings together executive educational leaders and corporate sponsors to collaborate, exchange feedback, and ensure that products and services entering schools truly meet the needs of all students. This year, we invited business and marketing students from Channelview ISD to partake in this incredible experience.
3-2-1: On taking lots of shots, the power of concentration, and savoring the path to success
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“Work hard on what comes easily.”
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“Use the best idea you have right now. Claiming you need to ‘learn more’ or ‘get your ducks in a row’ is just a crutch that prevents you from starting. Education is a lifelong pursuit. You will always need to learn more. It’s not a reason to wait.”
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“One study looked at artists who started at the bottom and worked their way to successful careers. The researchers identified one factor that was consistent across the group: they performed far more shows than the av
Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure?
A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the American editions of the first three novels in the late 1990s.
But when the manuscript for J.K. Rowling’s fourth book landed on his desk, Saylor sat up straight: It was huge. Bigger, more complex and narratively intricate than virtually any storybook ever aimed at children.
“I had to really think,” he said in a recent interview. “‘How are we going to typeset this book? How are we going to print a million copies? How are we going to get enough paper?’”
The United Nations Says Teacher Shortages Are a Global Problem
Teacher shortages aren’t just a problem for the United States. There’s a “global crisis” in finding and keeping educators.
That’s what education leaders at the United Nations World Summit on Teachers in Santiago, Chile, concluded last week. In a new report unveiled there, a U.N. group estimated countries will need to recruit more than 44 million primary and secondary educators by 2030 to keep pace with demand and replace exiting teachers.
Worldwide, primary school teachers are leaving the classroom nearly twice as fast as they did a decade ago, and fewer young people are entering the profession.
How Principals Can Help Teachers in a New School Year
As teachers begin a new school year amid the pressures of state and school content requirements, technology challenges, and classroom censorship, what they really want from their principals is simple: more autonomy in their classrooms.
Previous EdWeek reporting from 2023 found that higher rates of perceived classroom autonomy directly correlated with increased job satisfaction for teachers. In addition, according to the 2024-25 Teacher Morale Index, developed by the EdWeek Research Center, teachers ranked greater autonomy from school leaders as a top need. Survey results showed that among the top three responses for what could improve teacher morale were changes in school leadership approaches and styles.
Texas is poised to replace STAAR. Here is what schools’ new standardized tests would look like.
Texas lawmakers have sent legislation replacing STAAR, the state’s widely unpopular state standardized test, to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.
Once Abbott signs House Bill 8, Texas will swap the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of each school year. Students will begin to take the new tests in the 2027-28 school year.
“House Bill 8 ends the high stakes and high stress nature of one test, one day,” Rep. Brad Buckley, the bill’s author, said Wednesday evening before the Texas House voted to send the proposal to Abbott. “This is unprecedented oversight of the assessment and accountability system by this body.”