East Texas Center for School Based Research & Instruction

College of Education and Psychology

Welcome to the East Texas Center for School Based Research & Instruction. It was George Bernard Shaw who said, “You see things; and you say why? But I dream things that never were; and I say why not?”

The East Texas Center for School Based Research and Instruction (Center) is a partnership between UT Tyler and East Texas school districts, organized to enhance K – 12 education through high-quality professional development and specialized events for teachers and administrators.

Vision:
Enhance K – 12 education in East Texas through organized research and instruction mediated by the College of Education and Psychology.

Mission:
Engage and support Center partners in designing, implementing, and evaluating customized professional learning opportunities and initiatives, which empower all to strengthen instructional effectiveness and significantly improve students’ academic achievement outcomes.

Goals:
The following goals are designed to help operationalize the Center’s vision and mission:
• Engage partners in identifying critical education challenges, issues, and questions.
• Support partners in designing, implementing, and evaluating research-based integrated strategies
for addressing identified issues, questions, and challenges.
• Leverage resources (research, infrastructure, college students) at UT Tyler to help meet critical
educational needs in area schools and communities.
• Collaborate with partners in monitoring and evaluating program effectiveness.

Offerings & Benefits of Membership:
• Needs based professional development seminars, conferences, online learning, and on-site
training.
• Customized professional learning programming, research support, and access to UT Tyler
resources (such as participation in UT Tyler projects funded by external sources).
• Customized programming for teacher certification pathways.
• Access to special tuition rates for graduate degree programs.
• Free or reduced costs to participate in UT Tyler organized conferences, job fairs, and other
initiatives.

Through this collaboration we are committed to providing the highest quality of education to the 40,000 students attending our public schools in Smith County. As the Roman philosopher Cicero stated, “What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.”