SUPCE - September 27, 2025

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SUPCE Teacher of Promise Award: Submit a nomination by September 2

This award was established by the School-University Partnership Conference of Education (SUPCE) in collaboration with the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The purpose of this award is to recognize recent outstanding TAMU-CC graduates who have demonstrated exceptional work ethic and commitment to the teaching profession. The recipients will be recognized at the annual SUPCE by a group made up of educators, students and community members dedicated to elevating and recognizing the teaching profession. The recipients will receive a certificate and a $100 award. 

Who is eligible?

• Recipients must be TAMU-CC Teacher Preparation and Residency graduates of the past year: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, or Summer 2025.
• Eligible candidates should embody the following dispositions below and should make specific reference to several of them within letter of support.

Passion and dedication

• Genuine enthusiasm for teaching: A clear love for education and students.
• Strong work ethic: Demonstrated commitment to going above and beyond.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to handle unexpected challenges and changes.

• Strong relationships with students: Building rapport, trust, and respect.
• Differentiated instruction: Tailoring teaching to meet diverse student needs.
• Focus on student growth: Measuring and celebrating student progress.
• Creating an inclusive classroom: Fostering a welcoming environment for all students.

• Effective lesson planning and delivery: Engaging and informative lessons.
• Use of technology: Integrating technology to enhance learning.
• Assessment skills: Using data to inform instruction and student support.
• Collaboration: Working effectively with colleagues to improve student outcomes.

• Effective communication: Clear and concise communication with students, parents, and colleagues.
• Time management: Efficiently managing classroom time and workload.
• Reflective practice: Continuously seeking feedback and improving teaching practices.
• Professional development: Actively seeking opportunities to grow as an educator.
• Evidence of freely and enthusiastically have given time and energy above and beyond the regular school requirements in the area of service, as related to the health, education and well-being of children.

• Building partnerships: Collaborating with parents and the community.
• School and community engagement: Participating in school and community events

• Self-nominations (eligible teachers can nominate themselves)
• Current campus supervisor (i.e. Principal and/or Assistant Principal)
• Human Resource Personnel
• Former Field Experience TAMU-CC faculty

SUPCE 2024 seeks to provide a space to help improve experiences, outcomes, and equitable opportunities for all students. Our engagement within our field as educators ties us together and positions us in a way which allows us to transform education on a continuum basis. As educators, we play a critical role in realizing individuals’ dreams and responding to the needs of all students and peoples. We hope that SUPCE serves as a reminder to all of the need to participate in an active engagement of ideas, research, and courageous conversations to exercise the rights we have been provided by the freedoms of our country.   

The conference will provide a venue for us, as educators, to cast back on the transformations we have endured in the recent years due to events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to address and contemplate on educational inequality through law, practice and culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy.  In doing so, we will explore opportunities for practice and research which serve to contribute to finding solutions and restorations for improving and transforming education in a 360-degree approach to learning that involves absorbing information from multiple sources, perspectives, and directions. This approach provides a panoramic view of a subject or competency that may exist in law, medicine, education, and, in myriad other expressions and fields. 

Vendor registration for SUPCE, the School and University Partnership Conference of Education at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

September 27, 2025

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Vendor space includes one 6-foot table (provided). This conference has approximately 300 attendees representing K-12, higher education, and community members.

For questions, please contact Dr. Alissa Mejia.  

Details coming in September!

Details coming in September!

Special Hearts in the Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Corpus Christi that provides weekly Fine Arts classes and performance opportunities to individuals with special needs. This unique program allows our STARS to share their talents with the South Texas area through public engagements and entertaining performances.