50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap: Leaving No Child Behind
March 22-24, 2010
Hyatt Regency San Antonio on the Riverwalk

Developed for school leaders, this training outlines 50 detailed, research-based strategies for developing high-performing school's strategies that are found to have the greatest impact on student achievement and provide school leaders with approaches that give all learners the opportunity to succeed.  Confronting gaps in school achievement requires a systematic examination of the entire school system and a comprehensive problem-solving approach.  Participation will energize participants and provide focus on the steps that need to be part of any district or school improvement plan.  Learn More!!

Quality Questioning to Develop Engaged, Responsible and Reflective Learners: The Training of Trainers!
June 14-15, 2010
Austin, TX

This training can positively impact student learning and thinking by creating more thoughtful classrooms using effective questioning, by developing leaders who focus on instruction, by creating schools that expect and support high-performance and by establishing ways for teachers to collaborate.  All learning experiences are based on the most recent, research-based principles of learning--modeling for teachers and administrators strategies that can be used successfully with students in classrooms, with teachers in faculty meetings, or with parents in parent meetings--to energize and fully engage participants!

Walsh and Sattes are the co-authors of Quality Questioning: Research-Based Practice to Engage Every Learner, based on nearly 20 years of work in K-12 professional development on the topic of effective classroom questioning.  Learn More!!!

Public Education Visioning Institute is a unique opportunity for 30 superintendents to learn from one another by challenging conventional thinking to improve their leadership capacities and their school systems.

Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas
TASA and the Texas Leadership Center are pleased to provide the document, Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas, resulting from the work of 35 superintendents who participated in the Public Education Visioning Institute over the past 21 months. This edition includes space for reader reflections, questions, and comments in the section titled "Principles and Premises We Embrace."

Board Resolution
For Boards of Trustees and Superintendents who agree that a new direction is needed for public education and who have read and support the major conceptual themes of TASA's Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas, this board resolution is provided as a template for local adoption.