Housing is now open for the Texas Assessment Conference! Block open through November 5, 2012. [Details]
May 14, 2012
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
Accountability Forum
The TASA Accountability Forum, offered by TASA in partnership with Moak, Casey & Associates, is a unique subscription service designed to assist superintendents and other school leaders in understanding and managing the upheaval of simultaneous transitions in all of Texas' assessment and accountability systems (state, federal/AYP, PBMAS, FAST, student data systems, etc.).
"Read to Lead" Book Study Series
Budget cuts are forcing all of us to look for less expensive ways to provide meaningful staff development. Capitalizing on quality online tools and resources offers natural savings on materials and travel. With that in mind, TASA has partnered with Syfr to offer Read to Lead, a two-tiered, staff development service featuring online book studies. The book studies are designed around topics that have been shown to impact and improve student learning. The 2011–12 Read to Lead series specifically focuses on improving teacher quality through neuroscience.
School Leadership Briefing
TASA is proud to partner with School Leadership Briefing as part of our commitment to help you identify cost-effective professional learning opportunities for you and your district leadership team! School Leadership Briefing is an economical subscription service featuring monthly "executive briefings" in audio/digital format—including a brand-new app for iPad and iPhone—filled with the insights that busy educational leaders need to make informed decisions and take action. Listen and learn when and where it's most convenient for you!
K12 Insight
K12 Insight partners with hundreds of public school districts nationwide to develop strategic communication initiatives that allow every stakeholder voice to be heard. Our proven, comprehensive, systemic approach to dramatically increasing trust in school districts is achieved by engaging the silent majority through transparency and collaborative decision-making.
TASB Related Entities Endorsed by TASA
TASA proudly endorses the following four TASB Related Entity Programs: BuyBoard Purchasing Cooperative, Lone Star Investment Pool, TASB Entergy Cooperative, and TASB Risk Management Fund. We encourage our members to give every consideration to utilizing these programs in their districts. Participation in these programs helps TASA and Texas public schools.
TASA has prepared a sample Board Resolution to build support for the needed transformation in Texas public schools, one that fosters innovation, creativity and a thirst for learning with new, more meaningful, assessment and accountability measures, rather than a system built around narrowly focused standardized tests that end up as the "be-all, end-all" yardstick for a school's success. Please let us know when your board adopts the resolution by emailing Jenny LaCoste-Caputo.
- Sample Board Resolution
- Adopted Board Resolutions
- School Transformation: News Clips
- My district has adopted the resolution, now what?
POWER ON TEXAS features work of TASA's Visioning Institute
POWER ON TEXAS, a landmark project of the Texas Education Agency, now features the work of the Texas Association of School Administrators' Public Education Visioning Institute. The group's report "Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas" is now included at POWERONTEXAS.COM. POWER ON TEXAS builds on many of the concepts and issues identified in the visioning document.
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.
New Vision Implementation Guide: Self-Analysis and Implementation Tools
The Implementation Guide is designed to provide an accessible practitioner’s guide to understanding the New Vision premises and principles, to provide a set of best practice tools and processes to guide district staff through the New Vision principles in support of district transformation, to build cross-district support systems and training tools for sharing best practices, and to serve as a "roadmap" for going to scale across all district instructional and support systems.
Wanted!!
Leaders who are passionate in their belief that education must be
our first priority, uncompromising in their commitment to excellence,
ready to topple the status quo, and resolved to transform public education.
We are the members of the Texas Association of School Administrators. Individually, we are as diverse as the state itself, but together we champion one cause. Rather than separating us by our differences, TASA unites us through our passionate belief in what we can and must accomplish for the future of this great state. Standing together as the most influential leaders of the state’s public education system, we firmly believe that we are uniquely positioned to transform our schools into inspired learning organizations that truly meet the needs of 21st century learners. We invite you to join us in our work.
Membership Categories
- Active — Any person who meets requirements for the professional administrator's certificate, has equivalent professional training, or serves in an administrative position. Active Superintendents include superintendents, interim, and acting superintendents; Active Nonsuperintendents include central office administrators, charter/private school CEOs and administrators, principals, teachers, education service staff, etc.
- College/University/State Agency — Professors who are employed full-time in a college or university department of educational administration and persons who are employed by Texas state agencies.
- Student — Individuals currently enrolled in a college or university department of educational administration who are not employed in a full-time administrative position, other than at the campus level.
- Associate — Companies and individuals who wish to showcase products and services to Texas' top education executives.
Looking for employment in the public education arena? TASA's Career Center features hundreds of job vacancies posted by school districts, education service centers, TEA, charter/private schools, and other education organizations around Texas. Search for vacancies in a variety of ways, including by individual district, ESC region, position, and level.
Districts, ESCs, charter/private schools, TCPEA members, and education associations: Post your vacancies on TASA's Career Center at no charge!* Our popular Career Center attracts thousands of users each and every month. If you want your vacancy notices seen by the largest number of qualified educators, you'll want to post them here!
(*Posting is free to districts/organizations whose superintendent/CEO is a member of TASA and to TCPEA members.)
Each eligible district/ESC/education organization has been assigned a unique user name and password (different from those used to access TASA Connect, the registration system, or member-only content). If you aren't sure if your organization is eligible or need to get the user name and password for your organization, please contact the TASA Office, 512-477-6361, or e-mail us for assistance.
Enter Employer's Area (post a vacancy, manage job postings and contacts)
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Professional Learning Opportunities
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Focuses on TASA's MISSION: School Transformation, with the theme of Inspiring Visionary Leaders. Emphasizes the urgency for superintendents and other school district leaders to be engaged in local and statewide efforts to transform Texas schools. Read More … |
Offers school board members and school administrators the opportunity to earn almost 17 hours of continuing education credit, hear outstanding keynote speakers (LeVar Burton, General William "Bill" Looney, and Diane Ravitch), explore a trade show with hundreds of exhibitors, and network with more than 6,000 public school officials. Read More … |
Provides valuable assistance to help superintendents face the daily issues that are challenging and critical to the success of the school districts they lead, and the training to effectively deal with the complex day-to-day requirements of their position; participants have the option of attending all four sessions or individual sessions. Read More … |
